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to Fort DeRussa on Red river, which were put aboard the Queen of the West, after the capture of that vessel.
Three guns, with the main body of the battery, were in the siege of Vicksburg, and at the capitulation, July 4, 1863, were surrendered.
The battery was reorganized at Decatur, Ga., in October, 1863, and ordered to Sweet Water, Tenn., afterwards to Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga.
Was in the battle of Missionary Ridge and in the retreat to Dalton, Ga., November, 1863.
Served under Generals Johnston and Hood in the Georgia campaign of 1864.
Was with General Hood in his march to Nashville, Tenn., and his disastrous retreat to Columbus, Miss. February, 1865, ordered to Mobile, Ala., and afterwards to Meridian, Miss., where, under General R. Taylor, May 4, 1865, the battery was surrendered and the men paroled.
The commanders during the war were: Captain Henry B. Latrobe, left service March 1, 1863; Captain Fred. O. Claiborne, killed at Vicksburg, June 24, 1863; Captain John B. Rowan, killed at Nashville, December 16, 1864; Captain William L. Ritter.
William L. Ritter, Surviving Captain Third-Maryland Artillery, afterwards Stephens's Light Artillery.
[From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, August 5, 1894.]
