Obviously the corps had in its ranks some Negroes capable of performing any task required in an artillery battalion.

His artillery battalion had no maps, so he volunteered to make the cold trip to the Namur supply depot for maps.

Meanwhile the artillery battalion, under the authority of the brigade commander, had taken up a position to the left of the road.

Fully armed, two DDG1000s should have the firepower of an entire, 640-man artillery battalion, the Navy promises.

His second in command was Lieutenant-colonel Roswell S. Ripley, of the South Carolina Artillery Battalion, formerly of our army.