Biographies of Original Battery
B Soldiers
If anyone has a information about an original member of Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery, we would really like to see it. It could also be displayed here so that others might understand the war better.
Sergeant John Louis Franklin Jones served with no less that four different units during his Civil War career: Company C, 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Battery B, 4th U. S. Light Artillery, Company H, 6th Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and Company I, 6th Maryland Volunteer Infantry. During the war he was wounded twice, once with Battery B and once while carrying the colors of the 6th Maryland Volunteer Infantry. It was this would that lead to his early death in 1880, at the age of 37.
Read all about his experiences in the army during the Civil War on John W. Petri's page about his great great grandfather.
Corporal Ira M. Slawson enlisted in the 23rd New York Volunteer Infantry on May 16, 1861. In November he was hand picked by Cpt. Gibbon to serve as a detached volunteer in Battery B, 4th U.S. Light Artillery. He served at the Battles of Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg with the battery before being transferred back to the 23rd New York Volunteer Infantry in January of 1863. It is believed his injury at Antietam (from the concussion of the Napoleons) caused his 1885 death.
Read all about his experiences in the army during the Civil War on Philip J. Tobias' page about his great great grandfather entitled "Valuable and Good Service."
[Editors Note: Thanks to Philip J. Tobias for providing this link and the above photo.]
1st Lt. Charles Warner graduated from West Point in 1862. He served as an officer with several batteries of the 4th U.S. Artillery (A, H, & I) during the Civil War from late 1863 through the end of the war. He fought at 2nd Bull Run, Antietam, 1st and 2nd Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Franklin, Selma, and others. He also served with the 2nd U.S. Field Artillery, Battery D (Williston’s Battery 1862 to mid-1863). It is a great study in the life of a junior officer serving in the field.
Read all about his experiences in the army during the Civil War on James R. Lafferty's page about his great great grandfather.