Ricketts' Battery

<i>(Front):</i><center>Ricketts' Battery<br>1st Penna. Light Artillery<br>Penna. Reserve Corps</center><br><i>(Back):</i><center>Present at Gettysburg Consolidated Battery F & G 3 officers & 141 men<br>Killed & died of wounds 7 men<br>Wounded 1 officer & 13 men<br>Captured or missing 3 men<br>Total 24<br><br>F<br>Recruited in Schuylkill co.<br>Total enrollment 342<br>Mustered in July 8, 1861<br>Re-enlisted Dec. 1863.<br>Mustered out June 9, 1865.<br>Killed & Died of Wounds 1 officer & 16 men<br>Wounded 3 officers & 40 men<br>Died of disease etc. 10 men<br>Captured or missing 12 men<br>Total casualties 78 men & 5 officers<br><br>G<br>Recruited in Philadelphia<br>Total enrollment 340<br>Mustered in July 25, 1861<br>Re-enlisted Dec. 1863<br>Mustered out June 29, 1865<br>Killed & died of wounds 1 officer & 15 men<br>Wounded 3 officers & 44 men<br>Died of disease etc. 12 men<br>Captured or missing 14 men<br>Total casualties exclusive of those while attached to Battery F 89<br><br>July 2d reached the field and took this position in the afternoon<br>and engaged the rebel batteries on Benner's Hill.<br>8 p.m. a rebel column charged the Battery and a desperate hand-to-hand conflict<br>ensued which was repulsed after every round of canister had been fired<br><br>July 3d engaged with the rebel batteries on the left and centre of the line</center>