Unit

Federal Battery

Massachusetts Light Artillery, Battery A

"1st Independent Battery"

Arms:
  6   Napoleon

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
   Tablet #102: Sixth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 4 PM
   Tablet #71: Slocum's Division, Sixth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 19 Sep, 9 AM

This Battery's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Sixth (VI) Army Corps
  Division - 1st Division, VI Corps
  Brigade - 1st Division, VI Corps Artillery

In the Antietam Campaign:
This battery was not engaged on September 17th.

More on the Web:
See an 1878 memoir by Private A. J. Bennett of the battery, from the 19th-century American works in Indiana University's Perseus Digital Library.

We have 2 individuals in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?	Details*
--	Pvt	Clark, John W.	Died 10/04
--	Capt	Porter, Josiah

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