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Ezra Knight Parker
1830–1919
A Civil War veteran turned his memories of service into a compact firsthand history of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery. His surviving work offers readers an on-the-ground view of campaigning in Kentucky and East Tennessee.
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Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery
by Ezra Knight Parker
About the author
Ezra Knight Parker was an American writer remembered for Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, a brief regimental history published in 1913. Library and ebook records connect him with that work, which preserves the experiences of a Rhode Island artillery unit during the Civil War.
The available public sources found here are limited, but they consistently present him as a veteran-author writing from personal or near-contemporary knowledge of the unit's service. That gives his book much of its appeal today: it is concise, direct, and rooted in lived military experience rather than later retelling.
Basic biographical records list his lifespan as 1830 to 1919. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources available, so no profile image is included.