- Joined
- Jul 28, 2015
William Atwood enlisted in Pennsylvania Light Artillery Battery F on August 8th 1862, he was promoted to 2nd Lt and apparently was a frugal individual and elected to take a pair of standard issue trousers and have them altered to an officer's configuration. He also added a rear pocket and since he was mounted, had reinforcing canvas inserted around the bottom cuffs about 7". He had the seam split and dark blue cording/piping sewn in as befitting a junior officer. These were purchased from the Horse Soldier and late of the Jim Stamatelos collection. Inspected by William Giles at the Branch Depot in Steubenville, OH.
Battery F:
It joined Gen. Banks' army
on the upper Potomac, participated in the action at Dam No. 5
in December and at Hancock, Md. early in Jan. 1862. In the repeated skirmishes between the forces of Gen. Banks and Stone-wall Jackson in April, 1862, the battery was actively employed, but after the closing engagement at Winchester was stationed at Front Royal for three months and was not again in active service until late in August. With Gen. Pope's army, it participated in the fierce struggles of Bull Run and Chantilly and in the minor engagements preceding them. Its guns boomed at South Mountain and Antietam, after which it was posted at Harper's Ferry with the 12th corps. At Charlestown in November and Winchester the following month the battery was active, but it arrived too late for a share in the battle at Fredericksburg.
In the battle at Chancellorsville the command played an important part and on the last day of the fight Capt. Hampton was killed. On account of the heavy losses sustained the battery was consolidated with Battery C early in June and the two batteries were united during the remainder of the year. In the spring of
1864, a number of recruits was received sufficiently large to enable both batteries to become independent organizations. At Camp Barry, Washington, Battery F was refitted and became a part of the defenses of the city until ordered to Harper's Ferry on July 4 and remained in that vicinity until April,
1865.
Battery F:
It joined Gen. Banks' army
on the upper Potomac, participated in the action at Dam No. 5
in December and at Hancock, Md. early in Jan. 1862. In the repeated skirmishes between the forces of Gen. Banks and Stone-wall Jackson in April, 1862, the battery was actively employed, but after the closing engagement at Winchester was stationed at Front Royal for three months and was not again in active service until late in August. With Gen. Pope's army, it participated in the fierce struggles of Bull Run and Chantilly and in the minor engagements preceding them. Its guns boomed at South Mountain and Antietam, after which it was posted at Harper's Ferry with the 12th corps. At Charlestown in November and Winchester the following month the battery was active, but it arrived too late for a share in the battle at Fredericksburg.
In the battle at Chancellorsville the command played an important part and on the last day of the fight Capt. Hampton was killed. On account of the heavy losses sustained the battery was consolidated with Battery C early in June and the two batteries were united during the remainder of the year. In the spring of
1864, a number of recruits was received sufficiently large to enable both batteries to become independent organizations. At Camp Barry, Washington, Battery F was refitted and became a part of the defenses of the city until ordered to Harper's Ferry on July 4 and remained in that vicinity until April,
1865.
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