. Battery F, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . e section(complete) for immediate special duty. Two daysrations and six days forage will be taken. . .The section will move by water transportation by 9p. m. to-night. First Lieut. Peter C. Smith with the right sectionwas detailed and reported to Col. S. H. Mix, ThirdNew York Cavalry, who modified the order, directingthat the guns only be taken. The object of the raid is set forth in the letter ofinstructions to Colonel Mix, dated New Berne, , 1863, from which is taken the following: Youwill proceed wi
. Battery F, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . e section(complete) for immediate special duty. Two daysrations and six days forage will be taken. . .The section will move by water transportation by 9p. m. to-night. First Lieut. Peter C. Smith with the right sectionwas detailed and reported to Col. S. H. Mix, ThirdNew York Cavalry, who modified the order, directingthat the guns only be taken. The object of the raid is set forth in the letter ofinstructions to Colonel Mix, dated New Berne, , 1863, from which is taken the following: Youwill proceed with 300 cavalry of the Third New Yorkand of Mixs new regiment and a section of Belgersbattery to Elizabeth City, N. C, to-night, by trans-ports. ... It having been reported that ColonelHinton is raising a regiment of conscripts in Pasquo-tank and the adjacent counties, and endeavoring byall means in his power to enforce the rebel conscrip-tion law, you will endeavor to ascertain the truth ofthese representations, and, if possible, break up hisoperations and disperse his camp. ---?. Dr. Albert Potter. (Surgeon Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, who had medical charge ofBattery F while it remained in North Carolina.) g6 BATTERY F, The two guns of the battery landed at ElizabethCity, from which point they were maneuvered in con-nection with the movements of the cavalry, but didnot become engaged. They arrived at New Berneon their return, October 16th, without was the last raid in North Carolina participatedin by the battery, as soon after it was transferred toVirginia. Just before leaving North Carolina, before ordershad been issued making the change in station, V. Harbert, paymaster United States Army,visited the battery for the purpose of paying the menfor the months of July and August. His visit causedconsiderable uneasiness in the battery, or perhaps itis more proper to state, to certain members of thebattery, for the reason that he refused to pay all theo
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