BATTERY D,
First Rhode Island Light Artillery,
IN
THE CIVIL WAR,
1861-1865.
BY
Dr. GEORGE C. SUMNER,
A MEMBER OF THE BATTERY.
Rhode Island Printing Company, Providence.
1897.
MEMBERS OF BATTERY D, FIRST RHODE ISLAND LIGHTARTILLERY, VETERAN ASSOCIATION.
AT ROGER WILLIAMS PARK, JUNE, 1891.
1 John S. Gorton.2 John Rathbone.3 John Brod.4 Joseph W. Corey.5 Charles Gallagher.6 Charles E. May.7 Ezra K. Parker.8 Charles W. Cornell.9 John J. Busby.10 Samuel Jenkins.[1]11 William H. Fisk.12 Stephen Ballou.13 James S. Hayward.14 John J. Hopkins.15 William Stalker.16 Willett A. Johnson.17 Daniel W. Elliott.18 Lyman Nicholas.[1]19 James Tanner.20 Joseph F. Means.21 Henry W. Smith.22 Jeremiah D. Hopkins.23 Frank M. Tucker.24 John McKenna.25 Erich P. Botter.26 George Rathbone.27 Clark Walker.28 Halsey A. Aldrich.29 Rice A. Wickes.[1]30 George C. Sumner.[1]31 Otis G. Handy.32 Isaac D. Russell.33 Joseph B. French.34 Charles C. Gray.35 George N. Hawkins.36 Joseph B. Kenyon.37 Edwin R. Knight.38 Moses Budlong.39 Capt. J. Albert Monroe.[1]40 George E. Arnold.41 Olney Arnold.[1]42 Henry C. Whitaker.43 Charles E. Bonn.[1]44 Gideon Spencer.45 Christopher H. Carpenter.
[1] Deceased.
At a meeting of Battery D Association, held at Roger Williams Park,June 6th, 1891, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That George C. Sumner is hereby appointed Historianof the Association, and earnestly requested to write and publish aHistory of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery.
Comrade Sumner accepted the position, and at once commenced to lookup material for the work. He soon found that he had quite a task toperform. At the battle of Cedar Creek, late in the war, all the booksand papers of the battery were captured by the enemy, it thus becamerather a tedious undertaking to hunt up facts and dates. ArtificerClark Walker and Corporal Knight had diaries of some parts of theirservice, which was about all the material on hand to start with.
The Adjutant General's Office furnished considerable information. TheRoster of the Battery was taken entirely from that office. The "WarRecords" was another source from which facts and dates were collected.
Comrade Sumner took a great deal of interest in this history and had alarge part of it written when he was "called away to