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Night firing at Escanaba, MI on June 23, 2001. Photo courtesy of Lyle
Laufenberg.
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updated photo album for more pictures!
Photo Album (Updated: May 11, 2008)
Photo Album (Updated: April 5, 2008)
Photo Album (Updated: January 21, 2008)
2008 Event Schedule (Added: January 21, 2008)
Photo Album (Updated: August 23, 2007)
Photo Album (Updated: May 28, 2007)
Diary of Lt. Charles N. Warner (Added: May 9, 2007)
Photo Album (Updated: May 9, 2007)
Photo Album (Updated: February 25, 2007)
2007 Event Schedule (Added: February 25, 2007)
Our War Correspondent (Updated: November 15, 2006)
Photo Album (Updated: November 5, 2006)
Photo Album (Updated: September 21, 2006)
Photo Album (Updated: August 4, 2006)
Photo Album (Updated: July 25, 2006)
Photo Album (Updated: July 5, 2006)
Photo Album (Updated: June 14, 2006)
2006 Event Schedule (Added: March 12, 2006)
Photo Album (Updated: March 12, 2006)
Photo Album (Updated: October 8, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: September 16, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: September 7, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: July 22, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: June 28, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: June 12, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: May 17, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: May 10, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: May 4, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: April 10, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: March 20, 2005)
2005 Event Schedule (Added: March 5, 2005)
Minutes from the Battery Meeting on 02/12/2005 (Added: March 5, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: February 20, 2005)
1st Independent Battery, New Hampshire Light Artillery (Added: February 19, 2005)
Regulars to the Rescue at Gaines' Mill (Added: February 19, 2005)
Civil War Field Artillery (Added: February 19, 2005)
Period U.S. Army Forms (Updated: February 11, 2005)
Fill-in Enlistment and Medical Forms (Updated: February 11, 2005)
Photo Album (Updated: February 11, 2005)
The Code of an Officer (Added: April 24, 2003)
How the War Changed America's Newspapers (Added: March 24, 2003)
Lee's Artillery Prepares for Picket's Charge (Added: March 21, 2003)
Horsepower Moves the Guns (Added: March 19, 2003)
The Athens Double-Barreled Cannon (Added: March 18, 2003)
The Development of Indirect Fire (Added: March 18, 2003)
The Mountain Howitzer (Added: March 17, 2003)
The Woodruff Gun (Added: March 14, 2003)
Civil War Battle Information (Added: February 28, 2003)
Biographies of Original Battery B Soldiers (Added: February 20, 2003)
Research Articles (Added: February 20, 2003)
Federal Order of Battle for the Battle of the Wilderness (Added: February 19, 2003)
Federal Order of Battle for the Battle of Gettysburg (Added: February 19, 2003)
Federal Order of Battle for the Battle of Chancellorsville (Added: February 19, 2003)
Federal Order of Battle for the Battle of Fredericksburg (Added: February 19, 2003)
Federal Order of Battle for the Battle of Antietam (Added: February 19, 2003)
Federal Order of Battle for the Battle of Second Bull Run (Added: February 19, 2003)
Minutes from Battery Meeting 02/08/2003 (Added: February 19, 2003)
Photo Album (Updated: January 23, 2003)
Battery B at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 (by Capt. James Stewart) (Added: January 23, 2003)
Death Notices of John Cook (Added: January 23, 2003)
Ira Slawson Photo on "Letters" Page (Added: January 22, 2003)
School of the Sick Soldier (Added: January 22, 2003)
The Battle of Antietam: The Creation of Artillery Hell (Added: January 22, 2003)
Weather Forecasts on Events Schedule Page (Updated: January 15, 2003)
The Battery is Selling Limber Stock!!! (Added: March 26, 2002)
The Regulars (Added: February 24, 2002)
The Artillery Battery (Added: February 24, 2002)
Battery B at the Battle of Bethesda Church, June 1-3, 1864 (Added: February 24, 2002)
Site Map (Added: January 1, 2002)
The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The Last Battle of the War (Added: January 1, 2002)
The Taking of Coamo During the Spanish-American War (Added: January 1, 2002)
The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War, 1861-1898 (Added: January 1, 2002)
The Regulars in the Civil War (Added: January 1, 2002)
The Regular Army Artillery on the Eve of the Civil War (Added: January 1, 2002)
The U.S. Army’s Mormon Expedition of 1857 (Added: January 1, 2002)
The Crimean War (Added: November 6, 2001)
Artillery Colors (Added: October 8, 2001)
Officers of the 4th U.S. Artillery (Updated: July 5, 2001)
Directions added to Event Schedule (Added: May 10, 2001)
Directions to the Sussex Armory (Added: February 8, 2001)
Organization, Material, and Service of the Field Artillery (Added January 11, 2001)
Regimental Losses During the American Civil War (Added October 31, 2000)
Order of Encampment for a Battery of Artillery (Added October 25, 2000)
Sutlers' Mailing Addresses (Added October 25, 2000)
Common Words of the 1860s (Added October 19, 2000)
Grant, In His Own Words (Added October 19, 2000)
Freemasonry in the Civil War (Added October 16, 2000)
Civil War Artillery Histories (Added September 26, 2000)
Artillery Ammunition (Added: September 10, 2000)
The Cannoneer Pictures (Added: July 10, 2000)
Re-enactorville (to the tune of "Margaritaville") (Added: July 10, 2000)
The Redleg, Volume 2, Issue 1 (Added: March 15, 2000)
Artillery Quotes (Added: February 9, 2000)
The Redleg, Volume 1, Issue 6 (Added: February 3, 2000)
Artillery Test (Added: January 16, 2000)
Principal Dimensions and Weights of Field-Gun Carriages and Limbers (Added: November 7, 1999)
The Ordnance Department (Added: October 15, 1999)
The Redleg, Volume 1, Issue 5 (Added: September 7, 1999)
The Redleg, Volume 1, Issue 4 (Added: August 3, 1999)
The Redleg, Volume 1, Issue 3 (Added: July 22, 1999)
A Story of Creation (Added: May 27, 1999)
Letters From the Front (Added: April 16, 1999)
Battery Downloadables (Added: April 7, 1999)
The Battery Handbook (Added: April 7, 1999)
Civil War Trivia (Added: April 7, 1999)
Downloadable Enlistment Forms (Added: March 27, 1999)
Civil War Quotes (Added: February 22, 1999)
Unit Roster in 1861 (Added: February 22, 1999)
The Redleg, Volume 1, Issue 2 (Added: February 22, 1999)
The Redleg, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Added: January 5, 1999)
The NCO Creed (Added: January 4, 1999)
Iron Brigade Men who Served with Battery B (Added: January 4, 1999)
Confederate Batteries not on the Web (Added: December 8, 1998)
Federals Batteries not on the Web (Added: November 25, 1998)
Non-Iron Brigade Causalities from Battery B (Added: November 25, 1998)
The Library (Added: November 20, 1998)
The True Story of "Taps" (Added: November 20, 1998)
The Commanding Officers of Battery B (Added: November 16, 1998)
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3rd
U.S. Field Artillery, Batteries L&M.
Coming Soon
Confederate Artillery Histories
The Guns of Battery B
The Cannoneer Online
Updated Unit History