For the second quarter in a row, the clerks shifted entries around to allocate New York it’s own pages within the summaries: Our focus for this post is the top set of entry lines, for the 1st New York Light Artillery: Colonel Charles S. Wainwright commanded this regiment. Wainwright, as we well know, commanded theContinue reading “Summary Statement, 4th Quarter, 1863 – 1st New York Artillery”
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Summary Statement, 3rd Quarter, 1863 – New York Independent Batteries, Part 1
From that long page of New York entries for the third quarter, 1863 summaries, we have thirty-three lines covering the independent batteries from the state: Some of these are simply placeholder lines for batteries either mustered out or being mustered in. Still a notable measure of New York’s support of the war… in terms ofContinue reading “Summary Statement, 3rd Quarter, 1863 – New York Independent Batteries, Part 1”
Summary Statement, 3rd Quarter, 1863 – 1st New York Light Artillery
We turn now to the New York listings in the third quarter summary. Appropriately, the clerks allocated a complete page to document all of the batteries and sections from the state: That’s enough New York Yankees to fill the major league team and the farm system! The First, Second (one battery), and Third regiments ofContinue reading “Summary Statement, 3rd Quarter, 1863 – 1st New York Light Artillery”