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

by Earl Fenner

First Sergeants.

George Messinger. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; private, Battery A, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, June 6, 1861; transferred and promoted to first sergeant, Battery H, July 8, 1862; appointed company clerk; reënlisted Jan. 4, 1864; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Jacob B. Lewis. Mustered as sergeant, Oct. 14, 1862; sergeant, Battery B, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Aug. 13, 1861; discharged Dec. 11, 1861; first sergeant, Battery H, Oct. 14, 1862; mustered out, June 28, 1865.

Charles E. Bonn. Mustered as corporal, Oct. 14, 1862; sergeant; first sergeant; second lieutenant, Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, April 26, 1864; first lieutenant, April 3, 1865; breveted captain; mustered out of service July 17, 1865.

John Evans. Mustered as private, Jan. 6, 1863; first sergeant; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

John P. Campbell, 1st. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal; sergeant; first sergeant in December, 1864; mustered out as such June 28, 1865.