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Reprise: The Unfortunate Friendship

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Dick Stanley

Unfortunate, that is, for the boys age 14 to 17 who comprised the majority of Captain/Doctor William Watts Parker’s Sixth Virginia Light Artillery. Meaning his friendship with Colonel Edward Porter Alexander, Longstreet’s chief of artillery. For as Alexander put it … Continue reading →

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The Boy Battery near Petersburg

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Like all of the fighting units at Knoxville in November 1863, Captain William Watts Parker’s Virginia artillery battery, had a war history before and after the attack on Fort Sanders—including some fame at the Battle of Gettysburg. Parker’s outfit, called … Continue reading →

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Krick’s book now available

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Dick Stanley

A little bit of fussin‘ (or, more probably, the Sesquicentennial) has finally moved Amazon to make copies of Robert K. Krick’s “Parker’s Virginia Battery, C.S.A.,” available once again. You can get a used ex-library copy of the 1975 hardcover in … Continue reading →

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The boy battery at Richmond, 1865

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Dick Stanley

From Confederate Veteran magazine, January, 1911 issue: “Recollections of the retreat from Richmond in April 1865: “At Chesterfield Courthouse I met Huger’s (formerly Alexander’s) Battalion of Artillery, where I had previously served, [and found] we looked back at the great … Continue reading →

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