. The history of Battery B, First regiment Rhode Island light artillery, in the war to preserve the union, 1861-1865 . s fate. But rumor, withher thousand tongues, is always speaking. So what the soldier lacks ininformation is usually made up in surmises and conjectures ; everyhint is caught at, and worked out in all possible and impossible com-binations. He makes some shrewd guesses (the Yankees birth- 66 HISTORY OF BATTERY B, [March, right), hut he knows absolutely nothing of the part he is to performin some great or little plan of the army to which he is the report is received
. The history of Battery B, First regiment Rhode Island light artillery, in the war to preserve the union, 1861-1865 . s fate. But rumor, withher thousand tongues, is always speaking. So what the soldier lacks ininformation is usually made up in surmises and conjectures ; everyhint is caught at, and worked out in all possible and impossible com-binations. He makes some shrewd guesses (the Yankees birth- 66 HISTORY OF BATTERY B, [March, right), hut he knows absolutely nothing of the part he is to performin some great or little plan of the army to which he is the report is received or whence it comes he knows not, but itis rumored there is to be a move. The general opinion among the troops at that time was that at lasta movement was in progress, and that they were on their way tomake an end of the Confederacy. They gathered in squads uponthe decks of the steamers. Here and there were card parties, othersslept or dozed. But the majority were smoking and discussing theprobabilities of their destination, about which they really knewnothing, except that they were sailing down the Potomac Private William F. Reynolds. _ FIRST RHODE ISLAND LIGHT ARTILLERY. 67 CHAPTER VII DEPARTURE FOR THE PENINSULA. AND SIEGE OFYORKTOWN. O N the 23th of March, the battery was dismounted aud puton board of the propeller Empire, also the battery wagon, After the officers and cannoneers had embarked the propeller movedout into the stream, headed down the river, leaving the drivers withtheir horses on the wharf, under the command of Lieut. George Here they remained all night as no boat came for them. Late in the forenoon of the next day a tug-boat with a schoonerin tow, ran alongside of the wharf, and. after it bad been made fastto the dock, the work of getting the horses on board was late in the afternoon before it was accomplished as there wassome delay in getting transports enough to take the horses. Afterall had embarked, there was another delay ; w
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