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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Sixth battery Massachusetts Light Artillery. (search)
y 30 to Sept. 25, 1863, and on October 6, as a four-gun battery, was sent to Berwick's Bay, where it lost an officer by disease. Leaving Berwick's Bay October 11 it was on the march through Franklin and Opelousas to New Iberia, La., where it went into camp, November 16, for the winter. The battery left camp March 3, 1864; nearly all the original members re-enlisted at this time as veterans, and after the furlough of these men, April 13 to May 23, 1864, the battery was reunited and was stationed at New Orleans during the year 1864. The original members by order of the War Department were mustered out of service Jan. 20, 1865. During the month of January, 1865, the battery gained 121 members by recruits and transfers; it remained at New Orleans until July 21 and, sailing on that day for New York, it reached Readville, Mass., August 1, and was paid and disbanded Aug. 10, 1865. Present also at Biloxi, Pass Christian, New Orleans, Brashear City, Houma, Labadieville and Port Hudson.