. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861 1865 . EPENDENT COMPANY INFANTRY MILITIA. Captain Thomas E. Campbell. 150 Officers and Men. Mustered into United States service July 2d, 1863. Discharged September i6th,1863. On duty in Department of the Susquehanna. INDEPENDENT COMPANY INFANTRY William F. Officers and into United States service June 29th, 1863. Discharged July 8th, 1863. INDEPENDENT BATTERY MILITIA LIGHT ARTILLERY. Captain Henry D. Landis. 108 Officers and Men. Originally recruited by Captain Clement Biddle as Company A, Home GuardRegiment of Artiller
. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861 1865 . EPENDENT COMPANY INFANTRY MILITIA. Captain Thomas E. Campbell. 150 Officers and Men. Mustered into United States service July 2d, 1863. Discharged September i6th,1863. On duty in Department of the Susquehanna. INDEPENDENT COMPANY INFANTRY William F. Officers and into United States service June 29th, 1863. Discharged July 8th, 1863. INDEPENDENT BATTERY MILITIA LIGHT ARTILLERY. Captain Henry D. Landis. 108 Officers and Men. Originally recruited by Captain Clement Biddle as Company A, Home GuardRegiment of Artillery. This battery was in the field for a short time during theAntietam emergency. It was mustered into the United States service at Harrisburgupon June 19th, 1863, for the emergency. The battery was effectively engagedin actions at Sporting Hill, a few miles west of Harrisburg, upon June 30th, andat Carlisle, July ist, when in the early evening the town was shelled by the Con-federates. Mustered out July 30th, 1863. DEFEMCE OF THE dity w mmmk. dee of the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY vested in me, by the Act «f the Geoeral Assemblyor the Commonwenlth of Pennsylvitnia, entitled, An Act reln(in{; to the Iltinie Guard <»f the Citv ofPhiladelphia, Approved the Sixteenth day of May Anno Domini one thousand cighl hundred andsixty one. I do hereby require Brigadier General A. J. A RONTON, Coniniimdcr of the HOMEGUARD, to order out (nnd into the se^^^ee of tlic Cit^- of ;lelphiii.) THE WBOLE OF THE SAID the presersatiou of tlie i)ul)iie peaee AND THE t)EFENCE OF THE CITY. And I lierebycall upon all persons within the limits of the said City, to yield a PROMPT AND READY OBEDIENCE to theOrders of the said Commander of the HOME GUARD, and of those attin<r under liis autiioritv inthe execution of his and their said duties. In wttne^n whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Corporate Seal of the Cityof Philadelphia, t
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