. Memoirs and history of Capt. F. W. Alexander's Baltimore Battery of light artillery, U. S. V. . FREDERICK W. WILD THE AUTHOR RECOLLECTIONS CHAPTER I THE ENLISTMENT THE KIND OF MEN COMPOSING THE BATTERY THE war had been going on for a year or first great battle had been fought. TheSeven days battle, or rather the retreat of the Armyof the Potomac, down the peninsula from in frontof Richmond was going on; Washington was threatened,when on August 5, 1862, President Lincoln calledfor three hundred thousand more volunteers. Therewas a new awakening as to the necessity of a morevigorous e
. Memoirs and history of Capt. F. W. Alexander's Baltimore Battery of light artillery, U. S. V. . FREDERICK W. WILD THE AUTHOR RECOLLECTIONS CHAPTER I THE ENLISTMENT THE KIND OF MEN COMPOSING THE BATTERY THE war had been going on for a year or first great battle had been fought. TheSeven days battle, or rather the retreat of the Armyof the Potomac, down the peninsula from in frontof Richmond was going on; Washington was threatened,when on August 5, 1862, President Lincoln calledfor three hundred thousand more volunteers. Therewas a new awakening as to the necessity of a morevigorous effort on the part of the loyal people of the coun-try, if the Union was to be preserved. Under this impulse,I decided to offer my services, and if so ordained, my life,that my country might live. There were a number of friends and schoolmates whodecided to do the same. There were enough of us, to makeone gun squad. An advertisement, to the effect that acertain Frederick W. Alexander, had been commissionedto recruit and organize a battery of light artillery, to beknown as the Baltimore Light A
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