The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

Second Brigade, Third Division

Captain R Arnold

Captain R Arnold, commanding Light Company D, 2nd United States Artillery

Light Company D, Second United States Artillery

CAPTAIN R ARNOLD, Fifth United States Artillery

First Section: FIRST LT. J W BARRIGER
Two 6 pounder Smoothbores, M1841
Second Section: SECOND LT. C B THROCKMORTON
Two 13 pounder James Rrifles

Sources

Biographical Register of Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy, at West Point, N. Y., from its establishment, 16 March, 1802 to the army reorganisation of 1866–67, by Bvt. Major General George W Cullum, Colonel, Corps of Enginers, U. S. Army

Notes

Light Company D, Second United States Artillery, arrived in Washington D. C., after being forced to leave the Fayetteville arsenal, North Carolina, under the command of Captain S S Anderson, and was outfitted as a light artillery battery. On 27 April, 1861, Captain S S Anderson, resigned his commission and was assigned as adjutant generla, Virginia States forces.

Light Company A (See Light Company A, 2nd United States Artillery); Light Company B left Fort Monroe in August 1861 and arrived in Washington D. C. in September 1861; Light Company C was on duty at Dry Tortugas, Florida, from January to September 1861; Light Company E (See Light Company E, 2nd United States Artillery); Light Company F was forced to leave Little Rock, Arkansas, in April and went to St Louis, Missouri, where it was converted to light artillery; Light Company D (See Light Company G, 2nd United States Artillery); Light Company H arrived in Washington D. C in February 1861 and was on garrison duty at Fort Pickens, Florida, from April 1861 to May 1864; Light Company I was on garrison duty at Fort McHenry, Maryland, from April 1861 to May 1864; Light Company K arrived in washington D. C. in February 1861, and was on garrison duty at Fort Pickens, Florida, from April 1861 to May 1864; Light Company L left Fort Monroe, Virginia, in September 1861 and was on duty in the defenses of Washington D. C. until March 1862; Light Company M (See Light Company M, 2nd United States Artillery).

On 29 July, 1861, the 17th New York Infantry and Light Company D, 2nd United States Artillery, under the command of Captain R Arnold, were on garisson duty at Fort Ellsworth. Fort Ellsworth's perimeter was 618 yards with emplacements for twenty-nine guns and the armament included twelve 8" seacoast howitzers, four 24 pounder seige guns, three 6 pounder field guns, and one 24 pounder field howitzer.

The Military District of the Potomac was established on 25 July, 1861 by consolidating the Military District of Washington and the Department of Northeastern Virginia and redesignated the Department of the Potomac on 15 August, 1861. The Light Company D, 2nd United States Artillery, was assigned to Brigadier General P Kearney's brigade, Army of the Potomac, on 4 August 1861.

Report

OFFICIAL REPORT NO.50: Series I, Volume 2 (S# 2), Chapter IX, p. 416–417
Captain R Arnold, Fifth United States Artillery, commanding Light Company D, Second United States Artillery