. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^ sSr^^ V^ ri»»^-». ^^ THIS BATTERY STOOD FIFTH IN ITS NUMBER OF CASUALTIES The First Independent Battery of New York Light Artillery, under of Captain AndrewCowan, lost two officers and sixteen enlisted men killed and mortally wounded out of its complement of150 men. Only four other batteries suffered a greater loss. Coopers Battery B, First PennsylvaniaArtillery, lost twenty-one men; Sands Eleventh Ohio Battery lost twenty men (nineteen of them mone engagement in a charge on the battery at luka); Philips Fifth Massachus
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^ sSr^^ V^ ri»»^-». ^^ THIS BATTERY STOOD FIFTH IN ITS NUMBER OF CASUALTIES The First Independent Battery of New York Light Artillery, under of Captain AndrewCowan, lost two officers and sixteen enlisted men killed and mortally wounded out of its complement of150 men. Only four other batteries suffered a greater loss. Coopers Battery B, First PennsylvaniaArtillery, lost twenty-one men; Sands Eleventh Ohio Battery lost twenty men (nineteen of them mone engagement in a charge on the battery at luka); Philips Fifth Massachusetts Battery lost nine-teen men; and Weedens Battery C, First Rhode Island Artillery, lost nineteen men. Thisphotograph shows Cowans Battery in position within the captured Confederate works on tliePetersburg line. The officers and men lived and slept in a work captured from the Confederates,and the horses were picketed back of the emplacements and in the gun-pits as seen
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