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

by Earl Fenner

Sergeants.

Thomas W. Sayles. Mustered as private, Battery A, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, June 6, 1861; transferred to Battery H and appointed sergeant, Aug. 21, 1862; first lieutenant, Troop D, Third Rhode Island Cavalry, Dec. 16, 1863; captain, Troop H, Dec. 26, 1864; mustered out of service Nov. 29, 1865.

Samuel G. Colwell. See second lieutenant.

George P. Carpenter. Mustered as sergeant, Oct. 14, 1862; died in hospital at camp near Fairfax Station, Va., March 1, 1863.

Franklin P. Burlingame. Mustered as sergeant, Oct. 14, 1862; subsequently ordered on detached service in adjutant-general’s office, war department, Washington, D. C., remaining there until June 28, 1865, when he was appointed to a clerkship in adjutant-general’s office.

Charles De Wolf Gibson. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; promoted to sergeant in November, 1862; discharged from battery Nov. 2, 1863, to receive promotion as second lieutenant, Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored). Never mustered as such.

Alfred M. Taylor. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; sergeant; first lieutenant, Company I, Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored), March 9, 1864; dismissed the service, Dec. 29, 1864.

Esek S. Owen. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal, August, 1862; sergeant in 1864; wounded slightly in action near Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Benjamin Carter. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; sergeant; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Thomas Smith. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; sergeant; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Gardner L. Bennett. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; sergeant; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Apollos Seekell. Veteran; mustered as private in Battery H, Feb. 9, 1864; sergeant; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

James H. Rhodes. Mustered as corporal, Oct. 14, 1862; sergeant; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Emulous A. Cheever. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal in 1863: sergeant, Nov. 6, 1863; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.

Orville Balcom. Mustered as private, Oct. 14, 1862; corporal; sergeant; mustered out of service, June 28, 1865.

John P. Campbell, 1st. See first sergeant.