Commenced to build a
stable for horses, three hundred feet long. Captain Bess, our chief of
artillery. Our battery remained at Muddy Branch up to the twenty-seventh of
November. Little is to be said of this period. Drill as usual. Received the
news of the taking of Beaufort, South Carolina, and the capture of Slidell and
Mason. Captain Reynolds visited the battery for the last time, having been
promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Rhode Island artillery, and transferred
to another department.
SOURCE: Theodore
Reichardt, Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light
Artillery, p. 26
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