Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, In The Civil War, 1861-1865
Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, In The Civil War, 1861-1865
BY George C. Sumner
28 Feb, 2019
At a meeting of Battery D Association, held at Roger Williams Park, June 6th, 1891, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Comrade Sumner accepted the position, and at once commenced to look up material for the work. He soon found that he
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At a meeting of Battery D Association, held at Roger Williams Park, June 6th, 1891, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Comrade Sumner accepted the position, and at once commenced to look up material for the work. He soon found that he had quite a task to perform. At the battle of Cedar Creek, late in the war, all the books and papers of the battery were captured by the enemy, 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. Less