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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...

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More 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...

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1LT 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.

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Reenactor 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...

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Caisson 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...

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Reprise: 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...

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More 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...

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Reprise: 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...

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Catch 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...

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Of 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....

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