. Battery F, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . as directed troops to be ready to em-bark, but paragraph VI. remained, and Battery Fwas to leave North Carolina. Oct. 30,1863, was occupied in putting on board thesteamers Ella May, Pilot Boy and Colonel Rttcker thebattery, its property and stores. At midnight thework was completed, lines were cast off, and withfeelings of regret and sorrow, for many agreeable as-sociations had been formed, the men bade farewell toNew Berne and the comfortable quarters which hadbeen extremely pleasant as their home since Mar
. Battery F, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . as directed troops to be ready to em-bark, but paragraph VI. remained, and Battery Fwas to leave North Carolina. Oct. 30,1863, was occupied in putting on board thesteamers Ella May, Pilot Boy and Colonel Rttcker thebattery, its property and stores. At midnight thework was completed, lines were cast off, and withfeelings of regret and sorrow, for many agreeable as-sociations had been formed, the men bade farewell toNew Berne and the comfortable quarters which hadbeen extremely pleasant as their home since March,1862. Just two years service had at this time been givento the country, and certainly there had been no causefor complaint. While undoubtedly the battery hadnot encountered such severe fighting as fell to the lotof troops in some departments, it had met with expe- 104 BATTERY F, riences not common to light batteries. It had beena part of a semi-naval force, the Burnside Coast Di-vision ; it was knocked about on shipboard duringthe storm off Hatteras which caused such disaster to. First Sergt. Simeon Gallyp. the expedition and anxiety to friends at home ; hadtwice landed from vessels by throwing horses over-board and towing them ashore by small boats, andrafting the guns and other property to the land ; hadmade numerous raids both by land and water in the FIRST R. I. LIGHT ARTILLERY. IO5 Department of North Carolina; had served for seve-ral weeks as cavalry after the occupation of NewBerne, and had made a reputation in the depart-ment of which all felt proud. It was not strange,therefore, that a feeling of heaviness prevailed as thecommand left the scenes of its exploits and sailedfor the unknown duties which were before it. The route by which the battery was to reachFort Monroe, lay overland from Camden, N. C,through the Dismal Swamp. The Third New YorkCavalry and Riggs New York Battery accompaniedit. The three transports upon which Battery Fmade the first part of the journe
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