. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . I,-- WHwEl,,/./, , <TT;- Jim ^t. GENERAL GRIFFIN, WHO LED THE FIRST LIGHT BATTERY INTO WASHINGTON Major-General Charles Griffin stands in the center of his staff officers of the Fifth Army Corps, of which he attained commandon April 2. 1805. He was the man who led the first light artillery into Washington, the famous Battery D of the Fifth UnitedStates Artillery, known as the West Point Light Battery. When war was threatening. Colonel Charles Delafield, then Super-
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . I,-- WHwEl,,/./, , <TT;- Jim ^t. GENERAL GRIFFIN, WHO LED THE FIRST LIGHT BATTERY INTO WASHINGTON Major-General Charles Griffin stands in the center of his staff officers of the Fifth Army Corps, of which he attained commandon April 2. 1805. He was the man who led the first light artillery into Washington, the famous Battery D of the Fifth UnitedStates Artillery, known as the West Point Light Battery. When war was threatening. Colonel Charles Delafield, then Super-intendent of the Military Academy at West Point, directed Lieutenant Charles Griffin, then of the Second Artillery and in-structor in the Tactical Department, to form a light battery of four pieces, with six horses to the piece, and enough men tomake the command seventy strong. On February l~>, 1861, it left for Washington with its four 12-pounder Napoleons. Re-organized July 4th as Company D of the Fifth United States Artillery, its organizer promoted to its captaincy, its strengthincreased to 112 men, and equipped with four 10-pounder Parrotts and two
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