I believe this is my great great great great grandfather. I really would love info on him and his battery. This is the first time his Tintype has been scanned and there are some questions I have from examining closely. It appears the buttons on his coat have been colored gold. What does this mean? Would this photo have been taken late or early war. What type of coat is he wearing and would there be colored piping on his uniform? Why is there a hole in the left hand corner? Is there colored insignia on his shoulders? Thank you!
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Battery E
WEST VIRGINIA
(3-YEARS)
Battery E. -- Capt. Alexander C. Moore.
This battery, known as the "Upshur artillery," was organized
at Buckhannon, Upshur County, in Aug., 1862, to serve for
three years.
While at Buckhannon it was engaged against the Confederates
under Gen. Jenkins before it was mustered into the U. S.
service. With Gen. Kelley's division it was at Williamsport
and North mountain in the summer of 1863, and participated in
the engagements at Snicker's gap, Kernstown, Winchester,
Bunker Hill, Berryville, and Martinsburg in 1864.
It was mustered out June 28, 1865.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 2, p. 309
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The following is from "Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865"
BATTERY E.
Battery E was organized by Capt. Alexander C. Moore, at Buckhannan,
West Virginia, in August, 1862; who was commissioned captain of the
battery September 23, 1862. Captain Moore was one of West Virginia's
loyal sons who was among the first in the State to illustrate his loyalty to the
government by the most practical methods then known; his early enlistment
in the army, from the earlest moment of the Secession agitation in the South,
Captain Moore was in line, defending the Constitution of the nation in elo-
quent pleadings upon the rostrum in the cities and towns throughout the
counties of Harrison, Taylor, Lewis, Upshur, etc., and when recruits were
called for, he enlisted company G, for the 3d West Virginia Infantry.
Having commanded this company for one year in its active operations in the
State, Captain Moore was well prepared to take charge of this new field of
usefulness as an officer of Artillery. Re had little trouble, and spent little
time in recruiting his company E, among his neighbors and friends who
knew him best at Buckhannan and adjoining counties. And even before he
had instilled the first lessons of the Artillery school into his company, and
before they had been mustered into service he was called upon to defend the
town against the advance of the Confederate General Jenkins. Immediately
upon the completion of the enlistment of his company, he was ordered to
Wheeling, and there was fully equipped. Then the battery was ordered to
Clarksburg, and in turn to New Creek and Romney. At the latter place,
the battery became, in 1863, a part of Campbell's Fourth Brigade, First
Division, Eighth Army Corps, serving with this brigade in the South Branch
Valley, at Romney, Moorefield and vicinity, and with General Kelley in his
campaign in the summer of 1863, to Cherry Run, Williamsport and Hedges-
ville on Lee's retreat from Gettysburg, returning with the brigade to the
South Branch Valley, serving in that locality until the summer of 1864.
Upon General Hunter's return from Lynchburg, the battery was ordered
to join the Army of West Virginia, and accompanied it to the Shenandoah
Valley, taking part in the engagements with the enemy at Snicker's Ferry,
Cedar Creek, Kernstown, Bunker Hill and Berryville. At this time the
battery was attached to the Artillery Brigade of the Army of West Virginia;
was then in the fall of 1864, ordered to Maryland Heights, where it remained
until January 1865, when the battery was ordered to the Artillery Camp at
Camp Barry near Washington, D. C., and remained there until the close of
the war.
While at Maryland Heights, Battery B was consolidated with Battery E,
by order of the War Department, the consolidated battery remaining Battery
E, under the command of Captain Moore. Lieut. B. H. H. Atkinson and
55 men was the transfer from B. to E. While at Camp Barry, D. C., Pres-
ident Lincoln was assassinated, and a detail from the battery of Lieut. Sam-
uel A. Rapp and 3o men constituted a portion of the escort as the " Guard of
Honor " accompanying the remains of Mr. Lincoln from the White House to
the Capitol. At the close of the war, President Johnson conferred upon
Captain Moore the rank of brevet major " for faithful and meritorious ser-
vices during the war."
Battery E was a good battery, composed of the intelligent, patriotic
young men from the counties of Upshur, Harrison and Randolph. Officers and
enlisted men were proud of each other, and there was no jealousy or bickering
from the beginning to the end. Major Moore was a distinguished attorney
at law when the war came, and his legal ability was occasionally during the
war brought into service as the judge advocate of important courts-martial.
The battery was mustered out of the service, June 28, 1865.
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