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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of the Third Battery of Maryland Artillery. (search)
hree parts, scattered up and down the river. Meanwhile Lieutenants Rowan and Patten having rejoined the battery with the horses, it was now again ready for the field. The guns at Warrenton were at this time placed under the command of Lieutenant Patten. Early on the morning of the 2nd of February, the ram, Queen of the West, passed the batteries at Vicksburg, and proceeded down the river. As she passed Warrenton, Patten opened on her without effect; but as she returned on the 4th, Sergeant Ritter hailed her with about sixty rounds of shot and shell, eliciting the compliment from her commander, that those guns at Warrenton annoyed him more, on his return, than the seige pieces at Vicksburg. A few days later, the Queen of the West again passed down, during the night, and went up Red river to Fort De Russy, where she was captured by the Confederates. Sergeant Langley's section was now transferred from the Archer to the Queen of the West; and immediately after, the latter, with
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Third Battery of Maryland Artillery. (search)
capitulated. About midnight of the 5th Lieutenant Ritter was wakened by Lieutenant Moore, who toln B. Rowan or Ferd. Claiborne. Remember me to Ritter, Claiborne, Franklin, Tinley, Halbrook, and alll. Private Henry Gordon, a member of Lieutenant Ritter's section, was killed on the evening of , so that they could not move without danger. Ritter resorted to everything he could think of to deore, who from a position on the right of Lieutenant Ritter's section was watching the effect of theh not dangerously wounded. He called to Lieutenant Ritter, saying he was wounded and would go to the rear, and that Ritter should take command of the battery. Sergeant Daniel Toomey, of the Third Md, as also a number of Moore's section. Lieutenant Ritter estimated the number of shell thrown at ing Corporal L. McCurry, one of the gunners of Ritter's section, was killed by a minnie ball while s Brown, Emmit Wells, and J. P. Wills. Lieutenant Ritter was also wounded on the instep by a piec