Maryland Light Artillery, Battery B

Organized at Baltimore and Pikesville, Md., in September and October, 1861, to serve three years, Battery B was originally a part of the Purnell Legion.

They were sent to the eastern shore of Virginia in the latter part of the year of 1861. In the summer of 1862, Battery B was sent to the Army of the Potomac, then on the Peninsula.

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 #72: Smith's Division, Sixth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 19 Sep, 9 AM

An exhibit on the Battery was presented (2003) at Port Deposit's Paw Paw Museum. See the announcement of publication of a book of the letters of the men of the Battery, Snowball's Chance, by the Museum's curator Erika L. Quesenbery.

Source: L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 1. (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899).;
Maryland Archives Volume 367, Page 803, also online.