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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 64: ADDENDA.
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.

ADDENDA.

Through inadvertence the services rendered to the battery by Surgeon John H. Merrill have been omitted. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon First Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment, Aug. 25, 1862. He served with Battery H. for several months, and was afterwards on duty with the Artillery Brigade of the Second Corps. He was promoted to Surgeon April 6, 1863, and resigned March 16, 1864, in consequence of ill health. He was a kind and skillful surgeon, and universally beloved and respected by the officers and men.