Horace Ripley (1938)
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Horace Ripley enlisted at age 19 in 1861 in the 7th Wisconsin Infantry and was detailed to Battery B of the 4th US Artillery less than a week before the battle of Antietam, on 12 September 1862. He learned his… continue reading
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The Battle Leaders of the Battery.
From the frontpiece of Augustus C Buell’s The Cannoneer: Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac (1890), here are some of the officers of Battery B, 4th United States Artillery before and during the war. Etchings after photographs.… continue reading
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Bugler John Cook (c. 1862)
John Cook was not quite 14 when he enlisted as Bugler of Battery B, 4th United States Artillery in June 1861. You probably recognize his name from his heroism at Antietam in September 1862, for which he was much later… continue reading
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Battery B, 4th US Artillery in July 1860
In 1860, the companies [of the 4th United States Artillery] in Utah were kept busy protecting the parties of emigrants going West, and keeping open the mail routes. Light Battery B, operating as cavalry, marched during that summer 2000 miles… continue reading
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Pvt George W Cooley (c. 1861)
This impressive photograph of George W Cooley, Company F, 7th Wisconsin Infantry is from the massive collection of Dennis Skalstad, who kindly shared it online on Cooley’s cemetery memorial page. Private Cooley was killed at Turner’s Gap on South Mountain… continue reading
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Charles L Taylor and Harriet W Tuttle (1862, c. 1848)
Bristol, CT bookkeeper Charles Lyman Taylor enlisted as a Sergeant in the 16th Connecticut Infantry on 29 July 1862 and married Harriet Wenslow Tuttle (1840-1916) about 26 August. There was probably no honeymoon, as he and his regiment left for… continue reading
