1897.
MEMBERS OF BATTERY D, FIRST RHODE ISLAND LIGHT ARTILLERY, VETERAN ASSOCIATION.
AT ROGER WILLIAMS PARK, JUNE, 1891.
1 John S. Gorton. 2 John Rathbone. 3 John Brod. 4 Joseph W. Corey. 5 Charles Gallagher. 6 Charles E. May. 7 Ezra K. Parker. 8 Charles W. Cornell. 9 John J. Busby. 10 Samuel Jenkins.[1] 11 William H. Fisk. 12 Stephen Ballou. 13 James S. Hayward. 14 John J. Hopkins. 15 William Stalker. 16 Willett A. Johnson. 17 Daniel W. Elliott. 18 Lyman Nicholas.[1] 19 James Tanner. 20 Joseph F. Means. 21 Henry W. Smith. 22 Jeremiah D. Hopkins. 23 Frank M. Tucker. 24 John McKenna. 25 Erich P. Botter. 26 George Rathbone. 27 Clark Walker. 28 Halsey A. Aldrich. 29 Rice A. Wickes.[1] 30 George C. Sumner.[1] 31 Otis G. Handy. 32 Isaac D. Russell. 33 Joseph B. French. 34 Charles C. Gray. 35 George N. Hawkins. 36 Joseph B. Kenyon. 37 Edwin R. Knight. 38 Moses Budlong. 39 Capt. J. Albert Monroe.[1] 40 George E. Arnold. 41 Olney Arnold.[1] 42 Henry C. Whitaker. 43 Charles E. Bonn.[1] 44 Gideon Spencer. 45 Christopher H. Carpenter.
[1] Deceased.
At a meeting of Battery D Association, held at Roger Williams Park, June 6th, 1891, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That George C. Sumner is hereby appointed Historian of the Association, and earnestly requested to write and publish a History of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery.
Comrade Sumner accepted the position, and at once commenced to look up material for the work. He soon found that he had quite a task to perform. At the battle of Cedar Creek, late in the war, all the books and papers of the battery were captured by the enemy, it thus became rather a tedious undertaking to hunt up facts and dates. Artificer Clark Walker and Corporal Knight had diaries of some parts of their service, which was about all the material on hand to start with.
The Adjutant General's Office furnished considerable information. The Roster of the Battery was taken entirely from that office. The "War Records" was another source from which facts and dates were collected.