Battery A, Maryland Light Artillery

Battery A, 1st Maryland Light Artillery, known as Rigby's Battery and commanded by Capt. James H. Rigby, was organized at Baltimore, Md., in October 1861 and consolidated with Battery B, Maryland Light Artillery, on March 11, 1865. Its principal engagements included the Seven Days and battles before Richmond, Va., in 1862, Cramptons Cap, Md., on Sep. 14, 1862, Antietam, Md., on Sep. 17, 1862, Fredericksburg, Va., on Dec. 13, 1862, 2nd Fredericksburg, Md., on 3-4, 1863, and Gettysburg, Pa., on July 2-3, 1863. At Gettysburg its strength was 4 officers and 102 enlisted men, and its losses in action were 5 killed, 18 wounded, and 3 missing, a total of 26. It occupied this position on the morning of July 2, 1863, and remained in battery until the termination of the battle, engaging a battery of the enemy on the 2nd and shooting the woods in front for nearly three hours, assisting in driving out the enemy.

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