More First Rhode Island Light Artillery
When Gen. Burnside’s Ninth Corps troops marched into Knoxville in September, 1863, history has recorded that some young men of the town were so excited they rushed to join the Union army. Recruitment...
View ArticleMore from Lieutenant Parker
Ezra Parker, first lieutenant of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, wrote a good post-war memoir on the fighting in and around Knoxville. Here he is on the fight at Campbell’s Station with...
View Article1LT Ezra K. Parker
The first lieutenant of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, at Knoxville and environs in 1863, of whom I’ll be excerpting more from his good (and free) 1913 memoir in the future.
View ArticleReenactor anachronisms
The rifled parrott gun in this mock Northwest Bastion of a pretend Fort Sanders (miles away from where the original sat) is just one of the anachronisms the reenactor community puts up with. The only...
View ArticleCaisson with limber
Civil War equipment could be an education in itself, such as this artillery caisson and limber. (Like the New York one that was dragged away from the Northwest Bastion when the horses spooked.) Each...
View ArticleReprise: Buckley’s Rhode Island Battery
Captain William W. Buckley commanded Battery D, of the First Rhode Island Light Artillery—three brass Napoleon 12-pounders—in the northwest bastion of Fort Sanders. He described their work during the...
View ArticleMore from Lieutenant Parker
Lieutenant Ezra K. Parker of the First Rhode Island Light Artillery was in the Northwest Bastion during the Confederate attack on Fort Sanders. He wrote a memoir in 1913, in which he recollected events...
View ArticleReprise: More First Rhode Island Light Artillery
When Gen. Burnside’s Ninth Corps troops marched into Knoxville in September, 1863, history has recorded that some young men of the town were so excited they rushed to join the Union army. Recruitment...
View ArticleCatch your hat full of grapeshot
The yellowish tinge to the iron balls of this canister round fired by 12-pounder Napoleon cannon is from the sawdust they were packed in. The Mississippi Brigade that attacked Fort Sanders had...
View ArticleOf that en barbette gun that greeted the Rebels
Lieutenant Samuel Nicoll Benjamin, who commanded Fort Sanders while its nominal commander, a New York political general, was drunk in his bombproof, arranged several surprises for the attacking Rebels....
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....