Squads of cavalry and
infantry visible on the Virginia shore. Great changes took place during this
period. Orderly J. H. Newton being promoted to Lieutenant, took command of the
left section. Sergeants Owen and Randolph, after having been promoted to
Lieutenants, left the battery, and were transferred to other Rhode Island
batteries. The State having organized a regiment of light artillery, on the
thirteenth of August, we were no longer called the Second Battery, but Battery
A.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 21
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