Battery F, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery

Battery F, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery
Active	December 19, 1861 to October 4, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Heavy artillery
Engagements	Battle of Fort Pulaski Battle of Secessionville

Battery F, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery was a heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The Battery F, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery was initially organized in Providence, Rhode Island as the 3rd Rhode Island Infantry in August 1861. It was officially changed to heavy artillery on December 19, 1861 at Hilton Head, South Carolina.

The battery was attached to Sherman's Expeditionary Corps to April 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Department of the South, to July 1862. District of Hilton Head, South Carolina, Department of the South, to September 1862. District of Hilton Head, South Carolina, X Corps, Department of the South, to December 1863. Tybee Island, South Carolina, X Corps, to March 1864. Morris Island, South Carolina, Northern District, Department of the South, to September 1864.

Battery F, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery mustered out of service October 4, 1864 at Providence, Rhode Island.

Detailed service

Duty at Hilton Head, S.C., until February 1862. Operations against Fort Pulaski, Ga., February 21-April 10. Bombardment and capture of Fort Pulaski April 9-10. Moved to Hilton Head, then to Edisto Island, S.C., May 23. Operations on James Island, S.C., June 1-28. Action on James Island June 10. Battle of Secessionville June 16. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., June 28-July 1, and duty there until December 1863. Moved to Tybee Island, S.C., December 1863, and duty there until March 1864. Moved to Morris Island, S.C., March 18, and duty there operating against Fort Sumter and Charleston until September. Actions on James Island July 1-2, and at Fort Johnson July 3. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., then to New York and Providence September 26-30.

Casualties

Individual battery losses are not available, but the regiment's losses (all 12 batteries) are reported as a total of 135 men during service; 2 officers and 39 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 90 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

Regiment

• Colonel Nathaniel W. Brown
• Colonel Edwin Metcalf
• Colonel Charles R. Brayton
• Lieutenant Colonel William Ames

Battery

• Captain Augustus Colwell^[1]
• Captain Pardon Mason
• Captain Horatio N. Perry^[2]

See also

• List of Rhode Island Civil War units
• Rhode Island in the American Civil War

Notes

1. Uncertain if he was captain of Battery F, H, and E, or all three batteries.
2. Uncertain if he was captain of Battery M, F, and K, or all three batteries.

References

• Denison, Frederic. Shot and Shell: The Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment in the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (Providence, RI: J. A. & R. A. Reid), 1879.
• Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.

Attribution

• This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.