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Federal (USV)

Captain

Richard Waterman

(1839 - 1888)

Home State: Rhode Island

Command Billet: Battery Commander

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery, Battery C

Before Antietam

Son of a successful bank cashier, in 1860 he was a 21 year old clerk living with his parents and 4 siblings in Providence, RI. He served as a Private in the First Regiment, Rhode Island Light Artillery for a 3 month term from April to August 1861. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of Battery C, First Rhode Island Light on 25 August, and on 21 July 1862 Captain Weeden resigned, and Waterman was promoted to Captain of the Battery from that date.

On the Campaign

He commanded his battery in Maryland.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with most of the three-year men of the battery on 2 September 1864.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a bookkeeper back in Providence, living with his father and siblings.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/29/1839; Providence, RI

Death

03/22/1888; Providence, RI; burial in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI

Notes

1 State of Rhode Island, and Henri Crandall, Acting Adjutant General, Official Register of Rhode Island Officers and Soldiers ... 1861 to 1865, in the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Rhode Island for 1865, Providence: Providence Press, 1866, pg. 727 [AotW citation 29425]

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