Battery G, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery

Battery G, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery
Active	December 19, 1861 to October 4, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Heavy artillery

Battery G, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery was a heavy artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The Battery G, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery was initially organized in Providence, Rhode Island as the 3rd Rhode Island Infantry in August 1861. It was officially changed to heavy artillery on December 19, 1861 at Hilton Head, South Carolina.

The battery was attached to Sherman's Expeditionary Corps to April 1862. District of Hilton Head, South Carolina, Department of the South, to May 1862. Garrison Fort Pulaski, Georgia, to September 1862. Fort Pulaski, Georgia, District of Hilton Head, South Carolina, X Corps, Department of the South, to April 1864. Tybee Island, District of Hilton Head, South Carolina, Department of the South, to September 1864.

Battery G, 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery mustered out of service October 4, 1864 at Providence, Rhode Island.

Detailed service

Duty at Hilton Head, S.C., until May 1862. Assigned to duty at Fort Pulaski, Ga., as garrison, May 1862 to March 1864. Near Bluffton August 29, 1862. Affair on Skull Creek September 24, 1862. Reconnaissance on May and Savannah Rivers September 30-October 3, 1862. Affair Kirk's Bluff October 18. Expedition to Pocotaligo October 21-22, 1862. Actions at Caston and Frampton's Plantations and Coosawhatchie River October 22. Moved to Tybee Island March 18, 1864, and duty there until September. Moved to Hilton Head, then to New York and Providence September 26-30.

Casualties

Individual battery losses are not available, but the regiment's losses (all 12 batteries) are reported as a total of 135 men during service; 2 officers and 39 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 90 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

Regiment

Colonel Nathaniel W. Brown
Colonel Edwin Metcalf
Colonel Charles R. Brayton
Lieutenant Colonel William Ames

Battery

Captain Jeremiah Lannahan^[1]
Captain George L. Smith^[2]

Notes

↑ Also listed on muster rolls as Lennahan. Uncertain if he was captain of Battery I and G, or both batteries.
↑ Also listed on muster rolls as George S. Smith.

References

Denison, Frederic. Shot and Shell: The Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment in the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (Providence, RI: J. A. & R. A. Reid), 1879.
Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.