Battery C, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery was a light artillery battery that served in the Union Army as part of the Pennsylvania Reserves infantry division during the American Civil War.
The battery was organized at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on August 5, 1861 under the command of Captain John George Simpson.
The battery was attached to W. F. Smith's Division, Army of the Potomac, October 1861 to March 1862.
Artillery, 1st Division, IV Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September 1862.
Artillery, 3rd Division, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May 1863.
Camp Barry, Defenses of Washington, D.C., XXII Corps, to July 1863.
Maryland Heights Division, Department of West Virginia, to October 1863.