The History of Battery H First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union 1861-1865

by Earl Fenner

First Lieutenants.

Clement Webster. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; resigned Feb. 7, 1863.

Charles F. Mason. Mustered Oct. 15, 1862; second lieutenant, Battery A, First R. I. Light Artillery, Dec. 24, 1861; first lieutenant, Oct. 1, 1862; transferred to Battery H, Oct. 15, 1862; subsequently appointed aide on Colonel Tompkins’s staff; resigned April 21, 1864.

George W. Blair. Mustered Feb. 6, 1863; private, First Rhode Island Light Battery, May 2, 1861; discharged Aug. 6, 1861; sergeant, Battery B, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Aug. 13, 1861; first sergeant, Dec. 2, 1861; discharged Feb. 6, 1863; first lieutenant, Battery I, to date from Feb. 2, 1863; battery never organized; first lieutenant, Battery H, April 23, 1863; resigned April 29, 1864.

Walter M. Knight. Mustered April 8, 1863; quartermaster-sergeant, Battery F, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Oct. 29, 1861; second lieutenant, Battery H, March 11, 1863; first lieutenant, April 22, 1864; brevet captain, April 2, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services before Petersburg, Va.; mustered out of service, June 28, 1865.

Allen Hoar. Mustered Aug. 24, 1864; private, Battery G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Dec. 2, 1861; sergeant, June 9, 1862; wounded slightly Sept. 17, 1862, at battle of Antietam, Va.; second lieutenant, May 14, 1863; first lieutenant, Battery H, Aug. 17, 1864; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.