Left camp at Upton Hill
at eight A.M., and marched through Washington. Went into camp at five P.M.
Distance, fifteen miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at six A.M.,
and marched to Clarksburg, passing through Rockville. Fifteen miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at six A.M.,
and marched through Hyattstown to Frederick, Md. The railroads at Frederick are
destroyed by the rebels. Fifteen miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at ten A.M.,
and marched to Middletown. Saw one hundred and eighty rebel prisoners on the
road. Went into camp at six P.M. Ten miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at six A.M.,
and marched through Boonsborough and Petersborough to Antietam. Saw a squad of
rebel prisoners on the road. Ten miles.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Battle of Antietam.
Fighting began at nine A.M. along the whole line, and ended in the afternoon,
with defeat to the rebel forces. The battery was hitched up all day, but was
not called upon.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started out in the
morning, and went into battery at Cotoctin Creek, and remained all day and
night.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Started at eight
A.M., and marched through Sharpsburg, and went into camp on the outskirts of
the town, which was very much riddled with shot and shell. Saw a number of dead
rebels in the town.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
Went into battery on
the banks of the Potomac. In the mean time the first brigade of the first
division went across the river to reconnoitre, but were driven back by the
rebels with considerable loss. Our battery, as well as the First Rhode Island
and Battery D, shared in the fight. The One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania
Volunteers lost severely. When the rebels retreated across the Potomac, after
the battle of Antietam, they left a number of pieces of artillery behind them,
and also left in Sharpsburg a lot of their wounded. On picket at Sharpsburg,
with our guns in battery, from Sept. 20 till Oct. 30, with the rebels on the
other side of the Potomac. Gen. Porter's division was reviewed by Gen.
McClellan and President Lincoln on the 3d of October.
SOURCE: John Lord
Parker, Henry Wilson's Regiment: History
of the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, the Second Company Sharpshooters
and the Third Light Battery, in the War of the Rebellion, p. 267
