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Civil War Artillery
First Regiment Light Artillery
At this point it was supplied with six ten-pounder Parrotts, sent by order of General McClellan, when the old brass pieces were laid aside and not afterwards used by the battery. Moving to Beverly on the 12th and to Cheat Mountain Pass on the 13th, " went into camp, and on the 14th of August moved to Elkwater.
The battery was constantly employed in scouting, —difficult, owing to the nature of the country, —and had frequent skirmishes with the enemy. In one of them Colonel John A. Washington (rebel) was killed, and it is believed that a few well-directed shots prevented Lee's column from taking position to attack the Union front.
Light Artillery
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