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Fourth Battery Sergeant, Thomas D. Giles, of Delaware; Battery Surgeon,
Doctor J. W. Franklin, of Virginia.

The company was composed of ninety-two men, exclusive of commissioned
officers, a majority of whom were from Maryland and Washington.

The battery consisted of two six-pounder smooth bores, two twelve-pounder
howitzers and two three-inch iron rifle pieces, which were received afterwards.

On the 4th of February, 1862, the battery was ordered to report at Knoxville,
Tennessee, and arrived there on the nth. It was quartered first at Temperance
Hall, and afterwards at the vacated residence of Mrs. Swan on Main Street.
Parson Brownlovv was then under confinement as a State prisoner at his own
residence, and a detachment of the Third Maryland was detailed to guard his
premises from the depredations of the Confederate soldiers. The latter, highly
incensed at Brownlow's treasonable opposition to the Confederate Government,
could not be relied upon to show him much consideration. The Maryland
command was sent to do this duty by reason of the strict discipline under which it
had been brought by the exertions of Captain Latrobe; and a detachment under
Lieutenant Claiborne, which afterward guarded the prisoner to the depot, received
a very complimentary notice in a book which the Parson subsequently wrote upon
his experiences in the South.

On the 24th of February two guns were sent to Cumberland Gap, under
command of Captain Latrobe and Lieutenant Patten. When, on March i, Captain
Latrobe returned, Lieutenant Claiborne was sent to command the section. On
the 16th of March a brigade consisting of the Twentieth and Twenty-third
Alabama, Vaughn's Third Tennessee, and the guns of the Third Maryland, under
Captain Latrobe and Lieutenant Rowan, the whole commanded by General
Leadbetter, made an expedition to Clinch River. The river was first reached at
Clinton, whence the brigade continued forty miles down the valley to Kingston,
reaching this point about the 28th. Thence on the next day one gun, with a detach-
ment, accompanied General Leadbetter to Wattsburg, where they surprised and
captured twenty-one bushwhackers.

Meanwhile Lieutenant Rowan had been ordered to repair to Knoxville to
command the detachment left there in March, and now (April 14) Captain
Latrobe himself returned, leaving Sergeant Ritter in command of the section.
Lieutenant Rowan presently returned with orders to proceed immediately to
Lenoir Station, eighteen miles distant, and there embark on the train for Chatta-
nooga, to meet the enemy reported to be marching on that place. It proved to be
a false alarm, and the battery marched back to Knoxville, where the right section,
which had just returned from Cumberland Gap, was found encamped. During
the stay of the right section at the Gap the enemy had assaulted the Confederate
works during a snowstorm. The firing was kept up all day with no loss to the