. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . A BATTERY THATFOUGHT IX MANY CAM-PAIGNS—KXAPS rhc upper photograph is of[ndcpendent Battery E ofPennsylvania Light Artillery,mown as Knaps Battery,ifter its captain, Joseph Here the battery issithin a strong fortification,guarded by a slashing of;recs with branches pointing)utward, \-isible beyond thesalls. At Antietam, where;he battery distinguished it-ielf, there were no entrench-nents to protect it from theire of the Confederates; yet,practically unsupported, itDroke up two charges inthe tliick of the action. ThenMcClell
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . A BATTERY THATFOUGHT IX MANY CAM-PAIGNS—KXAPS rhc upper photograph is of[ndcpendent Battery E ofPennsylvania Light Artillery,mown as Knaps Battery,ifter its captain, Joseph Here the battery issithin a strong fortification,guarded by a slashing of;recs with branches pointing)utward, \-isible beyond thesalls. At Antietam, where;he battery distinguished it-ielf, there were no entrench-nents to protect it from theire of the Confederates; yet,practically unsupported, itDroke up two charges inthe tliick of the action. ThenMcClellans long-range gimsmaterially assisted the Unionidvance, but later in the daythe demand for artillery wasio great that when GeneralHancock asked for more toissist his attenuated line, he:ould not get them until heBnally borrowed one battery[rom Franklin. After thebattle ended (September 17,I862) and the Confederatesn-ith<lrew to the south side ofthe Potomac, General Porterresolved to capture some ofthe Confederate guns com-[f-3]. HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE HORSE ARTILLERY, BRANDY STATION, SEPTEMBER, 1S6;1Here are some followers of Brigadier-General James iladison Robert-son, who won promotion as chief of horse artillery on manyfif Ids. from the Peninsula to the Virginia campaigns of horse artillery was attached to the force. manding the fords. One ofthe five pieces taken in thisexploit on the night of Sep-tember 19th was a gim whichhad been captured by theConfederates at the FirstBull Run, from GriSins Bat-tery. D of the Fifth UnitedStates Artillery. There is an-other photograph of Knapsbattery in Volume II, page01. It was organized at Pointof Rocks, Maryland, from acompany formed for theSixty-third Pennsylvania andsurplus men of the Twen-ty-eighth Pennsylvania In-fantry in SeptemliiT. service im ludcd Popescampaign in Northern Vir-ginia, beside the Marylandcampaign which culminatedat Antietam. Its next im-jxirtant campaign was that ofChancellors
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