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Title: Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery

Author: Theodore Reichardt

Release Date: April 24, 2010 [eBook #32111]

Language: English

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DIARY OF BATTERY A, FIRST REGIMENT
RHODE ISLAND LIGHT ARTILLERY.

by

THEODORE REICHARDT.

Written in The Field.

Providence:
N. Bangs Williams, Publisher.
1865.

CONTENTS

PREFACE.
DIARY.
1861.
1862.
1863.
1864.
Roster of Battery A.
REMARKS.

PREFACE.

COMRADES OF BATTERY A:--The time for the fulfilment of my promise to you,
has arrived. The days of our trials, hardships and sufferings are past,
and it but remains to memorize the period during which we were battling
for the sacred cause of the Union. Although we have not seen the closing
contest of this sanguinary strife, yet I feel confident that we have done
our share towards securing a good end, and nobly has the old battery
sustained the honor and name of Rhode Island. Of all the light batteries
Little Rhody sent to the seat of war, none was ever equal to the old
Second, or Battery A, in efficiency, endurance, and the intelligence of
the men. Tr