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Adjutant and Inspector General Reports
1864 Report
Appendix F
BATTERY D, 5th ARTILLERY,
Camp near Chain Bridge,
September 12, 1861.Col. I. I. Stevens,
SIR: Yesterday, after the enemy opened fire on the troops under your command, in accordance with your instructions, two rifled pieces of Battery D, 5th Artillery, were placed in position some 1,800 yards from the enemy's battery and opened fire, and continued firing until the enemy ceased firing or until Lieut. Hasbrouck placed two more pieces in position some 600 yards to the rear, on the road towards our camp. The two pieces first placed in battery were then limbered up and moved to a position in rear of Lieut. Hasbrouck. Some time after Lieut. Hasbrouck placed his pieces in battery the remaining two pieces of the battery under Lieut. Hazlett joined and came into battery. The enemy at this time had ceased firing and the cannoneers were resting for the want of a target. Some twenty or thirty minutes after this the enemy showed himself in a little cleared place, whence a round from the guns started him in a full run. From the first position of the rifled pieces some 40 rounds were fired, all shell, and from the second position some 18, to which the enemy made no reply.
The conduct of the Lieut.s (Hazlett and Hasbrouck) was that of gallant soldiers, and of the men of the battery all that could be desired. It affords me much gratification to testify to the coolness and handsome deportment of the Vermont 3d and some 80 men of the 2d Vermont, who were ordered to support the battery. They were for about an hour under a very warm fire from the enemy's artillery.
I am, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
CHARLES GRIFFIN,
Capt., 5th Art., Com'g Battery D.Return to theIndex to Appendix F, Reports of Engagements