. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . another group of men hadbeen detailed to wait up and unload the trucks that would bring ourequipment from the train, the rest corked off. It was a tough nightfor the details but by two oclock Sunday morning the entire outfit wasasleep under the stars. Early the next morning we were literally dragged out of bed. Our lastimpression the night before had been right. We were in a swamp withsmall trees and prickly shrubs growing everywhere. Breakfast wasserved early, and then work started
. History of Battery B, One Hundred Third Field Artillery, Twenty-sixth Division, with pictorical supplement; . another group of men hadbeen detailed to wait up and unload the trucks that would bring ourequipment from the train, the rest corked off. It was a tough nightfor the details but by two oclock Sunday morning the entire outfit wasasleep under the stars. Early the next morning we were literally dragged out of bed. Our lastimpression the night before had been right. We were in a swamp withsmall trees and prickly shrubs growing everywhere. Breakfast wasserved early, and then work started on our Battery street. By noon ithad been cleared sufficiently to permit us to erect our tents. By night,we doubted if the place could have been as bad as we at first thought it. Monday morning brought drill on the old Quonset Point schedule,but in between drills the boys worked on the street, decorating it withsmall white-washed stones and trees until in a week we had trans-formed the worst spot in camp into a street that was as neat andattractive as any. When we had time to go around and become ac- [17]. quainlcd wc met the boys of ihe other three Batteries—two from Con-necticut and one from New Hanii)shire—which, with our three Batteriesfrom Rhode Island, was to form the One Hundred and Third FieldArtillery. While at Boxford some changes were made in the Battery. Lieu-tenant Sturgess was transferred and Lieutenant Metcalf left us for a while for some other duty. First SergeantSiteman and Sergeant Churchill were com-missioned second lieutenants and assignedto our Battery. We had lost a number ofmen, some through transfer, some throughthe federal medical examination which wereceived shortly after we reached we also received more men in the were a few more recruits. Then onee\ening detachments of the Rhode IslandCoast Artillery arrived and some wereassigned to B Battery. Then we receiveda small number—enough to bring theBattery up to war strength
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