. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . ^^STLEPINCKNFt RIPLEY^ BATTERY BEEFLOATING BATTERYFORTMOULTRi. EAUREGARD: tBATTERY ^ •.V ^iy>-^ ^-C #T wagN ER ^^^e, > I ^ <^ ^ ICHTHOUSE MOUSEINLBT^ 0 N S. JAMES ISLAND. Showing the defenses of Charleston and the line held by the Union forces prior to the battle of Secession-ville. Battery Lamar, wrongly called Fort Pemberton on page 139, was the one which Generals StevensWright and Williams att
. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time . ^^STLEPINCKNFt RIPLEY^ BATTERY BEEFLOATING BATTERYFORTMOULTRi. EAUREGARD: tBATTERY ^ •.V ^iy>-^ ^-C #T wagN ER ^^^e, > I ^ <^ ^ ICHTHOUSE MOUSEINLBT^ 0 N S. JAMES ISLAND. Showing the defenses of Charleston and the line held by the Union forces prior to the battle of Secession-ville. Battery Lamar, wrongly called Fort Pemberton on page 139, was the one which Generals StevensWright and Williams attempted to capture on June 16, 1863. FIRST LIGHT BATTERY, ISCl—lSCS ,sr,:{ percussion shells into the rebels with <rreat effect and mucli more accuracythan the enemy had shown. A Lieutenant of the loth Connecticut Infantry, writinj^^ to a NewHaven paper an account of the evacuation of James Island, thus referred tothe Battery: The guns of the First Connecticut Light Battery were served with arapidity and accuracy that spoke well for our friend, Captain Rockwell, andcompared favorably with the rebel fire. * * * Can you recall many incidents about the James Island campaign?Comrade Andrew Turner was He very characteristi
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