Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs, Adjutant General, Descriptive Books of Regiments and Companies, 1st Artillery, 43rd Regiment, PA Reserve Volunteer Corps, Batteries A-H, 1861-1865, This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Grouped according to regiment, and thereunder arranged by company or battery. A record of soldiers the 48th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, Companies A-K (1861), the 1st Artillery, 43rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, Batteries A-H (1861-1864), Battery M of the 5th Artillery (1861), the 122nd Regiment, Company K, Pennsylvania Volunteer Emergency Militia (1863), and the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Regiment, United States Cavalry, Companies A-D (1863). Information on commissioned officers is limited to names, ranks, dates of appointments, and remarks concerning promotions. Typical entries for non-commissioned officers give the soldiers names, ages, heights, complexions, birthplaces, previous occupations, and eye and hair color, the dates, places, and terms of enlistment, the names of persons who enlisted the recruits, and the regiment and company to which each recruit was attached. Information concerning the death, desertion, discharge, promotion, rank, or transfer of soldiers is also frequently recorded.
