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

by Earl Fenner

Second Lieutenants.

Kirby Steinhauer. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; sergeant, Battery G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Dec. 2, 1861; second lieutenant, Battery H, June 4, 1862; first lieutenant, Battery D, Feb. 8, 1863; resigned April 19, 1864, on account of disability.

Elmer L. Corthell. Mustered about Oct. 30, 1862; private, Battery A, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, June 6, 1861; transferred to Battery F, Oct. 31, 1861; sergeant, Oct. 31, 1861; second lieutenant, Battery H, Oct. 11, 1862; first lieutenant, Battery G, Nov. 6, 1863; captain, Battery D, Oct. 21, 1864; mustered out of service July 17, 1865.

Walter M. Knight. See first lieutenant.

Benjamin H. Child. Mustered Jan. 8, 1864; private, Battery A, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, June 6, 1861; slightly wounded July 21, 1861, at battle of Bull Run; corporal, July 16, 1863; wounded slightly in head at battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862; sergeant, Sept. 12, 1862; wounded severely in shoulder at battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; second lieutenant, Battery H, Nov. 6, 1863; mustered Jan. 8, 1864; resigned Nov. 23, 1864, on account of wounds.

Samuel G. Colwell. Mustered Nov. 11, 1863; sergeant, Battery H, Oct. 14, 1862; second lieutenant, Nov. 6, 1863; transferred to Battery A, Nov. 14, 1863; resigned April 15, 1864, for physical disability.

Anthony B. Horton. Mustered Dec. 20, 1864; private, Battery B, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Aug. 13, 1861; corporal, March 25, 1862; sergeant, Dec. 1, 1862; re-enlisted, Feb. 8, 1864; first sergeant, Oct. 3, 1864; discharged, Dec. 19, 1864; second lieutenant, Battery H, to date from Nov. 29, 1864; mustered, Dec. 20, 1864; brevet first lieutenant, April 2, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services before Petersburg, Va.; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

William B. Westcott. Mustered May 1, 1864; private, Battery G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Dec. 2, 1861; sergeant, Dec. 2, 1861; quartermaster-sergeant, June 9, 1862; second-lieutenant, Battery H, April 26, 1864; first lieutenant, Battery B, March 2, 1865; mustered out of service June 12, 1865.

George Lewis. Enlisted as private in Battery E, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Sept. 24, 1861; mustered Sept. 30, 1861; wounded slightly May 3, 1863, at Chancellorsville, Va.; lance corporal, May 29, 1863; corporal, Sept. 4, 1863; re-enlisted, Feb. 1, 1864; lance sergeant, April 9, 1864; sergeant, Oct. 20, 1864, to date from Oct. 4; second lieutenant, March 31, 1865; assigned to Battery H, May 29, 1865; never reported or mustered as such; mustered out June 14, 1865.