Full title is “THE HISTORY OF BATTERY B FIRST REGIMENT RHODE ISLAND LIGHT ARTILLERY IN THE WAR TO PRESERVE THE UNION 1861-1865” by John H. Rhodes, later sergeant in the battery. This copy published by Butternut and Blue of Baltimore, Maryland in 1996.

Hardcover is nicely bound in blue cloth with the title and author on the front cover in gold ink. Also on the front cover is a full color guidon. All is repeated on the spine. Covers are excellent.

Volume meas. approx. 5.50 x 8.50 inches and runs 406 pages with roster and index. There are also 16 photographs of members of the battery along with several woodcuts in the text. Back has a pull-out fold-out map.

Binding is excellent and the interior is super clean. A “like new” copy.

Battery B, 1^st Rhode Island Light Artillery was organized in Providence on August 13, 1861. They served with the Army of the Potomac throughout the war and from March of 1862 till June of 1865 were attached to the 2^nd Corps. Their heaviest loss came at Gettysburg were they suffered 20 casualties. [ad] [PH:L]

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