Battery B Battery B was organized at Grand Rapids, and was raised with the 2d Cavalry, but did not go to the field with it. It was mustered into the service of the United States with a strength of 110 officers and men, on November 26th, 1861. Its officers were: Captain, William H. Ross, Detroit; [...]
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Following is a letter of Lieutenant Laing, the only officer in the battery who escaped capture, and who saved a section: Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn., April 10th, 1862, I am sorry to inform you that Captain W. H. Boss and Lieutenants W. S. Bliss and A. F. R. Arndt, together with forty-nine men of the Second [...]
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” After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst; nor steel, Nor poison, malice domestic, nothing can touch him further. The woman of the house where the murderous act was accomplished made this statement. Soon after she was compelled to leave the country and go North, being satisfied that her own [...]
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On the 19th of April Second Lieutenant John J. Calkins, of Battery C, was ordered by General G. M. Dodge to report to Captain Arndt, and continued on duty with Battery B until July 15th following. During this time, with a detachment of that battery, he was in command of works at Prospect, Tenn., and [...]
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On November 1st, 1864, the battery left Cave Springs, in command of Captain Arndt;, for Smyrna, where it arrived on the 6th7 whence it started with General Sherman’s army on the Savannah campaign on the 13th, and on the 22d became engaged with the enemy at Griswold, with a loss of seven wounded, two losing [...]
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Immediately after the infantry lines were formed I placed my section in position to command the open field in our front and the Griswold road. About 2 o’clock P. M. the enemy formed, appearing on the edge of the woods, near a house. I opened with both pieces on the house with shell, and as [...]
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Lieutenant Ernst, Sergeant Scott, Corporal Omer, Privates Frink, Mclntyre, and Hoyle distinguished themselves for coolness and bravery during the firing, and afterwards in taking the pieces from the field, which had to be done by prolong, as all the horses on one piece were killed or in use taking wounded men to the rear. I [...]
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Thence it proceeded to Goldsboro, arriving there on the 24th, and leaving that point on the 12th of April, it reached Raleigh on the 14th, and started for Petersburg, Va., on the 29th, arriving there’ May 7th. On the 13th it passed through Richmond, arriving at Alexandria on the 19th, and participated in the review [...]
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