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First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union Rhodes, John H. The History of Battery B: First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union. Providence, R.I.: Snow & Farnham, 1894. CHAPTER I. Introduction — Uniforms — The First Drill — A Bounty of Fifteen Dollars ........ 1 CHAPTER II. Organization, Muster and Departure — First Rations Received — Journey to Point of Rocks,Md. ... 5 CHAPTER III. Camp Sprague and Discipline — Washington, 1). C, and Vicinity . ...... .14 CHAPTER IV. To Poolesville, Md., and Battle of Ball's Bluff— Picket Duty along the Potomac River . 27 CHAPTER V. Battery Reorganized — New Guns — Winter Quarters — Thanksgiving Day and Christmas in the South . 47 CHAPTER VI. March to Harper's Ferry and Bolivar — To Winchester, to the Support of General Banks in the Valley — Return to Washington ........ 65 CHAPTER VII. Departure for the Peninsula, and Siege of Yorktown — Passing through Long Bridge — Hampton Roads and the Monitor. ......... 67 CHAPTER VIII. March up the Peninsula, Battle of Fair Oaks, Seven Pines — York River, West Point, Cumberland Landing . 85 CHAPTER IX. Change of Base to the James River — Seven Days of Fighting — Battles of Savage's Station, Peach Orchard, White Oak Bridge, Glendale, and Malvern Hill . 95 CHAPTER X. Harrison Landing — Evacuation of the Peninsula — Arrival at Alexandria . .106 CHAPTER XI. Pursuit of General Lee into Maryland — Battle of Antietam — March to Harper's Ferry . .119 CHAPTER XII. March to Falmouth — Skirmishes by the Way — Epidemic Attack of Mutton 128 1 CHAPTER XIII. Battle of Fredericksburg . .137 CHAPTER XIV. In Winter Quarters near Falmouth, Va. — The Mud March — Granting of Furlough . .146 CHAPTER XV. Preparation and Second Battle of Fredericksburg — Marye's Heights — The Artillery Brigade . .165 CHAPTER XVI. The Campaign and Battle of Gettysburg — At Thorough- fare Gap — Peter Shevlin and the Canteens of Water 188 CHAPTER XVII. From Gettysburg to the Rappahannock — Battery B Reorganized and New Guns ....... 220 CHAPTER XVIII. Advance to Culpepper — From the Rapidan to Centreville — Battle of Bristoe Station ...... 238 CHAPTER XIX. Centerville to the Rapidan — Battle of Mine Run — Winter Quarters — Sword Presentation 255 CHAPTER XX. General Grant's Campaign — From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor — Battles of the Wilderness, Todd's Tavern, Po River, Spotsylvania, North Anna, and Cold Harbor 273 CHAPTER XXI. General Grant's Flank Movement to South of the James — From Cold Harbor to Petersburg — Deep Bottom — Return Home of the First Three Years' Men . 300 CHAPTER XXII. Second Expedition of Deep Bottom — Battle of Reams’ Station 323 CHAPTER XXIII. The Winter Siege of Petersburg — The Battery Reorganized. 334 CHAPTER XXIV. The Pursuit of the Confederate Army — General Lee's Surrender at Appomattox ...... 343 CHAPTER XXV. The Return to Rhode Island and Muster out of Service. 349 ROSTER. Names of Enlisted Men . .351 Roll of Men Temporarily Attached ..... 376 2 APPENDIX A. The Gettysburg Gun ....... 379 APPENDIX B. The Gettysburg Monument and Dedication . 395 Index .......... 401 3 .
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