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In the summer of 1861 in prosperous Port Deposit, men volunteered for an artillery battery to fight for the Union under Capt. Alonzo Snow. Organized in September, the approximately 155-man unit left the Eastern Shore in May 1862 to join the army in Virginia for the Peninsula Campaign. Lt. Theodore Vanneman at first complained of seeing too little action, but over the next three years the battery fought in the Seven Days' Battles and the Antietam Campaign, at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, New Market, Piedmont, and Lynchburg, and in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaigns. Antietam left the deepest impression, and Vanneman wrote that on September 17, 1862, the battery arrived just in time to drive back Confederates amid terrible scenes of dead, wounded, and dying men. After the war, Alonzo Snow served as Port Deposit's postmaster, and a memorial to the battery's volunteers stands in an Antietam cornfield.
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Port Deposit, Maryland · United States
