Comrade Briggs is a member of E. B. Piper Post, No. 157, Department of Massachusetts. He has served as junior and senior vice commander of his post, and is held in high esteem by his fellow townsmen of Walpole, Mass., where he now resides. He is also a member of Battery H Veteran Association.
ROSTER.
Captains.
Charles H. J. Hamlin. First lieutenant and quartermaster, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Oct. 3, 1861; promoted to captain, Battery H, May 16, 1862; never mustered; resigned, Sept. 27, 1862.
Jeffrey Hazard. Mustered Oct. 14, 1862; second lieutenant, Battery A, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Oct. 5, 1861; promoted to first lieutenant and regimental adjutant; captain, Battery H, Oct. 1, 1862; resigned, Aug. 17, 1863.
Crawford Allen, Jr. Mustered Oct. 1, 1863; second lieutenant, Battery G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Nov. 7, 1861; first lieutenant, Nov. 18, 1862; wounded May 3, 1863, at Fredericksburg; appointed regimental adjutant; acting adjutant-general, Artillery Brigade, Sixth Corps; captain, Battery H, Sept. 30, 1863; brevet major, April 2, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service before Petersburg, Va.; brevet lieutenant-colonel, June 12, 1865; mustered out of service June 28, 1865.
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.