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DIARY
OF
BATTERY A,

 

FIRST REGIMENT
Rhode Island Light Artillery.

 

BY THEODORE REICHARDT.

WRITTEN IN THE FIELD.

 

PROVIDENCE:
N. BANGS WILLIAMS, PUBLISHER.
1865.

 

 

Contents

PREFACE. iii
DIARY.
1861. 6
1862. 30
1863. 78
1864. 120
Roster of Battery A, 145
REMARKS. 148

 

 

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PREFACE.

Comrades of Battery A:—The time for the fulfilment of my promise to you,has arrived. The days of our trials, hardships and sufferings are past,and it but remains to memorize the period during which we were battlingfor the sacred cause of the Union. Although we have not seen the closingcontest of this sanguinary strife, yet I feel confident that we have doneour share towards securing a good end, and nobly has the old batterysustained the honor and name of Rhode Island. Of all the light batteriesLittle Rhody sent to the seat of war, none was ever equal to the oldSecond, or Battery A, in efficiency, endurance, and the intelli

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