“For seventeen years Camden was without any military company, when, November 23, 1855, the Camden Light Artillery was organized with a muster-roll of forty men. The following was the roster of officers:

Captain. Isaac W. Mickie; First Lieutenant, James W. H. Stickney; Second Lieutenant, Jesse E. Huston ; Third Lieutenant, Joseph J. Bender; First Sergeant, Ephraim C. Ware; Second Sergeant, Richard H. Lee ; T’hird Sergeant, John R. Cunningham; Fourth Sergeant, Samuel H. Caries; Quartermaster, James M. Cassady; First Corporal, Philip M. Armington; Second Corporal, William W. Sliced; Third Corporal, Remington Ackley ; Fourth Corporal, James B. Shields.

The secretary was Wm. J . Miller and the treasurer Martin E. Harmstead. The armory was in the Starr building, on Bridge Avenue below Second Street. The Light Artillery was a “crack” company, their uniform being very showy, with “ shakos ” that gave them a formidable appearance. Captain Mickie had seen service in Mexico. Ephraim C. Ware succeeded in command of the company; when the Civil War broke out thirty out of the thirty-six entered the service under their old commander.”

Reference Data:

The History of Camden County, New Jersey, by George Reeser Prowell, 1886, page 553