UNION ARTILLERY AT FIRST BULL RUN *
DEPT OF NORTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: Brg Gen Irvin McDowell
Maj. William Barry, Chief of Artillery (OR, T)
1st Div: Br. Gen. Daniel Tyler
Company E, 2nd U.S. Artillery (UH): Capt. J. Howard Carlisle (OR)
Two 13-pdr James Rifles: Lt. John M. Wilson (OR)
Two 12-pdr Field Howitzers, M1841
Two 6-pdr Guns, M1841
Company E, 3rd U.S. Artillery (Sherman’s Battery) (N, N, N. UH): Capt. Romeyn B. Ayres (OR)
Two 10-pdr Parrott Rifles, M1861
Two 12-pdr Field Howitzers, M1841
Two 6-pdr Guns, M1841
Company G, 1st U.S. Artillery (N,UH): Lt. John Edwards (OR)
Two 20-pdr Parrott Rifles: Lt. Samuel N. Benjamin (Section attached to Hunt, 7/21/1861)
One 30-pdr Parrott Rifle (“Long Tom”): Lt. Peter C. Hains (attached to Carlisle, 7/21/1861)
Company M, 2nd U.S. Artillery (UH): Capt. Henry J. Hunt (OR)
Four Light 12-pdr Guns, M1857 (Napoleons)
2nd Div: Col. David Hunter
2nd Rhode Island Battery: Capt. William H. Reynolds (UH)
Six 13-pdr James Rifles
Company I, 71st New York Militia: Capt. A. Van Horn Ellis (I)
Company D, 5th U.S. Artillery (West Point Battery) (N, UH): Capt. Charles Griffin (OR)
- Four 10-pdr Parrott Rifles, M1861
- Two 12-pdr Field Howitzers, M1841
3rd Div: Col. Samuel P. Heintzelman
Company I, 1st U.S. Artillery: Capt. James B. Ricketts (W&C) (PC, T1, T2), Lt. Andrew Douglas Ramsay (KIA) (I), Lieut. Edmund Kirby (OR)
Six 10-pdr Parrott Rifles, M1861
Company D, 2nd U.S. Artillery: Capt. Richard Arnold (OR)
Two 13-pdr James Rifles
Two 6-pdr Guns, M1841
5th Div: Col. Dixon S. Miles
Company A, 2nd U.S. Artillery: Capt. John C. Tidball (M)
Two 12-pdr Field Howitzers, M1841
Two 6-pdr Guns, M1841
8th New York Militia Battery (N): Capt. C. Bookwood
Six 6-pdr Guns, M1841
Company G, 2nd U.S. Artillery: Lt. Oliver D. Greene (OR)
Four 10-pdr Parrott Rifles, M1861
* Thanks to NPS Museum Specialist Jim Burgess for providing the basis for this page
Harry Smeltzer
Bull Runnings 
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