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The History of Battery H First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union 1861-1865

Chapter 59: Buglers.
By Earl Fenner
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The narrative recounts the origin, training, and wartime service of a Rhode Island light artillery battery, tracing recruitment, camp life, artillery drill, and movements from organization through major campaigns. It describes the unit's participation in field operations, siege and trench service, repulsing enemy assaults, and the final pursuit and surrender events, interweaving daily memoranda, official reports, and personal memoirs. The volume concludes with rosters, a mortuary record, and portraits of officers and men, providing a detailed administrative and human account of the battery's experiences during the conflict.

Corporals.

Henry C. Brown. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

John P. Campbell, 1st. See first sergeant.

James H. Rhodes. See sergeant.

Charles E. Bonn. See first sergeant.

Wellington P. Dolloff. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; discharged Feb. 3, 1863, on surgeon’s certificate at Emory Hospital, Washington, D. C.

Hiram A. Carey. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Gilbert Mortimer Thain. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; discharged Dec. 5, 1862, on surgeon’s certificate.

James C. Engley. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; discharged Dec. 15, 1862, to receive promotion as second lieutenant in Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. Resigned April 21, 1863.

William H. Springer. Mustered as private Oct. 15, 1862; promoted corporal in 1863: absent sick in hospital since May 30, 1864; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Emulous A. Cheever. See sergeant.

Michael Crogan. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal in 1864; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Earl Fenner. Enlisted as private in Battery C, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Aug. 25, 1861; discharged on surgeon’s certificate, Dec. 15, 1861; enrolled as private in Battery H, Sept. 24, 1862; mustered Oct. 14, 1862; bugler; corporal, November, 1862; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Hurbert Ochee. Mustered as private, Feb. 10, 1864; corporal; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Franklin E. Paul. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal, 1865; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Isaac Briggs. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Alexander Gilleland. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Orville Balcom. See sergeant.

William Boyer. Mustered as private, Dec. 31, 1862; corporal; deserted Nov. 26, 1863.

Isaac P. Noyes. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Job Randall. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Marvin Ryan. Veteran; mustered as private, Feb. 23, 1864; corporal; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

John P. Campbell, 2d. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal; wounded severely, April 2, 1865, in action before Petersburg, Va.; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.