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Dan Peters to Address Richardson Civil War Round Table on Hall's Bettery

By: pdalton2

At 7 p.m., on Wednesday, July 11th, 2007, the Richardson Civil War Round Table of Stockton Springs presents a lecture entitled “So Highly Favored: The Ordeal of Captain James Hall’s Second Maine Battery at the First Day’s Fight at Gettysburg” by Dan Peters. A life-long Civil War enthusiast, Peters has researched the men and actions of the Second Maine Battery for the past several years and soon hopes to write the compiled history of the Civil War artillery battery. His talk, drawn from primary sources and accompanied by a slide presentation of maps and photos, will recount in micro-history fashion the desperate and close-fought action of the Second Maine Battery on July 1, 1863, on the Chambersburg Pike, just west of the town of <?xml:namespace prefix =" st1" ns =" "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"" />Gettysburg, Pa. The battery, recruited by Rockland’s Davis Tillson and led at Gettysburg by Damariscotta’s James A. Hall, compiled one of finest battle records of the many valiant units in the hard-luck and determined Army of the Potomac. Yet little has been written about the gallantry and courage of this band of farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and fishermen from the rockbound towns of Rockland, Camden, Thomaston and Belfast.Caption: On the Gettysburg battlefield, Dan Peters stands at one of two of Captain Hall’s cannons that today mark the scene of the desperate fight.