Orange Albright, Civil War Veteran Multi-Cache
Orange Albright, Civil War Veteran
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You are seeking a short two stage multi cache that begins at the grave marker of Orange Albright, a Veteran of the Civil War. He had such an outstanding first name; Orange.
Orange enlisted as a private in Hurt’s Battery of the Alabama Light Artillery. This unit saw action in many theatres of the Civil War that many of the other Alabama regiments recruited in West Alabama were not part of during the conflict. The unit started off the war known as Hardaway’s Battery, by the end of the war William Hurt was promoted to Captain, and the battery was known as Hurt’s Battery..
In 1861 Robert A. Hardaway raised a company of men of which Hardaway was elected captain and William B. (Billy) Hurt, Hardaway's brother-in-law, became 1st lieutenant and second in command. The Battery was provided with tents, side-arms, and camp equipage at the private expense of its first captain. This was the first Alabama company tendered to and accepted by the Confederate States government. It was raised and equipped as heavy artillery.
Hardaway's (later Hurt's) Battery was mustered into Confederate service for the duration of the War at Lynchburg, Virginia on June 21 1861. It was at Manassas Junction, Virginia before the battle of July 21, 1861, manning 32 pound guns brought up from the Navy Yard at Newport News. When in early 1862 the defensive line at Manassas was abandoned the unit was converted to a field artillery unit and armed with four 3" ordnance rifles. It served at Yorktown in 1862. The battery fired the signal gun for the opening of the battle of Seven Pines and gained great credit for its work in this battle, fought under Stonewall Jackson at Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill and other engagements of the Seven Days' before Richmond, and subsequently was attached to Jackson's Corps until the death of that great leader.
During the Maryland Campaign of 1862 the battery fought at Sharpsburg. By October of 1862 the Battery acquired its first 12 pound Whitworth gun, a highly accurate breech-loading gun made of steel rather than iron with an effective range of 4.5 to 5 miles, much farther than any other field piece on any battlefield of the war. The battery took part in operations about Port Royal and Upperville after the return to Virginia, and fought effectively at the battle of Fredericksburg, and near that city during the Chancellorsville campaign.
At Gettysburg, the Battery was part of of A. P. Hill's corps, and on the second day was stationed behind a stone wall on a range of hills west of the town, where it was at times under a terrible artillery fire, and the galling attention of the Federal sharpshooters.
The losses of the Battery were severe in a number of engagements, for it was ever active and bold in its movements. They were surrendered at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865.
During his servce, Orange Albright was promoted from Private to Sergeant. In early 1865 at Petersburg he was captured by the Union forces and help prisoner until the end of the war.
To locate the final, solve:
33 07.0AB
87 30.4CD
A = Subtract 2 from the second digit of the date of his birth.
B = Add 1 to the fourth digit in the year of his death.
C = Add 2 the first digit in the date of his death.
D = The fourth digit in the year of his birth.
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Unatf ba n ivar 4 srrg uvtu
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