Battery F, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery

Battery F, 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 Ezra Matthews.

The battery was attached to Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, October 1861 to March 1862.

Artillery, 2nd Division, III Corps, Army of Virginia, to September 1862.

Artillery, 2nd Division, I Corps, Army of the Potomac, to January 1863.

3rd Volunteer Brigade, Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to July 1863.

Artillery Brigade, II Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September 1864.

Artillery Reserve, Army of the Potomac, to June 1865.

Battery "B", Pennsylvania Light Artillery mustered out of service July 9, 1865.

Duty in the defenses of Washington until October 1861 and on the Upper Potomac, between Edward's Ferry and Hancock, Md., until February 1862.

Ordered to join Abercrombie's Brigade March 21, and moved to Warrenton Junction.

Demonstration north of the James River at Deep Bottom July 27–29.

Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom August 13–20.

Gunners of Battery F fight Confederates hand to hand at the Battle of Gettysburg