The Diary of a Line Officer (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Brown, Augustus C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330899237 ISBN 13: 9781330899236

Verlag: LULU PR, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The Diary of a Line Officer

The Fourth New York Heavy Artillery was originally composed of eight companies, recruited in different parts of the State during the winter of 1861-2, some as cavalry and some as artillery, both heavy and light. It entered the service of the United States early in 1862, as a regiment of Heavy Artillery, under the command of Colonel Thomas D. Doubleday, being the first regiment, I think, expressly authorized to be raised for that arm of the service, and was at once assigned to garrison several of the field works known as "forts" which constituted the "Defenses of the City of Washington." The duty for which the Heavy Artillery as a separate branch of the military organization of the army was designed, was the placing in position and the manning and working of such batteries of heavy ordnance as were to be used in fortifications more or less permanent, and in Siege Trains when they accompanied an army in the field, and involved, as incidental to the main object, much work of an engineering character.

In October, 1863, four companies which had been raised mainly in the western part of the State during the spring of that year, for a regiment of Heavy Artillery specially authorized by the State authorities and to be known as the Eleventh, were turned over to and consolidated with the Fourth, the authorization of the Eleventh being revoked. These companies had been sent from Harrisburg after the battle of Gettysburg, in which they did not actually participate, though within sound of the guns, to the fortifications in New York harbor, where for a short time they garrisoned some of the forts and furnished details of officers and men to assist in the suppression of the draft riots which occurred in New York City in July, 1863.

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• Verlag: LULU PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330899237
• ISBN 13: 9781330899236
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 124
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