Capt. Porter's Battery left camp cameron on a Thursday afternoon. With him went 150 men, six pieces of artillery, six cassions, a wagon full of ammunition, a forge, three wagons full of baggage and 125 horses. (1) the artillery consisted of two rifled and two smooth bore six pounders and two twelve pound howitzers. On arrival at the capital the two sis pounders were switched for ten pounder Parrotts. (2)
(1) Massachusetts Register, Serial number 94, 1862, Adams, Sampson & CO., Boston, pg. 409
(2) Massachusetts in the War, 1861-1865, Bowen, James L., Clark W. Bryan & CO. 1889, pg. 786
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