First Battery Light Artillery. (Three Years.)
FIRST BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY. (THREE YEARS.) BY EDWARD E. GREENLEAF, FIRST LIEUTENANT FIRST BATTERY. THE First Vermont Battery of Light Artillery Ship Island the battery was detached from the wis recruited mainly by the exertions of Eighth regiment, and attached as an independent George T. Hebard of Chelsea, who opened a re- command to the brigade commanded by Gen. John cruiting station at Montpelier, in December, i86r, W. Phelps. where he enlisted about one hundred men ; a recruit- Early in May, one section of the battery, in com- ing station was also opened at South Shaftsbury by mand of Capt. George W. Duncan, was detailed for George \V. Duncan, where about fifty men were en- garrison duty at Fort Pike, Louisiana, and soon after listed. the other two sections, in command of Lieut. George It formed part of the troops which were raised T. Hebard, were ordered to accompany the Seventh by the State of Vermont, as part of the New Eng- Vermont regiment to New Orleans, going by way of land Division being organized for service under the " Rigolets " and Lake Pontchartrain, to Lake- Gen. Benjamin F Butler, and was mustered into port, and from thence to Camp Parapet on the Mis- State service in January, 1862, George W. Duncan sissippi River, some six miles above New Orleans, of South Shaftsbury being elected captain, George where they were soon after joined by the section T. Hebard of Chelsea, senior first lieutenant, and from Fort Pike. While stationed at Camp Parapet, Edward Rice of Shaftsbury, junior first lieutenant. the battery was engaged in mounting heavy guns Immediately after muster into State service the bat- and in garrison duty, principally, until Gen.
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