William Clark - History of Hampton Battery F, Independent Pennsylvania Light Artillery: Organized at Pittsburgh, October 8, 1861; Mustered Out in Pittsburg, June 26, 1865

TO THE

SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE BATTERY AND THE MEMORY OF ITS

GALLANT DEAD THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

PREFACE.

THE Annual Reunion of the Hampton Battery Veteran Association held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 11, 1902, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, that the Secretary, William Clark, be authorized to compile a suitable History of the Battery during the Civil War, " which was signed by Benjamin R. Park, President, William T. Rees, Assistant Secretary, and Henry Hemple, Treasurer.

After a great deal of labor and research the following volume has been prepared, and it is hoped that it will prove of interest to the surviving members of the Battery and their friends.

It is hard to compile a history of any one of the three Pitts burgh Batteries in the Civil War,Hampton's, Knap's and Thompson'sas they were so closely identified through nearly the whole period of the conflict. They were in the same Army Corps and Division during the greater part of the four years of their service, and the history of one is really the history of all. The three Batteries lost in killed in action or who died of wounds received in the service forty-nine men, and nearly double that number were wounded. They were in active service nearly four years in the old Army of the Potomac, and their history is a part of the history of that Army, of which most truthfully and justly at the close of the war it was said: * This Army from the beginning has preserved its identity like no other of the national forces. The elements of all the other armies have been continually changing by transfers from one line of operation to another.

HAMPTON BATTERY.

The Army of the Potomac has had but one object, has operated but in one field, has been kept substantially undivided, and has acquired a peculiar compactness of organization and unity of spirit. It has always occupied the fore ground of the war, and all brilliant exploits elsewhere could but momentarily draw the public eye from it. Five times as much blood has been spilled by the Army of the Potomac as by all the other national forces combined. Everybody has felt that on its strong right arm mainly depended the fate of the nation. The Army of the Potomac should always be remembered as the Army that was pitted against the very head and front of the Rebellion, and sent it finally to the dust. Every living man who has faithfully served in that Army deserves unfading laurels, and every one of the tens of thou sands of its heroic dead should have a monument as enduring as the Republic." This is high but merited praise, and Allegheny County can feel proud that her most famous military organizations belonged to this most famous of our armies. Pittsburgh, Pa., April, 1909.

GEORGE V. MARSHALL, ROBERT E. MACOUBRAY, DAVID R. LEWIS,

Advisory Committee. WILLIAM CLARK, Historian.

44 Absent Without Leave " 156

Antietam, Battle of 1 06

Arensberg, Conrad C 79, 101

Atwood, William 79, 101

Balken, Henry 76, 101

Band 149

Bassett, James 78, 101

Becker, Isaiah K. 76, 101

Becker, Samuel B 76, 101

Berrysville, Battle of 14, 106

Blackburn's Ford, Battle of 71, 106

Bright, Charles R 82, 100

Bright, John 82, 100

Brown, Mrs. H. E 18

Bull Run, Battle of 29-34, 106

Cavitt, Alonzo 76, 101

Cedar Creek, Battle of 17, 106

Cedar Mountain, Battle of 28, 106

Chancellorsville Campaign 38-55, 106

Chantilly, Battle of 106

Charlestown, Battle of 106

Clark, Benjamin M 83, 101

Clark, William 76, 101

Comn.Charles W. ,.83, 101

" Death of William Hastings " 161

Dennison, James 85, 1 00

Duffy, Timothyjr 84, 101

Engagements, List of 106

Edinburgh, Battle of 16, 106

Fieres, Henry 86, 100

Fisher's Hill, Battle of 106

Freeman's Ford, Battle of 28, 106

Front Royal, Battle of 106

Games' Cross Roads, Battle of 106

Geary, Captain Edward R 73, 132

Gettysburg Campaign 57-71, 106

Glasgow, Robert 86, 100

Hampton Battery " B "

Ordered to Mt. Gretna 171

Ordered to Puerto Rico 1 72

Arrived at Puerto Rico 1 73

Engagements 173

Ordered to New York 1 74

Mustered out 1 75

Roster 1 76

Hampton Battery " F '

Organization 11

Equipment 13

First engagement 13

Enters Southern territory 14

Joined by Lieutenant Miller with recruits 27

Attached to Second Army Corps 71

Again made independent organization 72

Roster 73

Members killed 100

Members wounded 101

Members living August 1, 1909 101

Assignments 105

Engagements 106

Annual meets 107

Hampton Battery Veteran Association 107-128

Hampton, Captain R. B.

Death of 41

Biographical sketch 129

Hancock, Battle of 13, 106

Hanshaw, Charles 88, 100

Harrisonburg, Battle of 106

Hastings, William 28, 87, 100, 161

Heffernan, Patrick 88, 100

Helman, William 88, 100

Herbert, John H 87, 100

Hess, Henry 30, 88, 100

Holman, Mathew H 87, 101

Honorary members of Hampton Battery Association 128

Hunt, Captain Alfred E 168

Irish, Lieutenant Nathaniel

Joins Battery 13

Wounded ..59,73, 101

Keirsh, Jacob 90, 100

Kerntown, Battle of 16, 106

Kidd, Henry A ,', ..89, 101

Lacy, William 90, 100

Lacy's Springs, Battle at 16, 106

Lee, Richard H 78, 100

Leech, Joseph S 90, 100

Loughrey, John E 90, 100

Luray, Battle of 106

McConnell, Joseph 93, 100

McGaugheysville, Battle of 106

Macoubray, Robert E 75, 101

Miller, J. Edwin 75, 101

Miller, Lieutenant Joseph L.

Joins Battery 27

Mortally wounded at Gettysburg 59, 100

Biographical sketch ". 135

Mine Run, Battle of 72, 106

Morton's Ford, Battle of 106

Mount Jackson, Battle of 106

Nevin, William 1 93, 100

Newtown, Battle of 16, 106

Opequan, Battle of 106

Organization of Hampton Battery " F " 11

" Our Little String Band " 149

Peters, James 75, 101

Peters, Robert ..77, 101

Rappahannock Station, Battle of 106

Rath, Adam 94, 100

Reminiscences 164

Ritchie, George 74, 101

Shaler, John C., letter to his sister 138

Sharp, Alexander 77, 101

" Some Reminiscences " 164

South Mountain, Battle of 106

Stoney Creek, Battle of 16, 106

" Stove Pipe Cannon " 160

Strasburg, Battle of 16, 106

Teese, James D 96, 100