. Battery F, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . Corp. Frederic Wilcox. Battery F was advanced to the extreme front at sixoclock on the morning of the 16th, stationed on ahill overlooking a large open plain, and for a timeshelled the troops of Lees army, who were entrench-ing on the opposite side of the plain. At the same FIRST R. I. LIGHT ARTILLERY. 203 time the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac,extending to the left, advanced and immediately be-came hotly engaged, the result of which was the cap-ture of some artillery and prisoners, several stands
. Battery F, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . Corp. Frederic Wilcox. Battery F was advanced to the extreme front at sixoclock on the morning of the 16th, stationed on ahill overlooking a large open plain, and for a timeshelled the troops of Lees army, who were entrench-ing on the opposite side of the plain. At the same FIRST R. I. LIGHT ARTILLERY. 203 time the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac,extending to the left, advanced and immediately be-came hotly engaged, the result of which was the cap-ture of some artillery and prisoners, several stands ofcolors, and a continuation of the great left flank move-ment. During this action Battery F suffered no lossin men; the only casualty was the wounding ofLieutenant Simpsons horse in the hip by a rifle ballfired from the enemys lines. Friday, June 17th, General Burnside passed by thebattery, and the greeting given him by the membersof the command, by whom he had not been seen sinceJuly, 1862, when he left the Department of NorthCarolina, must have been gratifying. The Sixth Corps r
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