. The history of Battery B, First regiment Rhode Island light artillery, in the war to preserve the union, 1861-1865 . Rhode Island Light Artillery, and Lieutenant Adamsand First Sergt. George W. Blair are mentioned for promotion. On the 11th, Chaplain Perry visited the battery and with himcame fifteen recruits from Rhode Island. There was only one a na-tive of Rhode Island, of the others, ten were of Massachusetts, one ofNew York, and three of Pennsylvania. They had enrolled at Provi-dence, R. I., for the artillery service and were sent to Battery B,namely : John T. Boyle, David Brown, Charle
. The history of Battery B, First regiment Rhode Island light artillery, in the war to preserve the union, 1861-1865 . Rhode Island Light Artillery, and Lieutenant Adamsand First Sergt. George W. Blair are mentioned for promotion. On the 11th, Chaplain Perry visited the battery and with himcame fifteen recruits from Rhode Island. There was only one a na-tive of Rhode Island, of the others, ten were of Massachusetts, one ofNew York, and three of Pennsylvania. They had enrolled at Provi-dence, R. I., for the artillery service and were sent to Battery B,namely : John T. Boyle, David Brown, Charles Clarke, Samuel H. Colling-ton, Martin Cummings, Daniel N. Felt, Charles Fried, Joseph Ham-mond, Daniel Hare, John Kane, Frederic Mahre, Peter Ryan, CarlSkifer, A. R. Stone, Charles Warren. The Rhode Islander, David Brown, and the New Yorker, CharlesWarren, did not remain with the battery but a short time, when bothdeserted. On the loth, the battery had mounted inspection and were compli-mented by the inspector, C. H. Morgan, now assistantinspector-general and chief of staff of the Second Army Lieut. Horace S. Bloodgood. 1863.] FIRST RHODE ISLAND LIGHT ARTILLERY. 151 Jan. 17th. For the past week there have been grand reviews ofthe Army Corps, and the Second Corps was reviewed to-day byGen. A. E. Burnside, accompanied by his staff and other was not much enthusiasm shown on this occasion, for therewas discontent among the troops, caused by the disaster on the 13thof December. Had the losses been sustained in an equal fight it wouldhave been borne by the troops with a very different feeling. Theprivates in the ranks knew just as well as their officers that they hadnot had a fair chance at Fredericksburg. The open-eyed intelligenceand quick insight into mechanical relations, which characterize theAmerican volunteer, and which make him, when properly led, themost formidable soldier of the world, render him also a very poorsubject to fool with. Ano
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