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This history is a review of the way “from the bottom up”, states the Introduction by the complier. Told from the perspective of the letters and the diary of three of the battery’s key members who wrote clearly and insightfully their observations of life in this Pittsburgh-based artillery battery. The complier states, “…their feelings on politics, Southerners. Negroes, the draft, family and friends at home, religious matters, the weather are graphic, clear and concise.”
Thus, is told the story of Knap’s Independent Battery E, Pa. Light Artillery, which began its service in the vicinity of Point of Rocks/Harpers Ferry in 1861, served in the Valley with its first big battle at Cedar Mountain, followed by Antietam, Chancellorsville, then Gettysburg and its defense of Culps Hill from its station on Power’s Hill. Transferred with the 12th Corps to the West, it fought its greatest battle at Wauhatchie, Tenn. October 29th, 1863 and among its killed were the battery commander Capt. Charles Atwell and Lieut. Edward R. Geary, age 18, and the son of Maj. Gen. John W. Geary of the White Star Division to which the battery was attached. Knap’s battery served through the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea. [CLA] [PH:L]
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