...e almshouse, and the town paid Battery C $100 for a salute on the Fourth of July, $8.90 for cleaning guns, and $15 to Uncle David Simpson for meals for the battery men. And now appears a citizen, Charles Russell by name, and others who urged the formation of an artillery company to take charge of the Swallow battery and use it in accordance with the intent of the donor. As such an organization was not a pa...