The history of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the war to preserve the Union, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . rigade wras bivouacked through the town,besides doing picket duty on the outskirts. GovernorSprague, Col. John A. Gardner, and Joseph Manton were,guests of the First Rhode Island. The men were all verymuch excited over the capture of Fairfax and everyone en-deavored to describe what he saw or did all at the sametime. The occupation of this town appeared to be an easymatter, and we thought if we met with no more oppositionthan we had thus far encountered the
The history of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the war to preserve the Union, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . rigade wras bivouacked through the town,besides doing picket duty on the outskirts. GovernorSprague, Col. John A. Gardner, and Joseph Manton were,guests of the First Rhode Island. The men were all verymuch excited over the capture of Fairfax and everyone en-deavored to describe what he saw or did all at the sametime. The occupation of this town appeared to be an easymatter, and we thought if we met with no more oppositionthan we had thus far encountered the life of a soldier mustindeed be very fine. On to Richmond! was the cry. Thehorses seemed to get on very nicely. Some slight kickingand biting on the picket rope was all the disturbance therewas. Our teams of six horses attracted great attentionfrom all the troops. Ben Shippee wTas very proud of hissix grays. Taps were sounded that night and we retiredwith the satisfaction that we had made some progress intothe enemys country. On the 18th we were astir early and began the advanceby daylight, marching about two miles and halting at a. Capt. Thomas F. Vaughn. First Sergeant First Light Battery; First Lieutenant Battery A; Captain Battery B. 1861.] MARCH TO BULL RUN 17 place called Germantown, where we remained until afterthree oclock. General Tylers division had taken the leadat Fairfax. We could hear artillery firing at the front. Itwas reported that a fight was going on at Centreville. Itturned out to be Tylers troops who had come upon theenemy at Blackburns Ford, but before our brigade hadreached the front the enemy had retired. However, we pre-pared for action; equipments were distributed to our can-noneers, sponge buckets were filled, and every man was athis post. It was about four oclock when we resumed themarch, and, within about two miles of Centreville, we wentinto camp. Strong picket lines were thrown out and every-one expected there would be a fight the next morning. Ou
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