A sad accident
occurred today. At section drill, through some unknown cause, a limber-chest of
Lieut. Vaughan's section, filled with cartridges, exploded, while the gunnner
Morse, and privates Bourne and Freeman were mounted. They were thrown some
twenty feet up in the air. Morse and Bourne died within the space of an hour.
Freeman, being badly injured, recovered after a lingering sickness. Two drivers
were slightly wounded, and two horses injured. We escorted the bodies of Morse and
Bourne to the depot, to be sent to Rhode Island.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First
Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery, p. 9
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