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Title: Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode Island light artillery.

Author: Ezra Knight Parker

Release Date: January 1, 2010 [EBook #30822]

Language: English

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PERSONAL NARRATIVES
OF EVENTS IN THE
WAR OF THE REBELLION,

BEING PAPERS READ BEFORE THE
RHODE ISLAND SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Seventh Series No. 6.

PROVIDENCE:
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY.
1913.

SNOW & FARNHAM CO., PRINTERS.

Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode
Island Light Artillery, in Kentucky
and East Tennessee.

BY
EZRA K. PARKER,
[Late First Lieutenant Battery E, First Rhode Island
Light Artillery.]

PROVIDENCE:
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY.
1913.

CAMPAIGN OF BATTERY D, FIRST RHODE ISLAND LIGHT ARTILLERY, IN KENTUCKY
AND EAST TENNESSEE.

In March, 1863, Gen. A. E. Burnside, having been relieved at his own
request of the command of the Army of the Potomac, was soon afterwards
assigned to the Department of the Ohio. Upon his special request, the
Ninth Army Corps was also detailed for service in this department, and
at once preparations were made for the transportation of the corps from
Virginia to Kentucky. Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery,
Capt. William W. Buckley, was at that time attached to the Ninth Corps
and was sent with its corps to the west. This battery had been at the
beginning of its service attached to the first division of the Army of
the Potomac, and when the army was divided into army corps, this battery
was included in the first corps commanded by General McDowell. Its first
active service was in the short and successful campaign to
Fredericksburg, in April and May, 1862. Then it went thro