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BY COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL ELZEY.
WILLIAM PALFREY, Captain and Assistant Adjutant.
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About this time Johnston's battalion was ordered to North Carolina. Ritter's battery was transferred to Cobb's battalion, and on the 2nd of February ordered to Mobile, Alabama. The city was reached on the 5th, and on the 10th Ritter's and Phillip's companies took charge of Battery D, three miles from town. The D Battery contained seven guns - two twelve-pound siege-pieces, four thirty-two pound navy guns, and one army gun of the same calibre. Ritter was in command.
On the night of April 11, 1865, Mobile was evacuated and the troops were conveyed on transports to Demopolis, Alabama ; thence to Meridian, Mississippi, on the cars, where, on the 4th of May, General Dick Taylor surrendered to General Canby. On the 10th the Third Maryland Artillery was paroled.
ROSTER OF THE THIRD MARYLAND ARTILLERY.
HENRY B. LATROBE, Captain.
*FERD. O. CLAIBORNE, Captain.
*JOHN B. ROWAN, Captain.
+WILLIAM L. RITTER, Captain.
*WILLIAM THOMPSON PATTEN, Lieutenant. HOLMES ERWIN, Lieutenant. THOMAS D. GILES, Lieutenant.
*THOMAS H. JONES, Corporal. JOHN C. PENDLEY, Corporal.
J. W. DONCASTER, Lieutenant.
THOMAS J. ROGERS, Assistant Surgeon.
RUFUS MCCEENY, First Sergeant.
ALBERT T. EMORY, Quartermaster.
JAMES M. BUCHANAN, JR., Sergeant.
JOHN P. HOOPER, Sergeant.
*EDWARD H. LANGLEY, Sergeant. JOSEPH LACKEY, Sergeant.
*B. SANCHEZ, Corporal.
+L. W. FRAZIER, Sergeant.
M. L. WELSH, Corporal.
J. W. SMITH, Sergeant. WILLIAM FLEMING, Sergeant.
JACKSON SIMMONS, Corporal.
#DANIEL TOOMEY, Sergeant. EDWARD WYNN, Sergeant.
¡A. J. DAVIS, Sergeant. BENJAMIN F. WEAVER, Corporal. S. G. W. GERDING, Corporal.
S. R. SHEPPARD, Corporal. FREDERICK GEIGER, Bugler.
*NICHOLAS POWERS, Blacksmith. PATRICK MCCANN, Artificer. JOSEPH G. FLETCHER, Artificer.
*W. B. P. MILLS, Farrier.
* Killed. + Wounded.
*JOSEPH EDGAR, Corporal. *M. H. O'CONNELL, Corporal. WV. H. ERWIN, Corporal. GEORGE W. HANCOCK, Corporal.
VIRGIL P. HERRON, Corporal. WILLIAM T. SYKES, Corporal. +WILLIAM PIRKLE, Corporal. +A. G. Cox, Corporal. SOLOMON HYLTON, Corporal.
WILLIAM BUCKNER, Corporal. JOHN LIGHT, Corporal.
+BALDWIN BRADFORD, Corporal.
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Privates.
ADAMS, J. H.
: CHAFIN, S.
ELDER, HENRY.
ARMSTRONG, LEWIS.
CHEASHAM, J.
ELLICOTT, CHARLES J. F.
¡ASHBURN, A. R.
CHESER, G. S.
FARMER, THOMAS.
AULTMAN, N.
CLARK, CHARLES.
¡FAULK, S.
FAULTMAN, S.
CLARK, THOMAS B.
FILMER, F.
BAILEY, F. M.
CLARK, T. H.
FLEENOR, A.
+BARNES, ROBERT B.
CONNOR, ALEXANDER.
FLOWERS, W. H.
BARRETT, J. H.
CONNOR, JAMES.
FOLEY, DANIEL.
+BEASLEY, D.
COOK, CHIARLES.
+FOLEY, JOIIN.
BEASLEY, JOSEPH.
*COSSON, J. S.
FORD, JAMES W.
BELL, WILLIAM.
COTTER, J. J.
FOWLER, A. J.
BENNETT, WILLIAM B
COUSINS, J. H.
FOWLER, E. C.
BENTON, JOHN.
Cox, JAMES.
FULKERSON, J. K. P.
BERG, JOIIN.
CRAIG, EDWARD.
GARRETT, W. A. H.
+BEVERLY, N. M.
CRANGLE, ROBERT.
+GARST, BENJAMIN.
BIRDWELL, D. J.
CRIDER, J. M.
GATES, L. R.
BLACKBURN, WILLIAM.
CRIDER, W. R.
GATES, W.
BLAKESLIE, CHARLES E.
CROWLEY, MICHAEL. GLOVER, W. H.
*BOWLER, THOMAS.
CROZART, J. A.
GOLDEN, H. F.
BRADBERY, L. S.
CURRAN, JOHN.
GOLDEN, W.
BRIDGES, W.
DAILEY, W. H.
*GORDON, HENRY.
BROWN, A. H.
DAVIDSON, E.
GORDRIAN, ANTONY.
¡BROWN, W. J.
¡DAVIS, W. E.
GORDRIAN, S.
BROWN, N. M.
DAVIS, W. J.
GORMAN, P.
BURTON, MICHAEL.
DEGAN CASPER.
GOUGH, JAMES.
¡BUSHONG, J. A.
DELANEY, FRANCIS.
GRAY, J. A.
BUTLER, H. C.
DONOHUE, EDWARD.
GRIFFIN, W. B.
BYRON, TIMOTHY.
DOOLEY, FRANK.
GUGENHEIMER, S.
CALLOWAY, W. A.
DOVE, W. S.
HAIL, FRANCIS.
CAMP, GEORGE W.
DOWNS, JAMES.
HAM, JAMES.
CAMP, JAMES R.
DRISCALL, JAMES.
HAMMOND, W. H.
+CANNON, J. G.
DUFFAN, HENRY.
HARMAN, VICTOR.
CARBERRY, PATRICK.
DUVALL, CHARLES.
HARRIS, G. M.
CARR, PATRICK.
DWYER, MARTIN.
HARVEY, J. C.
CARRILL, JOHN.
+EARLY, THOMAS. HARVEY, W.
CARY, G. M.
EATON, J. H.
HATTAWAY, W., SR.
CAULK, WILLIAM H.
EDWARDS, FRANK K.
HATTAWAY, W., JR.
* Killed, + Wounded.
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HAWLEY, GEORGE W.
KITZMILLER, H.
MONTIETII, M.
HEINEMAN, H.
KOBERG, CHARLES.
MORGAN, FRANCIS MOSES, J.
HELWIG, L.
LATON, J. N.
HENDRY, W.
LAWLESS, W.
MYERS, HENRY.
HERMAN, SOLOMON.
¡LEE, A.
NAPOLEON, LOUIS.
HERRON, B. C.
LEWIS, M.
NEWTON, F. M.
HINTON, NICH. J.
LINDSEY, S. J.
NEWTON, J. W.
HOLBROOK, A.
LOVE, WILLIAM.
NEWTON, S. M.
HOLBROOK, G. J.
LOWREY, F. M.
+NICHOLS, J. P.
HOGAN, JAMES.
+LYNCH, D.
O'BRIAN, J.
¡HOFFMAN, J. H.
MCCARTHY, JAMES.
O'HANLON, J.
HOLDER, J.
McCULLEY, W.
O"NEILL, D. P.
HUNTER, J. P.
McDONALD, THOMAS.
O'NEILL, G. W.
HUNTER, W.
McGOVERN, J.
O'SHIELDS, J. P.
HUTTON, S.
McGUIRE, J.
OLIVER, J. P.
HUGHES, J. O.
MCKEHAN, W.
OWENSBY, G.
HURLEY, C.
*McKISSICK, J. J.
OWINGS, JOSHUA.
+ISHAM, J. H.
McMAHON, C.
PARKINSON, J. S.
JACKSON, O.
McMAHON, J. C.
PARKER, J. B.
JACKSON, J. C.
McMAHON, HUGH.
PARKER, WILLIAM.
JOHNSON, D. W.
McMILLAN WILLIAM.
PARNILL, T. A.
JOHNSON, G. W.
MCNABB, A.
PERRY, SAMUEL H.
JOHNSON, J. W.
MCWHORTER, J. D.
PERRY, W.
JOHNSON, STEPHEN.
MACK, THOMAS.
PETERSON, N.
JOHNSON, S.
MACKIN, JAMES.
POWELL, H. B.
JONES, W.
MANN, SAMUEL.
POWELL, J. J.
JONES, S.
MARKEY, M.
POWELL, W. B.
JONES, C. A.
MARKHAM, J.
PRESTON, JOHN.
JONES, W. J. W.
MARONEY, Z. T.
PRICE, CHARLES.
JORDAN, B.
¡MARTIN, J. G.
PRICE, DAVID. PUE, R. P.
KELLY, JOHN.
MELTON, SAMUEL.
KELLY, L.
MILLER, CHARLES.
PURDIE, WILLIAM E.
KELLY, PETER.
MILLER, GEORGE.
QUINLIN, EDWARD.
KENN, EDWARD.
MILLER, THADEUS.
RAY, M.
KERNS, G. A.
MILLER, THOMAS.
REYNOLDS, D.
KIMBLE, WILLIAM.
MILTON, JOHN.
REYNOLDS, W.
KING, WILLIAM.
MINTER, WILLIAM.
+RODRIGUEZ, FRANCISCO. ROBERTSON, J. A. G.
KIRBY, JOSEPH A.
MITCHELL, GEORGE.
KIRKLAND, J. T.
MONTIETH, G. W.
ROBINSON, CHARLES.
* Killed. t Wounded.
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ROBINSON, W.
SMITHI, J. T.
ROGERS, J. P.
SMITH, PHARIS.
ROGERS, W.
SMITH, THOMAS.
ROWLAND, D. P.
*SMITH, WILLIAM. SNIPES, R.
WATKINS, E. WEAVER, JOHN.
ST. CLAIR, ALBERT L. SAILOR, M.
SPENGLING, P.
¡WELLS, EMMIT. WELLS, W.
SAMMS, R. J. STANSBURY, JOHN S.
SAVELL, THOMAS S.
*STEWARD, HENRY S. STONE, A. STONE, J. W.
WHITING, JAMES. WILKINS, JOHN D.
SEAWRIGHT, W. L.
STUNT, ROBERT.
SHEA, TIMOTHY.
SULLIVAN, ANDREW.
*WILLS, A.
SHIPLEY, G. R.
SULLIVAN, JOHN, NO. I.
¡WILLS, J. P. WILLS, W.
+SILAS, D
+TALTON, M. P. TAYLOR, J.
WILLSON, THOMAS.
SILVER, S. M.
¡TELYEA, JOHN.
WILSON, J. J.
SIMMS, WILLIS R.
THOMAS, GEORGE H.
WILSON, JOHN S.
SIMMONS, J.
THORNTON, -
WILSON, W. WOODWARD, J.
SIMPSON, G.
¡TINLEY, JOHN.
SINGER, G.
TOMPKINS, E. A.
WOOTEN, JOSEPH.
SMITH, FRANCIS.
TOMLINSON, T. M.
WORRALL, W.
SMITH, JAMES.
¡TURNER, J. A.
YOUNG, H. L.
SMITH, J. S.
TYLER, CHARLES.
ZIMMERMAN, ISAAC.
*Killed. t Wounded.
*TYSON, RICHARD. USSERY, D. WAKEFIELD, WARE, R.
RYAN, M.
SOUTH, F.
WELSH, DANIEL.
¡SCALES, J. S.
WHALEN, JOHN.
SCHWAN, FRANCIS.
SHORT, JAMES.
SULLIVAN, JOIIN, NO. 2.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS.
SILAS, L.
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FOURTH MARYLAND ARTILLERY. ( CHESAPEAKE.)
CHAPTER I.
T HE Chesapeake Battery was organized by a combination of Maryland volunteers, originally intended for infantry service, under command of Captain Joseph Forest, of St. Mary's County, and Captain William D. Brown, of Baltimore City. The young men composing the battery were from the Eastern and Western counties in about equal proportions, and, as events proved, they were a remarkably fine body of men, and made their mark on more than one desperately fought field. At the time of its organization guns were very difficult to procure, and the consequence was the company was not able to take the field until some weeks after its organization, in the early part of 1861, but they were finally equipped with four pieces of inferior calibre, and sent to Camp Lee for instruction. Here the battery was fully organized by the election of the following officers : Captain, William D. Brown, of Baltimore ; First Lieutenant, John E. Plater, of Baltimore ; Junior First Lieutenant, Walter S. Chew, of Washington, D. C .; Senior Second Lieutenant, John Grason, of Queen Anne's.
Later on Benjamin G. Roberts, of Queen Anne's, was elected Junior Second Lieutenant, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Lieutenant John Grason, who was killed at Fredericksburg on December 13th, 1862, and Thomas P. La Compte was some time after promoted Junior Second Lieutenant.
At the Camp of Instruction the men rapidly became proficient in the artillery drill, thanks to Martin Harvey and Peter Williams, two young Virginians, who had been detailed from the Richmond Howitzers as instructors, and who remained permanently with the battery, and set an example on the field which the Mary- landers were not slow to emulate.
During the Peninsular campaign the battery belonged to the reserve artillery, but was after that attached to Colonel Snowden Andrews' artillery battalion, composed of the Carpenter's Lynchburg, First Maryland and Fourth Maryland (Chesapeake) batteries.
Colonel Andrews won fame at Cedar Run in August, 1862, as he did on many other fields, and so well did the Chesapeake battery acquit itself in this engage- ment that General Early complimented the men by presenting them with Cushing's regular battery of four ten-pound Parrotts captured in that battle, thus enabling them to discard the old smooth-bores that had prevented the battery from participating more conspicuously in other engagements.
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At Warrenton Springs, after the battery had crossed the river at that ford, it became impassable through a sudden storm, thus cutting off their retreat and preventing reinforcements from going to their relief. But so fiercely did the boys fight their guns that time was given to build a bridge, over which they safely recrossed in the very presence of a vastly superior force of the enemy, and then made a forced march by way of Thoroughfare Gap to the second Manassas.
At Bristow's the Chesapeake was actively engaged keeping the enemy in check whilst the immense amount of stores captured at Manassas were being destroyed.
In this action Andrew Egan had his thigh terribly mutilated, and the battery lost a good man, for the poor fellow was rendered a cripple for life. Dad Baker made a narrow escape at the same time, having his clothes partially torn from his body by an exploding shell.
In the midst of the hottest part of the fire, the boys were startled by the sight of Stonewall Jackson, quietly looking on, and evidently much gratified at the execution the battery was doing. Now, there were two things that would always bring a yell from a Confederate soldier, and those were the sight of Jackson or a rabbit. The impulse could not be resisted, and the fire of the battery was stopped and three hearty cheers were given to the grim old soldier. But this was evidently not to his liking, for he instantly ordered the battery to renew its firing, and the way those guns were made to jump was a lesson to the enemy.
But this first day's fight over, the boys sought something refreshing to compensate them in a measure for the danger they had escaped and the severe work they had been compelled to perform : and even a soldier has his moments of enjoyment, and one of these is a cup of good coffee, something to which the Southern soldier was a stranger for a long period of the war, unless it was captured from the enemy. After a fight, foraging is the first thing in order, and this was not an exceptional occasion. The boys were in luck, and soon a quantity of steaming coffee was being handed around, and that night the camp-fire was enlivened with song and jest at the expense of the enemy.
But these things cannot last forever. for whilst enjoying the agreeable innovation the bugle suddenly sounded the assembly, and the battery was soon thundering away at the enemy in a desperate artillery duel in the night, with nothing to direct their fire but the flash of the opposing guns. Having the advantage of position, the Chesapeake suffered but small loss, whilst, when day broke, the ground where had stood the hostile battery and its supporting infantry was found thickly strewn with dead and wounded men and horses.
And here an incident occurred not so uncommon upon the battle-field as the reader would suppose, that must challenge the admiration of all Christian people. In passing over this ghastly field Lieutenant John Grason, of the Chesapeake,
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discovered an officer of a New York regiment mortally wounded and dying. This Christian gentleman knelt and prayed with his wounded enemy - not enemy now - whilst the men of the battery stood reverently by until the poor soldier closed his eyes in death.
We next find the Chesapeakes at Harper's Ferry, and there one morning, just as the sun was rising, their Parrotts screamed forth an unexpected surprise to General Miles and the army there in fancied security. Fiercely those guns were worked that day, and one of the last shells fired by the battery cost General Miles his life.
After the surrender of those ten thousand men, the Confederates, under Jackson, were hurried to Sharpsburg, where there was pressing need for their services. A. P. Hill, with his light division, was left at Harper's Ferry to complete the surrender, when he, too, was to follow with all possible dispatch. The reader knows how well Jackson fought that day, and how, happily, in the nick of time, Hill swung his light division into line and saved the army from destruction.
And where were the Chesapeakes ? Where were they not on that gory field ? First here, then there, those self-same Parrotts, captured at Cedar Run, dealt death and destruction to the enemy, and perhaps never before were those guns so savagely handled. The occasion required that they should be on that dreadful day of the 17th of September.
Shattered and torn by the pounding it had received at the hands of the overwhelming forces of the enemy, the army under General Lee returned to Virginia, after having made the best contested battle it ever did make prior to or subsequently, and the Confederate soldier who fought at Sharpsburg can be proud of the heritage he leaves behind.
After returning to Virginia from the short campaign into Maryland, the Chesapeake moved slowly along the Valley turnpike until Bunker Hill was reached, where it remained for awhile, and crossed the Blue Ridge in November on its way to the Rappahannock in the vicinity of Fredericksburg.
In the fierce engagement at that place on the 13th of December, 1862, the Chesapeake took a prominent part near Hamilton's Crossing, and suffered severe loss. In this battle the lamented Grason fell, as did others equally as brave.
A short time after the battle the battery went into winter quarters in De Jarnette's Woods, in Caroline County, near Bowling Green, where the men had many weeks of much-needed rest.
But spring came at last, and with it came plenty of hard work for the Army of Northern Virginia.
The Federal Army, now under Hooker, occupied a strong position at Chan- cellorsville. General Lee confronted him with a much inferior army, but he still had Jackson with him, but, alas ! it was decrecd that it should be for the last
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time. By a skillful movement Lee, on May 2d, threw Jackson in Hooker's rear and administered to that General a severe blow. Unhappily, that night the great Jackson was fired upon by some of his own men through a mistake, and he died a few days later from the wounds he received.
While these operations were in progress at Chancellorsville, General Early, by skillful manœuvring had detained Sedgwick at Fredericksburg until the 3d, when that General, by a determined advance, forced Early back and carried Marye's Heights, and then proceeded toward Chancellorsville to assist Hooker, who was sorely pressed. But Sedgwick was intercepted at Salem Church by Wilcox, whom General Lee had dispatched for the purpose, and the Federal General suffered a severe defeat.
The Chesapeake battery was attached to Early's command, and therefore was not, properly speaking, engaged at Chancellorsville, although it was rather a continuous line of battle, though in a detached way.
The position occupied by the Chesapeake in this engagement was near Hamilton's Crossing, or nearly upon the same ground occupied by the battery on the 13th of December previous. The accurate firing of the battery attracted much attention, and it did great execution, although it lost heavily itself. Nothing could restrain the enthusiasm of the men. After one of his favorite shots, jumping to the top of the parapet to watch its effect, Tom Carberry had his right leg carried away.
But Dement, close by, was in trouble. His twelve-pound Napoleons were no match for the long-range guns opposed to him, and the Chesapeake was ordered to take his place. It was a position fraught with great danger.
Under cover of their batteries, the Federals crossed the river in great numbers and advanced toward the Confederates. Down to the right was a piece of woods, and in the woods were several batteries. This was unknown to the advancing enemy, who came on with beautiful precision, and not a shot was fired from this woods until they were within short range, when a murderous fire greeted them. To this the Chesapeake contributed its share. The column was staggered, but, recovering, they still pressed on ; but human flesh and blood could not withstand that fire, and the column broke. Then General Anderson sent forward his Georgia infantry, and the rout became general, but few of that fated column escaping across the river.
To the left the Confederates were not so successful, and the enemy swept over Marye's Heights and captured several hundred prisoners and a few pieces of the Washington Artillery. This temporary success compelled the Confederate right to fall back some distance, but upon Sedgwick hastily retreating to avoid being crushed between Early, Wilcox and McLaws the artillery advanced and resumed their former positions.
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In this engagement the Chesapeake boys worked their guns with their characteristic determination. Many of their comrades had fallen in the first battle upon almost the identical spot they occupied in the second, and it was to avenge Grason, Hopkins, Grahame (dead), and Crowley, Shanahan, Vincent Green, John Green and many others (wounded), that the boys put forth their utmost efforts.
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CHAPTER II.
When the Army of Northern Virginia left its position on the Rappahannock in June, 1863, the Chesapeake Artillery was attached to the corps of General Ewell. The Chesapeake did not participate in the battle of Winchester, as there was no occasion requiring their services. Dement's upheld the honor of Maryland upon that occasion and made a bright page in history.
At Gettysburg the Chesapeake was with the gallant Latimer, who was in command of Colonel Andrews' battalion of artillery. By direction of General Edward Johnson, Latimer took position on Benner's Hill, which was directly in front of Cemetery Ridge, a commanding position, crowned by many batteries of the enemy's artillery.
About 4 o'clock Latimer opened fire, and for more than an hour one of the most terrific artillery duels of the war continued. The gallant Captain William D. Brown, of the Chesapeake, was among the first to fall, having both legs shat- tered, although he survived his dreadful injuries several days. A member of the Chesapeake Artillery who participated in the battle thus describes the terrible ordeal through which the battery passed :
Gettysburg cannot be justly described, as far as our battalion was concerned, which was commanded by the gallant Major Latimer, in the absence of Colonel R. S. Andrews, who had been wounded at Winchester. Benner's Hill was simply a hell infernal. Our position was well calculated to drive confidence from the stoutest heart. We were directly opposed by some of the finest batteries in the regular service of the enemy, which batteries, moreover, held a position to which ours was but a molehill. Our shells ricochetted over them, whilst theirs plunged into the devoted battalion, carrying death and destruction everywhere.
The Chesapeake received the most deadly evidence of that terrible duel. Our gallant Captain, William D. Brown, was the first to fall. Riding to the front of his battery, he enjoined us, for the honor of our native State, to stand manfully to our guns. The words were still upon his lips when he fell, dreadfully inangled by a solid shot. No braver or more unselfish patriot fell upon that blood-soaked field, and none were more beloved by their commands.
There were many deeds of heroism on that field that day, and of these the Chesapeake had its share.
Three of our pieces were silenced, and sadly and with moist eye Sergeant Crowley stood meditatively looking at the wreck around him. Approaching the veteran he pointed, with a trembling voice, to his dead and wounded comrades. There were Doctor Jack Brian, and Daniel Dougherty, and brave little Cusick. They belonged to his detachment. And
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even while he was deploring their loss, a solid shot struck Thaddeus Parker and literally disemboweled him and killed the two lead horses he was holding.
The fourth detachment was now all that was serviceable of the battery, and it continued to fire. His own piece being disabled, Jacob F. Cook was assigned as No. 2 to Sergeant Phil Brown's detachment, and while inserting a charge in the piece the wheel on the odd number side was hard hit. Sergeant Brown, Smith Warrington, Phil Oldner and Henry Wilson were each severely wounded by this shot. The Sergeant stepped down to Rock Creek, close to our position, bound up his wound, and returned to jack up his gun, put on a spare wheel, and resumed firing. Oldner was suffering at the time from a wound but recently received, and the fresh hurt was more than his system could overcome, and in a short while he was laid in a soldier's grave. And then we lost Lieutenant Ben Roberts and Richard Hardesty, both mortally wounded.
Our loss at Gettysburg was eight killed and eight wounded, and we lost half of our horses. We buried our dead, went into park, repaired damages, and when the retreat began in the direction of the Potomac the Chesapeake was well in the rear.
From Gettysburg to Appomattox the Chesapeake marched and fought, sharing all the vicissitudes of the Army of Northern Virginia.
At Fort Gregg our battery made a most determined defense after all hope had been abandoned. After exhausting our ammunition Lieutenant Chew's gray coat was pressed into service, and we loaded our pieces with such projectiles as could be picked up.
Billy Holtzman, as the columns of Michiganders swarmed over the ramparts, still showed fight. A big fellow seized the boy and seemed intent on distinguishing himself by some sanguinary deed, but a young Lieutenant who divined the brute's intentions, put a stop to it by ordering Holtzman to the rear under a prisoners' guard. Billy couldn't under- stand why the fellow wanted to wreak summary vengeance upon him until he reached the trench surrounding the ramparts and found it choked with the man's comrades, which he had attributed to the fire of the Chesapeake battery.
Although Pinder was severely wounded in the head, he and Culver fought like tigers at the ramparts. Poor Culver ; his young life was sacrificed while fighting with a clubbed rifle, with which he had been doing deadly work, for he was a dead shot, and during inter- vals of firing by the battery he was busy at the ramparts with his rifle.
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ROSTER OF THE FOURTH MARYLAND ARTILLERY. ( CHESAPEAKE. )
OFFICERS.
WILLIAM D. BROWN, Captain.
WALTER S. CHEW, Captain.
JOHN E. PLATER, First Lieutenant
JOHN GRASON, Second Lieutenant.
THOMAS LECOMPTE, Lieutenant.
THOMAS LECOMPTE, First Sergeant.
ROBERT A. CROWLEY, Second Sergeant.
JAMES D. WALL, Third Sergeant.
PHILIP H. BROWN, Fourth Sergeant.
HENRY C. BUCKMASTER, Corporal.
ISAAC J. BLUNT, Corporal.
THOMAS A. CARBERRY, Corporal. THOMAS W. MUMMEY, Corporal.
JOHN P. HICKEY, Commissary Sergeant.
G. B. McCUBBIN, Quartermaster-Sergeant
DANIEL A. WILKINSON, Bugler.
MICHAEL H. BRADY, Artificer. HENRY BAKER, L'eterinarian.
Privates.
ALSTON, FREDERICK. DALLAM, CHARLES F.
HAAS, ISAAC C.
ACTON, WASHINGTON.
DEAN, JAMES E.
HOPKINS, ALEXANDER.
BROWN, JOHN W.
DEAN, THOMAS.
HARDESTY, RICHARD.
BARCHUSS, W. W.
EMBERT, JOHN.
HARVEY, MARTIN.
BURKE, W. L_ ENNIS, THOMAS H.
HILL, JOHN.
BRIAN, DOCTOR JACK.
EVERGAU, THOMAS J.
HARRISON, P. L.
CULVER, E. K.
EGAN, ANDREW H.
HARPER, JAMES K.
CULVER, WILLIAM.
FAIRBANK, F. M.
HOOFF, JOHN J.
CUSICK, FREDERICK.
FORREST, JOSEPH.
HUBER, PAUL.
CECIL, JAMES. CESSLER, HENRY.
GRAHAM, -
HERMANTROUT, W. F.
CANFIELD, JOHN H.
GWYNN, WIZZIE.
IRVIN, JOHN. JACKSON, THOMAS G.
COVINGTON. ALLEN J.
GARDENER, JOHN H.
COTTRELL, EDWARD C.
GREEN, VINCENT.
JONES, ROBERT C.
COOK, JACOB F.
GREEN, JOHN F.
KIRBY, FRANCIS M.
CORRY, H.
GORE, JOHN W.
LUCAS, CHARLES.
DEMPSEY, JOSEPH.
GOODHAND, G. W.
LOUD, JOHN J.
DOUGHERTY, DANIEL.
GREEN, A.
LYNCH, CHRISTOPHER G.
DAWSON, LAMBDIN T.
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LANGLEY, RICHARD E.
GOLDSBOROUGH,
HOLTZMAN, WILLIAM H. F.
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LANE, JOHN A. LANNAHAN, THOMAS. MALONEY JAMES. MONTGOMERY, JOHN. MOWBRAY, JOHN K. MASON, WILLIAM H.
PORTER, GUSTAVUS.
PETERS, JOSEPH.
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL W.
PARKER, PETER H. PERRY, JOHN G.
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