Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Classic Reprint)

At a meeting of Battery DA ssociation, held at Roger Williams Park, Jnne 6tli, 1891, the following resolution was unanimously adopted :R esolved, That George C. Sumner is here Vjy appointed Historian of the A ssociation, and earnestly requested to write and publish a History of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light A rtillery. Comrade Sumner accepted the position, and at once commenced to look up material for the work. He soon foinid that he had quite a ta.sk to perform. At the battle of Cedar Creek, late in the war, all the books and papers of the battery were captured by the eneni ,it thus became rather a tedious undertaking to hunt up facts and dates. Artificer Clark Walker and Corporal Knight had diaries of some parts of their service, which was about all the material on hand to start with. The Adjutant General s Office furnished considerable information. The Roster of the Batter- was taken entirely from that office. The War Records was another source from which facts and dates were collected.
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