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From: Beth Hurd <>
Subject: Providence during the Rebellion (part 43)
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:54:46 -0500


from
History of Providence County, Rhode Island
Edited by Richard M. Bayles.
In two volumes, illustrated. Vol. I.
New York: W. W. Preston & Co., 1891.

pp. 208 - 264. (part 43)

"When the army of the Potomac withdrew from the Peninsula, the battery with
its corps joined General Pope and took part in the second battle of Bull
Run. The casualties were one man wounded, six horses killed, and two sets
of horse equipments lost. On the 12th of September the battery marched
with the army for the field of Antietam, and during the battle of the 17th
was in the reserve.

Moving again with the army, October 30th, the battery marched to the
neighborhood of Potomac Creek, Va., and took an honorable part in the
attack upon Fredericksburg, December 11th, 12th and 13th. After the second
attempt on Fredericksburg, December 30th, the battery remained in winter
quarters. Nothing further of moment occurred until the last of April,
1863, when General Hooker put the army of the Potomac in motion to meet and
measure strength with the rebel army at Chancellorsville. April 30th it
crossed the Rapidan river at Ely's Ford, and reached Chancellorsville at
noon of the same day. The battle of May 2d and 3d was fierce and bloody,
and on both days the battery moved in various directions over the field, at
one time reconnoitering, and at another taking position commanding some
important point.

The return march to the line of the Rappahannock commenced July 5th, was
very severe on both men and horses. In the battle of Rappahannock Station,
November 7th, the battery fired 160 rounds, and had two men wounded. At
Mine Run, November 27th, it expended 150 rounds of percussion, fuse and
shrapnel shell. The casualties were one man wounded and two horses killed."

continued in part 44.

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