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HISTORY 
 
 Ninth and Tenth 
 
 REGIMENTS 
 
 RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS, 
 
 AND TDK 
 
 Tenth Rhode Island Battery, 
 
 IN THE UNION ARMY IN 1862. 
 
 PROVIDENCE: 
 
 Snow & Farnham, Printers. 
 
 1892. 
 
9966 
 
 Copyrighted, 1892. 
 
 1898 
 
RHODE ISLAND 
 
 Ninth and Tenth Regiments, 
 
 Tenth Battery. 
 
 WILLIAM A- SPICER, 
 Co. B, Tenth R. I. Vols. 
 

 CONTENTS. 
 
 Introduction ......... 5 
 
 Preliminary Chapters : 
 
 The High School Boys ...... 9 
 
 The College Roys ok "Brown" .... 21 
 
 The Rhode Island National Guard ■ • ■ 37 
 
 The Call for Volunteers in May, 1862 63 
 
 The Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers 67 
 
 The Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers . . . 121 
 The Tenth Light Battery Rhode Island Volunteers 317 
 Reunions of the Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island 
 
 Veteran Associations, . . . . 331, 339 
 
 Roster of Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island Regiments 
 
 and Tenth Battery . . . . . 361, 385 
 
 Resolutions ........ 4'4~4 I 5 
 
Mftft 
 
 A LETTER FROM CHAPLAIN CLAPP. 
 
 The following letter from Chaplain Clapp, of the Tenth, has 
 been received since the completion of the history. On account 
 of its general interest to the comrades, it is printed in this 
 separate form to accompany the book. 
 
 New York, December 15, 1893. 
 M-i Dear Spjcer : 
 
 I greatly rejoice in the new proof Of their good se'nse which our comrades oi 
 
 " the Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island " have shown in selecting you as their his- 
 torian, to make lasting record of our varied experiences in the days of the Re- 
 bellion. Aglance, which you have kindly allowed me, atthe proof sheets of your 
 volume, more than satisfies, — it delights me, with the taste, discrimination, and 
 truthfulness with which you have executed your delicate task. That you deserve 
 well of us all, I know from personal observation, so far as your story of the 
 campaign of the Tenth and our companion battery is concerned, and I cannot 
 doubt your equal faithfulness in what you have said of our sister regiment. 
 The record is an honorable one. True, we whose service was limited to that 
 campaign cannot claim to be survivors of bloody battlefields. We have no 
 scars to show in token of the sharpness of rebel sabres or the true aim of rebel 
 rifles. We may not in old age shoulder our crutches and show how fields were 
 won, but " the boys " whose loyalty you so well commemorate, did faithfully 
 the one work to which they were so suddenly called in that serious emergency. 
 They defended the capital from threatened invasion at a most critical time. 
 They prevented the execution of a rebel plan, the carrying out of which by the 
 enemy would have been disastrous in the extreme ; and when unexpectededly 
 ordered to the front for closer and more deadly contact with the foe, not a man 
 of our inexperienced and comparatively untrained force held back. Not one 
 grudged the discomfort of that weary march to ''Seminary Hill," which ga\ 
 
the privilege of facing the Marshall House, and in loving memory of the 
 •• gallant Ellsworth," singing with a vim not often put into the words : 
 
 " Down where the patriot army by Potomac's side." 
 And following it with : 
 
 " John Brown's body lies a'mouldering in the grave, 
 Hut his soul is marching on." 
 
 Had not superior military wisdom returned us to our forts and batteries near 
 Washington, anil sent toward Richmond better seasoned men in our stead, the 
 Rhode Island boys would have gone into battle with a courage and efficiency 
 not inferior to those of the bravest whose names are enrolled as having 
 deserved well of their country. This is proved beyond dispute by the careers of 
 many officers and men, who, after honorable discharge from the Ninth and Tenth, 
 enlisted in other regiments and served to the end of the war, or till they were 
 called up higher to receive the recompense of the loyal and the brave. 
 
 You have wisely given prominence to the bright side of the picture, but it 
 need not be said that there were many serious hours in our three months' cam- 
 paigning — hours spent in hospital tents beside sick comrades, several of whom 
 came near to death, but were mercifully restored — thanks to the Great 
 Physician, and to the marked skill and care of our worthy surgeon. Alas, that it 
 did not avail to keep back from the grave the brave and youthful Atwood, Meggett, 
 and Walker, whose memory your volume so faithfully embalms, and whose 
 brightest record is on high. My own memory brings back also many hours 
 spent with Rhode Island's wounded boys from other regiments, whom frequent 
 inquiries brought to light in the various hospitals in Washington, and whom it 
 was a melancholy pleasure to serve by communicating with their parents, 
 wives, or other friends at home. Last of all shall I ever forget that long 
 anxious homeward ride with our uncomplaining sick, on couches extemporized 
 from unscrewed backs of car seats — patient sufferers whom it was an in- 
 describable relief to hand over to the care of their loved ones at home. 
 
 Serious also, but to me most pleasant, were the daily seasons of Scripture 
 reading, prayer and song, at headquarters, and the Sabbath services held there, 
 and at as many of the forts and batteries as could be reached on the back of 
 ' Fanny," the chaplain's mare. Man y a brief informal address delivered from 
 her saddle was most respectfully listened to by "the boys," drawn up in a 
 hollow square, and headed by the officer in charge. Not one unpleasant in- 
 cident, not even a look of disrespect marred those hours of worship. A some- 
 what wide observation convinced me that those regiments were very rare in 
 which were enrolled so many cultured, self-respecting gentlemen, as were found 
 among the officers and privates of the Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island. 
 
 Colonels Bliss, Shaw and Hale; Surgeon Wilcox; Adjutants Thurston and 
 Tobey; Quartermasters Armington and DeWolf; Captain Elisha Dyer, Ex. 
 1 rnor of our State, and eminent in all civil, educational, social and 
 
 religious circles; and scarcely less known in City and State, the entire list of 
 
captains whose companies numbered men eminent in professional life, with 
 college graduates and undergraduates, many of whom now adorn high posts of 
 honor — have we not just occasion to be proud of them? 
 
 Never will the writer forget his first introduction to the genial Colonel Bliss, 
 whom he had not the good fortune to know before meeting him at Camp 
 Frieze. Governor Dyer led the humble chaplain, verdant enough in all 
 military matters, up to the stalwart soldier, saying: " Colonel, I bring to your 
 acquaintance my friend, Rev. Mr. Clapp, our chaplain, whom you will be glad 
 to know." " Well," said the colonel, his face wreathed in smiles, "I've been 
 twelve years in the army and you are the first chaplain T ever had about me. I 
 don'tknow what to do with you." " Never mind," was the reply, " You'll soon 
 learn ; we shall be the best friends in the regiment, and you'll not know how in the 
 world you ever got along without one." "Good!" said the colonel; "Here, 
 sergeant, put up the chaplain's tent next to mine; and, chaplain, I want you 
 to come into my mess." Into that tent and mess the chaplain went; the 
 friendships formed there with the staff largely helped him in bringing good 
 influences upon the youn»- and inexperienced in the ranks, and have been 
 matter for pleasant memories in the years that have since rolled by. 
 
 If this note were not already too long, I would like to tell our comrades of an 
 incident that befell their chaplain on a hot, pitchy dark Sunday night, between 
 nine and ten o'clock, on the way back from Battery Vermont to Fort Pennsyl- 
 vania. Unable to see a yard ahead your chaplain laid the reins upon Fanny's 
 neck, and thinking of his home and parish, had, without knowing it, reached 
 the front of Secretary Stanton's house ; just then, on account of repeated rebel 
 threats (but without our knowledge), guarded by a detail of troops. Suddenly, 
 hoarselv sounded in the chaplain's ear, from a mounted soldier at his side, till 
 then unseen and unheard, "Halt! Who goes there?" "Friend, with the 
 countersign," was answered with a trembling voice. '-Advance, friend, and 
 give the countersign." The countersign was whispered. " The countersign is 
 wrong. Come with me to the captain of the guard." For a few minutes the 
 chaplain believed himself to be in rebel hands, but reined faithful Fanny up at 
 the guard tent. In answer to the captain's questions, he gave his name and 
 " pedigree " as chaplain of the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, and in proof 
 thereof, produced from his pockets a handful of letters so addressed. Searching 
 the chaplain's face by a lantern's light, the captain allowed that, it didn't have 
 a rebel look — but the wrong countersign, how was that? At length it dawned 
 upon the captain's mind. "Oh, the Tenth Rhode Island boys are not in our 
 division, and their countersign is not ours! You may pass on, sir! " And the 
 chaplain did pass on with a far lighter heart then he had known for half an 
 hour or more. 
 
 You know that unfortunately the duties of my position here, since [865 have 
 kept me from meeting with the survivors of the Tenth in their annual reunions— 
 a deprivation which I have most deeply regretted. Had I been permitted to be 
 with you, I think I should have earlier made a confession of an aliened violation 
 
of my country's laws of which the boys of the Tenth would never have suspected 
 their chaplain, and of a sacrifice in behalf of the United States Treasury for 
 which he has never bail due credit. A private of the Ninth, after that regiment 
 had gone over the east fork of the Potomac, being seriously ill, sent word of his 
 desire to see his friend, the chaplain of the Tenth. " Fanny" took the chaplain 
 and mail in the mail wagon to the capital, where it seemed best to let her rest 
 for a lew hours before going back to Tennallvtown. So the chaplain foraged 
 for " a good and last saddle horse." but the stable keeper said he could furnish 
 only a small, pacing mare, "gentle and easy-going," he said, "but unable to 
 make more than six miles an hour at her best."' The chaplain mounted, and the 
 little creature ambled quietly along Pennsylvania avenue ou our errand of mercy. 
 Presently a loud peremptory shout was heard from the rear, but attracted little 
 notice. It was heard again and shortly again, but without a thought that it was 
 meant for the innocent chaplain, till a big, rough, mounted policeman came 
 alongside, grabbed the pacer's rein, and, in a wrathful voice, asked: "Why 
 didn't you stop when I challenged you?" Confession of ignorance as to the 
 meaning of the shouts was humbly made, but the officer growled : " Come along 
 with me." Anil sure enough, the chaplain was haled before a police justice and 
 accused of fast driving in the streets of Washington, contrary to the laws of 
 that great city. The chaplain told the judge his story, rehearsing with affecting 
 ritv the words of the pacer's owner as to the six-mile-an-hour limit of her 
 1. Begging to be allowed to go to his sick friend in the Ninth's camp, he 
 w is finally allowed to do so, on his pledging his word to present himself at the 
 court on bis return, lie did so present himself, bringing along the stable 
 keeper, who retold the story of the pacer's si\-mile limit. But all would not 
 avail. The treasury was at a low ebb, the policeman was angry, and a strong 
 swearer, and the justice thought that "a line oi five dollars would be about 
 right!" It was paid, and the sacred streets of the capital were avenged for 
 having resounded to the rattling feet of a pacer rushing along their surface at 
 the rate of six miles an hour! 
 
 When you meet ■again our comrades you may tell them the story, which for 
 obvious reasons I kept from them in camp. They may smile at it now as long 
 and as loudly as they choose. 
 
 And do not fail to assure them of my sincere regard, my gratitude that I was 
 allowed to share with them our brief campaign, my lasting memory of their 
 many kindnesses, and my earnest prayers for their best welfare here and for 
 their final blessedness in the eternal Kingdom of the Prince of Peace. 
 
 Always cordially yours, 
 
 A. HUNTINGTON CLAPP. 
 
Introduction 
 
 N 
 
 4 4 TV T EVER in all history was so wonderful a scene as the sud- 
 den uprising of our people, and their quiet return to 
 the pursuits of peace. We can only liken it to the 
 poetic description of Sir Walter Scott, in the Lady of the Lake, 
 when Roderick gives the shrill whistle through the copse and heath, 
 that summons his men before the face of Eitz James. 
 
 ' That whistle garrisoned the glen 
 At once with full five hundred men. 
 As if the yawning hill to heaven 
 A subterranean host had given.' 
 
 "Then after his purpose was fulfilled, he bids them return again 
 as silently as they had come. 
 
 ' Short space he stood, then waved his hand, 
 Down sank the disappearing band. 
 It seemed as if their mother earth 
 Had swallowed up her warlike birth.' 
 
 "In our land, not hundreds, but thousands and millions sprang 
 to the call of liberty, and when their service was ended, after 
 many of their comrades had perished on the field of honor, the 
 survivors returned as quietly to the employments of peace and 
 the delights of home." — Rev. James G. Vosc, D. D. 
 
6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Various veteran associations are wisely engaged in making a 
 record of the personal experiences of their members in the War 
 for the Union. Doubtless it will prove a most valuable and au- 
 thentic record, and to it in generations to come, the historian will 
 resort for the substance of his judgments. 
 
 The preparation of this book was undertaken at the unanimous 
 request of the members of the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers and 
 Battery Association, at its thirtieth annual reunion, May 26, 1892. 
 
 Though the work assigned the Committee was entered upon 
 with some reluctance, on account of business and professional 
 duties, it has brought its own reward in the joy of living over old 
 times again, and the days of youthful vigor, when at a moment's 
 warning, we put on uniform and hurried to the defence of the 
 capital. 
 
 This record professes to be, not a treatise on the war, but a 
 modest, and we trust, truthful narrative of scenes and incidents 
 of our three months' campaign in 1862, with such a description of 
 the military situation in Virginia, as will enable the reader to 
 form a correct estimate of the services rendered. Diligent inquiry 
 has been made among the members for old letters, diaries and 
 sketches, and one of the Committee, Comrade William A. Spicer, 
 has consented to arrange the material collected and edit the 
 history. 
 
 The Committee realize that the War for the Union is long since 
 over, and that the years of peace and progress which have followed 
 have made it only a memory. They still feel, however, that the 
 rising generations which have grown up since the war, should 
 become familiar with its historv, and read enough of the details, to 
 
INTRODUCTION. J 
 
 know in what spirit it was carried on, and what of valor and devo- 
 tion to country is still in our educated American youth. 
 
 "Prior to the late Rebellion," said Gen. Horatio Rogers, him- 
 self a gallant soldier, and an honored justice of the Supreme 
 Court of our State, " it was a matter of speculation among us 
 whether if opportunity offered, the young men of this generation 
 would emulate the heroism of their patriotic ancestors. In those 
 tranquil times, and to our inexperienced minds, the history of the 
 great struggle for National Independence seemed like a romance. 
 Our civil war has at length solved the problem, . . . and has 
 proved that devotion to country has not withered in the hearts of 
 American youth." And to-day, as we behold with patriotic pride 
 our country's flag proudly floating over our public schools and 
 colleges, we feel that it has a new meaning of freedom and bless- 
 ing for this generation and the generations to come. 
 
 Certainly no class of our citizens exhibited a purer patriotism 
 during the war, than the members of our high schools and colleges, 
 and as a considerable part of the good material of the Ninth and 
 Tenth Regiments and Battery, was drawn from the Providence 
 High School and Brown University, we will introduce this history 
 with brief sketches of those institutions at the time of the war 
 of the Rebellion. 
 
 ALBERT J. MANCHESTER, Tenth R. I. Vols. 
 
 WILLIAM A. SPICER. 
 
 ( Historical 
 WILLIAM A. II. GRANT. " " " ) 
 
 i Committee. 
 II. H. RICHARDSON. Ninth " 
 
 P. B. STLNESS, Tenth R. I. Batt. 
 
 Providence, July 4. 1S92. 
 
THE HIGH SCHOOL IN 1862. 
 
THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS 
 
 OF PROVIDENCE. 
 
 " We are the boys, the gay old boys, 
 Who marched in sixty-one, 
 We'll ne'er forget old times, my boys, 
 When vou and I were young." 
 
 Old song: 
 
 OUR school days were cast in eventful times. Some of the 
 Providence boys who met thirty years ago in the old High 
 School on Benefit Street, can hardly have forgotten the 
 stirring events which preceded the war, and the memorable presi- 
 dential campaign of i860. Joining the Lincoln wide awake army, 
 they proudly shouldered their torches and marched on to victory, 
 little heeding the threatening clouds of secession gathering in the 
 Southern horizon. How few then, North or South, young or old, 
 realized the nearness of the whirlwind of civil war, which was soon 
 to burst forth and rage for four long years, carrying desolation 
 into almost every family in the land. A struggle which killed 
 six hundred thousand, and permanently disabled a million young 
 men. But it abolished state rights and slavery, the causes of the 
 conflict, and settled finally the great principle declared by Web- 
 ster, that the Union is "now and forever, one and inseparable." 
 
 The first gun fired on Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861, aroused and 
 excited the nation. President Lincoln at once called for 75,000 
 men. Rhode Island was ready, and looked to General Burnside 
 
IO THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS 
 
 for a leader. The ladies met in the church vestries and made 
 uniforms for the volunteers. All classes were united in the deter- 
 mination to vindicate the honor of our flag. The excitement was 
 fully shared, if not increased, by the High School boys. Every 
 one was expected to show his colors, and it was voted to purchase 
 and raise the national flag over the High School building. Hear- 
 ing that the college boys were about to unfurl the " stars and 
 stripes" over University Hall (where, eighty-eight years before, 
 the old Revolutionary flag had floated), it was determined to anti- 
 cipate them, if possible. Wednesday afternoon, April 17th, at 
 five o'clock, being the time appointed for the exercises at the col- 
 lege, the following High School announcement appeared in the 
 Journal of that day : "The ' stars and stripes ' will be raised this 
 afternoon over the High School, at half past four j '" But the 
 boys were finally induced to defer their public demonstration till 
 the following morning, though they couldn't refrain from in- 
 dulging in a little informal flag-raising at the hour first announced, 
 thus securing the desired priority, and the following notice from 
 the Evening Press : " High School Patriotism. — A splendid na- 
 tional flag, purchased by the subscription of over one hundred 
 High School boys, was displayed from the High School building, 
 this afternoon ! " The formal exercises were of a most interest- 
 ing character. At eleven o'clock, in the presence of teachers, 
 scholars, citizens, and soldiers, who were about leaving for the 
 war, the boys raised the flag, followed by the singing of the " Star 
 Spangled Banner." The young ladies of the school carried 
 small national flags. Mayor Knight delivered a brief opening 
 address, and introduced Professor Chace, of Brown University, 
 
OF PROVIDENCE. II 
 
 who responded with scholarly and patriotic sentiments. Bishop 
 Clark related an anecdote of his great grandfather, who, after the 
 battle of Bunker Hill, was obliged to sleep in a baker's oven, and 
 added, " I am glad that he did not get baked, else I should not 
 have been here to-day to address you ! " and turning to the " Ma- 
 rines," who were soon to leave for Washington, with the First 
 Rhode Island Regiment, he said, "some of you may have to sleep 
 in a baker's oven before you get back, but I hope you will not 
 get baked, but come home well bre(a)d men as you now are." 
 They were indeed soon tried in the fiery furnace of Bull Run, and 
 some never returned. Ex-Mayor Rodman, in his pleasant man- 
 ner, referred to a conversation between Gen. Nathanael Greene 
 and his mother, during the Revolution, in which she cautioned 
 him "not to get shot in the back!" Dr. Caldwell made an im- 
 pressive closing address, then "America" was heartily sung, 
 followed by cheers for "the Union," "the young ladies of the 
 High School," "Governor Sprague," the "First Regiment," and 
 the "Marines." " Fifteen cheers and a Narragansett " were given 
 by the boys for a dispatch, read by Bishop Clark, that Virginia had 
 decided not to secede. But they found out, a few days later, that 
 they had wasted their ammunition on the "Old Dominion." 
 
 It was now apparent that there was sufficient military spirit to 
 warrant the formation of a High School company. A meeting 
 was held in the hall, at which a committee of arrangements was 
 appointed, who "pushed things," and in a few weeks the boys fell 
 into line under the name of the " Ellsworth Phalanx," in honor 
 of the youthful and gallant commander of the New York Zouaves. 
 He had been shot at Alexandria, Ya., a few weeks before (May 
 
12 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS 
 
 24th), while engaged in lowering a rebel flag from a hotel in that 
 city. How it would have startled the members of the "Ellsworth 
 Phalanx," could they have known that the next year, some of their 
 number would be marching through that same rebellious city, and 
 by the very hotel where Ellsworth fell ! Yet so it proved, and 
 as they marched, they sung the stirring strains of "Ellsworth's 
 Avengers," quickly followed by that grand old marching song, 
 
 " John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave 
 But his soul is marching on ! " 
 
 The beautiful standard of colors presented to the Phalanx, was 
 the gift of the young ladies of the High School.* Daniel W. 
 Lyman, who was afterwards senator in the General Assembly, was 
 chosen captain. The company averaged from seventy to eighty 
 boys, according to the pressure of study at the High School. By 
 an arrangement with the United Train of Artillery, their armory 
 on Canal street became the headquarters of the corps, and under 
 the direction of the veteran Col. Westcott Handy, of the Old 
 Guard Continentals, it soon attained a creditable degree of pro- 
 ficiency. 
 
 The discipline was strict, and there was no levity, the boys 
 thought, about the hot and hard marching. But who can forget 
 those refreshing seasons after the long and toilsome drill or street 
 parade, when good Colonel Handy marched us through his herb 
 beer establishment, near the Great Bridge, and treated one and all, 
 to a large glass of his celebrated beer, "compounded strictly 
 from medicinal roots and herbs." May his memory ever remain 
 
 ' This flag may still be seen at the High School on Summer Street. 
 
OF PROVIDENCE. I 3 
 
 as fragrant as his beer! What wonder that the corps rapidly 
 advanced in discipline and spirits and soon attracted not a little 
 public attention for its steady and soldierly bearing on parade. 
 It was altogether, the boys thought, very serious business, but 
 the discipline did much doubtless in kindling a warmer ardor of 
 patriotism, and a stronger devotion to duty. An indulgent critic 
 says, "that in point of marching, with all the legs going together, 
 twisting itself up and untwisting, breaking into single file (for 
 Indian fighting), forming platoons and wheeling with faultless 
 line around the corner of North Alain Street and Market Square ; 
 getting out of the way of a wagon or omnibus, and circling the 
 High Street liberty pole and town pump ; with ranks well 
 dressed, and eyes 'right and left,' particularly in going by the 
 High School, it was the equal of any military organization I ever 
 saw." 
 
 It is needless for the writer to add that he was an ardent mem- 
 ber of the "Phalanx," rising steadily from the grade of "private" 
 to the rank of "corporal." Winning at the "target-shoot" the 
 bright cockade of red, white and blue ribbons, to be worn on 
 bayonet on parade, for making the lucky shot at two hundred 
 yards. It was generally admitted that the "Phalanx" could drill 
 better and execute the Zouave manoeuvres in finer style than some 
 of the older military companies. The exhibition drills of the corps, 
 and the brilliant evening assemblies, with Lyman "potent to 
 preside," will be pleasantly recalled. How they enlivened the 
 long winter evenings of '61 ! 
 
 But the Rebellion was not yet subdued. Brighter days were 
 looked for with the opening of '62, but the situation seemed 
 
14 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS 
 
 full of peril to the nation. As with men all over the land, so with 
 the students of the High School, the condition of the country 
 was the all absorbing topic of discussion. The following essay by 
 "a corporal," and a member of the class of '62, illustrates the spirit 
 of the school on 
 
 " The Coming Crisis." 
 
 "Our country is on the eve of a great crisis. From every ap- 
 pearance that we can discern, Liberty and Loyalty, and Rebellion 
 and Slavery are about to grapple for the decisive struggle. The 
 work of preparation, which has been energetically pushed forward 
 during the past six months, is nearly completed. Our young 
 general-in-chief has been employed with untiring energy in gath- 
 ering his armies around the rebel capital, and hemming in the 
 enemy on every side, and the command for the final advance seems 
 almost now to echo along the whole line. 
 
 " We all know what a terrible shock must ensue, and can all 
 estimate something of the magnitude of its results. Of course we 
 expect our army to be victorious. It would seem as though the 
 fruit of so much noble sacrifice, and of such gigantic preparation, 
 must be victory. The people have given their money and treas- 
 ure free as water, their lives even, as of little value in comparison 
 with the great principles at stake. For these they have permitted 
 their most sacred liberties to be invaded that success may be 
 rendered more certain. We claim, too, and justly, the larger and 
 better disciplined battalions ; and military skill has been exhausted 
 in placing in their hands the most destructive weapons of modern 
 warfare. We suppose, therefore, our army to be invincible. But 
 
OF PROVIDENCE. I 5 
 
 our confidence of victory lies not alone, or principally, in our physi- 
 cal strength, but in the moral strength of our cause. Best of all, 
 we have 'God and the Right' upon our side. Truth and Justice 
 are with us. The prayers of the millions of the enslaved through- 
 out the world are with us. We are fighting to preserve the glo- 
 rious Union for which our fathers fought and suffered so much. 
 We are fighting for Freedom and Humanity everywhere. 
 
 "Truly it seems that with such a cause, and with such soldiers 
 and generals, victory must rest upon our banners. 
 
 "Yet we must not be too sanguine of success. Although we 
 know that the right must eventually triumph, yet our countrv 
 may be called upon to pass through sterner trials, before it shall 
 come forth from the flames of war purified and regenerated. We 
 may again be destined to learn the terrible lesson of defeat. It 
 seems now almost impossible, but we cannot tell. 
 
 " When our army was before Manassas last July, we supposed 
 that victory would certainly be ours, and when the intelligence 
 came of the panic and retreat to Washington, it fell upon the 
 nation with a sudden shock that bowed it to the earth, and it has 
 not recovered from the effect to-day. 
 
 "The tide of battle is so often turned by unforeseen and unex- 
 pected circumstances, that we can only hope and wait for the issue. 
 
 " While there is time, let us prepare for defeat as well as vic- 
 tory. For let the worst indeed come, we must never yield. Out- 
 most cherished principles, perhaps the national existence, are at 
 stake. If we fail in this struggle for liberty and union, it will carry 
 despair to the hearts of the oppressed and enslaved, and sound 
 the death-knell of free institutions evervwhere. 
 
l6 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS 
 
 " Whatever sacrifice we may be called upon to make, let us stand 
 ready to meet it. We are not too young to possess the spirit of 
 true patriotism, the spirit of the gallant ' Ellsworth,' whose name 
 we have chosen. Let us stand ready, therefore, so that if the 
 safety of the country should demand it, we may rally with full 
 ' Phalanx' in her defence, and give our aid, little though it may be, 
 to the good cause." 
 
 The time was at hand. May 1862 came, and with it fresh news 
 of disaster to the Union cause. Stonewall Jackson with 20,000 
 men, had sent Banks's little army whirling down the Shenandoah 
 Valley, to the Potomac, and, at midnight, on the 25th, a dispatch 
 came to Providence announcing the disaster, with an urgent ap- 
 peal for troops for the protection of the capital. Just an hour 
 later, the governor issued an order to immediately organize two 
 new regiments, the Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, 
 and the Tenth Light Battery, for three months' service. The 
 response was prompt, and among other military organizations, the 
 " Ellsworth Phalanx " of the High School furnished a liberal quota. 
 The call found the boys " volens et paratus" now our motto. 
 At the head of Company B, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, 
 recruited principally from the ranks of the High School and 
 University companies, marched Capt. Elisha Dyer, formerly the 
 governor of the state. The men are few who at his age (over fifty) 
 would have left the comforts of home for the arduous position of 
 captain in a volunteer regiment. And those High School boys, 
 whose fortunate lot it was to belong to Captain Dyer's company, 
 will hardly again find in life a day of such strange excitement, as 
 that on which they first put on uniform and started for camp. 
 
OF PROVIDENCE. I 7 
 
 Many of the boys after completing their first term of service, 
 re-enlisted, and as commissioned officers served through the war. 
 Two hundred and twenty-five of the students of the High School 
 served in the army and navy during the Rebellion. Seventeen 
 died in the service.* 
 
 Let us pause for a moment, to honor the memory of one of our 
 youngest comrades of Company A, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 
 William Frederick Atwood, class of 1862, son of William 
 and Emeline P. Atwood, was born in Sing Sing, N. Y., in Jan- 
 uary, 1845. His father was engaged in the foundry business 
 at that time, but soon after removed to Providence, R. L, where 
 his grandfather, John Atwood, had been for many years a well- 
 known resident and real estate proprietor. " Fred," as he was 
 familiarly called at home, was educated in the public schools, 
 and in 1859 entered the High School. He was possessed of a 
 genial temperament and generous disposition, which drew around 
 him a circle of personal friends. The opening of the war, in 1861, 
 aroused and excited the High School boys, and when the urgent 
 call for volunteers came in May, 1862, young Atwood (although 
 but seventeen) enlisted, with many of his classmates, in Com- 
 pany A, Capt. William E. Taber, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 
 As at home he had been a loving son and brother, so now he 
 became an honored comrade, faithful in all his relations, as Cap- 
 tain Taber bears cheerful testimony. He was taken suddenly ill 
 at Camp Frieze, in the latter part of June, and growing rapidly 
 worse he was removed to Seminary Hospital, Georgetown, D. C, 
 
 * See page 19, " In Memorium." 
 
1 8 THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS. 
 
 where he died'fjune 29, 1862, leaving the example of a brave and 
 spotless manhood. 
 
 The career of young Atwood is one of the briefest recorded in 
 the history of the war. But thirty days elapsed from the clay of 
 his departure from home to the clay of his funeral. But those 
 clays, few as they were, signally illustrated his modest fidelity to 
 every trust, and his cheerful surrender of the bright hopes of 
 youth, to die in his country's service. In a retired and beautiful 
 spot near the Soldiers' Home, overlooking the capital which his 
 youthful footsteps had hastened to defend, he sleeps the sleep 
 which no morning drum-beat shall break. 
 
 Strangely also, his father, who enlisted a few months later in 
 the Eleventh Rhode Island Volunteers, sickened and died, and 
 was buried at Arlington, only a few miles from his son's grave. 
 
 And we would not omit to mention, with honor, the name of 
 our youthful and lamented comrade, Frederick Metcalf (son of 
 Col. Edwin Metcalf), who, although but fifteen years old, enlisted 
 with his other classmates in Company B. But Captain Dyer was 
 unwilling to assume the responsibility of accepting so young a 
 volunteer in the absence of his father (then in active service with 
 his regiment at Hilton Head, S. C.) But this did not dampen 
 the ardor of young Metcalf, and we find him in October of the 
 following year, a second lieutenant in his father's regiment (the 
 Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery). He also creditably served 
 as post adjutant at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, till May 27, 1864, when 
 he was promoted to a first lieutenancy. But in the following 
 August he was seized with the typhoid malaria, and died on the 
 28th, in the seventeenth year of his age. 
 
1ln flfoemortam. 
 
 ROLL OF STUDENTS OF THE PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL 
 
 Died in tt\e Service of tl\eir Country during trie Rebellion. 
 
 Munrq H. Gladding, 
 Francis B. Ferris, . 
 William Ware Hall, 
 John P. Shaw, 
 George W. Field, . 
 James H. Earle, 
 Howard Greene, 
 George Wheaton Cole, 
 Samuel Foster, 2D, 
 Jesse Comstock, 
 J. Nelson Bogman, 
 Peter Hunt, 
 William F. Atwoud, 
 Benjamin E. Kelly, 
 Charles M. Latham, 
 Frederick Metcalf, 
 Eugene F. Granger, 
 
 ss of 
 
 1846. 
 1848. 
 [848. 
 
 1850. 
 1852. 
 
 1853. 
 
 1S55. 
 
 [856. 
 
 1856. 
 1S5S. 
 
 1 861. 
 [861. 
 
 1 862. 
 [862. 
 1862. 
 1 864. 
 1866. 
 
 Note.— Tin- & in all cases, 
 

 BROWN UNIVERSITY IN 1S62. 
 
THE COLLEGE BOYS 
 
 OF "BROWN." 
 
 li For each of them considered that not for his father and mother only was lie 
 horn, hut also for his fatherland." — Demosthenes DeCorotia. 
 
 A LARGE number of the students of "Brown" left the 
 "campus" for the camp, some at the very outbreak of the 
 War of the Rebellion. During the winter of i860, the politi- 
 cal affairs of the nation assumed an aspect which no lover of his 
 country could regard with indifference. The distant mutterings 
 of the approaching storm were heard in Hope College and Uni- 
 versity Hall. The literary societies in their meetings discussed 
 the questions of the day. These questions also furnished the 
 chief topics in social intercourse, and studies correspondingly 
 languished. 
 
 *In the spring of i860, when Abraham Lincoln came to Rhode 
 Island, he found no more attentive listeners to the two addresses 
 that he delivered, — one in Providence and one in Woonsocket— 
 than the students of " Brown," who flocked to hear him. One of 
 them, William Ide Brown, the beloved class president of '62, — who 
 gallantly served in the army from August 10, 1862, to March 29, 
 1865, when he was killed before Petersburg,— wrote March 8, i860, 
 
 * This sketch is principally from the pen of Maj. S. L. Burrage, class of '"J. 
 
2 2 THE COLLEGE BOYS 
 
 " Lincoln, of Illinois, speaks this evening at Woonsocket. There 
 
 is to be an extra train, and pays the expenses of eighty 
 
 or ninety students." This occasion was one which few of the men 
 who were in college can forget, so long as life shall last. Soon 
 in the rapid march of events, the western orator became the 
 President of the United States, and Brown saw him next in 1862, 
 as in company with McClellan and Burnside the President passed 
 along the lines in review of the army after the battle of Antietam. 
 Threatened violence at length appeared armed, and in April, 
 1861, the peal of hostile cannon filled the land. But the sound of 
 the first gun which was fired at Fort Sumter did not die away 
 when it reached the walls of the college. It would be impossible 
 to set forth in words the state of feeling which was at once mani- 
 fested throughout the university. The senior class procured a 
 flag, and on the afternoon of April 17th, in the presence of the 
 Faculty, the students, and a throng of the friends of the college, 
 it was raised over University Hall. After the flag had been un- 
 furled, and the band had played " The Star Spangled Banner," 
 President Sears, standing on the steps of Manning Hall, delivered 
 a brief address. He said he deprecated civil war. He regretted 
 the necessity which it imposed on us as a people. But, he con- 
 tinued, the time for deliberation is past. Every man is now 
 called upon to show himself worthy of the country of his birth. 
 It is fitting, then, that to-day, the young men who have come to 
 this university to learn — to learn to be patriots he would hope — 
 and who have everything at stake in this crisis, should show that 
 they appreciate the inestimable blessings which they have inher- 
 ited from a brave and noble ancestry. 
 
OF " BROWN. 2 3 
 
 Bishop Clark said that eighty years ago the old Revolutionary 
 flag waved over University Hall. It meant that our fathers were 
 striving to establish the sacred institutions of a free government. 
 The flag we raise to-day means that we intend to preserve those 
 institutions. We deprecate war, he continued, especially civil 
 war. All our interests, all our feelings are against it. But ene- 
 mies have arisen among us. They have commenced the most 
 wicked contest ever waged. We do not hate them, yet we can- 
 not sit tamely by while they are endeavoring to destroy the very 
 foundations of our political fabric. 
 
 Bishop Clark was followed by the Rev. Dr. Hall, who said it 
 was not a time when any one should be silent who loves his 
 country and his God. We are all men of peace, he added, but 
 here is a thing inevitable. It is government or no government. 
 The South does not wish to go peaceably. If we have erred at 
 all we have erred on the side of forbearance, but the past is gone. 
 Let us show by our action that we continue to love our whole 
 country. 
 
 The hymn " My country, 'tis of thee," was then sung by the 
 students. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Caldwell said that on the previous Sabbath he 
 could not but feel it was a time for praying rather than for preach- 
 ing. The time for words was now past, the time for deeds had 
 come. Be assured, he added, that what we see going on around 
 us is going on everywhere, from Mason and Dixon's line to the 
 lakes. A conflict is impending, but we go into it, not in passion ; 
 we simply seek to vindicate the honor of our country in restoring 
 its rightful authority. 
 
24 THE COLLEGE BOYS 
 
 Ex-Governor Dyer delivered the last address. He commenced 
 by saying that in the whole course of his experience he had never 
 been subject to such conflicting emotions as were passing through 
 his heart at that moment. Yonder is our country's flag, and the 
 chimes of our city are ringing out the national anthems ; but is it 
 possible, he asked, that that flag and that music are needed to re- 
 mind us that we are the citizens of one of the noblest nations of 
 the earth ? We are called to contend with traitors, the victims of 
 delusion ; all party distinctions, therefore, should be laid aside, 
 and each man should be ready to make whatever sacrifices the 
 honor of the country may demand. 
 
 Such is a brief outline of the addresses which were delivered 
 on this interesting occasion. They did not float away on the soft 
 winds, then laden with the freshness of returning spring. There 
 were those grouped upon the chapel steps, who then, as never be- 
 fore, were " stirred with high hopes of living to be brave men and 
 worthy patriots ;" and to whom the words at that time spoken 
 were an inspiration for good, as in the years which followed, when, 
 weary from long marching, watching, fighting, they recurred to 
 them for added strength in entering upon fresh trials of endurance. 
 
 Burnside had arrived in the city the day previous, and was 
 already organizing the "First Rhode Island." While engaged in 
 the business of his office in New York, he had received the fol- 
 lowing dispatch : "A regiment of Rhode Island troops will go to 
 Washington this week. How soon can you come on and take 
 command ? William Sprague, Governor of Rhode Island." 
 Both the answer and the answerer were ready. "At once," was 
 the reply. Not a few from the several classes in the college en- 
 
OF " BROWN." 25 
 
 tered its ranks. Brown, writing to his father that evening said, 
 "To-night, as I see the streets thick with uniforms, it begins to 
 seem like war. The excitement here is intense." 
 
 About the middle of May, a military company, the University 
 Cadets, was organized at the college, and consisted of seventy- 
 eight men, rank and file. It is a fact worthy of notice, that dur- 
 ing the Rebellion eight of its fourteen officers served with 
 distinction in the Union armies. The campus in rear of the uni- 
 versity afforded a suitable drill-ground, and such was the proficiency 
 to which the company soon attained, that the tri-weekly drill of 
 the Cadets attracted not a little public attention. 
 
 Class-day occurred on June 13th. The class president, Mr. 
 William W. Hoppin, was absent serving as a private in the First 
 Rhode Island Volunteers. The president of the day, William W. 
 Douglas, the class orator, Sumner U. Shearman, and the class 
 poet, all afterwards entered the military service, and were mus- 
 tered out with the same rank. In the afternoon of class-day, the 
 University Cadets had their first public parade. The line was 
 formed on the campus at three o'clock. Then preceded by Gil- 
 more's (Pawtucket) full band, the company marched through the 
 principal streets of the city, eliciting the praises of all for their 
 soldierly bearing. Late in the afternoon, the Cadets visited the 
 camp of the Second Rhode Island Volunteers, on Dexter Train- 
 ing Ground, where in the presence of Colonel Slocum (who was 
 killed at the battle of Bull Run in July following), they went 
 through the form for dress parade. After receiving the con- 
 gratulations of Colonel Slocum and of his officers, among whom 
 were two sons of President Sears, the company marched down 
 4 
 
26 THE COLLEGE BOYS 
 
 Westminster street " in four ranks open order," and returned to 
 the college. Still later in the day, the Cadets escorted the senior 
 class to the Aldrich House, where the class supper was served. 
 
 The year 1861 gradually wore away. Few expected that the 
 Rebellion would long continue. But the disasters which in the 
 months of May and June (1862) befell our army before Richmond, 
 dissolved the dream of peace, and the question of duty became 
 still more urgent to the students. Late in the month of May, 1862, 
 almost as stirring scenes as those of April, 1861, were witnessed in 
 Providence. Let us go back to May 25th, when, at midnight, a dis- 
 patch from the secretary of war was received by the governor of 
 Rhode Island, announcing the defeat of General Banks and calling 
 for troops. At one o'clock a. m., May 26th, an order was issued for 
 the organization of the National Guards for active service, and the 
 next clay the regiment henceforth known as the Tenth Rhode Island 
 Volunteers, left Providence for Washington under the command of 
 Lieut. -Col. James Shaw, Jr. Company B, commanded by Ex-Gov. 
 Elisha Dyer, was recruited almost entirely from the ranks of the 
 several classes of the University and High School. Governor 
 Dyer says, " The students could brook no restraint, and almost en 
 masse came to our recruiting rendezvous for enrollment. It was a 
 source of the deepest solicitude on the part of President Sears to 
 know how far he was justified in resisting these resolute expressions 
 on the part of the young men who had been placed under his protec- 
 tion and instruction. The offering would not have been too large 
 had he consulted his own feelings alone. But it was the widow's son, 
 and the orphan's brother, who desired release. He came to me in 
 the conflict of duty and enthusiastic patriotism, and telling me of 
 
OF " BROWN. 
 
 2 7 
 
 his embarrassment said, 'If you yourself will take these young 
 men to the field, I can no longer refuse them.' I gave the pledge. 
 The young men came, were enrolled, and without leaving the 
 armory, entered upon the duties of soldiers. They all proved 
 themselves worthy of their alma mater, and the sacred cause for 
 which they enlisted. Always prompt, obedient and efficient, they 
 won for themselves an honorable record. For no delinquency or 
 misdemeanor did any name of theirs ever find a place on the 
 morning report. On the muster out of the regiment, Sept. 1, 
 1862, many of these young men immediately reentered the ser- 
 vice, and as commissioned officers extended a record of which the 
 University may well be proud." 
 
 In our admiration for President Sears and the young men of the 
 University to whom reference is made in the words just quoted, let 
 us not forget that other son of the University, whose pure, self- 
 sacrificing patriotism appears in his tribute to the worth of others ; 
 who having received the highest honors in the gift of the people 
 of Rhode Island, and when of an age which might claim exemp- 
 tion from military duty, cheerfully abandoned the quiet delights of 
 home at the call of his country, and took upon himself the labors 
 and responsibilities of a captain of infantry. 
 
 Class-day at Brown occurred June 12, 1862. Joshua M. Adde- 
 man, the class orator, was at the time a private soldier in thecom- 
 pany and regiment to which we have just referred ; but obtaining 
 a short furlough he returned to Providence and delivered his ora- 
 tion on the appointed day. His theme was "The Alliance of 
 Scholarship and Patriotism." He introduced his subject with the 
 following earnest words : 
 
28 THE COLLEGE BOYS 
 
 " On this day, around which cluster memories and associations 
 of the past, and fond hopes and anxious forebodings of the future, 
 one thought transcends all others in importance. As if embodied 
 in some fair form beseeching us for aid, our country rises before 
 us, and excludes all minor and selfish considerations. No theme 
 seems more appropriate to the day and of more vital importance 
 in its bearing upon the future than "The Alliance of Scholarship 
 and Patriotism." The orator accordingly proceeded to discuss the 
 duties of the scholar with reference to the State, and then closed 
 his address with the following eloquent words : 
 
 " This is an age when events follow each other more rapidly 
 than in the prophet's inspired visions ; when years are heaping up 
 more for history than centuries of the past ; an age which con- 
 verts a nation devoted to peace into a vast army bristling with 
 bayonets, and marching with serried ranks to the field of battle ; 
 which summons men of science and of letters from their experi- 
 ments and their books, the lawyer from his brief, the instructor from 
 his pupils, the preacher from his desk, and bids them gird on the 
 sword, and hasten to the defence of the best, the freest, the hap- 
 piest country on which the sun ever shone. Obedient to the 
 call, classmates have hastened on before us to discharge the pa- 
 triot's duty. In thunder tones their example speaks to us of 
 courage, of manliness, of devotion to country. Let us see to it that 
 we faithfully discharge our duties as ' ever in our great taskmaster's 
 eye.' The benedictions of a grateful country will then rest upon 
 our labors, and above all, the satisfaction of an approving con- 
 science will be our exceeding 'great reward.' ' 
 
OF " BROWN. 29 
 
 The class poet, H. F. Colby, sang of the power that a na- 
 tion possesses in the remembrance of a glorious past. The poem 
 closed with these thrilling sentences : 
 
 " But these fond memories in the present hour 
 Became the instruments of wondrous power. 
 The guns of Sumter sent a startling thrill 
 Through hearts still mindful of Bunker Hill: 
 And April's tears wept o'er a war begun, 
 As in the trying days of Lexington. 
 An unseen spirit caught the naming brand, 
 And swept on lightning wings the startled land. 
 ' Come from your homes, ye free! ' its trumpet cried, 
 ' Preserve the country of your father's pride.' 
 And from the North, where sighing forests rise 
 In state primeval to the bending skies. 
 From granite hills, and battle-fields whose sod 
 The feet of patriot heroes once have trod. 
 From the bright shores of Narragansett'- bay. 
 Along the silvery Mohawk's wending way. 
 Soft as the rippling tide on Erie's shore, 
 Loud as the tumult of Niagara's roar, 
 From lakes majestic, from the Western plains, 
 Rich in the billows of their ripening grains,— 
 From every city's street and rural home, 
 Came up that single answer : ' Yes, we come.' 
 And thev did come. Potomac's wooded banks 
 Gleamed with the bristling steel of serried ranks : 
 The sentinel's strange voice was echoed there, 
 And blazing camp-fires lit the evening air. 
 From the foul dragon's teeth of civil strife 
 A numerous army sprung to active life." 
 
30 THE COLLEGE BOYS 
 
 "The patriotic history of Brown University during the War for 
 the Union is one of which every student may well be proud, and 
 in time to come her children will love her the more for what she 
 was during the troublous times through which the nation has just 
 passed." 
 
 We conclude this sketch of "Brown" with brief tributes to the 
 memory of two of her loyal sons, who served in the Tenth Rhode 
 Island Volunteers in 1862. 
 
 Matthew Mc Arthur Meggett,* class of 1 864, son of Alexander 
 and Sarah Meggett, was born in Chicopee Falls, Mass., July 24, 
 1836. The story of his life is but a simple record of the struggles 
 of a poor boy, who desired the benefits of a liberal education, not 
 so much for the sake of learning as to make it the means by 
 which good could be accomplished. He early evinced an interest 
 in the subject of religion, and deep religious feelings marked his 
 whole life. It is natural that a young lad thus constituted, should 
 look to the ministry of the Gospel as the proper sphere for his 
 efforts in life, and that a Christian mother should hope to see 
 such a son consecrated to the duties of the ministerial office. His 
 father's death occurred when Matthew was but eight years old, . 
 and his boyhood was necessarily devoted to manual toil, for 
 the support of himself and of his aged mother. ... In the 
 year 1842, his family removed to Slatersville, R. I., where Matthew 
 was employed in a mill. After some years he united with the 
 Congregational Church in that place. At length, in 1854, he 
 entered Phillips' Academy at Andover, Mass. His letters home 
 always evince persevering effort, filial affection and religious zeal. 
 
 * Written by James \V. Colwell, B. U., 1S64. 
 
OF " BROWN. 
 
 31 
 
 "I am often discouraged," he says "when I see how much is to 
 be done. I try, however, to look at the bright side, and am de- 
 termined to struggle on. I have advantages beyond many others, 
 and my trust is in God. I have been thinking of mother to-night. 
 I hope she is not lonely. It often makes me feel sad to think 
 that I have to leave her alone while I am here endeavoring to get 
 an education." He entered Brown University in the fall of 1858. 
 His limited means caused him much anxiety, and to increase 
 them he gave instruction in the public evening schools of Provi- 
 dence during the first winter. But these supplies did not prove 
 adequate to his wants, so that he remained in college hardly a 
 year at this time. Two years were then passed in teaching, 
 mostly in Woonsocket, R. I. In the autumn of 1861 he resumed 
 his studies at Brown, entering now the class of 1864. As at 
 school, so in college, whatever he did was accomplished by perse- 
 verance and industry. 
 
 From the first breaking out of the Rebellion Meggett felt it his 
 duty to enlist in the army, and at length, near the close of his 
 Sophomore year, when there came from the President another 
 call for men, he decided to go. Saturday, May 24, 1862, he wrote 
 in his journal : " I have been thinking a great deal to-day about 
 entering the service with those who enlist for three months. 
 Ex-Governor Dyer goes on with a fine company from Providence, 
 and I should like to go with him. He will have none but moral 
 men in his company, it is said. I look upon my going as a duty. 
 I shall be ashamed to say that I contributed nothing by way of 
 personal sacrifice toward restoring my country." A day or two 
 later, having grained the consent of his mother, he enlisted in 
 Company B, Tenth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 
32 THE COLLEGE BOYS 
 
 On May 27th, the regiment left Providence, . . . and was 
 assigned to garrison duty in the defences of Washington. Meg- 
 gett writes to his brother: "Our 'mess' is mostly made up of 
 college boys. We had a prayer-meeting Sunday afternoon, at 
 which Captain Dyer and Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw were present 
 and made remarks. It was an impressive meeting." In his last 
 letter to his mother, written before he was taken sick, he speaks 
 of his return home with pleasure, and lovingly plans what he will 
 then do for her comfort and delight. 
 
 On Sunday, August 10th, he went into the hospital a sick man. 
 In a few days the disease assumed a graver form, and was pro- 
 nounced by Dr. Wilcox typhoid fever, and he grew rapidly worse 
 till the 18th, when he died, and a telegram was sent to his mother 
 at Pawtucket, R. I. His bereaved friends could hardly credit the 
 startling intelligence that he who had left them strong and 
 vigorous had been cut down by death just on the eve of his return 
 to the loved ones at home. The sad news was soon verified by a 
 letter from the chaplain, Rev. Dr. Clapp. The body of the dead 
 soldier was embalmed and forwarded to his friends. In accordance 
 with the request of his company, the funeral services in Paw- 
 tucket were delayed until their return home. 
 
 The regiment arrived in Providence on the morning of Aug. 
 28, 1862, and on the day following his funeral was solemnized in 
 the Congregational Church, Pawtucket. His comrades in-arms 
 were present to take part in those last sad offices of respect and 
 affection. His pastor, Dr. Blodgett, President Sears, and the 
 beloved chaplain of the Tenth Regiment, Dr. Clapp, all bore 
 cheerful testimony to his faithful, earnest, devoted Christian life. 
 
OF " BROWN." 33 
 
 And yet one more we mourn on our regimental roll of honor, 
 Levi Carey Walker,* class of 1865. He was born in Hartford, 
 Conn., Oct. 30, 1840. He was the son of Rev. William Carey 
 and Aimer L. Walker. His boyhood gave promise of a well 
 moulded life. At seventeen he entered the Connecticut Literary 
 Institution at Suffield, from which he graduated with the highest 
 honors of his class. In the ensuing fall he entered Brown Uni- 
 versity with the class of 'sixty-five." He at once advanced to a 
 high rank in scholarship, and engaged as heartily in the sports of 
 the campus as in the duties of the class-room ; he also identified 
 himself with the religious interests of the college. 
 
 Thus the months of the Freshman year rolled away till May, 
 '62, came, bringing with it the sickening news of disaster to the 
 Union army. On the 25th, at midnight, came the pressing sum- 
 mons for troops, and before the sun had set the Tenth Rhode 
 Island was under marching orders. 
 
 Here was the long-sought opportunity for Walker. For him the 
 call had no uncertain sound. We quote from his diary : 
 
 " Monday, May 26. A great struggle in my mind this morning. 
 The country has called for men. I want to go. Cannot consult 
 my parents. . . . Have at length enlisted, with a prayer that 
 God will help me. . . . While busy packing my knapsack 
 father came. He made no objection to my going, but felt rather 
 bad." 
 
 '•'Tuesday, 27. I have taken an important step, and am a sol- 
 dier of the United States. Wrote mother. Started for Washing- 
 ton." 
 
 * Written by James McWhinnie, Jr., chiss of '67. 
 
34 
 
 THE COLLEGE BOYS 
 
 " My Dear Mother : There is no thought connected with my 
 enlistment that gives me so much pain, as that I shall by thus 
 doing increase your burden of anxiety and solicitude on my 
 account. ... I have studied to make myself worthy of your 
 affection and your sacrifices. I know I have often erred, but as 
 often have I repented. I do not wish to go to Washington with- 
 out your full, free hearty consent. . . . Never would I stir 
 one foot against your wishes. But mother, many parents have 
 given up their dear ones to bleed, yes, die in their country's cause. 
 Many have gone forth from the paternal roof as dear and better 
 fitted for life or death than I; and can you hesitate? I should 
 think your bosom would swell with pride at the thought that you 
 were represented in your country's struggle for liberty." 
 
 On the morning of May 30th the regiment marched to Tenally- 
 town, the sun pouring down its hottest rays. In his journal 
 Walker writes : "Am somewhat lame after the long march. 
 Spent the day hard at work pitching tents and throwing up em- 
 bankments. Have been transferred with others to Company K, 
 Capt. G. Frank Low." 
 
 We find the first record of illness on Thursday, June 5th, in 
 which he speaks of having had a serious hemorrhage. 
 
 June 27th the regiment marched to Cloud's Mills, eighteen miles 
 distant. Twelve miles Walker marched with the rest, but was 
 then compelled to seek the ambulance. The regiment remained 
 there for a short time, when it returned to the neighborhood of 
 the forts on the northwest of Washington, marching nearly all 
 nigrht. 
 
OF " BROWN. 
 
 35 
 
 The fatigue of this weary march broke down Walker completely. 
 The dreaded hemorrhages again commenced, and he began to fear 
 for his life. We read in his journal : 
 
 "Monday, July 28. Reported at the hospital." 
 "Thursday, August 4th. I feel very sad! The doctor gives 
 me no encouragement. Life with its bright prospects to be given 
 up! I can hardly curb my feelings. . . . To be cut clown so 
 young ! O, God, I look to Thee ! " 
 
 In a few days the Tenth was on its way to Providence, bearing 
 the sick, discouraged soldier to his yearning friends. 
 
 The last entry in his journal was on Thursday, August 28th : 
 
 " Arrived this morning at Providence, both glad and sad. Sad 
 that I was not able to march with my company — a deep disap- 
 pointment." 
 
 Such is the brief military career of Levi Carey Walker. He 
 went to the field with as lofty a patriotism as ever inspired a 
 Union soldier. He returned a mere wreck of his former self. 
 Still he lived on, battling with a fatal disease, till Feb. 23, 1865, 
 when the end came. The last words in his journal are: "How 
 have my hopes been blasted ! Yet I thank God my trust is still 
 firm in Him." His remains were borne to the cemetery by his 
 classmates, and tenderly committed to their last resting-place. 
 . . . He had not been permitted to go down in the bloody 
 strife, but he gave to the country a youth and life full of all noble 
 promise as truly as the slumbering hero of Stone River or of the 
 Wilderness. 
 
RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 i i '"T^HE people of Rhode Island are showing themselves to be eminently a 
 1 military people. They have promptly done all that the government 
 has asked of them for carrying on the war, and they have besides a large and 
 efficient army organized for home service known as ' The National Guard of 
 Rhode Island.' The martial spirit of the state is wisely encouraged and sys- 
 tematically directed by men of practical military ability, and, as the result, the 
 State of Rhode Island is better able to furnish her quota of troops for service 
 abroad, and altogether better prepared to meet possible emergencies at home 
 than are any of her neighbors." 
 
 Nov. 21, 1S61. 
 
 V* :.' London Chronicle. 
 
Rhode Island National Guard. 
 
 '■ For we will guard it with our lives, 
 And keep our armor handy, 
 And sing the song our fathers sang 
 Of Yankee Doodle Dandy! " 
 
 — Ex-Mayor Wm. M. Rodman, 1861. 
 
 THERE was a sad lack of military education and organi- 
 zation in 1 86 1, when the President called for 75,000 men 
 to serve for three months in the overthrow of the Re- 
 bellion. Yet the noble response showed that the heart of the na- 
 tion was loyal and true. Rhode Island was the first to offer the 
 services of her citizens, and, after furnishing her full quota, she 
 was the first to organize her National Guard. 
 
 It is not surprising that with such a history as Rhode Island 
 has, the idea should have early suggested itself of thoroughly or- 
 ganizing and arming the entire able-bodied population, and put- 
 ting" the State on a war footing, so that if, in crushing the Rebel- 
 lion, disaster should come, the State could do what no other State 
 has done, have every man capable of bearing arms, a soldier, ready 
 for the emergency. 
 
 Standing in the armory of the First Light Infantry, the night 
 before the departure of the First Regiment, James Shaw, Jr., a 
 young officer who afterward distinguished himself both in the 
 State and national volunteer service, said to William S. Hayward, 
 
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 of the Sixth Ward, and since mayor of the city, " We don't know 
 how soon the rest of us may have to go ; why not form ward com- 
 panies, as they did in 1842, and learn to drill ? Call a meeting in 
 our ward and I will do what I can to help you." This suggestion, 
 thus early made, was heartily approved, and acted upon, and a 
 meeting of the citizens for organization, was held on Thursday 
 evening, May 9th, who voted to form a company for military drill, 
 appointed a committee to nominate officers, and adjourned to Tues- 
 day evening, May 14, 1861. At that meeting Hon. Henry T. 
 Grant, alderman of the ward, was elected captain ; James Shaw, Jr., 
 first lieutenant ; James A. Winsor, second lieutenant ; Thomas 
 M. Brown, third lieutenant, and Hopkins B. Cady, first sergeant. 
 Eighty men enrolled their names and a drill followed. 
 
 Meanwhile the following notice had been posted in the First 
 Ward : " We, the undersigned, of the First Ward, feeling that 
 the present state of the country demands that every man of suit- 
 able age should be prepared for any emergency, agree to meet two 
 evenings in the week for the purpose of being thoroughly drilled 
 by a competent military man, to be hereafter selected. All who 
 wish to sign the above paper can do so by calling at Sweet & An- 
 gell's." 
 
 Wednesday, May 1, 1861, the First Ward Drill Corps organ- 
 ized with A. Crawford Greene as captain. Seventy men were in 
 line who commenced drilling that night in " the school of the 
 soldier." 
 
 April 23d. The Old Guard, Providence Artillery, was organ- 
 ized, 100 strong. 
 
 April 25th. The Old Guard, First Light Infantry, was formed. 
 
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 April 26th. The "Cadets" invite all citizens who choose, to 
 meet with them and become acquainted with "the school of the 
 soldier." 
 
 The towns of the State also were prompt to move in the matter. 
 
 April 23d. The Narragansett Guards, of South Kingstown, were 
 organized with 130 men. Colonel, Isaac P. Rodman; Lieutenant- 
 Colonel, John N. Hazard. 
 
 April 27th. The Pawtucket Home Guard Company was started, 
 followed May 1st by the Natick Home Company, and May 9th by 
 the Smithfield Company. 
 
 May 10th the following Fifth Ward notice appeared in the Jour- 
 nal : " Fifth Ward. — Citizens desiring to organize a company for 
 drill will meet in the Ward Room on Richmond street, on Mon- 
 day evening next. Capt. James C. Hidden has consented to serve 
 as drill-master. Mr. Stephen Horton desires to be the first 'high 
 private.' All patriots between the ages of 14 and 65 are requested 
 to come forward." The company was afterward organized with 
 Stephen H. Hall as captain. 
 
 The same day the employes of the Corliss Steam Engine Works 
 formed a company. 
 
 May 16th. The Home Light Guard, Capt. Jacob Dunnell, of 
 Pawtucket, organized with one hundred solid men, consisting of 
 citizens of middle age. Arms and uniforms have been supplied. 
 
 May 1 6th. The Slater Drill Corps, Capt. Henry F. Smith, Paw- 
 tucket, was formed with seventy-five members, mainly young men. 
 
 June 24th. Cud worth's Zouaves were organized in Pawtucket 
 by a company of young men, who will exercise in the Zouave 
 drill. Jesse Cudworth, Jr., captain. 
 
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 June i ith. The Burnside Zouaves were organized in Providence. 
 Colonel, S. Smith Wells ; Lieutenant-Colonel, H. Herbert Shel- 
 don ; Major, George T. Paine; Captain, William W. Paine ; Lieu- 
 tenant, Nicholas B. Bolles ; Adjutant, Thomas W. Chace ; Quar- 
 termaster, George H. Potter; Clerk and Treasurer, Asa Lyman. 
 Among the corporals appear the names of George A. Winchester 
 and Charles F. Anthony. A uniform was adopted consisting of a 
 blue jacket, trimmed with orange, full red pants, gathered at the 
 ankle, with a drab gaiter, a blue mixed undershirt, faced with red, 
 and a white forage cap, trimmed with red. 
 
 July 4th was celebrated with a spirit worthy of Independence 
 Day. In Providence Col. A. Crawford Greene was chief mar- 
 shal of the procession, which comprised, among other organiza- 
 tions the First Ward Home Guards, Major Burlingame ; Uni- 
 versity Cadets, Captain Mason (Brown University) ; Ellsworth 
 Phalanx, Captain Lyman ( High School). In Warren, R. I., 
 George Lewis Cooke, afterwards the genial quartermaster of the 
 Ninth and Tenth regiments, and major of the Ninth, delivered an 
 interesting address at the raising of "the Stars and Stripes" on 
 the High School building. 
 
 Sunday, July 28th, marked the brilliant reception of the First 
 Regiment returning with Colonel Burnside from the seat of war. 
 Among the receiving companies were the Burnside Zouaves, Col. 
 S. Smith Wells ; Mechanics Rifles, Col. Jonathan M. Wheeler ; 
 First Ward Home Guards, Major Burlingame ; Old Guard Light 
 Infantry, Gen. James Shaw ; Pawtucket Light Guard, Col. Olney 
 Arnold ; Pawtucket Home Guard, Capt. Jacob Dunnell. The reg- 
 iment was received with great enthusiasm by our citizens. 
 
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 August 6th, the Burnside Zouaves made an excursion to Smith's 
 Palace, escorting Col. Ambrose E. Burnside from his residence to 
 the steamer. They numbered about eighty, rank and file. Gov- 
 ernor Sprague was also one of the guests of the day, and, in a brief 
 address, congratulated the corps for the soldierly bearing of its 
 members. It gave him great pleasure, he said, to see so many 
 young men striving to perfect themselves in military science. 
 There was a sad lack of that education which was demanded by 
 the present crisis, and he trusted the countrv would never be 
 found so lamentably deficient again. The people had come to 
 realize that an efficient militia must be maintained. Our precious 
 and dearest rights are in jeopardy ; let us prepare to defend 
 them. 
 
 August 7th. Lieut. John P. Shaw (a brother of James Shaw, 
 Jr.,) left Providence for the front, with recruits for the Second 
 Rhode Island Volunteers. This gallant officer lost his life in the 
 battle of the Wilderness, May 12, 1864. 
 
 September 6th. Meetings were held this evening in four of the 
 wards of the city, and in Cranston, to promote the organization 
 of drill corps. 
 
 At the First Ward meeting patriotic addresses were made by 
 the chairman, Alexander Duncan, Esq., Judge Thomas Durfee, 
 Hon. Caesar A. Updike, Hon. Benjamin F. Thurston, Noble W. 
 De Munn, and others. The meeting adjourned to Monday evening, 
 September 9th, when the military organization was effected and 
 the drill commenced. 
 
 An interesting meeting was held the same evening in the 
 Second Ward of citizens in favor of one or more companies for 
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42 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 military drill. Stirring addresses were made by Senator Anthony, 
 Samuel Currey, Hon. Thomas A. Jenckes, John F. Tobey, and 
 others. The subject was referred to a committee to report on the 
 ioth instant, when the organization was effected with Col. Stephen 
 T. Olney for captain, and Sergeant Dunham, of the Infantry, for 
 drill master, meetings to be held in Franklin Hall. In this company 
 the venerable teacher, John Kingsbury, carried his musket as lightly 
 as a boy, and was not alone in the patriotic example thus set. 
 
 A spirited meeting was also held in the Third Ward the same 
 evening. Addresses were made by Speaker Caesar A. Updike, 
 Benjamin N. Lapham and Abraham Payne. A committee was 
 appointed to procure hall, muskets, etc. The company organized 
 on the 13th instant after addresses by Hon. Benjamin F. Thurston, 
 Rev. Augustus Woodbury and Col. Nicholas Van Slyck. 
 
 Another meeting was held at this time in the Fifth Ward with 
 Hon. Thomas A. Doyle, chairman. He stated that the object of 
 the meeting was the formation of a new military organization in 
 the ward, the previous one having failed through the refusal of 
 the authorities to provide arms. The war spirit must be revived 
 and kept up. The Rev. Mr. Clapp expressed his sympathy with 
 the object of the meeting, and placed his name upon the rolls. 
 "We have allowed ourselves to be taken unawares," he said, "but 
 it is now the duty of every citizen to acquire that skill in the use 
 of arms which we have forgotten by disuse." The venerable Dea- 
 con Greene also joined the company. Stephen H. Hall was again 
 chosen captain. 
 
 In the Sixth Ward Company, Captain H. T. Grant resigned 
 and First Lieut. James Shaw, Jr., was elected captain. 
 
RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 43 
 
 A meeting of the citizens of the Seventh Ward was very fully 
 attended the same evening. Hon. Amos C. Barstow was chosen 
 chairman. Stirring addresses were made by John Eddv, Rev. Mr. 
 White, and Hon. Benjamin F. Thurston. It was voted to form a 
 military company. At an adjourned meeting George B. Thomas 
 was elected captain ; Henry W. Gardner and Jeremiah M. Yose, 
 lieutenants. Drill meetings, Monday and Friday evenings. 
 
 September 1 ith, the Home Batter}- was formed. About sixty 
 men were drilled by Capt. William H. Parkhurst. First lieuten- 
 ant, Samuel A. Pearce, Jr. ; second lieutenant, J. Henry Wil- 
 bur; clerk, E. S. Cheney. 
 
 September 13th, the Washington Continentals were organized at 
 the armory of the Providence Artillery, Captain, Westcott Handy. 
 
 September 16th. At the First Ward adjourned meeting a home 
 guard company was organized, to meet Monday and Wednesday 
 evenings for drill at the armory of the First Ward Light Guards. 
 
 September 19th, a meeting of the State Military Committee 
 was held in Providence to devise some feasible mode of organiz- 
 ing drill corps in the various towns and cities of the State. Gov- 
 ernor Sprague was chairman of the meeting. Able addresses 
 were made by Colonels Henry Howard and N. Van Slyck, and by 
 Rev. A. H. Clapp, urging the thorough organization of the entire 
 population capable of bearing arms, and the cultivation of a proper 
 military spirit. A committee of five was appointed, to report at a 
 future meeting, as follows : His Excellency Governor Sprague, 
 Colonels Olney Arnold, H. Howard, W. \V. Browne, and Nicholas 
 Van Slyck. An adjourned meeting was held on Saturday morning, 
 2 1st instant, at Franklin Hall, with Alexander Duncan chairman. 
 
44 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 The committee of five made the following report which was 
 adopted in full : 
 
 "The committee respectfully report the following recommendations : 
 
 "That it is desirable that the formation of volunteer associations or compa- 
 nies for military instruction be hastened in all the cities and towns of the State, 
 and all able-bodied citizens, without distinction of age, or regardless of business 
 engagements, urged to enroll themselves in some one of the companies. 
 
 " That men of wealth throughout the State contribute liberally toward defraying 
 the expenses attending the organization and maintenance of these associations, 
 and that men of influence should give every possible encouragement to the 
 work. 
 
 " That the subject of a uniform be left entirely to each company to decide for 
 itself, your committee earnestly recommending a cheap uniform. 
 
 " That said companies be enrolled, placed, and governed, and their officers ap- 
 pointed and commissioned, according to the provisions of sections 8, 9, and 10, 
 of chapter 232, of the Revised Statutes. 
 
 " That a military committee be appointed, with power to fill vacancies, whose 
 duties it shall be to take measures for the formation of volunteer drill companies 
 throughout the State; to provide such regulations for them as they may deem 
 suitable, and to exercise a general supervision over them. That said committee 
 have power to appoint a secretary or clerk, and to select a corresponding mem- 
 ber from each town of the State and from each ward in the City of Providence. 
 
 " That the following gentlemen constitute the said Military Central Commit- 
 tee : William Sprague, Providence; William T. Barton, Warren; George W, 
 Hallett, Providence; Peleg W. Lippitt, Cumberland; William Goddard, War- 
 wick; Joseph P. Balch, Providence; Henry Staples, Barrington ; Walter S. 
 Burges, Cranston; T. W. Wood, Newport; Horace Babcock, Westerly; 
 Thomas A. Doyle, Providence; Henry Howard, Coventry; Olney Arnold, 
 North Providence." 
 
 Rev. Frederick Denison, of Central Falls, spoke of the influ- 
 ence such organizations exerted. In Pawtucket and the adjoining 
 
RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 45 
 
 villages the companies which had been formed had prepared many 
 for the active regiments of the State, and deeply stirred the patri- 
 otic feelings of the entire community. He hoped the subject 
 would be pressed till every village should have its drill corps, and 
 every citizen capable of bearing arms should be practiced in their 
 use. Bishop Clark said : "We need an immense reserve force. 
 The entire physical force of the State should be trained to back up 
 its moral force. Our own State has been exalted, very much so, 
 throughout the land. Wherever you go you hear the praises of 
 Rhode Island. Our honor and prestige must be maintained. 
 Let us organize ourselves and hold our State in readiness for any 
 emergency. If reverses come, if, unfortunately, our arms should 
 be beaten back, let us have a reserve force to fall back upon." 
 
 September 24th, an important military meeting was held in the 
 Fourth Ward in Unity Hall, for the purpose of organizing a drill 
 corps. Hon. Elisha Dyer was elected chairman. Charles F. 
 Phillips and George W. Prentice were chosen secretaries. The 
 following resolution was adopted : 
 
 " Whereas, The gigantic efforts put forth by the misguided and rebellious 
 South in its attempt to overthrow and destroy the just and beneficent Union of 
 the United States, renders it imperative upon every citizen able to shoulder a 
 musket to familiarize himself at once with the manual of arms, thus forming, 
 as it were, a school of instruction and a power of reserve, it is, therefore. 
 
 "Resolved, That the citizens of the Fourth ward, animated with but one senti- 
 ment and one impulse in the perpetuation and unity of the States, and believ- 
 ing ' the gods help only those who help themselves,' do hereby resolve to aid, 
 encourage and unite in the formation of the Fourth Ward Home Guards, thus 
 assuring our sister wards that " the Fourth " gallantly and cheerfully closes up 
 the column. 
 
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 Hon. Nicholas Van Slyck, in an eloquent address, showing the 
 advantage and utility of these home organizations, said : " If 
 disaster should fall, as possibly it may, upon our army, and the 
 enemy should pass the Potomac, then will these drill corps become 
 the stay of the government and the hope of the nation."' Hon. 
 William W. Hoppin and Rev. Augustus Woodbury followed, both 
 urging the importance of ward organization. Sixty-three names 
 were enrolled. The entire third story of the Calender building 
 was offered for a drill-room. Lieut. Charles F. Phillips wrote : 
 " Ex-Gov. Elisha Dyer was elected captain, and at the following 
 meeting more than a hundred men were in line, including two ex- 
 governors, a prominent clergyman, besides merchants, bankers, and 
 citizens, generally. Captain Dyer was a painstaking drill-master, 
 fond of quoting Colonel Brown, of the Infantry, as supreme mili- 
 tary authority, was exceedingly popular with his men, and the per- 
 sonification of the soldier and gentleman. Settees were provided 
 for the ladies, who rallied in large numbers, regardless of the 
 weather. After the severe drill of an hour and a half, the order 
 to 'Break ranks' was obeyed with alacrity, and our caterer, 'Gil 
 Rawson,' was made doubly happy by the grand rush for his hot 
 coffee and the 'fixins,' of which there was always an abundance. 
 Refreshments over, 'John Brown' and other patriotic songs were 
 sung, the ladies heartily joining." 
 
 Thursday, September 26th, a meeting of the State Central 
 Military Committee was held in Franklin Hall at 10.30 a. m.. 
 Wednesday, September 25th, Colonel Hallet in the chair. Repre- 
 sentatives from sixteen towns reported 1,930 men, who have alreadv 
 attached themselves to the new volunteer organizations. 
 
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 The following circular was adopted by the Committee: 
 
 The State Central Military Committee, who have in charge the 
 organization of the volunteer drill corps in this State, have de- 
 cided upon the following rules and orders : 
 
 Formation of Companies. It is particularly directed that every 
 town and city in the State should immediately organize one or 
 more military companies, of not less than 60 and not more than 
 100, rank and file, to be called, " The National Guard of Rhode 
 Island." In the smaller towns and villages the volunteers should, 
 if practicable, unite to form together a full company. 
 
 Officers. Each company shall elect one captain and three lieu- 
 tenants, who will be commissioned by the Governor, according to 
 the provisions of sections 8, 9, and 10 of chapter 232 of the Re- 
 vised Statutes ; also, five sergeants and eight corporals, who will 
 be appointed by the commanding officer. The commanding officer 
 of each company will report to the Secretary of this Committee 
 as soon as said company is organized, the names of his lieuten- 
 ants, the number of men who hold themselves ready to parade at 
 one day's notice, and the number of arms and equipments, if any, 
 now in his possession. 
 
 The Committee particularly request that the names of no men 
 be registered as members of the volunteers who intend to parade 
 with any of the chartered companies. 
 
 Smaller bodies of men may be organized under the command of 
 a first lieutenant. 
 
 The Drill. The drill of the companies will be strictly the United 
 States infantry tactics for the musket, as promulgated by the Sec- 
 retary of War in the United States Tactics, published May 1, 1S61. 
 
48 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 Uniforms. The uniform of the Volunteers shall consist of a 
 blue army cap, dark blue tunic and light blue pants. 
 
 Arms and Equipments. As soon as the roll of the company is 
 full, the Commandant will apply to the Secretary of this Commit- 
 tee for the necessary arms and equipments. 
 
 Object of the Organization. Every true patriot must readily 
 perceive that it is of the utmost importance in the present crisis 
 for Rhode Island to have, in addition to the force sent into the 
 field, a "power of reserve." 
 
 This volunteer organization is the school of the citizen soldier. 
 Men acquire, both as officers and privates, a knowledge of military 
 drill and tactics. It generates a military spirit, at home and 
 abroad, so that should the occasion call upon us to defend our own 
 soil, or, as is more probable, should any of us wish to enlist with 
 the noble band who have gone forth to meet the foes of our 
 country, we shall find ourselves ready. 
 
 We call upon every able-bodied man in Rhode Island who is not 
 attached to any other military company, to become a member of 
 this organization, and give it his personal presence and support. 
 
 Let it be manifest that the patriotism which was sealed by the 
 blood of our fathers in the American Revolution, is alive to-day, 
 and that we stand ready to defend and support the Union, the 
 Constitution, and the laws of our country. 
 
 WM. SPRAGUE, 
 
 President State Central Military Committee. 
 WM. E. Hamlin, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 November 7th. Several of the companies of the National Guard 
 of Providence paraded this afternoon on the Dexter Training 
 Ground for battalion drill. The line was formed at 3.30 p. m. by 
 Captain Dunham, acting adjutant, and Lieut. C. S. Sweet, acting 
 sergeant-major. The following companies were present : Second 
 Ward, Capt. Charles H. Dunham ; Fourth Ward, Capt. Elisha 
 Dyer; Fifth Ward, Capt. Stephen H. Hall; Sixth Ward, Capt. 
 Hopkins B. Cady, and the Washington Continentals, Captain 
 Westcott Handy. Acting Colonel James Shaw, Jr., assumed the 
 command, receiving the customary honors as he took the position. 
 The battalion was then exercised in various field movements and 
 acquitted itself very creditably. At a little past five the line 
 broke into column and moved from the parade down High and 
 Westminster streets, under escort of the Horse Guards, Colonel 
 Hallett. Colonel Shaw was much gratified at the success of the 
 exhibition. He had long advocated the formation of battalions 
 and the learning of battalion drill, and had made several trials 
 with the Fifth and Sixth Ward companies. The Journal said, 
 "The exhibition was, on the whole, very successful, and it will 
 not be long before our people will possess enough of the military 
 spirit and drill to gather, if necessary, a magnificent army of a 
 million men. No effort should be spared to enlist in the State 
 National Guard every able-bodied man. His Excellency the 
 Governor enters warmly into the scheme, and has been untiring 
 in his efforts to secure its accomplishment, until almost daily, 
 throughout the State, fully seven thousand men have been under 
 drill, and the name, 'The National Guard of Rhode Island,' has 
 been adopted." 
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50 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 Another parade and drill of the Providence Guards occurred 
 Thursday, November 21st. Five companies participated, with 
 James Shaw, Jr., colonel; Charles H. Dunham, major; G.Frank 
 Low, adjutant ; and Charles J. Sweet, sergeant-major. It has been 
 finally decided by the military authorities that there shall be a 
 parade and review of the entire volunteer and militia forces of the 
 State, on Saturday, November 30th. 
 
 December 2d. There was a grand parade and review of the 
 reserve military forces of the State, on Saturday, November 30th. 
 
 The clay was cold and stormy ; still about two thousand men 
 were in line. The First Brigade was commanded by Brig.-Gen. 
 Charles T. Robbins, as follows : Providence Horse Guards, Home 
 Battery Light Artillery; First Regiment under the command of 
 Col. William W. Brown ; Second Regiment under the command 
 of Col. James Shaw, Jr., aided by the following officers : Lieut. - 
 Col. Charles H. Merriman, Major Charles H. Dunham, Adjut. 
 G. Frank Low, Sergt. -Major Charles J. Sweet. The companies 
 were : American Brass Band, eighteen pieces ; Burnside Zouaves, 
 Capt. H. Herbert Sheldon ; First Ward National Guards, Capt. 
 A. Crawford Greene ; Second Ward, Lieut. Wm. S. Smith ; 
 Third Ward, Capt. Wm. M. Hale ; Fourth Ward, Capt. Elisha 
 Dyer; Fifth Ward, Capt. Stephen H. Hall; Sixth Ward, Capt. 
 Hopkins B. Cady ; Seventh Ward, Capt. Charles R. Dennis; 
 Washington Continentals, Capt. Westcott Handy, and the Ells- 
 worth Phalanx, Capt. Daniel W. Lyman (High School). 
 
 The Second Brigade was commanded by Brig. Gen. Wm. T. 
 Barton, with Capt. Jacob Dunnell, aide-decamp, and Major Chris- 
 topher Duckworth brigade major and inspector, as follows : Third 
 
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 Regiment, commanded by Col. Olney Arnold; Pawtucket Light 
 Guard, Co. A, Capt. Robert McCloy; Pawtucket Light Guard, 
 Co. B, Capt. Jesse Cud worth, Jr. ; Woon socket Guards, Captain 
 Steere, 33 men ; Pawtucket National Guard, Lieutenant Bliss ; 
 Woonsocket National Guards, Capt. C. L. Watson ; Lonsdale 
 National Guard, Capt. Geo. Kilburn ; Georgiaville National Guard, 
 Capt. Edward Steere ; Johnston National Guard, Capt. George 
 Harris ; North Scituate National Guard, Capt. Moses F. Roberts ; 
 Slatersville National Guard, Capt. Isaac Place ; Slatersville Union 
 Guard, Capt. Philip P. Hall ; Slater Drill Corps, Pawtucket, 
 Capt. Henry F. Smith ; Cranston National Guard, Capt. Albert 
 C. Howard. 
 
 Fourth Regiment, Col. Nicholas Van Slyck ; Kentish Artillery, 
 Apponaug National Guards, Capt. Caleb Westcott ; Kentish Guards, 
 Capt. E. H. Gardiner ; Pettaquamscot Infantry, Capt. Jervis Per- 
 kins ; Narragansett Guards, Capt. L. H. Arnold; East Greenwich 
 National Guards, Capt. George W. S. Allen ; Old Warwick Na- 
 tional Guards, Capt. Christopher Wilcox. 
 
 The line was reviewed by the governor between twelve and 
 one p. m., after which the division moved clown Broadway, through 
 the principal streets, to Exchange place, arriving about four p. M. 
 The parade was then dismissed, and a collation was served in 
 Howard and Phoenix Halls. 
 
 The exhibition was so satisfactory that His Excellency the 
 governor issued an order returning his thanks to the Rhode Island 
 National Guard for their patriotism and determination to uphold 
 the rights of the people and the honor of the government. The 
 document is as follows : 
 
52 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 Headquarters Comdr.-ix-Chief of Militia. ) 
 
 State of Rhode Island, &c, Providence, Dec. 2, 1S61. j 
 
 To the National Guard : 
 
 The commander-in-chief congratulates the National Guard of Rhode Island 
 on their successful review of Saturday, the 30th ult. He thanks the Military 
 Committee and the officers and men comprising this organization for exhibit- 
 ing to the State and to the country that Rhode Island has far more defenders of 
 our sacred cause at home than she has yet sent into the field. This display of 
 patriotism and zeal is encouraging and cheering to her brave sons now in the 
 service, and a warning to foreign foes who would trifle with a people now mak- 
 ing superhuman efforts to preserve the rights and sustain the honor of a free 
 government. It also signifies to those who are entrusted with the direction of 
 our national affairs that no cause will be permitted to intervene to prevent an 
 energetic and determined prosecution of the contest to which the whole heart 
 of this great people is devoted. Rhode Island was the first to offer the services 
 of her citizens in defence of the government and the L'nion. She was first to 
 organize her National Guard. She will be the last to lay down her arms, nor 
 will she do so till secession and rebellion shall have been subdued; till foreign 
 powers shall have learned to respect our rights: till those have been taught to 
 become good and loyal citizens, who, for party purposes or personal gain, 
 would stay the progress of the great work; till rebels and traitors shall flee the 
 
 wrath of an outraged and indignant people. 
 
 WM. SPRAGLE. 
 
 December 23d. An adjourned meeting of the line officers 
 was held at Governor Dyer's office on Saturday evening, 21st 
 instant, for the purpose of forming a city regiment. The Burnside 
 Zouaves desired to be attached to the regiment as skirmishers, 
 and their request was granted. The regiment is to be called The 
 First Regiment National Guard of Rhode Island. 
 
 The officers were elected as follows : Colonel, James Shaw, 
 Jr. ; Lieutenant-Colonel, Charles H. Merriman ; Major, Charles H. 
 
RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 53 
 
 Dunham ; Adjutant, George Frank Low ; Quartermaster, Amos D. 
 Smith ; Assistant Quartermaster, William E. Hamlin ; Commis- 
 sary, William W. Hoppin ; Assistant Commissary, Joseph P. Man- 
 ton ; Paymaster, William Vial) ; Assistant Paymaster, Thomas A. 
 Doyle ; Surgeon, A. H. Okie ; Assistant Surgeon, William C. 
 Beckwith ; Chaplain, Thomas M. Clark ; Sergeant-Major, Charles 
 J. Sweet. 
 
 The companies then drew for positions, which resulted as fol- 
 lows : Company A, Fifth Ward; Company B, Fourth Ward; 
 Company C, Seventh Ward ; Company D, Second Ward ; Com- 
 pany E, Sixth Ward ; Washington Continentals ; Companies F 
 and G, First Ward ; Company H, Burnside Zouaves. 
 
 Feb. 22, 1862. The birthday of Washington was celebrated 
 in Providence in a manner and spirit befitting the day. The 
 Infantry paraded with full ranks at ten o'clock A. m. At 
 twelve, m., the bells were rung for an hour, and a salute was fired. 
 A special service was also held at noon, in the First Baptist 
 Church, His Excellency Governor Sprague and staff being present. 
 Washington's farewell address was read by Lieut. -Gov. Samuel 
 G. Arnold. Dr. Francis Wayland pronounced the benediction. 
 At two o'clock p. m., the First Regiment Rhode Island National 
 Guard assembled on Exchange place and were formed in regular 
 line, as follows : Company H, Burnside Zouaves, Col. William 
 W. Paine. During the formation of the line they deployed as 
 skirmishers. Company A, Fifth Ward, Capt. Stephen H. Hall ; 
 Washington Continentals, Capt. C. Henry Alexander ; Company 
 F, First Ward Drill Corps, Capt. Henry A. Webb ; Company C, 
 Seventh Ward, Capt. H. W. Gardner; Company D, Second Ward, 
 
54 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 William S. Smith, lieutenant commanding ; Company G, First 
 Ward Light Guard, Capt. A. Crawford Greene ; Company E, Sixth 
 Ward, Capt. Hopkins B. Cady ; Company B, Fourth Ward, Capt. 
 Elisha Dyer. The regiment was formed by Adjt. G. Frank Low, 
 when Brig.-Gen. Charles T. Robbins assumed the command. 
 
 The officers of the regiment were as follows : Colonel, James 
 Shaw, Jr.; Lieutenant-Colonel, Charles H. Merriman ; Major, 
 Charles H. Dunham ; Adjutant, J. Frank Low ; Sergeant-Major, 
 Charles J. Sweet. 
 
 At 2.30 o'clock the line was reviewed by His Excellency Gov- 
 ernor Sprague, who was accompanied by his aids, Colonels 
 Sprague, Gardner, and Harris, Adjt. -Gen. Mauran, with Captain 
 Hoppin, of his staff ; Paymaster-General Knight, Captain Cran- 
 dall, of the staff of the commanding general ; Quartermaster Smith, 
 of the Marine Artillery, and Lieutenant Buckley, of Battery C. 
 
 After the review, the line was thrown into column, and marched 
 as per the programme laid down. The troops made an inspiring 
 display. As the column passed the arsenal, the battery now re- 
 cruiting was formed into line, and paid the honors of a salute, as 
 did the Third Ward National Guard, drawn up on the sidewalk 
 a short distance above. The regiment returned to Exchange 
 place between five and six, and went through the formalities of 
 dress parade, when the line was dismissed. 
 
 The Third Ward National Guard, Capt. William M. Hale, pa- 
 raded at two o'clock. They wore a uniform, regulation cap, a 
 dark blue tunic and dark pants. They were very spirited after 
 deciding to parade. The uniform was voted on Tuesday evening, 
 and the cloth was bought on Wednesday morning. 
 
RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 55 
 
 OBSEQUIES OF RHODE ISLAND OFFICERS. 
 
 " Can storied urn or animated bust 
 
 Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? 
 Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust. 
 
 Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? '* 
 
 — Gray's Elegy. 
 
 March 31, 1862. The obsequies of Col. John S. Slocum, Maj. 
 Sullivan Ballon, and Capt. Levi Tower, who fell at the Battle of 
 Bull Run July 21, 1861, were publicly observed in Providence to- 
 dav. The line was formed under the command of Brigadier- 
 General Robbins and staff in the following order : His Excel- 
 lency the Governor, William Sprague ; His Honor the Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor, Samuel G. Arnold; aids and high military 
 officers of the State and of United States Volunteers ; Providence 
 Horse Guards ; American Brass Band ; First Regiment Rhode 
 Island National Guard ; Col. James Shaw, Jr. ; Lieut. -Col. 
 Charles H. Merriman ; Maj. Charles H. Dunham ; Adjt. G. Frank 
 Low; Company A, Fifth Ward, Capt. S. H. Hall; Company B, 
 Fourth Ward, Captain Elisha Dyer ; Company C, Seventh Ward, 
 Capt. Henry W. Gardner ; Company D, Second Ward, Lieut. - 
 Commanding William S. Smith; Company E, Sixth Ward, Capt. H. 
 B. Cady ; Company F, First Ward, Capt. H. Webb ; Company G, 
 First Ward Light Guard, Capt. A. C. Greene ; Company H, 
 Burnside Zouaves, Capt. W. W. Paine ; Battalion of Infantry, 
 Col. Josiah Whitaker ; Old Guard Providence Artillery, Capt. 
 William Jackson ; Sarsfield Guards, Captain Corcoran ; Sowamsett 
 Guards, Warren, Capt. Frank S. Brown ; Barrington National 
 
56 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 Guards, Capt. Henry Staples ; Portsmouth National Guards, Capt. 
 Alonzo B. Tallman ; Pettaquamscot Light Infantry, Kingston, 
 Capt. Elisha C. Clark; Regiment of Infantry, the funeral escort 
 of Col. John S. Slocum, under the command of Colonel Brown ; 
 hearse and pall bearers ; caparisoned horse led by groom ; detail 
 of officers from the Second Regiment, R. I. V. ; First Light In- 
 fantry, Company A, Capt. L. C. Warner ; First Light Infantry, 
 Company B, Capt. C. R. Dennis ; University Cadets, Capt. G. T. 
 Woodward ; Providence Artillery, Capt. J. R. Holman ; Ellsworth 
 Phalanx (High School), Capt. D. W. Lyman ; National Cadets 
 and Mechanics Rifles ; Third Ward National Guard, Capt. 
 William M. Hale; Pawtucket Home Guards, Lieut. -Commanding 
 Albert Bliss ; Battalion of Infantry, the funeral escort of Maj. 
 Sullivan Ballou, under command of Maj. Henry T. Sisson; hearse 
 and pall-bearers; Maj. Albert S. Gallup and others; Woonsocket 
 Guards, Capt. Charles H. Watson ; Slatersville Drill Corps, Capt. 
 Isaac Place ; Pawtucket Light Guard, Company B, Captain Cud- 
 worth ; Pawtucket Light Guard, Company C, Captain Smith ; 
 one company of Infantry, the funeral escort of Capt. Levi Tower; 
 Pawtucket Light Guard, Company A, Capt. Robert McCloy ; 
 hearse and pall-bearers. 
 
 Arriving at the cemetery at Swan Point, the funeral service 
 was conducted by Bishop Clark, and, at its conclusion, three 
 volleys were fired. The column was then reformed and pro- 
 ceeded to Dexter Training Ground, and passed in review before 
 His Excellency the Governor, after which it marched down High 
 and Westminster streets to Exchange place, where it was dis- 
 missed. 
 
RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 57 
 
 Memorial to Lieut. H. A. Prescott, Killed at Bull Run, 
 
 July 21, 1S61. 
 
 In March, 1862, when Governor Sprague went to Manassas, a 
 special commission of three was sent by the Providence Light 
 Infantry to look for the remains of Lieut. Henry A. Prescott, 
 killed July 21, 1861, but their search for his grave was unsuccess- 
 ful. A beautiful mural tablet has been erected to his memory in 
 the chapel of Grace Church, with the following inscription : 
 
 lieutenant henry a. prescott. 
 
 Born November 10th, 1S23. 
 
 Killed in the Battle of Manassas Plain, Virginia, 
 
 July 21, 1S61. 
 
 The Christian, the Patriot, the Good Soldier of 
 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 In all his relations, by inflexible devotion to Truth, 
 
 and Duty, he illustrated his Faith. 
 
 At his Country's call, in defence of her Constitution 
 
 and Nationality, he laid down his life. 
 
 This Tablet is erected by the Teachers and Scholars of 
 
 Grace Church Sunday School, as an expression 
 
 of esteem for the worth and gratitude 
 
 for the example of their associate 
 
 and Constant Friend. 
 
 Mr. Prescott left a wife and five children, a mother and one- 
 sister to mourn their irreparable loss. 
 
58 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 On the 1 2th day of April, 1867, the first Post of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic in the State was organized under the name 
 of Prescott Post No. 1, of the District of Providence, Depart- 
 ment of Rhode Island. Lieutenant Prescott's army cap, with the 
 bullet holes plainly visible, is sacredly preserved at the Post Head- 
 quarters. Four of the commanders of Prescott Post belonged to 
 the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, viz. : James Shaw, Jr., com- 
 mander, 1867; William Stone, 1871-72 ; William E. Taber, 1874; 
 William A. Spicer, 1890. 
 
 Thanks to the Rhode Island National Guard. 
 
 State of Rhode Island, &c. 
 
 Adjutant General's Office, 
 
 General Orders JVo. 2. 
 
 Providence, April 7, IS62. ) 
 
 The Commander-in-Chief presents his thanks to Brig. Gen. Charles T. Rob- 
 hins and staff for their signal efficiency in conducting the funeral ceremonies 
 in honor of the martyred heroes of Rhode Island, the lamented Colonel Slo- 
 cum, Major Ballon and Capt. Tower, who were killed in the battle of " Bull 
 Run," July 21, 1S61. 
 
 To the several military organizations composing the Second Brigade, for their 
 full ranks and promptness. 
 
 To the First Regiment " National Guard," Colonel Shaw ; Providence Light 
 Battery, Old Guard Providence Artillery, Ellsworth Phalanx (Providence High 
 School), University Cadets, Sarsfield Guards, Pettaquamscot Light Infantry, 
 Barrington National Guards, Sowamsett Guards, Portsmouth Guards, Third 
 Ward National Guard, and Slatersville Drill Corps for their voluntary attend- 
 ance, with large numbers, adding so much to the efficiency and appearance of 
 the column. 
 
RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 59 
 
 To the Providence Horse Guards, Colonel Hallett, for their escort. 
 
 The Burnside Zouaves added much to the impressiveness of the solemn oc- 
 casion, guarding the remains while lying in state. It will ever be to them a 
 proud satisfaction that in the early days of their history this sacred duty fell 
 to their lot. 
 
 Thus Rhode Island honored those dead heroes as the sainted representatives 
 of her living soldiers. While Rhode Island wept for the fatal past, her heart 
 also beat proudly for the future. Her prayer is that a crushing retribution will 
 speedily overwhelm the perpetrators of the gross indignities to her favorite 
 sons, and that her own brave soldiers, and the soldiers of her sister States, will, 
 with strong will and ready steel, cpnckly cancel the brutal outrages inflicted 
 upon the lifeless bodies of these children of our common country. 
 By order of the Commander-in-Chief. 
 
 EDWARD C. MAURAN, 
 
 Adjutant-General. 
 
 April 1 8, 1862. The First Regiment Rhode Island National 
 Guard, Colonel James Shaw, Jr., paraded this evening with full 
 ranks. Everything passed off most satisfactorily. 
 
 April 19th. The Third Ward National Guards are now desig- 
 nated as the What Cheer Guards. They have been presented 
 with an elegant silk standard by the ladies of the ward. 
 
 May 8th. Annual election of officers Company E, Sixth Ward, 
 First Regiment Rhode Island National Guard : Captain, Hopkins 
 B. Cady ; Lieutenants, Ezra R Bullock, C. F. Phillips, Stephen 
 Thurber; Clerk, F. N. Seabury ; Treasurer, C. F. Phillips; Cor- 
 porals, Orsmus A. Taft, Frank Holden, C. Stone, Alfred Cady, 
 and others; Drummer, Henry H. James ; Armorers, Ira R. Wil- 
 bur, W. A. Greene. 
 
 May 17th. Annual election Company A, Fifth Ward, First 
 Regiment Rhode Island National Guard : Captain, Wm. E. Ta- 
 
60 RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
 ber, Jr., vice S. H. Hall, resigned; Lieutenants, Joseph L. Ben- 
 nett, Jr., Leander C. Belcher; Sergeants, William A. James, A. R. 
 Peck, John W. Briggs, W. C. Barker, Albert C. Winsor. 
 
 May 25th, Sunday. At midnight the urgent summons came 
 for volunteers for the defence of the Capital, and from the First 
 Regiment Rhode Island National Guard, bound together by no 
 legal ties, subject to no military orders, simply banded together 
 to learn the duties of the soldier, sprang to arms the Tenth 
 Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers. Called together at 9 o'clock 
 a. m. on the 26th, by 7 p. m. of the same day 613 men had placed 
 their names upon the roll of service to their country. 
 
 The response of the town companies of the Rhode Island 
 National Guard was equally prompt, and from them was organ- 
 ized the Ninth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, which left for 
 Washington with the Tenth the clay after the call. The com- 
 panies were : The Lonsdale National Guard, Capt. John Mc- 
 Kinley ; Natick National Guard, Capt. John A. Bowen ; the Paw- 
 tucket Battalion and Westerly National Guards. 
 
 The Tenth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, included the 
 following city companies : First Ward Light Guards, Capt. A. 
 Crawford Greene ; First Ward Drill Corps, Capt. Benjamin W. 
 Harris ; Second Ward National Guard, Capt. Charles H. Dunham ; 
 What Cheer Guards, Third Ward, Capt. William M. Hale ; Fourth 
 Ward National Guard, Capt. Elisha Dyer; Fifth Ward National 
 Guard, Capt. William E. Taber, Jr. ; Sixth Ward National Guard, 
 Capt. Hopkins B. Cady ; Seventh Ward National Guard, Capt. 
 Theodore Winn ; Burnside Zouaves, Capt. Christopher Duck- 
 worth. 
 
RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. 6 1 
 
 The first detachment of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments, 
 Rhode Island Volunteers, left for Washington Tuesday afternoon, 
 May 27th, and numbered upwards of one thousand men. It was 
 quickly followed by the Tenth Light Battery, in three detach- 
 ments. More volunteers for the Ninth and Tenth regiments from 
 the National Guard were soon in the city awaiting marching or- 
 ders, and the second detachment for those regiments started for 
 Washington May 29th. 
 
 The history of the War for the Union presents no prouder ex- 
 ample than we have recited, of prompt and patriotic response to 
 the call of duty. Within thirty hours after the call, two regiments 
 of infantry and a battery of artillery were organized, armed, and 
 equipped. The novelty and excitement attending the first call for 
 troops had largely subsided, and the days of liberal bounties had 
 not yet come. 
 
 But men were needed at once. The order of the governor 
 showed how pressing he deemed the emergency, and, as the news 
 flashed along the wires, men leaped from their beds and hastened 
 to the places of rendezvous. It was no night for sleep. Messen- 
 gers on horses transmitted the alarm from hand to hand. City 
 repeated it to town, and town to village, till the entire country 
 was aroused. Well may the Rhode Island National Guard be 
 proud of its record, for the emergency found it " ready and willing." 
 Well was it for Rhode Island that she had in reserve such a noble 
 organization to come forward when needed to the help of our 
 armies in the field. 
 
 Let no one who saw it ever despair of the Republic. 
 
J&*> 
 
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 cr/*fcttL> /\*~c--^-£'- 
 
 
THE 
 
 |!INTH AND TENTH Q. I. KOLUJTEERJ 
 
 AND THE 
 
 TENTH R. I. BATTERY. 
 
 Of all the true host that New England can boast, 
 
 Far down by the sea, unto highland. 
 No State is more true, or willing to do, 
 
 Than dear little Yankee Rhode Island : 
 Yes, you're loyal and true, little Rhody, 
 Then all honor to you, little Rhody, 
 Governor Sprague, was not very vague, 
 When he said. ' Shoulder arms, Little Rhody ! ' ' 
 
 — Old -war song. 
 
 The Capiiol in 1862. 
 
 ON the 25th of May, 1862, at midnight, a dispatch was 
 received by Governor Sprague, announcing that the 
 enemy in great force were marching on Washington, and 
 calling for every available man to rally to its defence. Just an 
 hour later the governor issued an order for two regiments of 
 infantry, and a battery of artillery for immediate service. The 
 response was prompt and the ranks quickly rilled ; marching- 
 orders were given, and the Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island Volun- 
 teers and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery promptly reported for 
 duty at the Capital. 
 
64 NINTH AND TENTH R. I. VOLUNTEERS 
 
 In order to understand the military situation in Virginia, at this 
 time it will be necessary to go back a little. 
 
 The whole campaign of 1861, beginning with Bull Run, had 
 been discouraging, and the winter passed away without further 
 active service except picket duty. But in March, 1862, the Con- 
 federates having been defeated at Winchester, and, having fallen 
 back from Manassas to a new line of defence on the Rappahannock, 
 the Army of the Potomac was in motion. It was conveyed by water 
 from Alexandria to Fortress Monroe, and marched up the Penin- 
 sula to attack the rebel capital. Although resisted at Yorktown 
 and Williamsburg, it pressed steadily forward, till on the 21st 
 of May it was within a few miles of Richmond. Meanwhile, 
 McClellan had sent repeated calls for reinforcements from Mc- 
 Dowell's corps of 40,000 men, which had been withheld for the 
 defence of Washington, and, on the 17th of May, President 
 Lincoln telegraphed, "At your urgent call for reinforcements 
 McDowell is sent forward, but is not in any event to uncover 
 Washington." 
 
 Unfortunately for the delay, a disturbing element now appeared, 
 which not only prevented the junction of McDowell with McClel- 
 lan, but totally disarranged all the well-laid Union plans in Vir- 
 ginia. Early in May, Stonewall Jackson (whose daring activity 
 was worth an army to the Confederates) left his position before 
 Richmond with a force of twenty thousand men, and made one of 
 his brilliant raids up the Valley of the Shenandoah. Falling like a 
 hammer on General Banks's little army at Winchester, on the 24th, 
 he sent it whirling before him across the Potomac, and threatened 
 the city of Washington. Great was the alarm and consternation. 
 
AND TENTH R. I. liATTERV. 
 
 65 
 
 McDowell was ordered back when within a day's march of Mc- 
 Clellan. The President took military possession of the railroads, 
 and, on the 25th, Secretary Stanton issued orders calling upon the 
 militia of the loyal States to defend the Capital. 
 
 SR^ 
 
 ^^•Vu.^o^o 
 
 The following is the despatch sent to 
 the Governor of Rhode Island : 
 
 Washington, May 25, 1S62. 
 
 To the Governor of Rhode Island: 
 
 Intelligence from various quarters leaves no doubt 
 that the enemy in great force are advancing on 
 Washington. You will please organize and for- 
 ward immediately all the militia and volunteer 
 forces in your State. 
 
 Signed, EDWIN M. STANTON, 
 
 Secretary of War. 
 
 Later a second despatch was received from Washington by 
 Governor Sprague : 
 
 Send all the troops forward that you can immediately. Banks is completely 
 routed. Enemy are in large force advancing upon Harper's Ferry. 
 
 Signed, EDWIN M. STANTON. 
 
 Secretary of War. 
 
 Just an hour later the Governor issued the following order : 
 
 Providence, May 25, 1S62. 
 
 Citizens of the State capable of bearing arms will at once report themselves 
 to the nearest military organization. The commandants of the chartered 
 and volunteer military companies, will at once organize their companies and 
 the men so reporting, into companies of eighty-three men, rank and file, and 
 report to their headquarters, where they will be armed, equipped and moved 
 9 
 
66 
 
 NINTH AND TENTH R. I. VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 C\tl£Ia. c<*^i 
 
 W<3 Cj^iAj, 
 
 under the direction of the Commander-in-chief, 
 to Washington, to protect the National Capital 
 from the advance of the rebels, who are now 
 rapidly approaching. 
 
 Gen. Robbins is directed to organize and com- 
 mand the first regiment, and will order his 
 brigade under arms, and form it into a regiment. 
 The second regiment will be under command 
 of Capt. Bliss, of the United States Army. 
 
 The Providence Marine Corps of Artillery 
 will be placed under the command of Lieut. -Col. 
 E. C. Gallup, as Captain, and he is directed to 
 organize the same. 
 Col. Shaw is ordered to assemble the National Guard for organization. 
 Rhode Island troops will move through Baltimore, and if their progress is 
 impeded by the rebel mob of that city they will mete out to it the punishment 
 which it has long merited. 
 
 Our regiments will move to Washington to defend the Capital in common 
 with thousands of our patriotic countrymen who will rush to arms to ward oft" 
 the danger which is imminent. 
 
 WM. SPRAGUE, 
 Aug, Hoppix, Governor. 
 
 Ass 1 / Ad//. General. 
 
 The alarm thus indicated aroused every loyal heart, and the 
 excitement was almost as tumultuous as when Sumter was fired on 
 a year before. The response was equally prompt and worthy of the 
 State, and demonstrated that our citizens are fully impressed 
 with the patriotic duties of American citizenship, and ready to dis- 
 charge them in time of peril. Within an incredibly short space of 
 time, the Ninth and Tenth Regiments of Volunteers, and the Tenth 
 Light Battery were organized and started for Washington. 
 
The Ninth Regiment 
 
 R. I. VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 T 
 
 Picket Duty near Tennallytown. 
 
 HE Ninth Regiment 
 Rhode Island Volunteers 
 was organized from the 
 volunteer companies of the 
 State National Guard, together 
 with the chartered and other 
 companies, not including the 
 Providence National Guard, first 
 reporting for duty under the 
 following special order : 
 
 Adjutant-Genekal's Office, 
 
 Providence, R. I., May 23, 1S62. 
 
 Commandants of the several military companies of the State will immediately 
 assemble their respective commands at their usual places of rendezvous, and 
 report one company minimum standard from each organization, to the office of 
 the Adjutant-General, for three months' service in Washington. 
 By order of the Commander-in-Chief. 
 
 Signed, E. C. MAURAN, 
 
 Adjutant- General. 
 
 This special call for troops was made to meet a threatened 
 attack upon the National Capital. 
 
68 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 During the same month of May, 1862, the rebel Gen. Thomas 
 J. Jackson, familiarly known as "Stonewall," with a large body 
 of men, made a sudden raid upon the Valley of the Shenandoah, 
 routed the weakened army of General Banks, at Winchester, and 
 threatened the safety of Washington. In view of actual and pos- 
 sible needs, the Secretary of War sent, on the 25th of May, a 
 telegram to the Governor of Rhode Island, calling for the imme- 
 diate forwarding to the National Capital, of all the available 
 troops in the State, to serve in the defences for a period of three 
 months. This telegram was received by Governor Sprague at 
 midnight, and before sunrise measures had been taken to comply 
 with the call. The spirit of the people was well represented by 
 this prompt action of the Executive. The excitement and enthu- 
 siasm was as intense as when the integrity of the nation was first 
 threatened, and affected alike all classes. The Rhode Island 
 National Guard, then for some time organized, furnished an 
 ample reserve from which to draw the State's proportion of the 
 new levy. Volunteers came pouring in with great rapidity, and in 
 two days the Lonsdale National Guard, the Natick National 
 Guard, the Westerly National Guard, and Pawtucket Battalion 
 (two full companies), Company A, Pawtucket Light Guard, and 
 Company H, which was composed of the Slater Drill Corps and 
 the Cudworth Zouaves, and companies from Newport and Woon- 
 socket, were reported for duty, and left Providence May 27th, for 
 Washington, as the Ninth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 The second detachment of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments, under 
 command of Col. Zenas R. Bliss, of the Tenth, followed May 29th, 
 thus in four days completing their organization, and commencing 
 their journey to the field of duty. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 6 9 
 
 The Ninth Regiment was organized by 
 Col. Charles T. Robbins, who accompanied 
 it to Washington. It was subsequently 
 placed under the command of Col. John T. 
 Pitman, whose commission bore date July 3, 
 1862. Colonel Pitman had previously seryed 
 as captain of Company G, First Rhode Island 
 Detached Militia, in 1861. He was appointed 
 major of the Ninth, May 26, 1862; lieuten- Coi. John t. Pitman. 
 
 ant-colonel, June 9, 1862, and colonel, Jul}' 3, 1862, and was mus- 
 tered out Sept. 1, 1862. He afterwards seryed as lieutenant- 
 colonel of the Eleyenth Rhode Island Volunteers, Oct. 1, 1862, 
 and was mustered out of seryice, July 13, 1863. 
 
 The Ninth Regiment left Proyidence Tuesday afternoon, May 
 27th, by rail for New York, amidst cheers and shouts and farewell 
 waving of handkerchiefs. But the sad parting was apparently 
 soon forgotten, for the boys shouted, and sang, and laughed at 
 each other's jokes the greater part of the way. There was little 
 sleep on the way that night. Some tried to rest as best they 
 could in the crowded steamer, but this was well nigh impossible. 
 About breakfast time the regiment arrived in New York where 
 "rations" were served. After some delay the line of travel was 
 resumed for Philadelphia, crowds cheering the volunteers at all 
 the stopping places. It was late in the afternoon when the long 
 train rolled into the passenger station of the Quaker City, and 
 the men, tired and hungry, landed at the foot of Washington 
 Square. A splendid reception was now tendered them with an 
 invitation to a banquet at the rooms of the Cooper Volunteer 
 
/O THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 Refreshment Association, on Otsego street. This welcome news 
 was received with a shout. The hospitable invitation was accepted 
 with alacrity, and with a profusion of thanks that came from the 
 innermost recesses of their drooping hearts, the companies fell 
 into line, one of the men saying, "Hard tack may taste good some- 
 times, but it must be when a feller's real hungry an' ain't got 
 nothin' else to eat. I reckon some soft bread, and cake, and 
 coffee, will taste better to us just now." The progress of the Ninth 
 to the " Cooper Shop " was a perfect ovation. " We were welcomed 
 all the way," wrote one of the men, "like conquering" heroes return- 
 ing from victory, rather than a weary band of raw recruits, moving 
 to the assistance of our comrades at the Capital. On our arrival 
 we were liberally supplied with towels, water and soap, and after 
 washing our hands and faces we felt greatly refreshed. Then we 
 filed into the long dining-room and partook of an excellent colla- 
 tion, consisting of cold chicken and ham sandwiches, hot coffee, 
 and other delicacies ; and didn't it all go good, served by the hands 
 of the ladies of Philadelphia, who did everything in their power to 
 make our stay pleasant and make us feel at home. We filled not 
 only our stomachs but our haversacks also, and after conveying 
 our grateful acknowledgments, for what seemed hardly less than 
 a royal banquet and reception, some of us started out to get a view 
 of the city. It was about this time that one of the captains of 
 the Ninth met with an interesting experience. He had gone on 
 ahead, a little way up the street, when pausing for a few moments, 
 deeply absorbed in tender memories of home — a trifle homesick 
 he afterwards admitted, — he heard the voice of a child behind 
 him to which, at first, he gave no heed, till it appeared to come 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 71 
 
 nearer, 'Soldier!' Turn- 
 ing he beheld a charming 
 little girl looking up into 
 his face, and holding" out a 
 pretty flower, saying, ' Sol- 
 dier, this is for you ! ' The 
 captain gratefully accepted £$B\ 
 the sweet remembrance , j*f p\ \W^3^ '/$r*»At 
 with many good wishes for 
 the child, and returned to 
 his company greatly com- 
 forted by this little inter- 
 view. To one who has 
 never left kindred and 
 friends, perhaps never to 
 return, this little incident The Cap;am Sur P rlsed - 
 
 may appear trivial, but to those on their way to the enemy's country, 
 to face the stern realities of war, experiences like this told plainer 
 than words the depth of that loyalty in the young as well as the 
 old, which did much to cheer the heart of the soldier, and made an 
 impression on his memory more lasting than the stirring words 
 of the patriotic orator. Soon the order came to 'fall in' for the 
 march to the Baltimore depot, and amidst mutual cheering and 
 shouting the column moved off. After quite a long march came 
 the welcome order, 'All aboard for Baltimore !' It was after dark 
 when the eager men packed themselves into the cars. The engines 
 whistled and puffed, the bells rang, the people hurrahed and waved 
 hats and handkerchiefs, and the boys of the Ninth put their heads 
 out of the windows and yelled, as the train moved off at last, with 
 
72 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 Washington only a hundred and forty miles away. The regiment 
 arrived at Baltimore on the morning of the 29th, pretty well fagged 
 out, and the boys thought on the whole they had had a pretty rough 
 night of it. There was no such reception as at Philadelphia. No 
 opposition was made to the march of the regiment across the city 
 to the Washington depot, as had been anticipated. But none of 
 the men, women or children, came out to welcome them. No, the 
 people maintained a perfect silence as the column moved on to the 
 rooms of the Union Relief Association, 120 Eutaw Street, where a 
 free collation had been provided ; some of the men also feasted 
 on strawberries at fifteen cents per quart, nice ones, too. 
 
 "At two o'clock in the afternoon," wrote one of the men, "we 
 left the Monumental City, with Washington only forty miles away. 
 On the route we passed Annapolis Junction, rendered famous in 
 song and story by the march of the First Rhode Island Regiment 
 a year before, when ''twas only nine miles to the junction.' 
 There was a good deal on the way to interest us, Perryville, Havre 
 de Grace, and other places, but we were just beginning to tire of 
 the long ride, standing up, sitting down, and lying around, when 
 the great unfinished dome of the capitol loomed up into view, 
 above the hills, and we knew that we were nearing our destina- 
 tion." As the men alighted from the train at five o'clock p. m., 
 they found themselves surrounded by many reminders of the war. 
 During a long delay here, doubtless caused in waiting for orders, 
 some of the men stole away into the city, and reported soldiers 
 everywhere, and the streets full of wagons loaded with army sup- 
 plies of all kinds. Everything was bustle and confusion such as the 
 eyes of these new soldiers had never looked upon before. The 
 regiment remained that night in Washington at the barracks, near 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 73 
 
 the depot, and subsisted on the ''army rations" dealt out to them, 
 but they had neithersupper nor breakfast the next morning worthy 
 of the name. How be it, there was no immediate danger of starva- 
 tion, after the supply which they had stored away during their stay 
 in Philadelphia and Baltimore, at the Union refreshment saloons. 
 Marching orders soon arrived, and on the morning of the 30th 
 the regiment took its line of march up Pennsylvania avenue, mak- 
 ing a halt near the White House. One of the men wrote home : 
 "We were halted for a few minutes near the President's house — 
 and I thought I would jot down a few lines, — but the thread of 
 my narrative was rudely severed by the order ' Fall in ! ' and we re- 
 sumed our march under a scorching sun, through dust ankle-deep, 
 and of a degree of fineness and penetration which beggars descrip- 
 tion. On we marched out of Washington, and through George- 
 town, and towards night reached our present quarters near Ten- 
 nallytown. Just as we arrived here after our six-mile tramp we 
 were favored with a drenching rain, which converted the dust 
 upon our persons and garments into a very fine paste, and has 
 made us ornamental as well as useful members of society. Just 
 after dark we pitched our tents and 'turned in ' upon the ground, 
 somewhat wet, but upon the whole very comfortable. Tennally- 
 town appears to be a collection of two blacksmith shops, a hotel, 
 a small church, a post-office, and a toll-gate about three miles 
 beyond Georgetown. High street in Georgetown leads directly 
 to it." The Ninth Encampment was located just beyond the toll- 
 gate, in a beautiful grove of oaks, which had been occupied for 
 some time previous by Pennsylvania troops, and it was laid out 
 with rows of white Sibley tents in straight lines, with streets of 
 10 
 
74 
 
 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 equal width between. By General Or- 
 ders Number One, it was named " Camp 
 Frieze," in honor of the Quartermaster 
 General of Rhode Island. Officers' 
 quarters, in square tents, were at the 
 head of the camp, nicely shaded by 
 I great oaks. Afterward the streets of the 
 camp were finely graded, with their 
 names printed on neat signs. Many of 
 the tents were named also. One was 
 called the " Miller House," corner of Rhode Island and Boston ave- 
 nues, and next door was the " Foster House," then the " Pawtucket 
 Hotel." On the 6th of June the regiment was sworn into the ser- 
 vice of the United States. It formed a part of the brigade of 
 General Sturgis, who had been recently called to Washington to 
 assist Genera] Wadsworth, the military governor, and who was 
 given command of the fortifications around the city. 
 
 Several interesting official orders have been preserved: 
 
 Gen. Samuel P. Sturgis. 
 
 GENERAL STURGIS'S ORDERS. 
 
 Headquarters College Villa, 
 
 Tennallytown, D. C.. June 4, 1S62. 
 Gt n< ral Orders Xo. g. 
 
 I. The commanders of camps will allow none of the men in their respective 
 commands to pass beyond the lines of their camps without a special permit from 
 said commanders. 
 
 II. The attention of commanding officers is called to Article 41 of the rules 
 and articles of war which reads as follows: 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 75 
 
 "All non-commissioned officers and soldiers who shall be found one mile 
 from the camp, without leave, in writing, from their commanding officer, shall 
 suffer such punishment as shall be indicted upon them by the sentence of a 
 court martial." 
 
 15 v order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURG I S, 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 
 Caft. and A. A. G. 
 
 Headqi vrters College Villa, 
 
 Texnallytowx, 1). C, June 4. 1S62. 
 Colonel Robbies, 
 
 Com'dgqth and jo/// J\ . 1. RegHs. 
 
 Sir: You will please detail pickets for to-night, as on previous nights, and 
 henceforth until further orders. 
 
 I have received no consolidated morning reports from your command for the 
 last two mornings. Please have one made out for to-day and on each morn- 
 ing hereafter. 
 
 By imperative orders from Headquarters, Washington. I am obliged to 
 transmit at once, monthly returns of the strength of the Brigade. In view of 
 this, you will please have prepared, to-day, if possible, a monthly return for 
 the month of May, of the strength of your entire command. 
 
 By order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURGIS, 
 
 1 [enry R. Mighels, 
 
 Capt. and A. A. G. 
 
 Headquarters College Villa, 
 
 Tennallytown, D. C, June 6, 1862. 
 General Orders Xo. 1. 
 
 1st. The commanding officer of each Regiment, Battery, Battalion or De- 
 tachment assigned to the command of Brig. -Gen. S. P. Sturgis will make con- 
 solidated morning reports daily to the commanding General, at Headquarters, 
 College Villa, Tennallvtown, D. C. 
 
76 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 2d. The Adjutant of each command assigned as above, shall report in person 
 to the Commanding General, every day at eleven o'clock A. m. 
 
 By order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURGIS, 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 Col. C. T. Robbins, Capt. and A. A. G. 
 
 Comdggth and 10th R. I. Regiments. 
 
 Col. Chas. T. Robbins, 
 
 qih Rhode Island Reg't. 
 
 Headquarters College Villa, 
 
 Tennallytown, D. C, Tune 6, 186; 
 
 Sir: For to-night's picket duty you will please detail ten men of your com- 
 mand, said men to be accompanied by a non-commissioned officer. 
 This arrangement to be observed until further orders. 
 
 By order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURGIS, 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 
 Ca/<t. and A. A. G. 
 
 General Orders No. 12. 
 
 Headquarters Sturgis's Brigade, 
 
 Washington, June 8, 1S62 
 
 I. The headquarters of the general commanding Sturgis's Brigade, are now 
 and will be until further orders in building northeast corner of Nineteenth and 
 I streets, Washington City. 
 
 II. Official communications will be addressed as heretofore, to Henry R 
 Mighels, Capt. and A. A. G., College Villa, Tennallytown, D. C. 
 
 By order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURGIS, 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 
 Capt. and A. A. G. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. JJ 
 
 War Department, 
 Washington City. D. C, June 24, 1S62. 
 
 Ordered, That all applications for passes and permits for persons or property 
 within the lines of the United States forces shall hereafter be made to Brigadier- 
 General Wadsworth, Military Governor of the District of Columbia, and be 
 subject to such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. 
 
 Signed, EDWIN M. STANTON. 
 
 Secretary of War. 
 
 (<<>icral Orders No. 
 
 Headquarters <yrn and ioth Regiments, 
 R. I. Volunteers, 
 Tennallytown, D. C, June 9th, 1862. ) 
 
 1. In compliment to Brig. General Lyman B. Frieze. Quartermaster-Gen. of 
 the State of Rhode Island, this camp will hereafter be known as Camp Frieze. 
 
 2. The strictest discipline and good order will be observed, and all derelictions 
 from duty, or failure to comply with these orders, will be promptly reported and 
 summarily punished. 
 
 3. It is indispensable to health that the strictest neatness and cleanliness 
 should prevail : no nuisance therefore of any description in or about the quarters 
 will be tolerated, and all slovenly and disorderly habits will be corrected. 
 
 4. The camp grounds and quarters will be thoroughly policed each morning 
 immediately after reveille, when in pleasant weather the bed sacks and blankets 
 should be aired and exposed for half an hour to the sun. The bed-sacks must 
 then be put in order and the blankets neatly folded. Articles of clothing must 
 not be left in disorder about the tents, but all furniture, clothing and equipments, 
 must be arranged in their proper places ready for inspection. 
 
 5. A daily detail of two men will be made by each mess to serve meals and 
 to keep the dishes and table furniture clean and in good order. All mess uten- 
 sils, wash-basins, &c, must be neatly and orderly arranged when not in use. A 
 barrel in which clean water must be kept, will be furnished to each mess, and 
 also a barrel in which all slops or refuse must be thrown. No water or litter of 
 any description must be thrown or permitted to remain about the quarters. 
 
jS THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 6. At all meal hours a commissioned officer will superintend the issue of food 
 to the detail from the messes of their respective companies. 
 
 7. A daily police guard will be detailed from each regiment for general police 
 duties, the officers of which will see that all slop barrels are removed and their 
 contents emptied at suitable places to be designated. All company streets and 
 grounds will be kept in order by the companies to which they belong. 
 
 S. There will be until further orders the following calls sounded each day: 
 
 1. Reveille at 4^ o'clock a. m. 
 
 2. Police call immediately after first roll call. 
 
 3. Breakfast call at 6$ A. M. 
 
 4. Sick call at 7 a. m., when the sick will report themselves to the 
 first sergeants of their respective companies, who will take them to the 
 surgeons for examination. 
 
 5. Adjutant's call at SJ a. m., when the guard will assemble on the 
 parade. Guard mounting at 9 a. m., after which the officers of the day 
 will report to headquarters for orders. 
 
 6. Orderly call at 12 m. when the first sergeants of each company will 
 report to the Adjutant for orders, and will receive from him a detail 
 for guard, police and picket duty for the following day. 
 
 7. Roast beef 'will be sounded at 1 p. M. 
 S. Suffer call at 6$ p. m. 
 
 9. Retreat at sunset when companies will be formed on their com- 
 pany parades under arms. 
 
 10. Tattoo at 9 p. m. 
 
 11. Taps at 9^ p. M. when all lights must be extinguished and all 
 noise in quarters cease. 
 
 9. There will be each day until further orders the following roll calls : 
 
 The First at Reveille, 
 The Second when Roast beef is sounded. 
 The Third at Retreat, 
 The Fourth at Tattoo. 
 
 10. The Routine for the da}' will be until further orders : 
 
 1. Squad drills from 5A to 6J a. M., under the direction of a sergeant 
 and superintended by the company officers. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 79 
 
 2. Peas on a trencher at 6^ A. M. 
 
 3. Company drill from 10 to 1 1 A a. m. 
 
 4. Roast Beef at 1 p. m. 
 
 5. Company drill from 3 to 5 p. m. 
 
 6. Supper at 6£ P. M. 
 
 11. The morning reports of companies signed by the captains and first ser- 
 geants must he handed to the Adjutant before s o'clock a. m.. who will consoli- 
 date them within the next hour for the information of the General commanding 
 the brigade to which these regiments are attached, and make his report at head- 
 quarters. 
 
 12. On Sunday squad and company drills only will he omitted. At 9 o'clock 
 each company's quarters will he inspected by a field officer attended by the cap- 
 tain, and all uncleanliness or want of attention to the requirements in which the 
 quarters are to he kept, will be reported to the commanding officer. 
 
 [3. Divine Service will he held every Sunday at 11 A. M. upon grounds to he 
 designated, and each officer and soldier not on duty or on the sick report, is ex- 
 pected to he present neatly dressed in uniform without arms. 
 
 14. The body-belt will he worn on all occasions when the officers or men are 
 out of camp, and no article of dress other than the regular uniform prescribed 
 for these regiments will he permitted to be worn at any time. 
 
 15. No salutes will he given between Retreat and Reveille. After Guard 
 Mounting, the officer of the guard will see that the muskets of the old guard are 
 discharged, and no pieces will be loaded in camp, unless by special order, and any 
 soldier disturbing the camp by discharging his musket or pistol without orders, 
 will be immediately reported to headquarters for punishment. Muskets when 
 loaded will lie carried at the half-cock. 
 
 16. No horses and wagons except the water-carts, and carts for the removal 
 of slop barrels, will be allowed to pass through the company streets or between 
 the company officers' and Field officers' quarters, and no horses will he permit- 
 ted to stand in rear of the line of tents occcupied by the Field and Stall. 
 
 I!v order, 
 
 CHARLLS T. ROBBINS, 
 
 Acting Colonel oth U- wth A'. /. Vols. 
 
So THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 General Orders Number One, just recited, lays out the pro- 
 gramme of work for each day : Reveille is sounded at 4.30 a. m., 
 when the roll is called and the quarters put in order. One of the 
 boys thus described it: "Reveille at 4.30 a. m. is the 'cock- 
 crow' of the gallant Ninth. A single bugle call is heard, when 
 instantly the proper officer, rouses the drum-corps ; they then 
 beat the reveille, the sound rolling in from every direction, far 
 and near; the first sergeants are running down the company 
 streets, parting the tent-openings, and shouting inside, 'Turn out 
 here for roll-call!" The men turn out, in every imaginable state 
 of dress and undress, answer to their names in the roll-call, in 
 every tone and compass of which the human voice is capable, a 
 perfect babel, and are assigned to their duties for the day. The 
 whole noisy breeze is past in five minutes, and the day's work 
 begins. But let us not overlook the poor little drummer boy in 
 this noise of reveille, as he stands at his tent door, half awake, 
 half asleep, 'mit nottings on sgarsly,' unkempt, shivering or half 
 frozen, peddling around his rattling 'r-r-rap-a-tap-tap.' At half- 
 past five we have ' squad drill ' until half-past six, then ' peas on 
 a trencher,' which means breakfast. At ten o'clock, company 
 drill until half-past eleven. At one o'clock, ' roast beef,' which 
 means dinner. At three o'clock, drill, until five o'clock. Supper at 
 half-past six, and at sunset, roll-call for retreat. At nine o'clock 
 p. m , ' tattoo and roll-call,' and at 9.30, ' taps,' which means all lights 
 in camp must be extinguished and all noise must cease. This is 
 the regular routine, but we have to take our turn for guard duty 
 and for camp police. I was recently one of a detail of thirty men 
 for police duty. Our business was not very pleasant, chiefly 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 Police Duty. 
 
 cleaning up the streets of 
 the camp and carting off the 
 dirt and waste. As soon 
 as breakfast was over the 
 orderly directed each man to 
 provide himself with a small 
 bundle of sticks or brush, 
 three or four feet long, which 
 w a s bound together, for 
 'police duty,' which meant 
 cleaning up the camp, not a 
 particularly pleasant occu- 
 pation on a dry and dusty day, 
 1 not much like policemen's 
 duty,' one of the boys said. The weather is very hot, the mer- 
 cury registering one hundred degrees in the shade. Tell Captain 
 Hale that we are practicing 'double quick' every clay so that we 
 may not be too far behind when that foot-race comes off. When 
 Richmond falls, as fall it must, we hope they will send us home 
 to repose upon our laurels. Until then we must be men of war. 
 "Last night I was drawn in a crowd of fifty for picket duty 
 and it promised to be no very delightful duty either, on a dark, 
 rainy night. Soon we were ordered into line, armed and equipped 
 with plenty of ball cartridges, and trudged out two or three miles 
 into the country. Knowing that shooting pickets was a favorite 
 amusement with the prowling secesh in the vicinity, we found the 
 employment quite exciting, and as I filled the dignified position of 
 corporal of the guard, I managed to keep my eyes open and the 
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NINTH RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 83 
 
 Union safe through the night, and at daylight we splashed through 
 the mud back to camp again, pretty well drenched, besides being 
 tired and sleepy. As soon as dismissed we rolled into the straw 
 as we were, and slept until ten this morning. We then turned 
 out, and some of us bathed in a mud-puddle. I then breakfasted 
 on hard-bread and cheese, and now I am ready for anything. 
 
 "June 1 8th. We have at last got our full equipments and cloth- 
 ing, and, among other things, our pantaloons, for, dreadful to re- 
 late, we have all had to wear our old ones that we brought from 
 home, so that most of us might adopt the language of the military 
 tactics, 'to the rear open order.' Some of them are misfits, 
 and much too large for the boys. They remind us of the school 
 boy's trousers, which didn't signify whether he was going to 
 school or coming home. On Sundays we assemble at eleven 
 o'clock for church, and again at six o'clock p. m., for dress parade. 
 
 "The men are allowed to go, now and then, to Chain Bridge, on 
 the Potomac, for bathing. The other day a party of us went, and 
 enjoyed it very much. It is a beautiful region, but completely 
 studded with camps and forts. After getting back to camp it oc- 
 curred to me as I kicked off my heavy army 'whangs,' as our 
 shoes are called, that a nice, easy pair of slippers would be agree- 
 able. Another towel, also, would be acceptable when you send 
 the box. Even cake would not go amiss, as the boys of the mess 
 will gladly share it with me. 
 
 "June 19th. Bread. I have been to Washington to-day with an 
 order for to-morrow's bread for the regiment. Brought out 900 
 loaves, baked in the basement of the capitol. They bake about 
 21,000 loaves per day." 
 
84 
 
 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 Eating Rations. 
 
 The "rations" were rather hard to 
 get used to, but the men of the Ninth 
 soon learned that a soldier's life is no 
 holiday, and his real wants necessarily 
 simple and few, so that there was really 
 little cause for complaint. It was all 
 in getting used to it. 
 
 The regular army "ration," as estab- 
 lished by the government, for each sol- 
 dier, was composed as follows : Twelve 
 ounces of pork and bacon, or twelve 
 ounces of salt or fresh beef; twenty-two ounces of soft bread or 
 flour, or one pound of hard bread (hard-tack), or twenty ounces 
 of corn meal ; and to every one hundred men, fifteen pounds of 
 beans or peas, ten pounds of rice, or hominy, eight pounds of 
 roasted coffee, or twenty-four ounces of tea, fifteen pounds of 
 sugar, four quarts of vinegar, twenty ounces of candles, four 
 pounds of soap, four pounds of salt, four ounces of pepper, thirty 
 pounds of potatoes and one quart of molasses. This was the 
 "ration " the first year of the war. But to meet the wants of 
 fellows with big appetites, Congress passed an act, increasing the 
 allowance of several of the items, notably ; potatoes, of which each 
 man was to have one pound three times a week, " when prac- 
 ticable." But as the war wore on, most of the less important 
 items disappeared, and during the last year it was mostly hard- 
 tack, beans and coffee, with a little sugar and salt. 
 
 "The haversack was an indispensable part of our outfit. It 
 consisted of a black canvass bag with a strap attached to the 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. S$ 
 
 opposite side to adjust it to the neck or the shoulder. To use 
 the language of an old soldier, "Your haversack's to carry your 
 grub in ! Hold on to your haversack through thick and thin ! 
 It'll be the best friend you'll find in the army ! " When we left 
 Providence our haversacks had neat white cotton linings, but 
 after they had been in use a few weeks as receptacles for chunks 
 of fat meat, damp sugar tied up in a rag, broken crackers and 
 bread, with a lump of cheese or two, they took on the color of a 
 printing-office towel. We were told that they were water-proof, but 
 practically they were quite the reverse. Very likely you would 
 have gone hungry a good while before eating anything out of 
 them. Not so with the boys of the Ninth. 
 
 "The 'Camp-Kettle' was a good and useful article of furni- 
 ture, made of heavy black sheet-iron, very tall, and of the same 
 diameter from top to bottom. All were of the same height, but 
 there were three or four sizes of them, so that they could be con- 
 veniently 'nested' for transportation. They were chiefly used for 
 making coffee and bean soup, and sometimes for laundry purposes. 
 
 " The 'Canteen' was another important feature of our outfit. It 
 was a simple article made of tin and covered with cloth, shaped like 
 the earth, except that it was a good deal more 'flattened at the 
 poles,' and with a cloth strap running around it at the equator, 
 by which it was suspended over one shoulder and carried against 
 the opposite hip. It would hold about three pints. Its chief 
 duty was for the transportation of water, although it was found 
 equally adapted to carry some other things. It came handy to the 
 forager for milk, cider or molasses. In very rare instances it was 
 also used for liquids of a more vigorous and searching character. 
 
86 
 
 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 ![,? |j)5iLshri'ou.S Wooi/i'cJC- 
 
 This portrait is many times 
 
 larger than he really was, 
 
 but not half as big as 
 
 he often felt. 
 
 " The greatest, or at least the most trouble- 
 some enemies we have to encounter here are 
 the wood-ticks. As I never knew until I 
 came here what they were, I will take it for 
 granted that you don't, and will inform you 
 in the words of the poet : 
 
 'De-fire-fly hab de golden wings. 
 De lightnin' bug de flame, 
 De wood-tick be hab no wing at all, 
 But he get dar all de same ! ' 
 
 They infest the trees, bushes, grass, and apparently everything 
 else out of doors. We are seldom conscious of their presence, 
 but the chief end and object of their existence seems to be to 
 make their way by slow degrees under our skin, where, embedded 
 in the flesh, they soon become very disagreeable. When they 
 make up their mind to have a taste of Yankee blood, they find 
 easy access to the body through the openings of the uniform. 
 I have found several of them already, but only one that had 
 made any progress through the skin, and he was discovered and 
 executed before any harm was done. They generally put their 
 work in at night, and neither slumber nor sleep. This country 
 appears to abound in such creeping things, very much to my 
 disgust. I am told the only sure way to exterminate them is to 
 boil your clothing." 
 
 The wood-ticks and gray-backs were the great pests of the 
 Union army from '61 to '65. One of the great problems of the 
 war was how to get rid of them. They attacked all the soldiers, 
 from the major-generals clown to the privates. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 87 
 
 In 1 86 1 ev- 
 ery consider- 
 able eminence in the 
 vicinity of the Na- 
 tional Capital was 
 crowned with a fort or 
 redoubt well mount- 
 ed. Early in 1862, 
 
 WASHINGTON AND ITS DEFENCES. the seCO nd of the war, 
 
 the number of these works was fifty-two, whose names and loca- 
 tions are indicated on the accompanying map. 
 
 This system of works was so complete, that at no time after- 
 ward, during the war, did the Confederates ever seriously attempt 
 to assail them. 
 
88 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 The month of June was spent in thorough attention to drill, and 
 in the performance of picket duty. The regiment was expected 
 to be ready for "inspection" every Sunday morning. 
 
 After getting thus comfortably settled down at Camp Frieze, 
 the members of the Ninth were surprised to receive an order from 
 Colonel Pitman to be ready to march at short notice. The news 
 spread rapidly through the neighborhood, and our friends began 
 to compliment us, supposing that we were likely to be sent towards 
 " the front," but that seemed hardly probable unless McClellan 
 should suffer an overwhelming defeat and the enemy make an ad- 
 vance on Washington, in force. June 28th, the regiment was called 
 at early dawn, broke up its camp, hurriedly partook of its morning 
 meal of salt-junk, hard-tack and coffee, and started at sunrise for 
 Washington. It was a beautiful morning, and the men started 
 off in fine spirits, with a long train of sixty army wagons, loaded 
 with tents and other camp equipage. A march of seven miles 
 brought them to Long Bridge, a little before eight o'clock, with 
 but two halts of five minutes each, in a tramp of seven miles. The 
 contrabands in fantastic dress and head-gear swarmed about the 
 men pressing them to buy their pies, gingerbread and hoe-cake. 
 Said one of the men: "The sun's rays beat clown fiercely on 
 the perspiring volunteers of the Ninth Rhode Island as we went 
 marching over Long Bridge and planted our 'whangs' squarely 
 upon Virginia sacred soil, which appeared to rise indignant in our 
 faces, completely enveloping us in a very fine dust, which stuck 
 to us like wax, and entered our eyes, mouths and noses, adding 
 greatly to the discomforts of the long march. It was a very hot 
 day, if not the hottest we ever experienced, but we keep tramping 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 8 9 
 
 on in the cloud of dust 
 
 with but two halts, the lat- J '. 
 
 ter of about one hour, to J . 
 
 consult about our route of ,. i- ^^Z^^i^i^^ 
 
 march. Then we started 
 
 again, and at length reached 
 
 Alexandria, said to be 
 
 seven miles from Long 
 
 Bridge. \\ T e then made a 
 
 detour of two or three 
 
 miles around the outskirts 
 
 of the city, through marshy 
 fields and rough roads un- 
 til at length the drum gave A Hot Da * ,or ,he Ninth Rhode lsland - 
 the welcome signal for the final halt, and the weary and dusty 
 men dropped by the roadside all pretty well used up, — and glad 
 enough to 'call it a day's work,' and find needed rest. One of the 
 privates of Company K, William Henry Harrison Swan, es- 
 caped the long march, as follows : The day before we left 
 Camp Frieze found him suffering with a severe and protracted 
 attack of side-ache, and on recommendation of the 'orderly ser- 
 geant ' he went to the doctor with a request for some mustard, 
 for an external application. He was also warned to get a supply 
 of the article for seasoning the 'orderly's' salt-horse or beef. He 
 succeeded in getting a satisfactory amount of mustard, but igno- 
 rantly made a direct application in full strength to his lame side. 
 In a short time he was moving around lively in great distress, 
 and when we left for Fairfax his side was badly blistered and 
 12 
 
90 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 swollen. He was deposited in one of the wagons, and thus rode 
 to Fairfax. He afterwards claimed to be the best ' mustered ' re- 
 cruit in the Ninth. After narrating the incident to Sergt. Charles 
 P. Gav, of the Tenth, a few days ago, he added, ' singularly 
 enough, I have never had the side-ache since, and never was "mus- 
 tered out." After the march, hard-tack and coffee were served, 
 and I tell you it went good. As the first encampment was named 
 'Camp Frieze' the second was appropriately termed 'Camp 
 Scorch,' or 'Camp Misery.' Not a tree is in sight, everything has 
 been removed to clear the way before the guns of the forts. In 
 the vicinity are Forts Ward, Worth, Lyon and Blenker; the camp 
 being upon an elevated site, we have a fine view of Washington 
 and the Potomac. Fairfax Seminary is near by." 
 
 The regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade, Reserve Army 
 Corps, south of the Potomac, commanded by Col. Zenas R. Bliss, 
 of the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, Acting Brigadier-General. 
 The brigade consisted of Battery L, Second New York; Battery C, 
 First New York ; Sixteenth Indiana Battery, Ninth and Tenth 
 Rhode Island Volunteers, Thirty-Second Massachusetts Volun- 
 teers, Second Excelsior Battery, and the Twelfth Pennsylvania 
 Cavalry. The Tenth Rhode Island Battery, Captain Gallup, was 
 stationed about a mile from camp, near Cloud's Mills. This for- 
 ward movement of the forces around Washington was made to 
 support the advance of General McDowell's Corps towards Rich- 
 mond, to co-operate with the Army of the Potomac, under General 
 McClellan, in the reduction of the confederate capital. But on 
 June 26th, after the indecisive battle of Gaines's Mills, McClellan 
 commenced his retreat to the James River. The campaign against 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 9 f 
 
 IIP 
 
 Richmond had ended in 
 failure, June 30th, and the 
 Army of the Potomac had 
 retired to a new base of 
 operations at Harrison's 
 Landing. McDowell's 
 army was ordered back to 
 Fredericksburg, and the 
 Ninth and Tenth Rhode 
 Island Volunteers with 
 other organizations were 
 ordered back to the neigh- 
 borhood of the forts sur- 
 round i n g Washington. 
 The Ninth Regiment re- 
 turned by water to Wash- The MarshaU House - 
 ington by the way of Alexandria. It was an ancient and dilapi- 
 dated looking place, trying to live on its old reputation in slave- 
 holding days. "We marched," says a correspondent, "by the 
 historic Marshall House where the youthful commander, Colonel 
 Ellsworth, had been shot in 1861. Alexandria had been in quiet 
 possession of the National troops since May of that year, but there 
 were many violent secessionists there who would not submit. 
 Among them was a man named Jackson, the proprietor of the 
 Marshall House. The Confederate flag had been flying over 
 his premises for many days, and had been plainly visible from 
 the President's house in Washington. It was still there when 
 Colonel Ellsworth went in person, with a few of his men, to 
 
THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth. 
 
 take it down. When descending an 
 upper staircase with the flag, which 
 he had lowered, he was shot by 
 Jackson, who was waiting for him in 
 a dark passage with a double-barreled 
 gun loaded with buck-shot. Ells- 
 worth fell dead, and his murderer 
 met the same fate an instant after- 
 wards at the hands of Francis E. 
 Brownel], who with six others had 
 accompanied his commander to the 
 roof of the house. He shot Jackson through the heart with a 
 bullet, and pierced his body several times with his sabre-bayonet. 
 Ellsworth's body was borne in sadness to Washington, where 
 funeral services were held in the East Room of the White House, 
 with President Lincoln as chief mourner." Ellsworth was a very 
 young and attractive officer, and greatly beloved for his bravery 
 and patriotism. His death produced great excitement throughout 
 the country. It was one of the first that had occurred in conse- 
 quence of the National troubles. 
 
 " Leaving Alexandria the Ninth Regiment embarked on board 
 'the steamer Hero, for Washington.' After a splendid run of 
 about an hour we landed near the Arsenal, and then marched a 
 short distance till we came to a fine piece of turfed ground, where 
 we rested about two hours, while the colonel departed for orders. 
 Resuming our march we passed near the east front of the Capitol, 
 by the Navy Yard, across the east branch of the Potomac, 
 through a little place called Union Town, up and over some of 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 93 
 
 the longest and steepest hills, until covered with dust, we halted 
 at a fork in the roads, where the regiment was divided ; Captain 
 McCloy's company, with three others passed on to the right, and 
 the remaining ones, moved straight on, and soon reached their 
 destination. The regiment is now distributed among ten or a 
 dozen forts, extending around Washington, on the east side, and 
 relieved the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers who joined 
 the army of General McClellan on the Peninsula. One of the 
 forts, Wagner, mounts four thirty-two-pounders, which goes to 
 show that our men are to learn to be artillerymen. Fort Wagner 
 is finely situated, on an eminence overlooking the city and the 
 Potomac, and commands an extensive view. There is an abun- 
 dance of water, shade, and pure air. There is also a great supply 
 of nothing to eat, as all we have is what was left of the rations we 
 brought from Camp Misery, in our haversacks, yesterday morning. 
 
 " The distribution of the companies is as follows : Company A, 
 Capt. Robert McCloy, at Fort Greble ; Company F, Capt. John 
 M. Taylor, Fort Carroll ; Company D, Capt. John McKinley, 
 Fort Snyder ; Company I, Capt. Samuel Pierce, Fort Stanton ; 
 Company C, Capt. John A. Bowen, Fort Ricketts ; Company H, 
 Capt. Henry F. Jenks, Fort Wagner; Company E, Capt. Isaac 
 Place, and Company K, Capt. James R. Holden, Fort Baker 
 (regimental headquarters) ; Company G, Capt. Charles L. Watson, 
 Fort Dupont ; Company B, Capt. Henry C. Card, Fort Meigs; 
 Company L, Capt. Benjamin L. Slocum, Fort Davis. 
 
 " We have neither tents, blankets, overcoats, or clothing, except 
 what we marched in yesterday ; all are in the wagons, which have 
 not as yet reached camp. But most of us had foraged plenty 
 

NINTH RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 95 
 
 of cherries and blackberries, and some of the boys had found 
 little difficulty in deluding some cows into the belief that they 
 were their own calves, so that we became quite reconciled to the 
 non-appearance of our baggage wagons. Soon Captain Jenks 
 announced that he had made arrangements for hot coffee, and the 
 use of the African Methodist Episcopal Church near by, for our 
 company to lodge in. So we shouldered our muskets, and 
 marched into the church, a small brick edifice, about the form 
 and size of a New England country school-house. It was nearly 
 new, and quite neat and clean, and we slept none the worse for 
 its being a negro church. Some of the men were disappointed 
 because they found no cushions on the seats, for myself I gladly 
 stretched myself upon one of them near the pulpit, with my 
 cartridge-box for a pillow and slept the sleep of the weary, while 
 the boys were making the house ring with their vocal music, 
 singing army songs mixed with hymns and psalms ; yet I think 
 I never slept more soundly. 
 
 "July 4th. To-day, at nine o'clock a. m., I commenced my duties 
 as sergeant of the guard. The guard is divided into three 'reliefs,' 
 each 'relief being on duty two hours and four hours off duty. 
 The officer of the guard, instead of pacing a beat, remains in 
 the fort ready to attend to any call. 
 
 " July 9th. Yesterday I proposed to our mess that we have a 
 blackberry pudding, they agreed at once, and by request I went 
 to the store and bought five pounds of flour, some butter and 
 sugar, and while I was gone the boys went out and picked three 
 quarts of berries, and we soon had our pudding boiling in three 
 bags. It was very fine, some of the boys pronouncing it almost 
 as good as 'mother made at home.' 
 
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 " Our washerwoman is a curious, good-na- 
 tured old darkey, who is generally found at 
 home among her pigs, chickens and "chill- 
 uns." She lives in a very modest sort of a 
 cabin, keeps her cow, sells some butter, and 
 like most of the "cullud folks" around here 
 appears to get on very well. The contra- 
 bands are friendly, freely lend us any of their 
 household utensils, and welcome us to their 
 social gatherings. You should hear their 
 singing. I can give you no adequate idea of 
 their sweet rendering of the old plantation 
 melodies and gospel choruses. Some of the 
 boys have come to the conclusion that they 
 are "the best society of the place." To-day 
 is washing day, and "auntie" has come for 
 our clothes which she does up brown at the rate of fifty to seventy- 
 five cents per dozen. All well — with prospect of a scorching day, 
 as usual. Temperature way up among the nineties. 
 
 "Quartermaster George Lewis Cooke (promoted to major, July 
 3d), is a busy man. Although surrounded with stores, he can hardly 
 find time to eat his own meals, and this morning, I noticed him, 
 bright and early, at the commissary store-house in the general 
 post-office building at Washington, as busy as a bee in loading up 
 his teams. It is said that he can provide everything for our 
 comfort, from a tent pin to a twenty-inch collar." 
 
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 so regularly in your columns, you have had 
 hot days at home, but here, we of the 
 Ninth have sweltered through the blazing 
 hours of days and weeks together, on the 
 bare summit of a shadeless hill, our only 
 comfort being to look clown upon smoky 
 Washington and say ' Sorry for the Sen- 
 ators.' Our post, the regimental head- 
 quarters, is named in honor of the brave 
 Senator Baker, who made the name heroic 
 at Ball's Bluff ; but we get familiar with heroism — we soldiers — 
 and have taken the liberty of calling our earth-works ' the Bakery.' 
 According to our 'Cooke,' however, we shall all be 'done' in 
 about thirty days more. An admirable 'Cooke,' a very 'model 
 cook,' have we ; but I cannot speak of his praises without includ- 
 ing our other field officers. We pit our colonel against 'any other 
 man ' ; and to say of our lieutenant-colonel that he is 'every inch 
 a soldier,' is to give him only about seventy-six inches of justice. 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Powell is a faithful and accomplished officer 
 and has won the respect of all. The three officers are sleeplessly 
 vigilant. Many's the night on which they gird on sword and 
 pistol, mount their chargers, and spur away through the woods. 
 Weary and worn, wet with the night dews, they return 
 during the small hours. May the consciousness of having done 
 their duty faithfully, at their own risk, without calling upon any- 
 one to aid them, be their sufficient reward." 
 
 Another correspondent describes what he saw at Fort Wagner, 
 the quarters of Company H. He says: "Col. J. A. Haskin — an 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 99 
 
 Lieut. -Col. John H. Powell. 
 
 officer who left his arm at Chepultepec, but 
 who has never left anywhere a certain 
 cheerful manliness which secures the admi- 
 ration of all who meet him — has charge of 
 the defences north of the Potomac. He 
 often visits our forts, and the other day, 
 just after battalion drill, he asked to see a 
 specimen of our proficiency in handling 
 the 32-pounders. Either because Fort 
 Wagner was close at hand, or because of 
 a dim suspicion in the minds of Colonel Pitman and Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Powell that Company H would as fairly represent the artil- 
 leryism of the regiment as any other men, the little fortress com- 
 manded by Capt. Henry F. Jenks was chosen as the scene of opera- 
 tions. Two or three hours of field drill, under the sun, hadn't 
 quite taken all the starch out of the Pawtucketers, and they were 
 ready. 
 
 " I could the better describe artillery practice were I sure 
 whether the ' cascable' should first be removed from the muzzle, 
 or the ' tompion ' secured to the breech ; but ignorant as I am of 
 the nomenclature of big guns and the details of loading and firing 
 them, I could appreciate the fact that the 'babes' of Company H 
 were lively, rather, and that between 'From Battery' and 'Fire,' 
 the intervals were busy and brief. 
 
 "It is a mistake to suppose that '32-pounders' weigh only 
 thirty-two pounds ; they are in fact much heavier. Several of 
 them will weigh a good deal. On a warm clay the metal becomes 
 penetrated with heat, and reflects caloric upon all who approach 
 
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 A short corporal of Company H has assured me that it is con- 
 ducive to perspiration to stand long near these guns. He thinks, 
 I suppose, that the shorter you stand by them the better. Speak- 
 ing of size, I may remark that very few of the members of Com- 
 pany H are eminent for personal altitude ; indeed, on account of 
 their juvenility of stature and appearance, they are sometimes 
 called 'the babies ' by the bearded men of other companies. It may 
 be said, however, by your correspondent, that if infants can handle 
 the thirty-two pounders as they do, what a racket, with hand- 
 spikes and rammers, there must be, when adults take hold. 
 
 "Out of tender compassion, of course, for these 'babes in 
 arms,' the men of the Ninth allowed the boys of Company H to 
 take the prize from them all, at our recent ' target-shoot.' General 
 orders were, a week before, that each company should keep accu- 
 rate account of its target practice for the week, and send the 
 record of its five best shots to headquarters for a regimental trial 
 of skill. A prize of five dollars was made up by the field-officers, 
 to give a little more interest to the trial, but the chief incitement 
 was honor rather than gold. Last Saturday morning the squads 
 of five came in, each man clasping his polished Enfield, while the 
 expectation of V-ictory gleamed upon his sunburnt brow. Target 
 at two hundred yards ; three rounds to each man ; result, Com- 
 pany H ahead of all others. Then came the trial to decide who 
 of the five of H should get the five of dollars. Out of their fifteen 
 shots at this last, eleven hit the target, and Sergt. Ambrose P. 
 Rice made the closest shooting and won the 'Five.' " Alas ! that 
 this gallant soldier, who afterwards re-entered the service, should 
 have perished of starvation in the Andersonville prison pen ! 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. IOI 
 
 "It is noticeable that there has been less talk about 'weaning 
 the babies' of Company H, since these ' enfants terribles* have 
 won at the target match for which, and at which, the whole 
 regiment did its best. Captain Jenks takes some pride, also, 
 in the general drill and behavior of the little ones committed 
 to his charge. He will not admit, and few others will affirm, that 
 they can be surpassed in the manual of arms. And it is to the 
 credit of any company to stand comparatively well with them in 
 the Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers. We shall not be unwilling 
 to compare ourselves with our predecessors or our contemporaries, 
 on Dexter Training Ground, or anywhere else, when we get back 
 to the martial city of Providence. In comparative anatomy, 
 philology, entomology and cookery, we may be surpassed by the 
 'inimitable' punsters of the 'Tenth Rhode Island,' but in drill, 
 dear friends, we venture, humbly, to claim that you can't sustain 
 a spermaceti to us." 
 
 "July 30th. General orders were read to-day, to the effect that 
 our term of service will expire August 26th, and that permission 
 is granted to any member of the Ninth Regiment to re-enlist in 
 the new Seventh Rhode Island Regiment, now being organized, 
 and who can thereupon be mustered out of the Ninth and into 
 the Seventh." 
 
 Another correspondent says : " Yesterday, I paid a visit to a few 
 of the forts on the east of the city, garrisoned by our gallant boys 
 of the Ninth Rhode Island, and had the pleasure of witnessing a 
 battalion drill. Although these drills are in great disrepute with 
 the men these hot midsummer days, yet they are undoubtedly 
 the basis of their military proficiency. The accuracy of their 
 
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 drill, and general excellence in battalion movements, call forth 
 the warmest commendations of all who are so fortunate as to wit- 
 ness them, and should afford ample compensation to the men of 
 the Ninth, for the physical hardships they have endured in acquir- 
 ing their present military status." 
 
 " The different companies of the regiment are provided with the 
 large Sibley tents, and if the number of tents were only increased, 
 
 The Sibley Tent. 
 
 The "A" Tent. 
 
 The Shelter Tent. 
 
 they would be very comfortable ; but to have nineteen or twenty 
 men sleeping in one tent in this warm weather seems rather close 
 packing." But the Sibley tent soon had to "go." The armies of 
 the Union were growing rapidly, and the shrinkage of tents 
 began. " In the years 1861 and 1862 most of the troops on taking 
 the field were furnished with the Sibley tent. It was quite a 
 spacious pavilion, large enough almost for a good size circus side 
 show. When pitched it was a perfect cone in shape, the apex 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. IO3 
 
 being fully twelve feet from the ground. The foot of the centre- 
 pole was held in position by an iron frame, called a tri-pod, the 
 three legs of which straddled out like those of a daddy-long-legs. 
 This straddling attachment seems to have been invented expressly 
 for the soldiers to stumble over when moving about at night. 
 It served its purpose admirably. Five or six and sometimes eight 
 Sibley tents were supplied to a company, and the men were 
 packed like sardines in a box, from fifteen to twenty in each tent. 
 At night they lay with their feet mixed up around the centre-pole, 
 their heads fringing the outer line. Each man's knapsack marked 
 the particular section of ground that belonged to him. When the 
 messes were very full the men slept like a great circular row of 
 spoons, and if one wanted to turn over to give the bones on the 
 other side a chance, he would yell out the order to ' flop ' and all 
 would go over together, thus reversing the spoon along the whole 
 line. But the Sibley tents proved to be cumbrous things to 
 handle, and enormously bulky. A regiment with sixty of them 
 and all other baggage in proportion, required a train of wagons 
 sufficient to transport a menagerie. So the Sibley tent had to - go. ' 
 New and larger calls for troops were made, and it became a grave 
 question whether there were in the country enough mules avail- 
 able to haul Sibleys for a million men. The second year of the 
 war the skrinkage began. After the Sibley came the A or 
 Wedge tent — the shape of which is, perhaps indicated clearly 
 enough by its name — and the "Bell" tent, much like it, except 
 that it swelled out at each end, increasing its capacity. Five or 
 six men could be comfortably domiciled in the A tent, and from 
 eight to ten in the Bell. A year or so later the quartermaster 
 
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 gave the thumb-screw another turn and squeezed out the unique 
 shelter tent, which was as near the point of none at all as it was 
 possible to reach. To each man was given a piece of stout cotton 
 cloth, about six feet long and four feet wide; along one edge half 
 of them had a row of buttons, and the other half had buttonholes 
 to correspond. It took two — one of each kind — to make a shelter 
 tent, in which two men were to live and move, and have their 
 being. The shelter-tent was three feet high to the ridge, and the 
 ' spread ' at the bottom was about four feet. It was soon dubbed 
 the 'pup' tent, and henceforward to the close of the war, the 
 'pup' tent became the only protection of our armies from the 
 sun and storm." Lieut. -Col. Hinman's "Corporal Klegg." 
 
 The hot summer of 1862 was passed away in the forts manned 
 by the Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers, in regular drills and 
 customary fortification duties, preparing those who afterwards 
 re-enlisted for greater efficiency. Fort life thus proved an excel- 
 lent school for military order and improvement. The separation 
 of the companies necessarily prevented much regimental inter- 
 course and the monotony of spare hours was broken by such 
 sports as were warranted within the limits of a fortification, and 
 by frequent correspondence with home. 
 
 Sergt. H. H. Richardson, of Company H, wrote home : 
 "Some of us were in Washington yesterday, and I managed to 
 dispatch my business quite early, so that I had no need to hurry 
 back to camp. I sent the team back and devoted the re- 
 mainder of the day to visiting the Smithsonian Institute, and the 
 halls of Congress. I have become somewhat familiar with the 
 intricate passages about the Capitol so that I can find what I 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 IO : 
 
 want without difficulty. I find it quite in- 
 teresting to visit the House and the Senate, 
 and listen to the debates, especially in the 
 Senate, where Vice-President Hamlin is the 
 presiding officer, and where I can hear many 
 of our most noted men, whose names have 
 long been familiar to us. The House of 
 Representatives is the much larger and the 
 popular body. The speaker is Mr. Grow, $£?. fyCc 
 of Pennsylvania." 
 
 Vice-President Hamlin, statesman and governor of Maine, 
 served as United States Senator from that state for several 
 terms, until 1861, when he resigned, having been elected vice- 
 president on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln. He presided over 
 the Senate from March 4, 1S61, till March 3, 1S65. When 
 elected vice-president with Mr. Lincoln in 1S61, he accepted an 
 invitation to visit the latter at Chicago, and, calling on the Presi- 
 dent-elect, found him in a room alone. Mr. Lincoln arose, and 
 coming toward his guest, said abruptly: " Have we ever been 
 introduced to each other, Mr. Hamlin ?" " No sir, I think not," 
 was the reply. "That also is my impression," continued Mr. 
 Lincoln, "but I remember distinctly while I was in Congress to 
 have heard you make a speech in the Senate. I was very much 
 struck with that speech, Senator — particularly struck with it — 
 and for the reason that it was filled, chock up, with the very best 
 kind of anti-slavery doctrine." "Well now," replied Hamlin, 
 laughing, " that is very singular, for my own and first recollec- 
 tion of yourself is of having heard you make a speech in the 
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 &rT?-z*f- 
 
 ' House,' a speech that was so full of good 
 humor and sharp points that I, together 
 with others of your auditors were convulsed 
 with laughter." The acquaintance thus 
 cordially begun, ripened into a close friend- 
 ship, and it is affirmed that during all the 
 ^ "y years of trial, war and bloodshed that fol- 
 lowed, Abraham Lincoln continued to re- 
 pose the utmost confidence in his friend 
 and official associate, Hannibal Hamlin. 
 Galusha A. Grow, statesman, was a native of Connecticut, and 
 had rendered important service in Congress previous to the war 
 for the Union, and helped secure the election of Nathaniel P. 
 Banks as speaker of the House, and the election of Abraham 
 Lincoln as President of the United States, in i860. At the con- 
 vening of the first, or extra session of the Thirty-seventh Con- 
 gress, on July 4, 1 86 1, Mr. Grow was elected speaker of the 
 House of Representatives, and held the position until March 4, 
 1863, when, on retiring, he received a unanimous vote of thanks, 
 the first vote of the kind given to any speaker in many years. 
 
 "I don't see anything in the papers about a scarcity of specie 
 at the North. It is worth ten per cent, premium in Washington. 
 It is now four o'clock, and the order will soon be given for 'Dress 
 Parade,' so I must stop and give my ' whangs ' a little polish, and 
 equip myself in all the paraphernalia of war." 
 
 "July 23d. An order has just been issued by our general-in- 
 ch ief, Pope, forbidding all officers or soldiers leaving their camp 
 on any account, without an order from his headquarters. This 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
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 [A Recent Picture.] 
 
 shuts us up pretty close, and had it been in force when we went 
 on our night expeditions to Washington, we should very likely 
 have been taken prisoners by the provost guard. 
 
 " If we remain here very long we shall have 
 to fall back upon General Pope's late general 
 order, July 18, that the troops in the army 
 under his command (and we are) shall draw 
 their subsistence from the region in which 
 they may be quartered. There is no doubt 
 but that we might do that to our hearts' con- 
 tent without robbing a single Union man. 
 Twice since we have been here a body of cav- 
 alry have moved past our camp scouting, and 
 both times, after being away several clays, have brought in several 
 prisoners. Day before yesterday they went by with ten or twelve 
 prisoners, among them one wearing a captain's uniform. He was 
 taken within five or six miles of here. 
 
 "A court-martial is now in session in the Ninth regiment. 
 Lieut. Francello G. Jillson, of Company G, is the judge-advocate. 
 The court sits Wednesday and Saturday of each week, provided 
 there is any business before it. Several cases have been disposed 
 of for fighting, stealing and sleeping on guard, My duties are sim- 
 ilar to those of a sheriff in the civil courts, viz. : To bring in the 
 prisoners for trial and return them to the guard-house and to see 
 that witnesses are in attendance. A few days ago, while the 
 court was in session a most terrific whirlwind came up, bringing 
 with it such dense clouds of dust as to completely conceal from 
 view objects not ten feet distant. 
 
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 THE NINTH REGIMENT. 
 
 That august body, the court, 
 was scattered, and with the 
 judge left for parts unknown, 
 leaving only your valiant ser- 
 geant and six guards, with 
 five prisoners in charge. The 
 tent itself now violently 
 threatened to disperse and 
 follow the court, but by the 
 united efforts of sergeant, 
 guards and prisoners, who all 
 lent a hand, one at each 
 tent-pin, the court-house was 
 saved from demolition. 
 coionei Pitman at Battalion Driii. When the lowering elements 
 
 finally subsided and peace was restored, it was no small task to 
 remove the dust which had accumulated on the premises. Upon 
 the reassembling of the court its members appeared metamor- 
 phosed from a group of spruce, blue-uniformed Federal officers 
 into a sorry looking set of fellows, wearing a garb of sackcloth 
 and ashes. 
 
 " We are now practising daily on our heavy guns. In the 
 morning and every afternoon we have battalion drill at head- 
 quarters, under the immediate orders of Colonel Pitman. We 
 drill in battalion movements three or four hours at a time. The 
 more distant companies are conveyed to and from the field in our 
 army wagons, but we, being quite near, march. Some of the 
 officers appeared at first to be sadly ignorant of military phrases, 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. IO9 
 
 and the movements executed were something startling." Said one 
 of the boys, "it reminded me of the officer whose last command 
 had been a pair of draft horses on his Pennsylvania farm. Coming 
 with his company to a pit in the road, he electrified them with 
 the order to ' Gee around that hole.' But any little errors of this 
 sort were quickly corrected, and by one officer particularly, with 
 the order, 'as you were, men, my mistake.' We are now 
 making commendable progress in battalion movements, and ex- 
 pect to astonish our friends at home when we return." 
 
 A. D. Nickerson, Eleventh Rhode Island Volunteers, says, in 
 his " War Experiences : " "It is not within the province of a 
 private soldier — more especially a 'raw recruit' — to criticise his 
 superiors, and consequently I will not attempt it, notwithstanding 
 this is the 'piping time of peace,' and all fear of the guard-house 
 has forever vanished. I will say, however, that all of the officers 
 named had their peculiarities, but that our lieutenant-colonel was 
 peculiarly peculiar ; and yet I believe him to have been every inch a 
 soldier — at any rate, there was no such word as fear in his dictionary. 
 He was in command when the regiment came the nearest to being 
 in an engagement, and I fancy I see him now, mounted on his 
 horse and riding at the head of the column, wearing a moth-eaten 
 blouse and an exceedingly dilapidated straw hat, with a very 
 black ' T. D.' clay pipe stuck in his mouth, the bowl downwards. 
 He looked more like the ' cowboy ' of modern times than the pict- 
 ures of military heroes which I used to see in my school-books 
 when I was a boy. This was our lieutenant-colonel — John Talbot 
 Pitman. Pie had good ' staying qualities.' He never threw up 
 his commission, nor did he die. He remained with us to the last, 
 
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 and rose considerably in the estimation of the men after his 
 appearance at the head of the regiment at the time I have just 
 mentioned. Men everywhere — especially soldiers — admire pluck. 
 Our lieutenant-colonel had pluck, even though his heart seemed 
 somewhat lacking in tenderness. He never winked at any breach 
 of discipline on the part of an officer or a private while he was in 
 command of the regiment. If at times he appeared to have too 
 little consideration for his men, he never failed to exact the fullest 
 measure of consideration for them from all others." 
 
 "July 27th. The routine of camp-life has been interrupted by 
 another long march. The forts which the regiment occupy are 
 all new, and had never been furnished with flags, until a few 
 days ago, when one was sent to each fort. Suitable flag-staffs 
 having been erected on Friday last, the staff officers with the 
 companies at headquarters started in the morning fully equipped 
 with twenty rounds of blank cartridges for the fort at the right of 
 the line, receiving as they went along the companies at the 
 several forts, similarly armed and equipped. Upon reaching the 
 most distant fort (manned by Company A, Captain McCloy). 
 Their flag was run up and saluted by the battalion with two 
 volleys of musketry and three cheers for the flag. Captain 
 McCloy's company then fell into line with us and the march was 
 continued to the other extremity of the line, eight or ten miles 
 distant, raising and saluting the flag at each fort in passing until 
 headquarters, Fort Baker, was reached. Here there were two 
 flags, one for the fort, and the other for the colonel's quarters. 
 These were saluted with three volleys of musketry and twenty- 
 one guns from the fort. A rest was then taken for dinner, after 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I I I 
 
 which the march was resumed towards the forts at the left, the flag 
 of each of which was raised and saluted as those on the right had 
 been, after which all marched back to their quarters again. The 
 whole march probably exceeded sixteen miles, and as the day was 
 hot, the men were not sorry to 'call it a day ' and find themselves 
 back again, and relieved of their heavy equipments. The view 
 from some of the forts was magnificent, that from Fort Greble 
 (Captain McCloy), being particularly fine. Fort Greble is located 
 upon the heights exactly opposite Alexandria, and commands a fine 
 view of the Potomac, both shores, and for many miles each way, 
 including camps and forts innumerable, with the cities of Wash- 
 ington, Alexandria and Georgetown in full view. On my last 
 visit to Washington I found the flags displayed at half mast, and 
 the public buildings closed and draped in respect to the memory 
 of Ex-President Martin Van Buren." 
 
 "Box from home. One of the best things in the box you so 
 kindly sent us was the cake. There is no danger of its being- 
 slighted, as the boys always want to enjoy the boxes together. 
 The only regret I feel about it is that I cannot eat my cake and 
 still have it. When I opened the package, a quarrel immediately 
 followed, the 'corporal' disputing the possession of the cake with 
 me. I suspect nothing but my superior rank saved it. Finally 
 the matter was compromised by my giving him a good piece of it, 
 whereupon he left me in peaceable possession of the remainder." 
 
 Foraging. One of the men wrote home to his mother that his 
 bright new bayonet had been stained with Southern blood, and 
 the old lady shuddered at the awful thought. " But," he added, 
 " it wasn't a man I killed, only just a pig." 
 
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 " Our team has just 
 come in, loaded with 
 bed-sacks, so that we 
 must buy or steal (or 
 else in camp language, 
 'forage'), some straw 
 to put in them or go 
 Fooging- without. Some of the 
 
 bovs have recently managed to 'find' some new potatoes, cab- 
 bages, cucumbers and other good things, so that the straw will 
 probably soon be found. We are also enjoying some ripe pears 
 which were raised out of our garden. 
 
 "We are nearing the end of our three months' service in the 
 Ninth regiment. In that period we have seen quite a variety of 
 soldier life, although we have made but few movements. We 
 have held an exposed position in a chain of forts of the eastern 
 defences of Washington, but have encountered no raiding Early 
 or Jackson, so "that the results achieved are not conspicuous, 
 but we have stood at the post of duty assigned us, thus relieving 
 older troops for more active service, and we feel that without our 
 history the record of the war for the Union would be incomplete. 
 " I notice that the Tenth regiment has written more letters to 
 the papers than our regiment. As the two organizations have 
 not met since we parted at Cloud's Mills, Va., we can have no 
 idea what progress they may have made in the art of war, and 
 doubtless each regiment will be prepared to criticize the other 
 pretty sharply when we meet at home. As they are composed 
 of city companies, and rather 'aristocratic ' withal, it will per- 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 I I 
 
 Chaplain N. W. T. Root. 
 
 haps be becoming to us while the crowd 
 is admiring tliem." 
 
 The duties of chaplain were satisfactorily 
 performed by Rev. Mr. Root, of Lonsdale, 
 R. I. As postmaster of the regiment, also, 
 and in various other ways, he found daily 
 opportunity to render acceptable and ap- 
 preciated services to the men. 
 
 Religious services were maintained 
 through the summer, which were well attended by officers and 
 men. 
 
 The bugle sounded the call for public worship, and the men 
 seated themselves upon the ground or stood in groups to hear 
 the preaching of the Gospel, and sing the old, familiar hymns. 
 The chaplain, in his best uniform, stood and prayed fervently for 
 the Divine guidance and protection, while the men listened with 
 heads reverently bowed. After the sermon the chaplain would 
 give out some familiar hymn in our red-covered hymn books. 
 
 One of the regiment wrote home, " Last Sabbath Chaplain Root 
 preached a very practical sermon on ' profanity.' After the sermon, 
 the Warren boys agreed among their several messes, that when- 
 ever one of them uttered a profane word he should be immediately 
 compelled to go and fetch a pail of water for the cook's galley. 
 As the distance to the camp is about half a mile, it will be readily 
 seen that this was no light task thus voluntarily imposed upon 
 themselves. To their honor, be it said, that they fully kept their 
 agreement (so far as heard from), and I commend their example 
 as worthy of imitation." 
 
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 "August 3d. We have lost one of our comrades by death. He 
 was a young man belonging in the south part of the State, a mem- 
 ber of Company K. His death is supposed to be the result of 
 injuries received from a fall while wrestling at Tennallytown. His 
 remains have been sent home in a metallic burial case, at the 
 expense of the general government. I was frequently at the hos- 
 pital during his sickness, and should say that he received every 
 care and attention possible. Both our doctors, Morton and King, 
 spared no time or pains to relieve him. 
 
 " During the three months' campaign of the Ninth, the health of 
 the regiment was generally good, and but three deaths occurred 
 during its term of service : Hollis Taber, Jr., Company C, died 
 Aug. 13, 1862, in hospital; Sylvester B. Arnold, Company K, 
 died Aug. 2. 1862, in hospital ; Joseph H. Simonds, Company I, 
 died September, 1862, in Warren, R. I." 
 
 August 24th. The following order was received by the regi- 
 ment : 
 
 Headquarters Defences of Washington, 
 General Orders No. 2. Washington, August 23, 1S62. 
 
 [Extract I.] 
 
 In pursuance of orders from the War Department: 
 
 1st. All regiments of three months volunteers within this command, will he 
 mustered out of service at the points where they organized respectively. They 
 will he placed en route for the rendezvous so as to arrive there one or two days 
 hefore the expiration of their time. 
 
 By order of 
 
 Brigadier-General BARNARD, 
 
 (Signed) J. B. Smith, 
 A. A. G. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I I 5 
 
 The regiment in accordance with the above order broke up its 
 camps at the forts, Monday morning, August 25th, and took up its 
 line of march for Washington. It left for home in the afternoon 
 and proceeded by rail to New York, with the customary delays at 
 Baltimore and Philadelphia. . At New York the regiment was de- 
 layed a day and a half for transportation. It was finally conveyed 
 to Fall River by steamer Metropolis, and from there was trans- 
 ferred to steamer Bay State, and arrived at Providence on 
 the morning of the 29th. Company L, Captain Slocum, was left 
 at Newport. After disembarking the "Ninth" was received by 
 the "Tenth Regiment," and escorted to Exchange place, and 
 dismissed. With one exception the companies belonged to 
 other towns, and left the city in the earliest trains for their re- 
 spective homes. Companies A and H, of Pawtucket, were hand- 
 somely received there, and a bountiful collation provided. A similar 
 reception was given to Company I, in Warren, and a speech of 
 welcome made by Asa M. Gammell, Esq. A few days after, the 
 regiment assembled in Providence, was paid off, and mustered out. 
 
 The history of the Ninth Regiment is necessarily brief and 
 uneventful. It is not identified with brilliant deeds, such as 
 attract the gaze and call forth expressions of wonder or admira- 
 tion. It cannot point to hard fought battles, and exhibit a long 
 list of casualties as evidence of its prowess. But if destitute 
 of these features, impartial history will nevertheless give it a 
 deserved recognition as a reserved power. Important but not 
 dazzling duties were assigned it, and these duties were quietly 
 and faithfully performed. In every respect it was a credit to the 
 State, and worthy of being held in honorable remembrance. 
 
Il6 THE NINTH REGIMENT 
 
 THE SOLDIER'S RETURN. 
 
 Tune — Marching A long. 
 
 F 
 
 BY CAPT. JOHN MCKINLEY, CO. D, 9TII R. I. VOLS. 
 
 ROM far distant fort and from white tented plain, 
 I low gladly we come to our old homes again : 
 Though stained not as heroes in battle's red gore, 
 We've all done our duty, and none can do more. 
 
 To father and mother what joy it imparts 
 To meet the loved son they have mourned in their hearts: 
 "Where sad looks have lingered, a smile seems to reign, 
 And friends, weary sighing, are cheerful again. 
 
 The lone-hearted maiden and fond loving wife, 
 
 That longed for their loved one's return from the strife, 
 
 With sister and brother have happy become, 
 
 To see the brave soldier return to his home. 
 
 Though weary with wandering, 'tis pleasure sincere, 
 Dear friends, kind neighbors, and kindred, to hear, 
 In sweet tones of welcome, your voices arise, 
 A- \<>u meet us and greet us with love's beaming eves. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 Farewell for a while, now, the fort and the field, 
 We return to the comforts our firesides can yield, 
 And gladly forget our brief, weary sojourn 
 Where friends meet to welcome the soldier's return. 
 
 May God speed the time when the battle's loud roar 
 Shall no longer be heard on Columbia's shore: 
 When ■■ peace and good will " all our people shall learn. 
 And no longer prevent the soldier's return. 
 
 Chorus : 
 
 Homeward we come, proudly homeward we come, 
 And sweet is the welcome of kind friends at home. 
 How warmly love's feeling in each heart will burn 
 When friends fondlv welcome the soldier's return. 
 
 II 7 
 
NINTH R. I. VOLUNTEERS 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF. 
 
 Colonel — John T. Pitman. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonels — John T. Pitman, John Hare Povvel. 
 
 Majors — John T. Pitman, John Hare Powel, George Lewis Cooke. 
 
 Surgeon — Lloyd Morton. 
 
 Assistant-Surgeon — Henry King. 
 
 Chaplain — N. W. Taylor Root. 
 
 Adjutant — Henry C. Brown. 
 
 Quartermasters — George Lewis Cooke, William McCready, Jr. 
 
 Sergeant-Major — Robert Fessenden. 
 
 Quartermaster-Sergeant — Alfred O. Tilden. 
 
 Hospital Steward — Henry E. Tyler. 
 
 Commissary-Sergeant — Horace G. Miller. 
 
 COMPANY OFFICERS. 
 
 COMPANY A. 
 
 Capt. Robert McCloy, ist Lt. Albert W. Tompkins, 
 
 2d Lt. Henry C. Brown. 
 
 COMPANY B. 
 
 Capt. Henry C. Card, ist Lt. J. Clarke Barber, 
 
 2d Lt. James McDonald. 
 
NINTH R. I. VOLUNTEERS. IIQ 
 
 COMPANY C. 
 Capt. John A. Bowen, 1st Lt. George A. Spink, 
 
 2d Lt. William H. Potter. 
 
 COMPANY D. 
 Capt. John McKinley, 1st Lt. John Pollard, 
 
 2d Lt. William McCready, Jr. 
 
 COMPANY E. 
 Capt. Isaac Place, 1st Lt. Philip D. Hail. 
 
 2d Lt. Nathan Benton. 
 
 COMPANY F. 
 
 Capt. John M. Taylor, 1st Lt. Randall Holden, 
 
 2d Lt. Richard W. Howard. 
 
 COMPANY G. 
 
 Capt. Charles S. Watson, 1st Lt. Francello G. Jillson, 
 
 2d Lt. Henry J. Whitaker. 
 
 COMPANY H. 
 Capt. Henry F. Jenks, 1st Lt. Frank Allen, 
 
 2d Lt. Georde A. Bucklin. 
 
 COMPANY I. 
 
 Capt. Samuel Pearce, 
 
 1 st Lt. George Lewis Cooke, 2d Lt. William H. Surgens, 
 
 1 st Lt. William H. Surgens, 2d Lt. Horace G. Karrus. 
 
 COMPANY K. 
 
 Capt. James R. Holden, 1st Lt. William H. Gardner, 
 
 2d Lt. George H. Burnham. 
 
 COMPANY L. 
 Capt. John Hare Powel, 1st Lt. William R. Landers, 
 
 Capt. Benjamin L. Slocum, 2d Lt. William H. King. 
 
(^^S^U^ 
 
 lrvin McDowell. 
 
 George B. McClellan, 
 
 and other 
 
 Union Generals 
 
 in Virginia, 
 
 1862. 
 
The Tenth Regiment 
 
 R. I. VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 T 
 
 The White House. 
 
 HE Tenth Regiment 
 Rhode Island Vol- 
 unteers was princi- 
 pally recruited from an 
 organization of the citizens 
 of Providence, banded to- 
 gether for State defence, 
 and known as the First 
 Regiment Rhode Island 
 National Guards. On the 23d of May, 1 862, -the following spe- 
 cial order was issued from the Adjutant General's office of the 
 State, viz. : 
 
 Commandants of the several military companies of the State, will imme- 
 diately assemble their respective commands, at their usual place of rendezvous, 
 and report one company, minimum standard from each organization, to the 
 office of the Adjutant-General, for three months' service in Washington. 
 
 Signed, E. C. MAURAN, 
 
 Adjutant-General. 
 
 A meeting of the officers of the several companies comprising 
 the " First Regiment Rhode Island National Guards," was imme- 
 diately held, and the following resolution was unanimously passed : 
 
 1G 
 
122 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Resolved, That Col. James Shaw, Jr., is hereby requested to offer to His 
 Excellency the Governor, the services of the organization known as the ' First 
 Regiment Rhode Island National Guards,' as now officered and organized, in 
 response to the call for service made by him as above. 
 
 Signed, ELISHA DYER, 
 
 Commanding Co. B, being Fourth Ward Drill Corps, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 A reply was promptly received from the Governor, accepting 
 the services of the regiment according to the terms of the reso- 
 lution. 
 
 " On the night of the 25th," says Colonel Shaw (in his official 
 report to Governor Sprague the following October), "the despatch 
 announcing the defeat of General Banks was received, and at one 
 o'clock on the 26th, I received from you an order to immediately 
 organize the National Guards. I at once ordered the several 
 companies to meet at their respective armories at 9 o'clock, a. m., 
 and at seven p. m., of the same day, had the honor to report to 
 you six hundred and thirteen men ready for duty. As I had seen 
 no service in the field, and there was a prospect of immediate 
 active service, I preferred to waive the right to command the regi- 
 ment, according to the terms on which you had accepted it, and 
 requested your Excellency to appoint some one who had received 
 a military education as its commander. I was further directed by 
 you to send in a list of company officers, and was informed that 
 the quartermaster would be at my service at daylight the fol- 
 lowing morning. 
 
 "At 2.15 p. m., the next day, by my order, the regiment was 
 paraded on Exchange place, armed, clothed and equipped, — in less 
 than thirty hours from the time it was first ordered to meet." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 123 
 
 General Orders No. 29, Adjutant-Gen- 
 eral's Office, Providence, May 26, 1862, 
 announced that the National Guards of 
 Providence will be organized as the Tenth 
 Rhode Island Volunteers : Capt. Zenas 
 R. Bliss, United States Army, Colonel ; 
 James Shaw, Jr., Lieutenant-Colonel. 
 
 Colonel Bliss being obliged to remain 
 at home for a day or two, on account of 
 his father's death, the following order was issued, viz. 
 
 Special Orders, 
 No. 2g. 
 
 Statk of Rhode Island, Etc., 
 
 Adjutant-General's Office, 
 
 Providence, May 26. 1S62. 
 
 Lieutenant- Colonel Shaw is hereby ordered to have the baggage belonging to 
 his regiment at the Stonington Railroad Freight Depot, at 11 a. m., on Tues- 
 day, the 27th instant. 
 
 You will also order your companies to report punctually at the Stonington 
 Depot, at 3 o'clock, p. m., same date. 
 
 By order of the Commander-in-Chief, 
 
 AUG. IIOPPIN, 
 A ss/s/a h t A dju ta >it- Gen oral. 
 
 " We left Providence," wrote a member of the regiment, 
 " Tuesday afternoon, and were received everywhere on the route 
 with great enthusiasm." The impression seemed to prevail that 
 Washington was safe now that the "Tenth " was on its way. Cer- 
 tainly no regiment ever left the State more promptly in response 
 to the Governor's call, and no regiment hastened to the rescue 
 of the capital under a more solemn sense of duty. 
 
124 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 x 
 
 Some of the best citizens of Providence 
 were members of this regiment from al- 
 most every rank and profession. There 
 was the merchant, the lawyer and the 
 banker ; the mechanic and tradesman, 
 with the clerk from behind his counter. 
 There were the students, from the college 
 and high school, led by that grand man, 
 Lieut.-coi. James Shaw, jr. Capt. Elisha Dyer, formerly governor of 
 the State, whose former position gave increased value to the ser- 
 vice now rendered. It was the general desire and expectation 
 that Col. James Shaw, Jr., should be the colonel of the regiment, 
 but he chose to be content with deserving the position, and de- 
 clining the honor in favor of a worthy officer who had seen service. 
 "The regiment assembled on Exchange place," wrote Lieut. 
 Charles F. Phillips, of Company B, "on Tuesday afternoon, May 
 27th, at three o'clock, and about five o'clock it filed into the cars. 
 During the interim, while standing in line, we were all pretty 
 well drenched by a heavy shower of rain, besides being bent well 
 nigh double by the unaccustomed weight of our equipments. 
 Some one pointed out a stranger, of fine soldierly physique, and 
 face well bronzed by service with the regulars in Texas, as our 
 future colonel, and an efficient commander he afterwards proved, 
 but as we were then in blissful ignorance of his merits, we were 
 hardly disposed to look upon him with favor at first." Colonel 
 Bliss was detained at home on account of his father's death, and 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw assumed command of the regiment, and 
 directed its movement to Washington. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 125 
 
 Capt. Elisha Dyer. 
 
 The commander of Company A, was 
 Capt. William E. Taber, a young and 
 efficient officer, who had seen service with 
 the First Rhode Island Regiment. At the 
 head of Company B, marched Capt. Elisha 
 Dyer, one of the war governors of Rhode 
 Island. The men are few who at his age 
 and with his responsibilities, would have 
 surrendered the comforts of home for the 
 arduous duties of the camp. Within eight hours time from the 
 opening of the armory, he paraded his company of a hundred and 
 twenty-five men up Broadway and down Westminster street. The 
 other captains were : Jeremiah Yose, Company C ; William S. 
 Smith, Company D ; Hopkins B. Cady, Company E ; Benjamin 
 W. Harris, Company F ; A. Crawford Greene, Company G ; 
 Christopher Duckworth, Company H ; William M. Hale, Company 
 I ; G. Frank Low, Company K (Second Lieutenant First Regiment). 
 Most of the officers of the "Tenth" were citizens of Providence, 
 well known to the men, and good order and discipline prevailed. 
 
 Resuming, Lieutenant Phillips wrote : "As soon as the regi- 
 ment had passed into the cars, guards were stationed with 
 strict orders to allow no one to enter or leave the train. Soon a 
 stout, well built man, with eyes and hair as black as the raven, 
 and a countenance indicating a generous disposition, attempted 
 to enter one of the cars. The guard disputed his entrance at the 
 point of the bayonet. 'I am the Governor's aide,' he said with 
 considerable vigor. 'And my orders are imperative,' as firmly 
 insisted the guard. Here was a quandary, Captain Dyer's sergeant 
 
126 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 was attending to business closely, but after further parleying, 
 the necessary order came, and Col. Byron Sprague of his excel- 
 lency's staff was allowed to pass in. A few moments later the 
 final commands were given, the conductor gave the signal for de- 
 parture, and the long train moved out of the depot amid loud 
 cheering by the assembled crowd and a general waving of hats 
 and handkerchiefs." 
 
 To such a regiment might be fitly applied the words of Abra- 
 ham Lincoln when, in a message to Congress, he said : "There 
 are regiments in the national service which could fill with dignity 
 and honor, every important place in the central administration of 
 the national government." 
 
 Lieut. Winthrop DeWolf, of Company D, wrote: "The first 
 realizing sense of the rough work we had undertaken, I think, 
 came over us at Groton, when for the first time we underwent 
 'rations.' At the gangway leading to the boat stood the com- 
 missary and his assistants with a barrel before them. Our unsus- 
 pecting recruits marched up in single file with open haversacks, 
 when instead of the neat package of sandwiches and sponge cake 
 which most of them expected to be deposited therein, the afore- 
 said assistant disappeared for an instant, head and shoulders into 
 the barrel, then rising suddenly crammed into the opening a 
 greasy mass, which might be meat or bone, as it happened. The 
 old soldiers (First Regiment men are old soldiers now), looked 
 doubtfully at it from the corners of their eyes, the younger mem- 
 bers received it with enthusiasm, as the first trial of patriotism, 
 and retained it till far out in the Sound, when a certain unsteady 
 motion taking possession of the steamer, they might be observed 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 127 
 
 stealing to the guards and quietly dropping it overboard. The 
 floor of the saloon was now assigned the men for sleeping quarters. 
 From New York we took the Amboy boat, and arrived at Phila- 
 delphia about five p. M., of Wednesday. A capital supper was 
 awaiting us at the rooms of the Cooper Volunteer Relief Asso- 
 
 Cooper Volunteer Refreshment Building. 
 
 cjation, and, not to be forgotten, plenty of water and towels. 
 This association has fed since the war commenced more than 
 200,000 hungry, way-worn men. Overhead are the hospital rooms. 
 Two of our men being sick were taken thither, and treated with 
 every possible attention. If blessings were shingles, these asso- 
 ciation rooms would be new roofed every week ; yet I am told its 
 charities are supported by the poor, and not the rich of that great 
 
128 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 city ; that the subscriptions to it are mostly of one and two dol- 
 lars ; that market-women and small store-keepers and country- 
 men strain to the utmost their scant resources to spread that 
 hospitable table." 
 
 The city of Philadelphia lay in the channel of the great stream 
 of Union volunteers from New England, New York and New 
 Jersey, that commenced flowing abundantly early in May, 1861. 
 These soldiers crossing New Jersey and the Delaware river at 
 Camden, were landed at the foot of Washington avenue, where 
 wearied and hungry, they often vainly sought for sufficient refresh- 
 ments in the bakeries and groceries in the neighborhood before 
 entering the cars for Baltimore. One morning the wife of a 
 mechanic living near, commiserating the situation of some sol- 
 diers who had just arrived, went out with her coffee pot and a 
 cup, and distributed its contents among them. That generous 
 hint was the germ of a wonderful system of relief for the passing 
 soldiers which was immediately developed in that city. Some 
 benevolent women of the vicinity, imitating their patriotic sister, 
 formed themselves into a committee for the regular distribution of 
 coffee to the soldiers on their arrival. Gentlemen of the neigh- 
 borhood also interested themselves in procuring other supplies, 
 and, for a few days, they were dispensed under the shade of trees, 
 in front of the cooper shop of William M. Cooper, on Otsego street 
 near Washington avenue. Then the shop itself, generously offered 
 for the purpose by Mr. Cooper, was used for the refreshment of 
 the soldiers, and very soon whole regiments were fed there, at 
 tables supplied by the contributions of the citizens of Philadel- 
 phia, and were waited on by their wives and daughters. The first 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 20, 
 
 regiment supplied was Colonel Blenker's (German) Rifles, more 
 than a thousand strong, who breakfasted there on the 27th of 
 May, 1861. A hospital was also established for sick and wounded 
 soldiers. The " Cooper Shop" not proving spacious enough, other 
 places of refreshment were afterwards opened. This benevolent 
 work was continued all through the period of the War of the 
 Rebellion ; and to the immortal honor of Mr. Cooper and the citi- 
 zens of Philadelphia, it must be recorded that they liberally sup- 
 plied these saloons with ample materials to give a bountiful meal 
 during the four years of war to almost 1,200,000 Union soldiers. 
 Over 600,000 were fed at the " Cooper Shop " at an expense of ten 
 to fifteen cents per meal. It caused the loss of Mr. Cooper's busi- 
 ness, and reduced the family to severe straits. To the women 
 especially, who devoted themselves to the service of preparing the 
 meals, and waiting upon this vast host of the defenders of the 
 Union, belong the choicest blessings of their country. At all 
 hours of the day and night, these self-sacrificing heroines — to 
 whom a little signal gun, employed for the purpose, announced the 
 approach of a regiment or a company of troops, — would repair to 
 the saloon, and with the greatest cheerfulness dispense the gene- 
 rous bounty of the citizens of Philadelphia. This noble work 
 continued till August, 1865, when peace had been restored, and 
 the flag of the republic was waving unmolested over every acre 
 of its domain. Without disparagement to other cities (for all did 
 noble work), it may with propriety be said, that in labors of 
 genuine benevolence and generous giving for the comfort of the 
 soldiers of the great Union army, the citizens of Philadelphia 
 stand peerless. 
 17 
 
I30 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Resuming, Lieutenant DeWolf wrote : " The night's ride to 
 Baltimore was ludicrously uncomfortable, but with the sunrise we 
 left the cars and marched through the debatable land unmolested. 
 Cartridges had been previously served to one or two companies, 
 but no disloyal word or act gave excuse for their employment. 
 The southern sympathizers had disappeared from the streets and 
 the 'stars and stripes' were flying from the public buildings. All 
 the forenoon we lazed about the railroad station, while some 
 officers were dispatched to Washington to report our arrival. 
 
 "They received at first the startling order to join the advance 
 near Richmond at once, but when the locating officer came to 
 understand that we were 'emergency' men, ordered to the de- 
 fence of Washington, we were permitted to pursue our journey to 
 the capital. To this end we were furnished with a few passenger 
 cars and fourteen or fifteen freight and cattle cars, into which we 
 tumbled after the manner of our cloven footed predecessors, 
 whose aroma, bovine, porcine and equine, yet lingered lovingly 
 about the spot. The sun was intensely hot, with no wind. In 
 our car some air was obtained by bringing a pair- of ' whangs ' 
 (army shoes, a trifle broader than they are long), to bear upon the 
 boards at either ends, but the next car to us being completely 
 iron-clad, roof and sides, reduced its inmates to a semi-fluid state. 
 One man declared that the water 'sizzled' in his canteen, while 
 the eggs bought in Baltimore were found to be handsomely baked 
 upon his arrival at Washington. 
 
 " But at length we did arrive. Before us stood invitingly a 
 row of wooden barracks, seemingly filled already to their utmost 
 capacity with soldiers. Into these we filed and deposited our ac- 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I3I 
 
 coutrements. The floor that night presented a curious appear- 
 ance. A conglomerate pavement of sleeping men, reclining 
 every way, dovetailed, criss-crossed, head and heels, pillowed on 
 knapsacks and cartridge boxes, heaving with the restless tides of 
 slumber, from which arose the gleaming stacks of muskets, 
 festooned with haversacks and canteens. So completely was the 
 floor covered that the unfortunate guard, quorum parva pars fori, 
 coming heavy-eyed from their posts, sought in vain for a vacant 
 spot, and were finally compelled to spread their blankets upon 
 the ground outside. A little after midnight, a man sprang to his 
 feet in a distant corner of the room shouting, ' The enemy are 
 upon us ! Seize your arms, boys ! ' 
 
 " Instantly five hundred men awoke and commenced scrambling 
 for their arms and equipments. A scene of more perfect confu- 
 sion can hardly be imagined. 
 
 "One dim lantern shed an uncertain light over the room. 
 Xow and then a stack of muskets came down with a crash to 
 help matters. Few were wide awake enough to reason about the 
 grounds of the alarm, and the officers' shouts went for nothing in 
 the hurley-burley. When quiet had been a little restored, it was 
 discovered that the man who started the alarm had been suffering 
 from nightmare. He could not be persuaded in the morning of 
 the excitement he had created." 
 
 A few years later the author found himself uncomfortably locked 
 up in a stateroom with a Baltimore man who had a similar attack 
 on board a steamer on Lake Champlain : " I was on my way home 
 from Montreal and arrived late one evening at Burlington, Vt., 
 where I took the night boat for Whitehall. It was crowded with 
 
12,2 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 passengers, and every stateroom was engaged. As I sat watch- 
 ing the crowd and looking about for a convenient camping spot on 
 the floor, I recalled the night in 1862 when the 'Tenth Rhode 
 Island boys ' crowded the decks of the steamer Plymouth Rock, 
 on the way to the capital. Then, as now, the staterooms were all 
 taken, but we cheerfully camped down 'on deck' with our knap- 
 sacks for pillows, and after receiving our first rations, we dropped 
 off to sleep, dreaming of the comforts of home and of the thin as- 
 surances made us, when we put our names clown, that nothing but 
 the best was good enough for us, and that the best government 
 upon the face of the earth would take care that we were supplied 
 with every good thing. 
 
 " While musing thus, a mild-appearing individual approached 
 me and said, ' I'm sorry that you are unable to obtain a state- 
 room. I am traveling alone to my home in Baltimore, and you 
 are welcome to the upper berth of my room if you'll accept it.' 
 
 " If I had been on my way home with the boys of the 'Tenth ' 
 at the end of our campaign, I might have replied, thank you, my 
 friend, but we've got used to it, and prefer to sleep on the floor, 
 but reflecting that I was several years older than I was then, and 
 much heavier than when I was much lighter, I gladly accepted 
 the kind offer of a soft bed from the Baltimore gentleman, and 
 retired early, the suggestion occurring to me, at the last moment, 
 as I was composing myself to rest, that perhaps it was a trifle 
 risky being locked up for the night in a small stateroom with an 
 entire stranger. 
 
 " Soon all was quiet on the steamer. The lights burned low in 
 the saloon, and all were apparently asleep, when suddenly, about 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 33 
 
 the hour of midnight, I was aroused from my slumbers by a 
 terrific yell from the Baltimore gentleman in the lower berth. 
 A moment later he was on his feet, shouting 'Murder! thieves! 
 robbers ! ' and tearing about like a madman." Mrs. Partington 
 said: "Some people are more courageous than others, and some 
 ain't ! But for my part," she added, " I think it requires a good 
 deal of courage to wake up in the middle of the night and find a 
 strange man standing horizontally by your bedside ! " "As soon as 
 I could speak I called out, what's the matter with you ? but received 
 no soothing reply, and the startling conviction forced itself upon 
 me that I was locked up with a lunatic. Suddenly, in his frenzy, 
 the Baltimore man turned and started for the stateroom window. 
 Here was my opportunity. With a bound I leaped from the 
 upper berth to the floor, unlocked the door and rushed out into 
 the saloon with the Baltimore man in hot pursuit. A crowd had 
 already gathered, and he was quickly secured. Anxious faces, 
 some in night-caps, might be seen peering out of their stateroom 
 doors. Meanwhile the cause of the alarm attempted to explain 
 that it was only one of his periodical spells of nightmare, although 
 he guessed it must have been an unusually bad spell ; no one 
 need be alarmed on his account, as he was entirely harmless at 
 such times. With this assurance quiet was at length restored." 
 Thursday night, May 29th, the Tenth Regiment slept in 
 the barracks in Washington. "Early the next morning," 
 wrote James F. Field, of Company B, "we packed our knap- 
 sacks, and at eleven o'clock started on the march, halting for 
 some time at the Capitol for orders. The day was excessively 
 warm, and as we moved on, the dust was so thick that we could 
 
134 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 scarcely see the left of the line from our position on the right. 
 I was much disappointed in the general appearance of the city, 
 as we saw it from Pennsylvania avenue, the main thoroughfare. 
 The public buildings were all on a grand scale, such as the 
 Capitol, White House, Patent Office (where the First Rhode 
 Island Regiment was stationed a year ago), the Post-Office Build- 
 ing, and the Postmaster-General's residence, but the private resi- 
 dences were not so attractive. When we reached the White 
 House, we loaded our knapsacks, at the suggestion of Governor 
 Sprague, into the baggage wagons of the Sixty-third Indiana 
 Regiment, which were following us, which proved a great relief. 
 We were further allowed to carry 'arms at will' and take our 
 own 'step.' Thus we marched on, through Georgetown and 
 beyond, six miles or more, till we came to the village of Tennally- 
 town near our present camp." 
 
 "After the hot, two hours' march," resumed Lieutenant Phillips, 
 " the regiment halted, the right resting near the village hotel. 
 Suddenly the black clouds which had been gathering, were rent 
 with vivid flashes of lightning, and poured down their fierce vials 
 of wrath upon us, the invaders of 'Maryland, my Maryland,' till 
 we were soaked through and through. The officers had gone 
 into the hotel to pay their respects to Gen. Samuel P. Sturgis, 
 to whose brigade we had been assigned. 
 
 "The rain poured; some of the men broke ranks, and tried 
 shelter under the veranda. General Robbins stalked across 
 the street with measured dignity, and, whilst the rain formed 
 rivulets down his back exclaimed : ' For God's sake, sergeant, 
 keep the men in line, this is General Sturgis's headquarters ! ' 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 135 
 
 The men had great respect 
 for General Sturgis, know- 
 ing that he was a regular, 
 the second in command to 
 General Lyon, at Wilson's 
 Creek, and with his raw 
 troops from Kansas had 
 fought with great valor. 
 Not a man was hazardous 
 enough to leave the line 
 after this. Corbin, on the 
 extreme right, one of the 
 tall men, slim and straight, 
 and too thin it was de- 
 clared for even a shadow, 
 as well as others of ' old 
 Brown, 'amused themselves A Wet Da y in Cam P- 
 
 by emptying the water out of their shoes. In the meantime 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw had seized a building at the junction 
 of the roads, in spite of protests and threats, and prepared a 
 hasty cup of coffee for the command. Upon the orders of Gen- 
 eral Robbins, Company B was ordered to pass in single file by 
 the open windows, receive a cup of coffee, and go into the woods 
 upon the left and unload the wagons. It was a heavy task, but 
 soon accomplished. The camp fixings, including the knapsacks, 
 were sorted and distributed to company quarters. As there was 
 neither saw, hammer, or chisel, we had to break open the cases 
 with uplifted boulders, and with jackknives only we whittled, 
 
136 THE TENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 fitted and wedged the handles of the picks in their places. As 
 the darkness settled down, the conical peaks of the Sibley tents 
 popped up like mushrooms, and considering that very few of the 
 men had ever helped pitch a tent or ever stood under one, the 
 work was marvellous. A member of Company B was commanded 
 to take a detail and pitch the general's headquarters near the 
 burying ground fence. This was a wall tent, soaked with water, 
 and nearly as large as the meeting-house near by. The soil com- 
 posed of gravel and boulders, was almost impenetrable to the pick, 
 but the work was accomplished, dark as it was, to the satisfaction 
 of all concerned. Upon returning to quarters, we were unable to 
 find knapsack, blanket or haversack. Every inch of the tent 
 was occupied by men drenched to the skin ; some were counting 
 the blisters upon their hands, and others trying to improvise a 
 cup of coffee. Poor McGlaulin was doing his best to build a fire 
 from the green wood chopped after we came into camp. The 
 sergeant sought refuge in the windowless church, and slept upon 
 the wet floor without pillow or blanket. At length, the morning 
 dawned, and the sun, as if to welcome us, touched up the walls of 
 our canvas city with golden hues, while the birds, never happier, 
 warbled their morning songs from the tree-tops abotfe us. Some 
 of the first orders were to open the quartermaster's stores and 
 mount guard. The camp was further laid out by measure, and 
 rightly named Camp Frieze, in honor of the Quartermaster-Gen- 
 eral of Rhode Island. It occupies the northwesterly slope of the 
 hill, on which the village of Tennallytown clings with feeble 
 grasp. The regular routine of military drill now began, and was 
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 Headquarters, College Villa. 
 General Orders. No. /. Texxallytowx, D. C, May 31, 1862. 
 
 1st. The commanding officers of each regiment, battery, battalion or detach- 
 ment assigned to the command of Brigadier-General Sturgis, will make consoli- 
 dated morning reports daily to the commanding general at headquarters, Col- 
 lege Villa, Tennallytown, D. C. 
 
 2d. The adjutant of each command, assigned as above, will report in person 
 to the commanding general, every day at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 By order of Brigadier-General STURGIS. 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 
 Captain and A. A. G. 
 
 Headquarters, Tenth R. I. Volunteers. 
 Circular: June 3, 1S62. 
 
 For the present water will be obtained from the spring for the use of the 
 camp. It has been freely tested by companies encamped here previously, and 
 is reported perfectly good. 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 Colonel Commanding. 
 
 Headquarters, Tenth R. I. Volunteers, 
 Circular: June 3, 1862. 
 
 Divine service will be held at six o'clock this evening, at which the officers, 
 non-commissioned officers and privates, are invited to be present. Such of the 
 men of the several companies who desire to attend will assemble at a quarter 
 before six upon their respective company parades, and be conducted under the 
 charge of a non-commissioned officer to the grove in front of the camp. 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 B. F. Thurston, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 Lieutenant and Adjutant. 
 
 Headquarters, College Villa, 
 Col. Zenas R. Bliss, June 6, 1S62. 
 
 Commanding Tenth R. I. \ r oh. 
 Sik: Vou will please detail ten men of your command for picket duty to- 
 night, said ten men to be accompanied by a non-commissioned officer. 
 This arrangement to be observed until further orders. 
 
 By order of Brigadier-General STURGIS. 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 
 Captain and A. A. G. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 1 39 
 
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 Meanwhile the alarm for the safety of 
 the capital had slowly subsided. Stone- 
 wall Jackson, after accomplishing his mis- 
 sion of alarming Washington, and saving 
 Richmond, by preventing the junction of 
 McDowell and McClellan, rapidly re- 
 treated down the Valley, burning the 
 bridges after him, and successfully eluded 
 the combined pursuit of Fremont, Banks, 
 and McDowell, with 60,000 men. <=»< 
 
 Taking advantage of the confusion which had been created, the 
 Confederate army defending Richmond under Gen. Joseph E. 
 Johnston, made a furious and successful attack upon the left wing 
 of General McClellan's army, May 31st, at Fair Oaks, but the 
 day following, June 1st, it turned into disaster and rout, which sent 
 them back to Richmond in a panic. General Johnston was 
 severely wounded, and General Lee assumed the chief command. 
 
 After Fair Oaks there was a pause of several weeks in active 
 operations in front of Richmond. Rain storms of great severity, 
 and Virginia mud, rendered further advance almost impossible. 
 All was quiet also on the Potomac, among the troops around the 
 capital, and the regular routine of camp-life continued at Camp 
 Frieze, with its daily drills and details for guard and picket duty. 
 
 May 29th, a second detachment for the regiment was sent for- 
 ward under command of Colonel Bliss, and arrived at camp on 
 Saturday evening, June 1st. The regiment was ^assigned to the 
 brigade of General Sturgis, and was mustered into the service of 
 the United States, by Adjutant-General Thomas, June 9th. 
 
I40 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Capt. William M. Hale, Company I, wrote : " Camp Frieze, 
 Tennallytovvn, D. C, June 3d. The country is safe again. The 
 gallant Tenth is on the tented field, or rather a side hill covered 
 with beautiful oaks, so that perhaps it can hardly be called a field. 
 At any rate here we are in Tennallytown, and if you know where 
 that is, your knowledge of geography is more extensive than mine 
 was a week ago, for I must confess that in the whole course of my 
 travels, the name of this ancient borough had never before greeted 
 my ears. And in fact I find that even the residents here are 
 uncertain as to the precise locality. The postmaster says it is in 
 'the District.' The oldest inhabitants say it is in Maryland, and 
 the younger inhabitants don't care a copper where it is. 
 
 "As to the personnel of the town, little requires to be said. A 
 few barns and hungry looking houses straggle along a lean and 
 hungry looking street. A tavern and blacksmith's shop confront 
 each other, and are flanked by the post-office. In the rear of the 
 latter and at the entrance of our camp, stands the village church, 
 never, from appearances, a very notable structure, but now, alas ! 
 sadly dilapidated, and converted to other uses than originally in- 
 tended. I am not honored with the acquaintance of the worthy 
 parson who formerly ministered to the wants of the little flock 
 that gathered within its walls, but I can vouch that his ministra- 
 tions were not more acceptable to them than are those of his suc- 
 cessor, our worthy quartermaster, to the more numerous flock over 
 whom he is called to preside. 
 
 " Do you know what a ration is ? If not, Private Stiness, of Com- 
 pany I (since promoted to corporal), can tell you, for I saw him 
 receive one. It consisted of four bones, gross weight two and 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 141 
 
 a quarter pounds, and some meat, gross weight the same, minus 
 the two. The bones formerly constituted what are technically 
 called the ' chuck ribs ' of some quadruped, genus, species and sex 
 unknown. The corporal has carried those bones in his haver- 
 sack ever since. He says he started with the intention of leaving 
 his ' bones ' on the battlefield if necessary, and he is looking for a 
 field that he thinks capable of holding them. He is the feature 
 of the company, stands five feet eleven, in army socks, and girths 
 a little less, and is known among the comrades as the ' little 
 giant.' His first pair of army drawers reached to his chin. This 
 he considers very economical, as it saves the necessity of shirts, 
 and enables him to cut up those useful articles into pocket hand- 
 kerchiefs. When he shoulders arms, he looks like a pumpkin 
 with a bean-pole attachment, and, at charge bayonets, a private is 
 detailed to hold up the muzzle, in which position they resemble 
 a miniature battering ram with the point sharpened." 
 
 H. T. Chase, of Company D, wrote June 3d : "They gave us 
 rations of salt meat and pork in Washington which would almost 
 motion to us when to come to dinner. We have eaten so much 
 salt pork of late that we are inclined to speak in grunts, prick 
 up our ears, and perform other animal demonstrations." Another 
 man said he had some hard-tack that was marked " B. C." 
 " Still I find no fault," wrote Chase. " These things have now 
 changed for the better. I am well and good natured, but I never 
 had so tough an experience in the same time in my life. This 
 afternoon I saw a man sitting on a stump getting his hair cut. 
 So I took my turn and went through the same operation. Charge, 
 five cents. The barber belongs to one of the companies. He 
 
1 42 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 said he left a wife and two little children at home, but would not 
 let his wife bring the children down to the cars, ' For,' said he, as 
 the tears started, ' I could not stand it.' Saw a southern woman 
 to-day give her little girl a penny. On my asking her what she 
 would do with it, the mother replied, ' Oh, she will get sJiet of it ! ' 
 
 Lieutenant DeWolf, of Company D, June 3d, wrote: "The 
 elevation of our camp is considerable, for it appears to be down 
 hill for three miles in every direction, the air is deliciously pure, 
 water good and plentiful. To the north and west a line of gray 
 mist marks the valley of the Potomac, whose rapid stream is con- 
 fined at present to its summer bed, a deep, rocky channel of 150 
 feet, on the east side of which a bottom 500 yards, strewn with 
 huge boulders, marks the width of the winter torrents. The 
 point nearest to us is Chain Bridge, three miles distant, whose 
 approaches are strictly guarded. Just above, in the eddies of the 
 rapids, your correspondent, with a couple of friends, dove and 
 splashed and dabbled, the other day, attaining to that beatific con- 
 dition so rare with a soldier, perfect cleanliness. 
 
 " It was Sunday. Shadows from the dense Virginia forests 
 overhung the stream. We had no Sabbath services, no chaplain 
 then, but if the duty of godliness met no outward recognition, the 
 very next injunction of the apostle was most scrupulously ob- 
 served. 
 
 "A few words will tell how we s:ot here. One night in the 
 Washington barracks satisfied us all. We fell in with alacrity to 
 march anywhere. The day was warm, so that the order to pile 
 knapsacks and overcoats into the wagons was a great relief. On 
 passing through the city, many friends from Providence waved 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 1 43 
 
 their hats from sidewalk and windows, while those of us who were 
 here last year recognized more than one familiar face among the 
 Washingtonians. Governor Sprague accompanied us, and Messrs. 
 Anthony, Browne and Sheffield of our Congressional delegation, 
 have been constant in their attentions to our regiments. As we 
 passed along the question was heard on every side, 'What regi- 
 ments are those ? ' 
 
 " ' Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island ?' 
 
 " ' When were you enlisted ? ' 
 
 "'Monday morning, and started Tuesday afternoon,' — of 
 course we could not help adding — ' 800 more are on the way.' 
 
 "'Good Lord!' ejaculated one by-stander, ' how many men 
 have you got in Rhode Island? I thought you was played out 
 loner ago.' 
 
 " The Secretary of War is reported to have said that at the rate 
 the 'emergency men ' were coming in, he should soon have 5 00 >- 
 000, and he believed 100,000 of them would be from Rhode 
 Island. 
 
 " The march of six miles to this place, commencing with dust 
 and ending with mud and a hard rain, was rather severe upon a 
 few of the men ; but the next morning found them as well as ever. 
 
 " Company D were fortunate enough to obtain dry quarters in 
 a house. The next day was occupied in laying out the camp and 
 pitching the tents. The Tenth Regiment occupies the side next 
 the road, the Ninth west of them, and the battery just north of 
 the latter. The men are provided with tents of the Sibley pattern, 
 intended for fifteen each, but made to hold twenty-two the first 
 night. The men sleep in a circle, heads outward, and at night, 
 
144 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 when every man is in his place, the resemblance of the group to 
 a huge wheel, with the pile of muddy feet in the centre for a hub, 
 every man a spoke, and the continuous line of knapsacks around 
 the outside for the felloe, is decidedly striking. The officers have 
 wall tents facing the streets upon which their several companies 
 reside. 
 
 "But, oh, the first guard mounting and posting of sentinels! 
 In after time you shall hear our youthful sergeants and corporals 
 telling their grandchildren, with a quiet laugh, of their blunders 
 and perplexities on that rainy, dismal night. But at length the 
 guards are posted. My beat is along a narrow lane skirting a 
 little churchyard. The edifice itself, shabby and windowless, is 
 filled with commissary stores. Its rafters echo anything but the 
 voice of prayer. Up and clown I pace in the dreary rain, shielding 
 the lock of my musket as well as I can in my rubber capote. A 
 figure approaches, dimly visible in the shadows. 
 
 " ' Halt ! Who goes there ? ' 
 
 '' 'A friend, with the countersign.' 
 
 " 'Advance, friend, and give the countersign.' 
 
 "The talisman is whispered at the point of my bayonet, and 
 the figure passes on. Now and then I hear a challenge at some 
 distant point. The reply is not satisfactory, and the call is passed 
 from guard to guard. 
 
 " ' Corporal of the guard — post 17 ! ' 
 
 "The sleepy officer stumbles through the mud to post 17, and 
 the case is soon settled. 
 
 " In the silence I resume my beat. Over the low paling, in a 
 grass grown corner of the enclosure, half a dozen headstones, 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 45 
 
 yellow and streaked with rain, are visible. Round about the 
 resting place where 
 
 ' The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.' 
 
 has been heard the bustle of great camps, the tread of armies for 
 more than a year, yet they slumber on. Their march is over. 
 They have passed beyond the camps of life, and long ago heard 
 the challenge of the other world sentinels. Had they the coun- 
 tersign ? 
 
 "As I pace my lonely round, I hear a bustle in the guard tent. 
 
 " 'Third relief, turn out. Turn out ! ' 
 
 " Presently they come, the challenge is exchanged. I am off 
 duty for four hours, and fling myself to sleep upon the wet straw 
 of the guard-tent, wedged in among twenty-two men, reeking 
 with rain and perspiration, and do sleep soundly, — so good night." 
 
 Corp. George T. Baker, of Company B, says : " The members 
 of the Tenth Rhode Island were indeed in a sorry plight the first 
 night in camp. They were without shelter in a dreary rainstorm, 
 and darkness came on before the tents arrived in camp, when all 
 hands, although wet and tired, went to work with a will, putting 
 them up. Company E, Capt. Hopkins B. Cady, were detailed for 
 picket duty about a mile in advance of our position. At a late 
 hour, after the camp was still, Capt. Elisha Dyer, of Company B, 
 made a visit to each tent to inquire after the welfare of his men. 
 Stopping at the High School headquarters, he asked, ' Can I do 
 anything for you, men ? ' ' Nothing, thank you, captain,' was the 
 courteous reply, when some joker bent on mischief, added, 'We 
 wouldn't mind having a candle, captain ! ' This proved too much 
 
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I46 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 for even the gravity of the captain, and he exclaimed, ' God 
 bless yon, men, do you think you're in a hotel ? ' " 
 
 Capt. A. Crawford Greene, Company G, wrote, June 5th : " Our 
 regiments have had no time to perfect themselves in drill, neither 
 have we received our necessary quartermaster stores. We are 
 sadly in need of clothing, as many of our men wore the poorest 
 garments they had, expecting to exchange them for the govern- 
 ment uniform. The rations served have also been short of the 
 allowance, but on the whole we are getting along well, and the 
 mass of the men are contented. The health of the regiment is 
 good, and with our present rations we may safely say that it will 
 continue. (At present they consist of salt junk, bread, and coffee 
 without milk.) The story of the poisoning of one of the men of 
 Company G, in Baltimore, is entirely incorrect. We did not 
 know but that we might have some trouble in that city, and dis- 
 tributed ten rounds of ball-cartridges, but we had no occasion to 
 use them ; on the contrary we were served with a good collation 
 by the Baltimore Union Soldiers' Relief Association. One of the 
 pickets of the New York Sixty-ninth Regiment, which is en- 
 camped near us, was shot while on duty, Friday evening last. 
 The scoundrel who committed the deed was arrested and sent to 
 Washington on Saturday. He was a desperate looking fellow, 
 and made his boast that he had shot six Union soldiers before. 
 May he meet the retribution he so justly deserves. 
 
 " The tented fields loom up on almost every side. Quite a 
 large number of forts also surround us. The almost hourly 
 belching forth of their numerous weapons of destruction give 
 ample assurance that they are well manned and ready for action. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 47 
 
 The sharp crack of the picket's rifle enlivens the monotony of 
 camp-life. We shall now commence the regular routine of drill, 
 which will keep us fully employed. At present a large num- 
 ber of the secessionists have left the neighborhood, and re- 
 treated to a safer locality further down in Dixie. The houses are 
 generally left in charge of one or two slaves. The country is 
 very rich and fertile, but owing to the cold dry spring vegetation 
 is rather backward. The stock of grass is very heavy, the 
 farmers tell us the yield being larger by far than last year. 
 Quartermaster Cook is occupying the meeting-house of the town 
 for our stores, to the disappointment of those who have been in 
 the habit of appropriating it for religious purposes. We learn, 
 however, that it is to be cleared out and that our beloved chaplain, 
 Rev. Mr. Clapp, is to occupy it for religious services on the 
 coming Sabbath. So far as our knowledge extends, there are a 
 large number of Christian people in our regiments, and by the 
 services held here nightly, we think they are determined to im- 
 prove the opportunity for showing it, and when we return home 
 we hope to be better men than when we came out." 
 
 James F. Field, wrote Sunday, June 1st : "Friday night, the 
 30th, was our first in camp after the march from Washington. 
 It was dark and rainy, and I slept on the ground in an old build- 
 ing, which looked as though it had been formerly a school-house or 
 a church. The next day, Saturday, we had the job of pulling down 
 our tents and putting them up again. The company tents are now 
 in parallel rows, all facing one way with the officers' tents at the 
 head of the rows. Just as our work was about completed a bat- 
 terv of ten guns came thundering along from Washington, bound 
 
I48 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 for Harper's Ferry (threatened by Stonewall Jackson). It is 
 about forty-five miles southwest of here. They reported that they 
 left the second detachment of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments 
 at the White House, and that they would be here in about an 
 hour. This caused quite a thrill of joy in the camp. As soon 
 as we were relieved, quite a number of us started up the road 
 to meet them. Soon the line appeared in sight, and as they 
 came up I was surprised to find several acquaintances, among 
 them five from the High School. It had just commenced raining, 
 and we welcomed them with a great deal of pleasure into our own 
 tent, while we put up others for them. One of the second 
 detachment (William A. Spicer), joined our 'mess,' which was 
 very agreeable to him and to us. He brought with him two or 
 three papers, and one-half of Thursday's Evening Press which were 
 eagerly read. 
 
 "June 6th. Dr. George D. Wilcox has been appointed surgeon, 
 and Dr. Albert G. Sprague, assistant-surgeon. Rev. A. H. Clapp, 
 of the Beneficent Church, our chaplain, is settled down in camp 
 and is to be also the postmaster of the regiment. It is said that 
 there are seven or eight thousand troops around here. Among 
 them are the Sixty-third Indiana, the Fifty-ninth New York and 
 Seventy-first New York, the Eleventh and Seventeenth Regulars, 
 the Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers, the Tenth Rhode Island 
 Battery, and a Pennsylvania regiment. A few rods from here is 
 Fort Pennsylvania, mounting a dozen heavy guns. It is manned 
 by a portion of the Fifty-ninth New York Volunteers. There are 
 several other large forts and batteries near by which guard the 
 approaches to the capital from the upper Potomac. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 149 
 
 "June 8th. Our duties for each day are as follows: We are 
 obliged to get up and form in line at half past four in the morning 
 for 'reveille' or roll-call. After that each 'mess' has a 'squad 
 drill ' for an hour, and then breakfast at half past six. Drill from 
 ten to half past eleven. Dinner at one o'clock, preceded by an- 
 other roll-call. From three to five 'company drill,' roll call at six, 
 and supper at 6.30. Another roll-call at nine, 'tattoo ' and 'taps ' 
 at 9.30, when all lights must be out, and all noise cease. 
 
 "Yesterday I was on guard from nine o'clock a. m., until nine 
 o'clock this morning. My beat was in front of the colonel's, 
 adjutant's, and quartermaster's tents of the Ninth Regiment 
 Rhode Island Volunteers (the Ninth and Tenth are in the same 
 camp). In the day time I did not have much to do, simply pre- 
 venting persons not belonging to the tents from going into them. 
 At night, by mistake, the countersign was given to me, which 
 should not have been clone as it is only intended for the outside 
 guards. I had orders not to let any one pass between the tents 
 across my beat, or in or out of the tent without the countersign. 
 Some of the officers were not provided with the password as 
 they had never been obliged to use it. Scarcely had I passed a 
 few times, back and forth, when the quartermaster approached 
 his tent. I stopped him, saying, ' Halt ! ' ' Who comes there ? ' He 
 answered 'the quartermaster.' 'Advance quartermaster, and 
 give the countersign ! ' He said that he was the quartermaster, 
 but had not the countersign. I called for the corporal of the 
 guard, who allowed him go to his tent. I also halted the col- 
 onel, who gave me the countersign. To-day I ought to have 
 slept, but I took the time for writing letters home." 
 
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 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Home correspondence was now com- 
 menced with an alacrity which nearly 
 "snowed under" the village post-office. 
 Corp. C. F. Pabodie, of Company H, 
 wrote a few days later : " We have our 
 letters directed to us at Washington 
 now, instead of at Tennallytown as at 
 first. It appears that the village post- 
 master had been in the habit of receiv- 
 ing only one or two letters per day, previous to our arrival, and 
 when he begun to get upwards of a thousand, he didn't know 
 'what on 'airth to do with them.' They say he has been in the 
 hospital ever since. 
 
 "A detachment of the Seventeenth Regulars are now encamped 
 near us. They are illy provided with camp utensils, knapsacks, 
 overcoats, etc., and it is reported, help themselves to anything they 
 can lay their hands on. I lost my overcoat while helping to pitch 
 tents, but have held on to my knapsack. We get used to the fatigue 
 here. My knapsack keeps growing lighter every day. We have 
 had not much else but rain since we have been here. When it is 
 pleasant it is quite warm. 
 
 "Monday, June 2d, we (Company H), were informed that we 
 were detailed for guard duty for the next twenty-four hours. At 
 9.30 a. m., we were marched out and went through the ceremony 
 of guard mounting and taking our position at the guard tent. 
 Guard mounting is done in the following way : The new guard 
 being drawn up in double line, are divided into three portions gen- 
 erally. The first detachment are kept in line, the rest are allowed 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 5 I 
 
 to hang around the guard tent until wanted. The first detach- 
 ment then marches off under charge of the corporal, who puts the 
 men in the places occupied by the old guard, who fall in behind. 
 Thus they go round the lines. There are many minuta: required 
 by the tactics which would take too long to describe. The cor- 
 poral of the guard, after posting his men, has to remain at the 
 guard tent till they are relieved, for whenever any disturbance 
 happens in the lines, the guard, if he cannot decide nor quiet it 
 himself, calls out the number of his post and calls for the corporal 
 of the guard, who must proceed to the post and see what is the 
 matter. 
 
 " During the day, the guards are on two hours and off four 
 hours. When there are enough the same arrangement is carried 
 out again at night. But there were not enough of us, as the guard 
 has to be doubled at night, so our men were on two hours and 
 off two hours, the three detachments we had during the day, 
 being divided into two. During the day the guard had orders to 
 allow no one to pass in or out except commissioned officers, men 
 with passes, men for water, and civilians. At night a counter- 
 sign was given them, and no one was allowed to pass except with 
 that countersign. The orders were to pass all men to the guard 
 house, who attempted to come in without the word. Towards 
 morning I had just started away from the guard house accom- 
 panying the men who were to relieve my guard then on duty, 
 when the cry was passed along the lines for the corporal of the 
 guard, post 16. I hurried to the post designated, which was 
 down at the extremity of the camp in a swamp, and found the 
 affair as follows : Number 15, was a small, very stupid Irishman, 
 
I52 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 who had got off his beat into number 16's beat, and, being chal- 
 lenged, had forgotten the countersign. Number 16 held him at 
 the point of the bayonet, and threatened to run him through if 
 he stirred. When I reached them, number 15 was shaking with 
 fear, and when I inquired what was the matter, could hardly ejacu- 
 late that he had forgotten the countersign. This round was the 
 hardest one I made during the night. It was so dark I could not 
 see the length of my musket ahead, except when it lightened, 
 and could only find the old guard by calling out so they could 
 hear us and challenge us. Once I ran against a stump about 
 three feet high, and tumbled over, musket and all. We were 
 glad to be relieved at ten the next morning. The day after being 
 on guard we were relieved from all duty, so we had the whole 
 day to rest in." 
 
 " Chain Bridge," wrote Lieut. C. F. Phillips, " barricaded and 
 guarded by a German regiment, is about two miles to the left of 
 our camp. The position of the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, 
 recently arrived, is at the foot of the slope of our camp. They 
 have for neighbors an artillery company of the regular army. 
 Our guard tent is for the most part orderly except in one in- 
 stance, when the man with iron jaws persisted in chewing up 
 several tent pins into fragments, which had been improvised as a 
 ' gag ' to keep him quiet. 
 
 " Picket duty. The first detail from Company B for picket 
 duty was made two or three nights ago, in the midst of a furious 
 thunder storm. The squad was accompanied by Captain Dyer, 
 and marched perhaps two miles down the Fredericktown road, 
 and halted in front of a wheelwright shop. Captain Dyer went to 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 5 3. 
 
 the adjoining house for the key of the shop and knocked. 
 Instantly the lights inside were extinguished, but as the knocking 
 grew louder a head appeared at an upper window. ' What do you 
 want?' 'The key of your wagon shop and a light.' ' Well, you 
 won't get them,' and down went the window with a bang. ' Take 
 forcible possession of the shop,' shouted Captain Dyer, and the 
 key and light were instantly forthcoming, just in time to save the 
 door, and the men, wet to the skin, found a shelter. The wheel- 
 wright shop from that hour became the headquarters of the 
 picket guard, and the picket line was established about half a mile 
 beyond." 
 
 An amusing capture was made during the night by Captain 
 Dyer's men, which is thus described in the author's personal 
 narrative : 
 
 " Last night a fellow was brought in from our picket line who 
 had stayed out too late, courting one of the fair F. F. Y.'s. He 
 was decked out in light vest and pants, and came galloping along 
 on horseback, when Fiske, one of our mess, jumped into the mid- 
 dle of the road, with bayonet at the charge, and yelled, 'Who 
 goes there ? ' The rider jumped back in his stirrups and pulled 
 up, badly frightened, exclaiming, ' It's m-m-me ! ' ' Advance me 
 and give the countersign ! ' 'Twas no go, he had to give it up. 
 'Then you're my prisoner," says Fiske, and he had to go into 
 camp with us for the rest of the night, and was turned over to 
 the officer of the guard. Colonel Robbins told one of the guard 
 'to keep his eye on that fellow who had been out to see his gal ! ' 
 'Twas pretty rough, I'll admit, but I guess he'll keep better 
 
 hours in future." 
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154 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Bathing and swimming at 
 Chain Bridge, on the Poto- 
 mac, and in Rock Creek, 
 near by, were luxuries which 
 we greatly enjoyed during 
 our month's stay at Camp 
 Frieze, and they did much, 
 no doubt, towards promoting 
 the health of the regiment. 
 " On the first Sunday after- 
 noon, the chaplain not hav- 
 ing yet arrived, a company 
 of us obtained permission for 
 a tramp to Rock Creek. We 
 kept well together, as the 
 neighborhood was considered 
 unfriendly. We took our canteens along, which served a novel 
 and useful purpose. The banks were lined with soldiers enjoying 
 the cleansing and reviving influences of the water." 
 
 "Last Saturday," wrote James F. Field, "nine of us crossed 
 the Potomac into Virginia. We obtained a pass from Captain 
 Dyer, endorsed by Colonel Bliss, which allowed us to go over the 
 river into Virginia, if we behaved ourselves, which we did ac- 
 cordingly. The principal road to the Potomac was so narrow in 
 some places as to allow but one carriage to pass along. What 
 they do when two carriages meet I do not know. We tramped 
 about rive miles in going, not knowing exactly the way, but in 
 returning to camp we traveled only two miles. We went across the 
 
 Cleaning Up. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 55 
 
 Potomac on Chain Bridge, which is made of wood, with seven heavy 
 stone abutments. It was formerly held by chains, which probably 
 gave it the name of Chain Bridge. There was a guard of artil- 
 lery stationed on this side of the bridge to prevent any one from 
 going across without a pass. Commanding the bridge and on a 
 level with it was an earthen breastwork, pierced for three guns, 
 which could sweep the bridge if necessary. On a high bluff right 
 above this is another earthwork, with three or four heavy guns, 
 which command the opposite shore. Near the centre of the 
 bridge are two large, heavy gates, which completely divide the 
 bridge. The gates are plated with iron, with slits for skirmish- 
 ers and pickets to fire through, which were dented in several 
 places by bullet and rifle-balls fired by secession pickets. The 
 river at that time was only about forty or fifty feet wide, it being 
 the dry season. It is of a muddy color, about the same as the 
 color of the soil. We walked about a quarter of a mile into Vir- 
 ginia, and bathed ourselves thoroughly in a stream which flowed 
 into the Potomac. Close to the bank were the remains of some 
 bowers or huts, which, probably, the secession pickets had made 
 for their quarters, as there were remains of fire-places near them. 
 The clay was the warmest that we have yet had, the thermometer 
 being at camp that noon, 104 . On our way back we stopped at 
 ' Fort Gaines.' It mounted four 32-pound barbette guns. It 
 is garrisoned by a company of the Fifty-ninth New York Volun- 
 teers. The earthwork was about ten or twelve feet thick, with a 
 ditch about as wide and six or eight feet deep, on the outside of 
 which were large trees, laid lengthwise, to hinder infantry from 
 iroinc; through them to the fort." 
 
i^6 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 >N CAMP, near Tennallytown, D. C, June ioth. 
 
 LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR. 
 
 "To-day is a rainy one in camp, and the boys 
 are either asleep, writing letters, or taking it 
 easy. By General Orders Xo. i, issued yester- 
 day, our camp will hereafter be known as Camp 
 Frieze, and the strictest discipline and good 
 order will be observed. According to the order 
 there will be eleven calls sounded each day, as 
 follows: Reveille, at 4.30 o'clock a. m. ; Police call, Breakfast, 
 6.30 A. m. ; Sick call at 7 a. m. ; Adjutant's call at 8.45 a. m. ; 
 Guard-mounting at 9 a. m. ; Orderly call at 12 m. ; Roast Beef, 
 Dinner, at 1 p. m. ; Supper, 6.30 p. m. ; Retreat at sunset (when 
 the companies form under arms) ; Tattoo at 9 p. m. ; Taps 9.30 p. 
 m. There are four roll calls each day, and as many drills. Divine 
 service will be held every Sunday at 1 1 a. m. (For full order, see 
 pages 77, 7S and 79.) 
 
 Our tents are arranged in parallel rows, with streets or ave- 
 nues between. Company A, Captain Taber, has Atwood avenue, 
 named in honor of Mrs. Alice Atwood, who made and presented 
 the men with a hundred pin-cushions, filled with pins. Company 
 B, Captain Dyer, has Dyer avenue ; Company C, Captain Yose, 
 Broadway ; Company D, Captain Dunham, Benefit street, and so 
 on. The college boys of Brown, in the tent adjoining ours, call 
 their quarters 'Hope College.' Per order of the High School 
 boys I have printed the sign 'Whang Hotel,' on a board, and 
 hung it up over our tent opening. 'Whang' is a broad 'slang' 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 57 
 
 expression for our broader army shoes, seventeen pairs of which 
 lie mixed up round the centre-pole every night. The names of the 
 proprietors are as follows : Sergt. Charles L. Stafford, Corporals 
 William P. Vaughan, George T. Baker, John B. Kelly, Nathan 
 H. Baker, and high privates Edwin B. Fiske, John A. Reynolds, 
 Frank Frost, James F. Field, F. F. Tingley, Charles B. Greene, 
 Charles T. Greene, Horace K. Blanchard, George H. Sparhawk, 
 William A. Spicer, David Hunt, and Jesse M. Bush. William 
 Grant and Ira Wilbur are in Company E, Captain Cady. 
 
 " Many of the tents in the other companies have pet names, 
 such as ' Uncle Tom's Cabin,' 'Hawkins's Happy Family,' 'Blue 
 Point House,' 'Mess of Cabbage, Company F,' 'Chateau de 
 Salt Junk,' and 'The Rhubarb Mess' of Company G. So you 
 see there is considerable 'spice' mixed with army life. There 
 is indeed some 'fun,' although a great deal more of the reverse 
 character. Every. morning we have to be up and in the ranks at 
 half past four, which you must know is hard for some of us. So 
 also are the military drills in the hot sun morning and afternoon, 
 We sleep on the hard ground with only a thin layer of straw and 
 a rubber blanket to keep off the dampness. Yet we sleep well, 
 with our knapsacks under our heads, and one blanket apiece for 
 a covering. 
 
 " Fiske, of our ' mess,' told Captain Dyer that it was pretty 
 'tough' for him to come down to such hard fare, as for two or 
 three weeks before enlisting he'd been out 'visiting' among 
 'his folks,' and never had such high living in his life. Another 
 said that he was going to write home, that he'd never object any 
 more to 'corned beef and cabbage ' once a week. 
 
is8 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 H A(^D TaO<- 
 
 " Our rations have thus far 
 consisted of salt meat and 
 pork, 'hard tack' or hard 
 crackers, and black, strong 
 coffee. They have been of 
 such a uniformly bad quality 
 since we arrived in Washing- 
 ton, that some of us have been 
 out to a neighboring farm- 
 house, to get a good square 
 meal for twentv-five cents ! 
 
 And didn't it go good? One trouble is that there is no variety to 
 our bill of fare, it is the same old horse day after clay." As I now 
 look back upon the situation, it reminds me of the story of a 
 boarder in a small country tavern, who came clown into the 
 dining-room one morning, and casting a sweeping glance over 
 the table, jammed down into his chair, and muttered under his 
 breath, "Liver again, of course. We've had liver every morning 
 for two weeks." " What's the matter," asked the landlady, " aren't 
 you feeling well this morning ? " " No, ma'am," he replied, shortly, 
 "I am suffering with liver complaint." 
 
 But thanks to the efficiency of our new quartermaster, James 
 11. Armington, our rations greatly improved after this time. He 
 was second lieutenant of Company D, and by General Orders 
 No. ii, June 7th, was promoted to first lieutenant Company C, 
 and detailed as quartermaster. He proceeded to Washington, 
 and pressed our claims upon the Commissary Department with 
 such persistency that he was ordered to report under arrest. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 59 
 
 The return of the genial quartermaster to camp, and his 
 report at headquarters, with the order of arrest signed by General 
 Wadsworth, caused a considerable sensation. Colonel Bliss 
 laughed heartily, and thought it was a good joke on Armington, 
 but sustained him by issuing General Orders No. 1 5, relieving 
 him from arrest. He proved a very capable and faithful quarter- 
 master, and our 'rations' steadily improved, but at the best 
 " Ther warn't overly much pie et, endiuin' ' the arm v.' 
 
 Captain Duckworth, of Company H, furnishes the following 
 
 for publication : 
 
 Brooklyn, X. Y.,July 12, i^ s ;- 
 Maj. Christopher Duckworth, 
 
 Pawtucket, R. I. 
 
 My Dear Major: My friend Stiness has this day forwarded me the copy of 
 General Orders No. 15, issued at headquarters of the Tenth Rhode Island Vol- 
 unteers, June 16, 1862. Permit me to thank you, not only for the preservation 
 of this old document, but for vour kindness in sending it to me. 
 
 How much it reminds me of the particular instance which caused the ordering 
 of my arrest: and of the good fellow, and brave soldier, who was with me on 
 the occasion, Adjt. John F. Tobey, and who has now -'passed to his rest." 
 Full well, too. do I remember the martinet who ordered me to " report under 
 arrest," and the hearty laugh with which his explanation for ordering me under 
 arrest was received, when he was waited upon by Colonel Bliss and Adjutant 
 Tobey. I remember also, that this same officer was to have been nominated by 
 Hon. John P. Hale, for a brigadier-general, but that after he (Hale) had visited 
 our camp, in company with Governor Anthony, the said officer was not nomi- 
 nated, and did not receive that honor, while his brother officers who were asso- 
 ciated with him were nominated and confirmed as brigadier-generals. 
 
 I should be very much pleased to meet you, and I hope that whenever you 
 
 visit your brother here, vou will not forget to call on me. With kind regards 
 
 I am 
 
 Verv truly yours, 
 
 JAMES II. ARMINGTON. 
 
i6o 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "Yesterday we were mustered into the 
 service of the United States by Adjt.-Gen. 
 Lorenzo Thomas, United States Army. 
 There was no 'special service at Washing- 
 ton ' in the agreement. The general said 
 there was but one oath for a Union soldier to 
 take, and that was the unconditional one, to 
 serve in any place where he was ordered 
 We all concluded therefore to 'take it straight.' After the oath, 
 which we repeated slowly after General Thomas, he called out, 
 ' Now, three cheers for your flag, men ! ' which were heartily given." 
 Much importance is attached by professional soldiers to this outward 
 demonstration of respect for our country's flag, and certainly 
 every Union soldier and sailor will respond to the sentiment 
 
 " Oft" with your cap as the flag goes by ! 
 And let the heart have its say. 
 You're man enough for a tear in your e\e, 
 That you will not wipe away." 
 
 "Adjutant-General Thomas had a very difficult place to fill. 
 Secretary of War, Simon Cameron, relied on him greatly in the 
 management of military affairs, so suddenly and so vastly brought 
 into the most prominent of all functions of the government. It 
 was at that time thought important that as much eclat as possible 
 should be given to the arrival of the volunteer regiments which 
 came to re-enforce the army, and the adjutant-general was called 
 upon to make addresses, present flags, and attend to the muster- 
 ing exercises, etc., at the various camps around the capital." (See 
 portrait, page 139.) 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 1 6 I 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Vols ■ 
 
 Camp near Tennallytown, D. C, June 7. i s* , j . 
 Special Orders Xo. 4. 
 
 The Tenth Battery of Rhode Island Light Artillery, commanded by Capt. 
 
 Edwin C. Gallup, is hereby attached to this regiment, and will be designated as 
 
 Company " L." 
 
 15 \ order of 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 Benjamin 1". Thurston, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 Lieutenant and Adjutant. 
 
 Note. Maj. Charles II. Merriman, Capt. Charles II. Dunham, Company D, and Adjt. Ben- 
 jamin F. Thurston, went out with the regiment, and served with it until June 9th, but resigned 
 and returned home before the officers' commissions were issued. 
 
 The blanks in the regimental staff were filled, and the officers mustered in as 
 follows, June 9. 1S62 : 
 
 Zenas R. P>li>s, Colonel: John F. Tobey, Adjutant: 
 
 James Shaw, Jr., Lieutenant-Colonel ; James II. Armington, LJuartermaster ; 
 Jacob Babbitt, Major: Edward K. Glezen, Sergeant-Major ; 
 
 George D. Wilcox, Surgeon : Lysander Flagg, Quartermaster-Ser- 
 
 Albert (i. Sprague, Assistant-Sur- geant: 
 
 geon : James O. Swan. Commissary-Sergeant; 
 
 A. Huntington Clapp, Chaplain: Charles G. King, Hospital Steward. 
 
 Headquarters, Camp Frieze, 
 June 10, 1862, 
 
 Captains of companies will furnish this office requisitions for such clothing as 
 is necessary tor the men, also requisition tor arms for each member of the com- 
 pany, and such equipments as are required, in addition to those on hand, to 
 complete the equipment of the men. 
 
 By order of 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS. 
 
 John F. Tobey, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 Lieutenant and , Adjutant. 
 
 21 
 
[62 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Our uniforms were a bad fit. They did not 
 take our measure and make them to order. 
 The government appeared to cut out clothes 
 not according to the shape of the boy, but to 
 what he was expected to grow to. Then our 
 altitude ranged from four feet six to six feet 
 four. Private Maguire said he was four foot ten 
 or ten foot four, he afrsremembered which. 
 " We have received our blue overcoats, but mine 
 is a very loose tit. We had to take them just 
 as they came, but can 'swap' with some 
 other fellow. Beside the overcoat, each of us 
 received a woolen blanket, a rubber blanket, 
 some coarse shirts and drawers, two pairs socks 
 or 'foot-gear,' cap, one pair 'pontoons' or army 
 shoes, one knapsack, one haversack, and one blue blouse. Many 
 of us are disappointed in the non-arrival of the promised invoice 
 of government trousers from Washington. The old ones we 
 brought from home are getting pretty dilapidated. The wear and 
 tear of camp-life, with the rain, and slippery mud which so quickly 
 follows here, have done their work, and its getting a little un- 
 pleasant and embarrassing to appear in line." "To realize what 
 this southern mud is," wrote one of the privates, "spread several 
 inches of tar all over your back-yard, and then try to walk through 
 it ; and when you have succeeded in getting it well baked on to 
 your 'pontoons' try to make them presentable for dress parade." 
 " If you decide to send anything, don't forget to put in some 
 blacking and a brush, for we haven't half enough to go round." 
 
 Dressed Up. 
 
RHODE ISLAM) VOLUNTEERS. 163 
 
 "June 10th. I was handed your letter while washing the mess- 
 pans and cups. Two are detailed for this duty each day. How 
 do we like the job? Well, we don't like it. I never realized before 
 how much easier it is to cat a good dinner than to ' pick up ' and 
 wash the dishes afterwards. One of the boys says when he en- 
 lists again he's going to have it all put down in black and white, 
 just what he's got to do, and helping the cook wash the dishes 
 and cleaning up the camp won't be in it. 
 
 " We have little real cause for complaint. We have good offi- 
 cers, well-known to you all at home, who treat the men with 
 the kindest consideration. Captain Dyer is a model commander, 
 and our company has the right of the line, he being the senior 
 captain. He gave us quite a lively exercise the other morning, 
 in military movements. One of the hardest things for us is to get 
 up early enough in the morning. Reveille is sounded at half past 
 four, when we form in line for roll-call, generally in a very drowsy- 
 headed condition. The captain thought he'd wake us up and 
 warm us up too. So he started us off on the 'double-quick,' a 
 very pretty movement when well executed by a wide awake, well 
 disciplined company on a level road, but our boys made a very pretty 
 mess of it, half asleep, on a down-hill and dusty road. We hadn't 
 gone far when unfortunate number one lost the step, stumbled 
 and fell. ' Left ! left ! left ! ' shouted Captain Dyer sharply, stamp- 
 ing his left foot on the ground, to give force to the word, ' Get 
 the step there, men ! ' But ' getting the step ' was an easier thing 
 for the tongue to say than for some awkward feet to do. Grace- 
 ful John Reynolds, of our mess, now lost the step, and, while 
 attempting to leap over the back of his file leader, was rolled over 
 
164 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 and over into the ditch by the wayside. Then number three fol- 
 lowed, displaying his broad 'whangs,' alias army shoes, to the rising 
 sun, and so the fun went on, till order was at length restored, and 
 we returned to camp as wide-awake and smiling a company as you 
 can find in 'Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.' 
 
 " It was John Reynolds's night for guard duty, and the boys 
 determined to 'put up a job on him,' and you should have seen 
 the merchandise piled up in his allotted place in the tent. When 
 he came in at a late hour, he went stumbling over the pile of 
 rubbish, and got very angry at first, but knowing the crowd, he 
 concluded 'the easiest way's to take it as it comes.' He not 
 only took the pile of rubbish as it came, but proceeded to throw 
 it in every direction, regardless of where it hit, until he had 
 cleared out his quarters. In vain arose the general protest — he 
 satisfied his revengeful feelings — and composed himself to rest 
 with calm satisfaction. It was fortunate there were no broken 
 heads." 
 
 Company K: "The boys have clone well, thus far, in not 
 getting caught 'napping' on picket duty. You remember Samuel 
 Mitchell. He and Jesse Eddy, Zephaniah Brown, and Carlo 
 Mauran belong to Company K. Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw tried 
 to pass Sam the other night without the countersign. He said 
 he must pass as he was making the rounds of the camp. But 
 Sam replied, ' Xo, sir, you can't pass that on me,' and called the 
 corporal of the guard. Colonel Bliss and Captain Dyer have 
 also happened round on the picket line, and have tried, on some 
 pretence or other, to get the boys to let them examine their 
 muskets. No guns have been captured yet, however. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 1 65 
 
 "June 1 2th. Last night was my first experience ' on picket.' 
 The night was dark, the moon being off ' on an eclipse.' Our 
 squad marched down a lonesome-looking road, about a mile and a 
 half toward Fredericktown, and attempted to force an entrance 
 into an old school-house by the roadside, but the barred shutters 
 resisted all our efforts. We never felt so sorry for a school lock- 
 out before ! We marched further on, and took the best quarters 
 we could get, in a wheelwright shop, opening to the road. I was 
 on 'the relief,' and had just got fairly into an uncomfortable 
 snooze, when we were all suddenly startled by an alarm, and or- 
 dered by the sergeant to buckle on equipments, right shoulder 
 arms, and double-quick down the road for the picket line — all the 
 work of perhaps two or three minutes. Were we wide awake ? 
 Oh, yes, some, if not some scared ! But the trouble was soon 
 explained. Some drunken soldiers from a neighboring regiment 
 were attempting to pass our line without the countersign. Order 
 was soon restored, and we were glad to march back to quarters, 
 with all the arms and legs we brought out. It was about four 
 o'clock in the morning when I found myself posted as sentinel. 
 I paced my beat regularly, back and forth, nothing escaping my 
 keen vision. Suddenly there came the sound of approaching 
 wheels ; when, with bayonet at the charge, and, summoning all my 
 voice to command, I called a ' Halt ! ' and the driver instantly 
 halted! He proved to be a fishmonger on his early way to 
 Georgetown. He strongly protested, — and his fish also strongly 
 protested, against being interfered with — but we marched fish and 
 fisherman to the sergeant of the guard, as orders were to let 
 nobody pass without the countersign. 
 
1 66 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "June 14th. There is nothing that gives such delight as 
 boxes from home. When a box arrives at camp, the eatable 
 portion of the contents, if sent to any of our boys, is con- 
 sidered the common property of the mess. When my box was 
 "pined, therefore, the boys all gathered round me, and, as each 
 package was taken out, they set up a terrible yelling and howl- 
 ing, whether they knew what was in it or not. You can guess 
 the peanuts disappeared in double-quick time, and, when I came 
 to the lemons, there was 'tremendous applause and cheering in 
 the galleries ! ' We not only had lots of fun over the box, but it 
 was worth almost its weight in gold, for it contained every- 
 thing we wanted. The combined knife, fork and spoon which 
 can be folded up and carried in the pocket or haversack, will be 
 very useful, and will allow my fingers to take a rest, as no army 
 knives and forks have yet been issued. The towels, also, are just 
 what I needed, as I've been trying to make that same poor, single 
 towel go for more than a fortnight ! You ought to have seen me 
 skinning my fingers trying to wash it ! But relief has come at 
 last, and the contrabands now come round regularly for any 
 washing on hand. So I 'put mine out,' to the tune of six cents 
 a piece for shirts, and so on. I shall like the woolen shirts very 
 much. I was getting to be truly 'a shiftless concern.' I never ate 
 any ham which tasted so good as that in the box; and we should 
 have had small pieces if the whole seventeen had staid to dinner, 
 as some of us are 'great feeders.' We are very much like the 
 boys at the Thanksgiving dinner who kept on eating as long as 
 the supply lasted. So it was agreed that as quite a squad was 
 going to the Potomac for a swim, those who remained at camp 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 1 67 
 
 should have the ham ; and I tell you we enjoyed it, to the last 
 hitch ! The mustard you sent flavored it in good shape, and will 
 also help season the ' salt horse,' as you wrote. 
 
 " I am going to dig a hole right under my knapsack, and drop 
 the box in, with the top a little above the ground. This, with my 
 blue army overcoat, will make a good pillow at night. It will not 
 make things damp in the box, because the soil, where the rain 
 does not reach it, is very dry and hard." 
 
 Some home messages and directions which came with the box : 
 " We didn't want to put in too much so as to make your knap- 
 sack too heavy. The lemons and oranges are in, as many as 
 could be. The sugar we thought would be handy for lemonade. 
 The sardines and peanuts will be acceptable, I guess, as well as 
 the sugar ham. That is ' mustard ' in the two bottles. We 
 thought it would go well with the ham, and would season up the 
 'salt horse.' We put in the woolen shirts, beside two calico ones. 
 The little roll of old cloth and glove fingers mother thought 
 would be useful, if your toes were sore after marching. The box 
 of salve you can use the same as tallow. ' Old Morse's ' Dockroot is 
 to keep your stomach in good trim, but you are not to use it 
 unless you really need it. It might have the same effect upon 
 you that Brandreth's pills had upon the old lady. We should 
 want more than your cap to come home with the regiment. The 
 necktie and collars are also in. The fancy pillow is filled with 
 feathers from the old black hen. Mother covered it with dark 
 cloth so that it would not appear soiled so soon. The padlock, 
 which is non est in this box shall be e pluribus unum in the second. 
 The pocket inkstand is right clown in one corner. The paper, 
 
1 68 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Letters from Home. 
 
 envelopes, pencils, pens, and jack- 
 knife, all went into the portfolio. 
 There was no room for the shoe- 
 brush, although we got in a box 
 of blacking. We had an idea 
 of putting in some cream-cakes 
 with the oranges, but were afraid 
 they would get flattened and sour. 
 In regard to the tea mother says, 
 if you chew a little while marching, you won't be half so thirsty." 
 This reminds the author of a story of the virtues of pennyroyal 
 tea, one of the old-time remedies. A good old lady, in telling 
 her experience, said she had seen a great deal of trouble through 
 life, but, she continued, ' I have triumphed over it all with my 
 three Ps, 'Prayer, Patience, and Pennyroyal ! ' " 
 
 In approving of the presence of ladies at our recent reunions, 
 General Rogers said: "The anxiety, the suffering, and the 
 suspense, endured by the mothers and sisters of the soldiers, 
 during the war, can never be fitly measured. Theirs was the ser- 
 vice which furrowed the brow and whitened the hair." 
 
 June 14th. A letter to the writer says : " It was college ex- 
 hibition (class-day), Thursday, and the orator was a student named 
 Addeman, who went out in your regiment. He got a leave of 
 absence to come on and deliver his oration, and then went back 
 the same night. His subject was 'The Alliance of Scholarship 
 and Patriotism.' The audience cheered him like fun, I can tell 
 you, but he looked kind o' gray, as though he was smelling 'salt- 
 horse,' in the distance ! " 
 
RHODE ISLAM) VOLUNTEERS. 1 69 
 
 Two more home letters are added for the special entertainment 
 of our youthful readers : 
 
 " Providence, June 4th. I meant last night to be up this 
 morning, at half past four, and write this letter, to show you that 
 I could be as smart as some other folks ! I woke up and double- 
 quicked it out to the clock, when behold, to my astonishment, the 
 hands were in the neighborhood of six 1 
 
 "I guess by this time you'll like to hear how we are all flour- 
 ishing in Providence, and I shouldn't wonder either if you'd like 
 to be here yourself, on the identical old lounge sleeping off the 
 effects of 'salt-horse' and those beautiful soft crackers! I guess 
 slippers would feel better than 'whangs.' I suppose you are 
 as tough now as a pitch knot, can eat anything or nothing, 
 probably just as it happens ; but I mind that your stomach now 
 and then requires a meal at a neighboring farmdiouse. How 
 glorious it must be to sleep sixteen in a bed, with now and then 
 the variety of standing out in a thunder-storm to shoot secesh. 
 There was a letter in the Press the other night about your regi- 
 ment, and it said the men were very much disappointed because 
 there was no fighting to do. Now don't you have any such 
 'gassy' talk as that. Thev may take you at your word and send 
 you right on to Richmond ! Do you know of anybody in your 
 regiment that was poisoned in Baltimore? There was such a 
 rumor in last Saturday evening's Press. It didn't give any name, 
 and was enough to frighten anybody to death. I think it was 
 a story started by the New York Tribune to sell the papers. I 
 guess if you hadn't got away that night, you wouldn't have got to 
 the war at all. We are thinking vou are sick, or out on picket 
 
I 70 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 duty or something, the whole time. The fact is, we have learned 
 a lesson in intellectual philosophy, viz. : People are fools to let 
 green boys go to the war ! You are a green boy ! Therefore we 
 were fools to let you 2,0 ! Bv the way, I haven't seen any of that 
 bounty money I was to have for being on your side ! 
 
 "We are very glad to hear you are having such 'a gay old 
 time,' but you mustn't try to make it out any better than it really 
 is. Your friend Sam Mitchell said the same thing in his first 
 letter, in his second he didn't say anything about it, and in his 
 third he sent home three sheets of blank paper. His father 
 didn't know what had come over Sam. It now appears that he 
 wrote his letter one evening, in his tent, and had just finished it 
 when lights were ordered to be put out. In the dark he sent 
 home the three sheets of blank paper by mistake, and kept all 
 the cream of the correspondence to himself ! Write as often as 
 you can. Enclosed you will find some postage stamps. 
 
 " Your friends went trouting together yesterday and brought 
 home some nice ones. We had one for breakfast thirteen or 
 fourteen inches long. It tasted about right I can tell you ; 
 but you will pardon me for writing about the delicacies that grace 
 our table. Still, Mary, the cook, wants me to ask you if you've 
 had any waffles since vou went away ? I told her the nearest to 
 them you had written about was having some Virginia hoe-cake. 
 You have enough to eat, now, don't you ? Our cherries are 
 ripening fast. The peaches will be ready for eating about the 
 time of your return. Your fowls are all in good health, and the 
 chickens increasing in stature. The rooster and other friends 
 send love. So good-bye, from the folks at home." 
 
RHODE ISLAM) VOLUNTEERS. i;i 
 
 The following selection will conclude " letters from home : " 
 
 " Providence, June 6th. Would you like to know what all 
 the girls are up to, while all the boys, 'beaux,' I mean, are gone 
 off to the war ? Well here we are, trying to make the best of it, 
 but it is real 'Old Maidendom,' for it seems as if almost every- 
 body that we knew has gone. When we go anywhere now, in 
 the evening, we must get back the best way we can, three or four 
 together perhaps. Isn't it too bad ? I did not have even time to 
 bid you good-bye, you went off in such a burr}'. I started for the 
 depot to see you off, and arrived only to find, not you, but a crowd 
 of people, and an empty depot. You must have had a delightful 
 journey from your description. Such nice accommodations on the 
 floor; such delicate rations of sandwiches and sponge-cake ! 
 
 "I should like to be out to your camp, if only for just a few 
 minutes, to see how you are living, and how nicely you keep your 
 tent that you live in. Please write me all about your soldier-life 
 if you can find time. Tell me how you get along housekeeping ; 
 who makes the fires, cooks the breakfast, and fries the hot cakes 
 in the morning. Auntie says you must try to take good care of 
 yourself, and be careful and keep out of danger ! " 
 
 June 16th, Lieutenant DeWolf wrote : "Our commissarist, has 
 now become pretty well regulated, and we have rations of pork, 
 bacon, salt beef, fresh beef, loaf-bread, hard bread, beans, rice, 
 coffee, tea, sugar, vinegar, and salt, with the accessories of soap 
 and candles. Gradually such conveniences as cups, plates, knives 
 forks and spoons are being supplied. Our government pantaloons 
 have also arrived, and we are no longer obliged to take the back- 
 ward march at the approach of visitors." 
 
I 72 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 
 
 
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 Henry T. Chace, of Company D, 
 declares that his "'ferry-boats,' alias 
 'whangs,' alias 'scows,' alias 'tan- 
 yards,' alias 'army shoes,' alias 'pon- 
 toons,' are great institutions : Easy 
 to march in, easy to drill in, and 
 large enough to sleep in. They are 
 so broad-soled, that I have taken one 
 off, and, putting a piece of brown 
 paper on it, have improvised a satis- 
 factorv writing-desk." 
 Puss in Army shoes. Thirty years later an old soldier 
 
 said to his wife, "Mrs. Sage, I should like to know whose 'ferry- 
 boats ' those are that I stumbled over in the hall ? " " Ferry-boats, 
 indeed, sir ! Those are my shoes. Very polite of you to call 
 them ferry-boats ! " "I didn't say 'ferry-boats,' Mrs. Sage; you 
 misunderstood me — 'fairy boots' — I said, my dear." 
 
 " It is pleasant to-day, and the boys feel accordingly jolly. The 
 morning has been improved by most of the mess in cleaning our 
 guns and in writing home. I have been out with Mason sweep- 
 ing Benefit street in front of our quarters. Price and I are now 
 at the foot of a tree, sitting on the ground, just above the 
 Athenaeum tent. Terms for board in this tent $3.00 per year, 
 commanding officers no charge. Three of the tents are emptied 
 of their contents, and the proprietors are busy 'cleaning house! ' 
 Some of the tents have spruce trees located near the doors, with 
 short branches and bark off, which serve as clothes-horses, and 
 blankets, coats, and towels, are out for an airing. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 1 73 
 
 " Samuel Dorrance is sitting on a pile of knapsacks, overcoats, 
 and blankets, putting a letter ' D ' on his cap. Mr. Vose, who 
 used to keep a shoe store near father's, is now captain of the 
 seventh ward company, called 'Company C 
 
 "Wednesday, June 4th. At about six, this evening, nearly 
 three hundred of the regiment gathered together upon the rising- 
 ground between the streets of Companies B and L, and formed in 
 hollow square to our chaplain, Rev. Mr. Clapp, for an introduc- 
 tory Divine service. It commenced with singing the familiar 
 hymn, 'All hail the power of Jesus' name,' and was followed by 
 the reading of the twenty-seventh psalm, remarks and prayer by 
 the chaplain. During the meeting, which was an interesting one, 
 we had a slight shower. We are now waiting for rations. These 
 have improved. When they are served we form in line and 
 march to the foot of the street, and receive them in turn. This 
 morning we had meat, bread, and coffee, with a dish of cold beans, 
 which was good enough as long as it lasted, but there wasn't 
 enough to go round. I didn't hanker after either the beans or 
 the strong black coffee. So, with others, I took a sharp stick for 
 a fork, and holding several slices of bread before the fire, 'dry 
 toast for three,' soon crowned our efforts. We have found out 
 that 'fingers were made before forks,' and that knives, plates, and 
 napkins, cups, and saucers, are all modern innovations. When I 
 return home you will fail to elicit a single growl from me, whether 
 the meat is cooked too much or too little. Camp-life is thus doing 
 us good in making us willing and obliging. 
 
 "Raining again to-night, and the company streets are slippery 
 and disagreeable, but we must take our turn for guard duty. 
 
1 74 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Fred Armington and John Cady from our 
 'mess,' N. W. Aldrich, Aborn, and New- 
 comb, all of Company D, with thirty five 
 from other companies, are off to-night on 
 picket duty, under command of Lieut. 
 Stephen Thurber, of Company E. It 
 promises to be a dark and rainy night. 
 Aldrich, the youthful volunteer, marching 
 senator n. w. Aidrich. with his comrades to the post of duty, 
 worthy to command and ready to obey, is a fitting type of the 
 private soldier in the War for the Union. Content to serve in 
 an humble position in times of trial and danger, he was soon 
 called by his native state as her chosen representative at the 
 capital, which his youthful footsteps had hastened to defend. 
 He has long continued, as senior senator, to dignify and adorn 
 the high position of official trust committed to his charge. At 
 one of our regimental reunions Senator Aldrich spoke highly of 
 the officers of the regiment and of his own company, saying to 
 them he owed some of the first and best lessons of his life. He 
 learned by his service with them that in every sphere of life one 
 can show the greatest amount of heroism by performing the 
 duties assigned to him in a quiet and unobstrusive manner. The 
 privates of the Tenth Rhode Island Regiment learned in their 
 brief campaign a lesson which should last them through life — 
 that heroism is not in brilliant achievement, but in an unselfish 
 devotion to duty, and the performance of every trust committed 
 to them in a manner which shall receive the respect of men and 
 the commendation of God. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 75 
 
 Resuming, Chace, of Company D, says: "We 'turned in' at 
 nine o'clock, but did not get to sleep until ten, listening to the 
 good singing in another tent. We have some fine voices, George 
 Briggs, Levi Burdon, Albert Ham, Ned Glezen, and W. C. Bene- 
 dict of the Ninth." "The Sword of Bunker Hill," and "See- 
 ing Nellie Home," as rendered by Burdon, became very popular 
 with the regiment, and he is still called out, at our reunions to 
 sing them as he used to sing them in camp. "Last Sunday even- 
 ing, we all enjoyed very much. Several of us sat in the tent-door 
 enjoying the scene. The air was still, the moon bright, the sky 
 bine, the great trees threw a soft shade, a choir, near us, furnished 
 sweet music, while we discoursed of home and heavenly themes." 
 
 "I was reading the other day," says a well-known writer, "that 
 on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, the wives of the fishermen, 
 whose husbands have gone far off upon the deep, are in the habit 
 at even-tide of going down to the seashore, and singing, as 
 female voices only can, the first stanza of a beautiful hymn ; after 
 they have sung it, they listen, till they hear, borne by the wind 
 across the desert sea, the second stanza, sung by their gallant 
 husbands as they are tossed by the gale upon the waves, and 
 both are happy. 
 
 " Perhaps if we would listen, we too might hear in this desert 
 world of ours, some sound, some whisper borne from afar, to 
 remind us that there is a heaven and a home, and when we sing 
 the hymn upon the shores of earth, perhaps we shall hear its 
 sweet echo breaking in music upon the sands of time, and cheer- 
 ing the hearts of them that are pilgrims and strangers, and look 
 for a city that hath foundations." 
 
1 7 6 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "June 15th. Our mess in Company B 
 has engaged a prepossessing young con- 
 traband who boasts the name of Abraham 
 Douglass, to do the singing and wash the 
 dishes, for the modest salary of two dollars 
 and a half per month. We enjoy having 
 him sing and wash the dishes very much 
 indeed. Last evening he sang for us : 
 
 • De gospel ship's a sailin' — sailin' — sailin' — 
 De gospel ship's a sailin' — bound for Canin's 
 happv sho' ! 
 
 Little Abe. Chorus: ' Den, glory, glory, hallelujah! 
 
 "Another of his best ones is : 
 
 ' Dere's a light in der winder fur thee, brother, 
 Deie' a light in der winder fur thee ! ' 
 
 " Each member of the regiment was presented with a small, 
 red-covered hymn book, containing the old familiar hymns, which 
 were sung at religious services. In opening my book the other 
 day I found on the inside cover the following beautiful lines 
 written by a private in Stuart's engineer regiment, which made 
 a deep impression on my mind : 
 
 ■ •• I [all ! who goes there ? " my challenge crv, it rings along the watchful line; 
 •■ Relief! " I hear a voice reply — -Advance, and give the countersign! " 
 With bayonet at the charge, I wait — The corporal gives the mystic spell — 
 With arms aport. I charge my mate : Then onward pass, and " all is well ! " 
 
 Bui in my tent that night awake. I ask. if in the fray I fall, 
 
 Can I the mystic answer make, when th' angelic sentries call ? 
 
 .And pray that Heaven may so ordain, where'er I go, what fate be mine. 
 
 Whether in trouble, or in pain. I still may have " the countersign! " ' ' 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 1 77 
 
 One of the members of another company wrote home : "The 
 men have found a remedy for poor rations, in songs which carry 
 the mind back to the scenes of other days. Here, a group, as 
 the evening twilight gathers, sing the familiar hymns remem- 
 bered from childhood. Surrounded by the instruments of death, 
 and within reach of the battery's guns, you may hear rising 
 on the air of evening, ' Oh, where can rest be found,' ' Pleyel's 
 hymn,' and 'Jesus, lover of my soul.' Here a band of students 
 revive the memories of ' Brown,' with ' Lauriger Horatius,' ' Here's 
 to good old Prex., drink him down,' while far at the other end of 
 the camp, from the tents of the Ninth Regiment, come to our 
 ears the strains of ' Let me kiss him for his mother.' ' " Camp- 
 life has its pleasures, too. If you could hear the manly chorus 
 swelling up from the group of singers before yonder tent, in the 
 broad moonlight, the mingled yet not discordant notes of violin, 
 guitar and banjo, from different parts of the encampment, with 
 here and there a hushed and reverent group, listening in the 
 privacy of their own tent to one who reads the Word of God, you 
 would not think that our life is but a weariness." 
 
 "A few from each company are allowed a pass to Washington 
 now and then. The other clay a party from Company B were 
 sauntering down Pennsylvania avenue, when a door opened on the 
 opposite side of the street, and there stood General Burnside ! 
 They all ran across and claimed the privilege of shaking hands 
 with him on the score of being Rhode Island soldiers. He shook 
 hands cordially with them, and asked where they were stationed, 
 and they left him feeling repaid by this incident alone for the 
 journey to Washington." 
 
 23 
 
178 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "Thursday, June 12th. Our camp was enlivened yesterday by 
 the presence of Maj. Lewis Richmond and wife, and Mrs. General 
 Burnside. Would that the general could run out to see us." 
 A few days after General Burnside made us a flying visit, and 
 was received with warm demonstrations of honor and affection. 
 
 General Burnside at Camp Frieze. 
 
 A few months later, on September 17th, the battle of Antietam 
 was fought, but sixty miles away from our camp, in which Burn- 
 side bore a gallant part. Young Adjt. William Ide Brown, after- 
 wards mortally wounded before Richmond, thus wrote home of 
 Burnside : " O, how I love that general ! I would think myself 
 happy if I could be an orderly and follow him from place to place. 
 How I wish I knew him personally ! How proud I was to have 
 him speak to me on the night of the battle of Antietam, where I 
 was on duty at the famous Antietam bridge ! There may be 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. I 79 
 
 greater generals than Burnside, but nowhere a more honest, 
 noble, patriotic hero ! " Young Brown was the beloved class 
 president of the class of 1862, in Brown University. He fell only 
 a few weeks before the final surrender at Appomattox. 
 
 "Senator Simmons and Dr. Okie were also in camp recently, 
 which reminds me of William Okie's experience on guard duty. 
 After a guard has been on two hours he is relieved. When the 
 guard hears the relief approach he calls out, ' Halt ! who comes 
 there?' Answer, 'Corporal, with relief.' 'Advance, corporal, 
 and give the countersign.' Young Okie was on guard one night, 
 and, after the answer from the corporal, instead of saying, 'Ad- 
 vance, etc.,' he said, ' You can't come too soon ! ' Generally after 
 the two hours' duty the men are glad to get back to their tents. 
 
 " Ned Brown and Fred Armington received boxes from home 
 last evening. Each of us had a cake from Brown's box, and 
 Armington will have his 'spread' this morning. Later: I told 
 you so. Armington has just passed the doughnuts, and it's jolly 
 to be remembered by the friends at home. As I write, Price lies 
 stretched out before me, and distracts me by asking me to draw 
 his army shoes, but I tell him his 'whangs' are too large to be 
 transferred to this sheet ' life-size ! ' 
 
 " The contrabands brought some nice, soft fresh strawberries 
 into camp this morning, at twelve cents per quart. We sent out 
 for six quarts, and they made a good relish, I assure you. Cost : 
 berries, six quarts, seventy-two cents ; milk, thirty cents ; sugar, 
 ten cents ; total, one dollar and twelve cents, divided by sixteen 
 of us, leaves just seven cents for each man to pay. Cheap enough 
 isn't it ? Have some? " 
 
i So 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 The^Ten nallytown Gun 
 
 Unexpected Capture by the Tenth 
 KIiocIl: Island Volunteers. 
 
 Camp Frieze, Tennallytown. 
 
 "June 1 8th. Yesterday afternoon," wrote the author, "Com- 
 pany B was thrown into quite a flutter of excitement, by the 
 announcement that it had been detailed for a secret expedition, 
 and was under marching orders. We formed in line, as per 
 regimental orders, with equipments and muskets, and left camp 
 at two o'clock, p. m., accompanied by the officers of both regi- 
 ments, with directions to observe the strictest silence on the 
 march. What was going to happen ? Had old Stonewall Jackson 
 again ventured within our lines, and were we to have the glory of 
 surprising and capturing him ? Unhappily it proved not, though 
 Stonewall did make a visit to Maryland a few months later, and 
 his progress, and that of the entire rebel army, was arrested only 
 at the terrific pass of Antietam, but sixty miles from camp. 
 After Company B had been marched perhaps two miles, it was 
 halted, and faced, as the boys say, 'eyes right and left,' before a 
 peaceful and unpretending wooden mansion, and awaited an 
 answer to the summons of Colonel Bliss at the front door. It 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 1 8 I 
 
 seems that intelligence had reached the colonel, through our own 
 men out foraging, that a rebel cannon was concealed in the barn 
 of a well-known southern sympathizer, and it was considered not 
 improbable that he might turn it some dark night on our sleep- 
 ing regiments at Camp Frieze. It looked like a very serious 
 piece of business, the boys thought, after hearing the news, and 
 visions of a thirty-two, if not a forty-two-pounder rose before us. 
 The summons for its surrender, however, was met by an indignant 
 refusal from the fair matron who answered the colonel's call, and 
 from the proprietor himself, who now appeared from a neighboring 
 field. He was making off, but was induced to return after a 
 short chase by Adjutant Tobey. Soon a daughter appeared on 
 the scene, fresh from school, and a true 'gray,' and no mistake. 
 She loudly declared that they would never give it up. No, never ! 
 The choice being now given them to surrender the gun, or take 
 up a family march back to camp, to the tune of 'we won't go 
 home till morning,' they concluded to produce it. And lo, what 
 a disappointment ! Instead of a mighty forty-two pounder, or 
 Stonewall Jackson, we beheld a small field howitzer, about two 
 feet long, such as is used in the field by infantry. It was rifled, 
 and carried a ball, weighing a pound, about a mile. But such 
 as it was, it was mounted on its carriage and trailed back to camp 
 by Company B, who thus earned the honor of capturing the only 
 rebel cannon taken by the Tenth Regiment Rhode Island Vol- 
 unteers. It was receipted for by Captain Dyer, and in due time 
 safely arrived in Providence. After many years, through the 
 courtesy of his son, Adjt.-Gen. Elisha Dyer, it has been placed in 
 the museum of the Rhode Island Historical Society." 
 
182 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Contiaband Goods. 
 
 Resuming the narrative from Company D, 
 we read that : "A little dancing contra- 
 band, one of the innocent causes of the war, 
 is now in front of the 'Athenaeum ' tent, 
 blacking Elisha Howry's boots. At seven 
 this evening, we form in line for inspection, 
 with equipments, which must be in shining 
 order. Every boot, button, belt, bayonet, 
 and musket, must be polished as bright as 
 rubbing can make them. At inspection every 
 man appears in line, with his musket and equipments, full knap- 
 sack, canteen, haversack, cartridge-box, etc., all of which are 
 duly inspected. The blankets being strapped upon the knapsacks, 
 the tents are supposed to be empty, and, of course, their condi- 
 tion, as to cleanliness can be ascertained at a glance." 
 
 "One of our first efforts," wrote Captain Dyer, "as quickly as 
 opportunity and 'leave of absence' from camp would allow, was a 
 general reconnoissance of our surroundings, to provide against the 
 liability of being surprised, outflanked, or attacked in the many 
 vulnerable points to which our camp was exposed, by some raiding 
 Jackson or Early. This duty was most faithfully performed." 
 
 Resuming, H. T. Chace, of Company D, wrote : " On coming 
 into camp this morning, I noticed some very pretty evergreen 
 boughs, or arbors, in one company"s quarters, with arched doors 
 and windows, all displaying excellent taste. The Westerly com- 
 pany have things about right. The boys have dug a well which 
 yields the best water in camp. They have their tables hand- 
 somely protected by evergreen boughs." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 I8 3 
 
 1 SV^AO. 
 
 "The orderly has just 
 appeared at the tent- 
 door, saying, 'Two men 
 of this mess are wanted 
 to bring water for the 
 cook.' Sergeant Brown 
 and the writer responded 
 to the call, and brought 
 several buckets of water 
 from the spring. We 
 then helped peel the po- 
 tatoes, and split some wood for the fire. Herman and Burdon 
 are also assisting Mr. Burroughs in the cooking department. I am 
 on police duty again to-day, with George Briggs, to wash the 
 dishes. Returning I saw Robert Paine in the cook's tent, picking 
 over beans. Think of it ! and we all have to take our turn ! 
 My box arrived this p. m., and has been opened to my satisfaction 
 and that of the mess. We propose dividing the cakes on Sunday 
 evening. We shall have Fred Hedge, Ned Brown, John Cady, 
 William A. Harris, and Fred Armington, participate in demolish- 
 ing it. They are all regular boarders at the 'Athenaeum.' They 
 say 'you can't have too much cake for supper,' and if the cake 
 gives out, we shall all relish the gingerbread. 
 
 "June 14th. To-day a small party has gone to the Potomac to 
 bathe, three miles away. 
 
 "June 15th. Was up before sunrise this morning, and bathed 
 at the spring and went over and admired the battery's new twelve- 
 pounders before reveille." 
 
1 84 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Reveille, 4.30 A. M. 
 
 " Reveille sounds at half past 
 four. We tumble out for early 
 roll-call, just as we please, as re- 
 gards our costumes. In the ex- 
 citement many of the men come 
 half dressed, dragging their raus- 
 g kets after them, completing their 
 hasty toilet after getting into line. 
 The helter-skelter that follows the 
 hasty endeavor to get into the 
 ranks is extremely comical to be- 
 hold. It gives no time for the adjustment of collars, or tying of 
 neckties or 'whangs.' This morning all our men but one had 
 overcoats on. That one was late, and not having time to dress 
 at all, before his name would be called, he hastily wrapped the 
 drapery of his couch, that is an army blanket, about him, and 
 took his position in line, to our great amusement. Later this 
 morning, we marched over to the quartermaster's tent, and ac- 
 tually received our blue army pants. Such a motley assembly ! 
 Some with no pants (only drawers), some with only three-quarter 
 pants, multitudes with dilapidated pants, full of patches and holes, 
 and the balance with blankets to cover them, for respectability's 
 sake. Each man received the pair first handed him, with the 
 instruction to 'try them on,' and if 'no fit,' to change round with 
 some other member of the regiment. If any one could not, after all, 
 succeed in finding a pair which would answer the purpose, he could 
 return them to the quartermaster for exchange. We had a good 
 deal of fun during the operation of 'trying on' and getting fitted. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. [85 
 
 Thus our 'infant,' a tall six-footer, received a short pair, while 
 Halsey DeWolf, had a pair which came up to his neck. Fred 
 Armington is now hard at work shortening the legs of his trousers, 
 so as not to show the white linings. 
 
 " 2 p. m. We had a good dinner of beef-soup and potatoes, 
 with strawberries for dessert. Potatoes, thanks to our foragers, 
 are quite plenty now. Seeing Fred Hedge (the Athenaeum libra- 
 rian) staining his hands picking over strawberries, reminds me 
 of a laugh we had at William A. Harris while on the march from 
 Washington. He had a new red silk handkerchief in his cap, and 
 the perspiration soon began to make the color run, so that as 
 he wiped his face with it the color was transferred, which gave 
 him a peculiarly heated and exhausted appearance. When we 
 first noticed it we thought that the march was giving him 'jessy ! ' 
 We soon discovered, however, that he was only being artificially 
 colored, ' a la Indian ! ' 
 
 "Tuesday, June 17th. Yesterday, we had plenty of drill, and 
 only six roll-calls. I wish you could hear us, ' break ranks, march ! '' 
 We just do it altogether, with a will! This morning we had 
 battalion drill, as usual, carrying our muskets and equipments. 
 Our dress, over the uniform, consists of a belt which fastens round 
 the body, and which holds a cartridge-box and bayonet, with a 
 cross-belt. Our muskets after an hour's drill in the hot sun seem 
 a good deal heavier than they did as we proudly handled them 
 at first." "To relieve this difficulty," says the author, "a belt- 
 hook was devised, which attached to the body-belt in such a way 
 that when the musket was at the position of ' carry,' its weight 
 could be easily transferred from the arm to the belt-hook. 
 
 24 
 
i 86 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Belt and Belt-Hook. 
 
 It immediately became very popular, and 
 worked to perfection, until one unlucky day 
 as we stood in line with our muskets quietly 
 resting on our belt-hooks, the order was 
 suddenly given to 'order, arms!' Down 
 went every other fellow's gun promptly ! 
 But mine wouldn't let go of that plaguy 
 belt-hook, and was left suspended high in 
 air! The captain reprimanded me sharply, 
 the boys in the ranks smiled audibly, and 
 all belt-hooks were ordered off promptly. 
 They might afterwards be seen adorning the 
 belts of officers, supporting their long swords, but they no longer 
 supported the firelocks of privates. I was so mortified that I 
 began to feel sorry that I'd come out with the rest of the boys to 
 help save the capital. I felt almost as bad as I did once in a 
 spelling-class at school. I suppose I wasn't paying then the best 
 of attention, when suddenly the teacher called upon me to spell 
 the word. I hadn't any more idea what the word was than if it 
 had been 'belt-hook,' but supposing that the next boy kindly in- 
 truded to prompt me by whispering, ' lignum- vitae,' I boldly 
 pronounced, and spelled it, until interrupted by shouts of laughter 
 from the school, in which the teacher himself joined. I looked at 
 the other boy, and realized that he'd given me away, for his sides 
 were shaking. He is an old boy now, and I forgive him, as I 
 hope to be forgiven, for perpetrating some of the same sort of 
 practical jokes. Certainly, I can never forget my experiences 
 with 'belt-hooks' and ' lignum-vitae.' 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 [87 
 
 " The ' grand rounds ? ' 
 Yes, well do I remember 
 my first experience. I 
 was guard at the west 
 of the camp, at the foot 
 of the hill, when the 
 'grand rounds' came 
 along. Captain Smith 
 was officer of the day, 
 and, of course, led the 
 guard. It had been raining hard, and the water was rushing 
 down the hill, so that my tramp was through mud and water. 
 About midnight I heard stumbling footsteps : ' Halt ! who goes 
 there?' 'Grand rounds!' 'Advance, sergeant of the grand 
 rounds and give the countersign ! ' The sergeant spattered the 
 mud, gave the countersign, and inquired the way to the next 
 rounds, for it was so dark that you could hardly see him. The 
 captain stopped, and said ' Chace, how do you stand it ? ' I said 
 ' first rate,' and he went on his way rejoicing. He has been on duty 
 every day, although often very tired, and troubled with a cold. 
 
 " By the way, we have a man here named Adam. A few min- 
 utes ago some one went by our tent calling out, 'John, where's 
 Adam ? ' and John Cacly immediately called out, ' Where's Adam ? 
 Gone after Eve!' You would think we needed an Eve if you 
 could see the sleeves of my blouse. I cut them off, and then 
 stitched, basted and sewed the edges ; it would puzzle a seam- 
 stress to tell which. At this moment we are emptying Corporal 
 Foster's box of ginger cookies. 
 
1 88 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 A few clays later, Mr. Chace wrote : " Have just returned from 
 'dress parade.' All the companies march to the parade-ground, 
 form in two ranks, and face to the front, sergeants in the rear. 
 The order is then given, 'order, arms; parade, rest.' At this 
 rest the right foot is thrown to the rear of the left, the hands 
 crossed in front of the body, left uppermost, thumbs crossed, eyes 
 to the front, every man to remain as still as a statue, even if a fly 
 or a spider walks over his face. The drum-band, five fifes lead- 
 ing, followed by eight snare-drums, then marches in front of the 
 regiment, from right to left, playing in common time, then 
 halts, about face, and marches back quick time. 'First sergeants 
 to the front and centre.' At this command the first sergeants 
 pass to the front of their respective companies, face inward, 
 and marching to the centre of the regiment, take the position, 
 * front-face.' The sergeant on the right, his piece being at a light 
 infantry 'shoulder,' then salutes, by carrying his left arm across 
 the breast, and reports to the adjutant, 'Company D present, or 
 accounted for.' Each sergeant follows, reporting his company in 
 the same manner. The adjutant who is standing opposite the 
 centre of the regiment, facing it, and in front of the colonel, 
 then orders, ' outward face, to your posts, march.' The sergeants 
 return to their posts. The order, 'parade is dismissed,' then fol- 
 lows. At this the commissioned officers advance to the front, 
 face, march to the centre and report, the band meanwhile, playing. 
 Having reported, the officers return by the shortest route to their 
 companies and take them out of line. Each company is then 
 drilled by its commandant, presenting a lively spectacle. At the 
 same time another company was going through the movement of 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 189 
 
 Cooking Custard. 
 
 ' charge bayonets ' about a quar- 
 ter of a mile distant. The yells 
 of the men were exciting to 
 hear. After drilling some time 
 we were again formed in line, 
 and drilled by Lieutenant-Col- 
 onel Shaw for about twenty 
 minutes very lively. 
 
 " Ned Brown has been cook- 
 ing a nice custard in his mess- 
 pan. A pint of milk, two eggs, 
 a little nutmeg, and watching 
 the fire for ten minutes, made 
 a cheap and luxurious dish for a soldier. I am now sitting on a 
 box in front of our tent, and can see down Benefit street beyond 
 the cook's tent. It is amusing to see some of the boys steering 
 for their tents, with bread in one hand and meat in the other, re- 
 membering at the same time, how they lived at home. 
 
 " Yesterday, the Zouaves, Captain Duckworth, received a big 
 pile of good things, not the least acceptable of which, was a foot- 
 ball. Sergeants Brown and Cady went on pass to Washington 
 yesterday. They returned in time for ' retreat ' which beats at 
 seven p. m. They brought along a two-gallon coffee pot, and 
 ' K. D.' had a blacking box and brush. Ned also brought coffee 
 and sugar, and we had some coffee in the evening that beat any 
 that we have had since leaving home. We have not as yet been 
 served with either mess-pans, knives or forks. What we have in 
 that line has been 'foraged.' My silver spoon, for which I paid 
 
I90 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 four cents, the other day in Washington, disappeared yesterday. 
 I have made two trips from camp, recently, one to the Potomac, 
 the 19th, and one to Washington, the 20th. In the former 
 tramp, after crossing Chain Bridge, we proceeded along a steep, 
 rocky road, about half a mile, when we came to Fort Marcy, gar- 
 risoned by two companies of a New York artillery regiment. The 
 fort mounts thirteen guns (twenty-four-pound Parrott, six-pound 
 field pieces, and twelve-pound brass howitzers). The fort over- 
 looks the Potomac. From Fort Marcy we could see encamp- 
 ments in the distance, and further on in Virginia, Fort Ethan 
 Allen, mounting twenty-five guns. Returning to camp, we reported 
 in good season, tired out. The next day being my chance to go 
 to Washington, I snapped up the offer, and, borrowing a fresh 
 collar, and brushing my hair and boots, was soon ready. 
 
 " Brock Mathewson, 2d, was the corporal, and William A. 
 Harris was the other private. We started about 8. 1 5 and walked to 
 Georgetown. On reaching Georgetown heights a beautiful pano- 
 rama opened before ns. Arlington heights, the old residence of 
 General Lee, Fort Corcoran, the Potomac, Long Bridge, the 
 Capitol and Washington Monument. We took the stage for 
 Washington, and pulled the strap in front of the White House." 
 Then follows an interesting description of the places visited : 
 the White House, Willard's Hotel, Patent Office and the Capitol. 
 "The bakery in the basement bakes 35,000 loaves daily for the 
 soldiers. Returning to camp via Georgetown, a carriage passed, and 
 we exchanged salutes with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 
 Following was a gentleman on horseback, who immediately lifted 
 his hat to ns, and we recognized President Lincoln." He was 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 I 9 I 
 
 The Girls We Left Behind Us. 
 
 greatly beloved by the soldiers, 
 and more than once interfered 
 with the military powers to par- 
 don some youthful deserter, or 
 sentry who had fallen asleep at 
 his post. 
 
 " My business in Washington," 
 saws a well known official, " was to 
 secure a pardon for a young sol- 
 dier who had deserted under rather 
 peculiar circumstances. When he 
 enlisted he was under engagement 
 to a young girl, and went to the 
 front very certain of her faithful- 
 ness, as a young man should be, and he made a most excellent 
 soldier, and felt that 'she' would be proud of him. It is needless 
 to say that the young girl being exceptionally attractive, and the 
 war unexpectedly protracted, had another lover, whom she had 
 discarded for the young volunteer, for which the stay-at-home 
 hated the accepted soldier with the utmost cordiality. Taking- 
 advantage of his long absence he began to renew his suit with 
 such vehemence, that a rumor reached the young man at the 
 front that his love had gone over to the enemy. He immediately 
 applied for a furlough, which was refused, and, half mad and reck- 
 less of consequences, he deserted his post and started for home. 
 He found the information he had received partially true, but he 
 had arrived in time. He married the girl, but was immediately 
 arrested as a deserter, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be 
 
I92 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 shot. After patiently listening to the recital, and inquiring as to 
 his previous good character, the President at once signed the 
 pardon, saying : ' I want to punish the young man ; probably in 
 less than a year he will wish I had withheld the pardon. We 
 can't tell though, I suppose when I was a young man I should 
 have done the same fool thing myself ! ' " 
 
 If ever a man was fairly tested, Lincoln was. General Long- 
 street, of the South, calls him "the greatest man of rebellious 
 times ; the one matchless among forty millions for the peculiar 
 difficulties of the period." There was no lack of resistance, nor of 
 ridicule both at home and abroad, and one of the most touching 
 tributes at his death was the manly recantation of the London 
 Punch, which for four long years had pursued him with its 
 slanders : 
 
 " Beside this corpse that bears for winding sheet 
 The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, 
 Between the mourners at the head and feet, 
 Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you? 
 
 Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer. 
 
 To lame my pencil, and confute my pen, 
 To make me own this kind of princes peer, 
 
 This rail-splitter, a true-born king of men! " 
 
 Resuming, H. T. Chace wrote : "June 21st. Arriving in camp 
 on our return from Washington, we found rumors current that we 
 are under marching orders. If we move it will be to Virginia. 
 There is another report that we are to be sent to the front. 
 While drilling, to-day, I saw a string of army mules and wagons 
 for the Fourteenth Infantry, passing down the road." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 19, 
 
 Chaplain A. H. Clapp. 
 
 Captain Greene wrote : " Paymaster 
 Jabez C. Knight made us a very ac- 
 ceptable visit during the week just 
 past, and paid over the long talked of 
 bounty money." 
 
 H. T. Chace, wrote the same day : 
 "A battalion of regulars is now passing 
 by. I have no idea General McClellan 
 will be defeated on the Peninsula, and 
 rather hope that we may have a chance 
 to assist in crushing the rebellion. 
 
 "The chaplain has just looked in and given us a pleasant word. 
 We like him." "We are greatly attached to our chaplain," wrote 
 Capt. A. Crawford Greene. "He is in every way fitted for the 
 duties of his office. He is daily among the sick, and among the 
 soldiers generally, speaking an encouraging word to all. He holds 
 services every night, and on the Sabbath services at eleven a. m. 
 and seven p. m." In his report to the governor of Rhode Island, 
 Colonel Shaw said : "The regiment was particularly fortunate in 
 its chaplain, Rev. A. Huntington Clapp, the honored pastor of the 
 Beneficent Congregational Church in Providence. He was sin- 
 gularly qualified for the duties of his office, and devoted himself 
 with unremitting fidelity to the temporal and spiritual welfare of 
 the men." Indeed, Sir Walter Scott's description of Father 
 Clement might well be applied to our beloved chaplain, " You will 
 think of him as the best and kindest man in the world, with a 
 comfort for every man's grief, a counsel for every man's difficulty, 
 the rich man's surest guide, and the poor man's best friend." 
 
i 9 4 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Capt. A. Crawford Greene, wrote 
 June 21st : "Maj. Jacob Babbitt has ar- 
 rived, and commenced his duties. Our 
 pickets brought in a man this morning 
 who seems wonderfully frightened. He 
 gives no satisfactory excuse for being in 
 the road. He cocked his rifle when about 
 to be taken, but one of our pickets ar- 
 rested him in time to prevent the dis- 
 
 Maior Babbitt. i 117-1 • T «.■ ^ 
 
 charge. We have every indication judg- 
 ing from preparatory orders that we are to leave Camp Frieze, 
 and pitch our tents, the God of battles only knows where. We 
 hear it rumored that we are to go to Cloud's Mills, Va., near 
 Alexandria. It is also reported that we of the Tenth are soon to 
 receive rifled muskets similar to those of the Ninth. We have 
 just received orders to cook two days' rations, which is another 
 evidence that we are to march. The Tenth Battery has already 
 started for Cloud's Mills, via Washington. Our hospital exhibits 
 this morning about the same number (say seventy-eight) of in- 
 mates who are comfortably sick. None are thought to be in a 
 dangerous state. Our advantages for company and battalion 
 drill have been extremely limited at Camp Frieze, and our hope 
 is that we may find our new camp better adapted for general 
 instruction. There seems to be an unusual movement of troops 
 about here, and the supposition is that an important engagement is 
 about to take place. We notice that most of the regiments about 
 us are packed up, with knapsacks on, ready to march at a moment's 
 notice. Our men appear ready for whatever awaits them." 
 
KHODK ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 ^95 
 
 Scene in Hospit* 
 
 Scene in Hos- 
 pital. 
 
 Regimental 
 surgeon to pa- t_ 
 tient : 
 
 "You've got a 
 bad cold, and a \ 
 fever, sir. Have 
 you been in a 
 draught ? " 
 
 Patient : 
 
 " Drafted, no, 
 sir! They didn't 
 draft me. I was 
 
 darned fool enough to enlist of my own free will ! I thought the 
 war was about over, and if I didn't hurry up I should get left ! " 
 
 "A few days ago," wrote Chace, " a soldier went to the surgeon's 
 tent with a sore hand. Seeing that the trouble arose chiefly from 
 a neglect of cleanliness, Dr. Wilcox wrote a prescription, and sent 
 the man with it to the tent where they are prepared. The direc- 
 tions were: 'Four drops in a basin of water, and wash the 
 hands in the mixture, the operation to be repeated four times a 
 day.' The joke was that the vial from which he took the drops 
 contained nothing but pure water. It is needless to add the sores 
 disappeared. Another man went to the doctor, who he saw was 
 simply and purely homesick. He received for his complaint a 
 dose of sugar of milk, and when it leaked out, he also recovered. 
 The general health of the regiment is very good." 
 
196 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Prig.-Gen. Wadsworth. 
 
 " Saturday, June 21st. General orders 
 number 19 were read to the regiment. 
 
 "June 25th. We expect to be roused 
 at two o'clock to-morrow morning for a 
 march. Our camp is a scene of bustling, 
 stirring activity to-night. The reflec- 
 tion on the trees of the grove from a 
 fire in a neighboring street is beautiful. 
 Tattoo beats earlier than usual, and 
 reveille at two o'clock a. m." 
 
 War Department, Washington City, D. C, 
 June 24, 1S62. 
 Ordered', That all applications for passes and permits for persons or prop- 
 erty within the lines of the United States forces shall hereafter be made to 
 Brigadier-General Wadsworth, Military Governor of the District of Columbia, 
 and be subject to such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. 
 
 Signed, EDWIN M. STANTON. 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 General Orders No. /■ 
 
 Headquarters Reserve Army Corps, 
 
 Washington, June 24, 1S62. 
 
 1. Pursuant to instructions from the War Department, the undersigned 
 hereby assumes the command of all the forces in and about the City of Wash- 
 ington, except such as may be required by Brigadier-General Wadsworth, for 
 purposes set forth in the instructions referred to. 
 
 2. Such of these troops as are north of the Potomac will hold themselves in 
 readiness to move at a moment's warning. 
 
 Signed, L. D. STURGIS, 
 
 Brig.-Gen. U. S. Vols. 
 
 Notk. Brig. -Gen. James S. Wadsworth, a most worthy and intrepid officer, was mortally 
 wounded and fell into the hands of the enemy, in the battle of the Wilderness, Va., May 6, 1S04. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 1 97 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I Vols., 
 
 Camp Frieze, June 20, 1862. 
 General Orders \<>- ig- 
 
 For the better enforcement of that discipline so essential to the health, com- 
 fort, and soldierly bearing of the members of this regiment, the following orders 
 and extracts from the Army Regulations are hereby promulgated : 
 
 I. Captains will cause the men of their companies to be numbered in a regu- 
 lar series, including the non-commissioned officers, and divided into squads, 
 each to be put under the charge of a non-commissioned officer. 
 
 II. The utmost attention will be paid by commanders of companies, to the 
 cleanliness of the men, as to their person, clothing, arms, accoutrements and 
 equipments, also their quarters or tents. Every man will be required to bathe 
 the whole body at least twice a week. The hair to be kept short, and beard 
 neatly trimmed. 
 
 III. The knapsack of each man will be placed at the bead of his bed, around 
 the outer circle of the tent, packed and ready to be slung. The overcoat neatly 
 folded inside out, and placed on the knapsack. IJoots well cleaned. 
 
 IV. Dirty clothes will be kept in an appropriate part of the knapsack. No 
 article of any kind will be put under the bedding. 
 
 V. Cooking and mess utensils will be cleansed immediately after using, and 
 neatly arranged in their proper places. 
 
 VI. Non-commissioned officers in command of squads, will be held more 
 immediately responsible that their men observe what is prescribed above. That 
 they wash their hands and faces daily : that they brush or comb their heads : that 
 those who are to go 011 duty put their arms, accoutrements, dress, etc., in the 
 best order, and that such as have permission to pass the chain of sentinels, are 
 in the dress that may be ordered. 
 
 VII. When belts are given to a soldier, the captain will see that they are 
 properly fitted to the body, and it is forbidden to cut any without his sanction. 
 
 VIII. Cartridge boxes and bavonet scabbards will be polished with blacking. 
 
 IX. Arms shall not be kept loaded in the tents, or when men are off duty, 
 except by special orders. 
 
 X. Company officers must visit the kitchen daily, and inspect the kettles. 
 and at all times carefully attend to the messing and economy of their respective 
 
I98 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 commands. Soup must be boiled at least five hours, and vegetables always 
 cooked sufficiently to be perfectly soft and digestible. These duties are of the 
 utmost importance and must not be neglected. 
 
 XI. Courtesy among military men is indispensable to discipline. Respect 
 to superiors will not be confined to obedience on duty, but will be extended to 
 all occasions. It is always the duty of the inferior to accost or offer first the 
 customary salutation, and of the superior to return such complimentary notice. 
 
 XII. When a soldier without arms, or side arms only, meets an officer, he is 
 to raise his hand to the right side of the visor of the cap, palm to the front, 
 elbow raised as high as the shoulder, looking at the same time in a respectful 
 and soldier-like manner to the officer, who will return the compliment thus 
 offered. 
 
 XIII. A non-commissioned officer or soldier being seated, and without par- 
 ticular occupation, will rise on the approach of an officer, and make the custom- 
 arv salutation. If standing, he will turn towards the officer for the same pur- 
 pose. If the parties remain in the same place or on the same ground, such 
 compliments need not be repeated. 
 
 XIV. All non-commissioned officers and privates visiting officers' quarters 
 will stand at "Attention," and remain uncovered. 
 
 By order of 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 foHiN I . Tobey, Colonel Commanding. 
 
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 ljutant. 
 
 Headquarters Sturgis's Brigade, 
 General Orders No. 18. Washington, June 20, 1S62. 
 
 I. All commands in this brigade, excepting the Fifty-ninth Regiment New 
 York Volunteers, will be held in immediate readiness for marching orders. 
 
 II. The commanding officer of each command will notify the brigade quar- 
 termaster, Lieut. Nelson Plato, of the number of Avagons requisite for the 
 
 moving of his command. 
 
 By order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURGIS, 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 
 dipt, and A. A. G. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
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 Company G, 
 Captain Greene. 
 
 Company I, 
 
 Captain Hale. 
 
 Company H, 
 Capt. Duckworth 
 
 Company E, 
 Captain Cady. 
 
 Company A, 
 Captain Taber. 
 
 Company C, 
 Captain Vose. 
 
 Company F, 
 Captain Harris. 
 
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200 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "We are about to start for Cloud's Mills, 
 near Alexandria," wrote one of the men. 
 "Already our noble battery has thundered 
 off, and we shall soon follow them, leaving 
 our familiar avenues, our evergreen bowers 
 and shady resorts for chatting and smoking, 
 to the spiders and wood-ticks, the tree toads 
 and fire-flies, whose domain we have invaded. 
 We may find in some respects a better, 
 but surely not a more picturesque camping 
 ground." 
 
 General Orders No. 21. 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Vols., 
 Camp Frieze, June 25, 1862. 
 
 I. The regiment will move from its present camp to-morrow morning. 
 
 II. Knapsacks must be packed and marked, and canteens and haversacks 
 filled, and all provisions and articles on hand in the cook-tent and not imme- 
 diately required, packed in the wagons by evening. 
 
 III. Reveille will sound at two o'clock a. m., to-morrow. Company cooks 
 will prepare breakfast and hot coffee, and serve them out at that time. 
 
 IV. The regiment must then be ready to strike tents and march. 
 
 By order of 
 
 John F. Tobey, 
 
 . \djutant. 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 Colonel Commanding. 
 
 Packing knapsacks meant compressing all our housekeeping 
 into a space so that it could be carried on our backs. Now we 
 had so many things on hand — good to eat and to wear — that it 
 became very hard to decide which to take and which to leave. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 !OI 
 
 Knapsack. 
 
 "June 26th. As per orders/' wrote 
 the author, " we broke up our old 
 camp shortly after midnight this 
 morning. At two o'clock came the 
 rattling ' rap-a-tap-tap ' of the reveille. 
 It was a grand sight, as the beautiful 
 grove with its stately oaks and tented 
 avenues was suddenly illuminated 
 with blazing bonfires, as if by magic. 
 The long rows of glistening" bayonets 
 shone up and down the camp, the 
 sparks filled the air and shot upward to the sky ; which with 
 the falling tents, the men hurrying to and fro, with shouts and 
 laughter, and the army wagons rumbling off, full of stores and 
 baggage, produced a scene of rare enchantment. After roll-call 
 we were ordered to pack knapsacks and be ready to march at 
 daylight. It is astonishing how heavy a knapsack gets on the 
 march, even if there isn't much in it. The knapsack opens like a 
 carpet bag, with a great pocket in one side, and a loose flap with 
 straps on the other. It is strapped to the back by a novel 
 arrangement of straps and buckles. Some stuffed everything into 
 their knapsacks regardless of the weight. One of them contained 
 the following articles: 'Two pairs of drawers, a pair of thick 
 boots, four pairs of stockings, four flannel shirts, a blue blouse, a 
 looking-glass, a brush and comb, a razor, razor strop and brush, 
 a box of blacking and a blacking brush, a can of preserves, a bottle 
 of pain-killer, and cough mixture, a small bag of sugar, a piece of 
 chalk, several towels, a Bible, besides postage stamps and writing 
 
 2G 
 
202 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 materials. On top of the knapsack was 
 stuffed a double woolen blanket and a rubber 
 one.' Fortunately, there was extra wagon- 
 room, and the men were allowed to pile in 
 their knapsacks, instead of strapping them 
 on their backs." 
 
 " We left Camp Frieze," wrote H. T. Chace, 
 "at six o'clock in the morning, with three 
 rousing cheers and a Narragansett ! The 
 regiment stepped off at a lively gait in the 
 fresh morning air. We carry muskets, haver- 
 sacks for rations (mine was supplied with 
 lemons) ; canteens (mine was filled with tea), and cartridge boxes, 
 with ten and twenty rounds of ammunition. Our rations were 
 served last evening and consist of beef and hard-tack." 
 
 Says Lieutenant Phillips : " Our route of march lay through 
 Washington, where General Scott's fine residence was pointed out. 
 As we approached Willard's Hotel Colonel Bliss requested us to 
 strike up 'John Brown ; ' a thousand voices responded, the ladies 
 thronged the balconies, and, recognizing the colonel, they waved 
 their best wishes, as we went marching on." Between nine and 
 ten the regiment passed over Long Bridge, making the old 
 wooden structure shake with its measured tread. Tramp, tramp, 
 tramp, how many thousands crossed this 'bridge of sighs' never 
 to return ! The day was oppressively hot, as we tramped on, past 
 rifle-pits, fortifications and earthworks. We hadn't been in ' ole 
 Virginia' an hour before we realized that there wasn't so much 
 fun in it after all. We marched, and marched, and marched till 
 
RHODE ISLAM) VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 we reached Alexandria. Af- 
 
 20' 
 
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 ter a further tramp of several ^||gjg^ f& '^JM/i 
 miles, we finally halted about S^VVv^'V 1 "' SSw^ zSwSv 1 
 two o'clock p. m., on a vast, //7 / •' 
 
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 elevated plain, under the guns ^-?>_- |i ,.-' 
 of Fort Ward, near Fairfax 
 Seminary. A man who lives 
 here told me that we inarched 
 twelve miles this side of Long 
 Bridge,or twenty miles in all." 
 Captain Hale, Company I. 
 wrote, "That the length of 
 the march had been variously 
 estimated, according to the cooi.ng off. 
 
 length of limb and strength of muscle of those who participated, 
 ranging from eighteen miles (about the actual distance), to thirty 
 or forty ; while Corporal Stump declares that he must have 
 traveled at least a hundred and fifty miles ! Somebody asked 
 him on the road what regiment it was, and he promptly responded, 
 'the One Hundred and Tenth Rhode Island ! ' An old soldier 
 wrote home after such a tramp, " I'm all right except the dog- 
 gorned blisters on my feet, and I hope these few lines will find you 
 enjoying the same blessings ! " Surely, the monks who used to 
 put peas in their shoes, as a penance, did not suffer more than 
 some of us did on that march. I recall the celerity with which I 
 kicked off my "whangs," and getting a refreshing drink of cold 
 water from the well at Fort Ward, I dropped on the ground and 
 dropped off to sleep in the twinkling of an eye. 
 
204 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 
 We were somewhat 
 rudely awakened to- 
 ward sunset by the or- 
 ders to "pitch tents," 
 which we soon accom- 
 plished to the satisfac- 
 tion of the officers. 
 Hard-tack and coffee 
 were then served for 
 supper, and didn't they 
 
 go good, particularly the hot coffee from the old iron kettles ; 
 
 " The old coftee kettles, the iron bound kettles, 
 The old coftee kettles that hung on a pole." 
 
 " The Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Regiment," wrote H. T. 
 Chace, "came into camp to-night too late to pitch tents till morn- 
 ing. Some of them came over to our tent, tired out and hungry. 
 Fortunately our canteens had just been filled, and they speedily 
 emptied them " What hospitality ever equaled that of comrades 
 in the days when "we drank from the same canteen ! " How we 
 all slept that night ! " Phat a blessing," said Pat, "that noight 
 niver comes in till late in the day, when yer all toired out, and 
 couldn't march no more, anyhow, at all, at all, not even if it was 
 morn in ! " The morning dawned at length and found us a good 
 deal refreshed, but somewhat stiff and sore. It proved to be 
 another scorching day, "with a sky of brass, an earth of ashes, 
 and the air of a furnace." Captain Hale wrote home: "To dis- 
 tinguish it from our last camp, 'Camp Frieze,' we designated it 
 4 Camp Scorch,' although no special order was issued to that effect. 
 
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206 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 I should judge from appearances that this particular portion 
 of the sacred soil has undergone the effect of the last great con- 
 flagration. I was about to say, prematurely, but more properly, 
 in advance of the rest of the world. Barren desolation marks it 
 as far as the eye can reach, and Corporal Stump, after scouring 
 the plain with a critical eye, remarked, ' that the most nimble of 
 grasshoppers could not cross it unless he carried three days' rations 
 on his back.' The country has been even stripped of its fences 
 and hedges to remove every cover for the enemy, and everything 
 has a grim, ravaged look." Our camp became generally known as 
 "Camp Misery," while the members of the Ninth Regiment, 
 which arrived the following day, Saturday, preferred to call it 
 "Camp Desolation," a very appropriate name. 
 
 "Our present camp," says H. T. Chace, "is in one respect, at 
 least, superior to the old one, viz. : in the evenness of the tem- 
 perature. The nights are not so cold or damp as at Tennallytown. 
 We have more company around us, also. It is evident that a 
 large number of troops are being concentrated on this great plain 
 at ' .Seminary Hill.' Between ten thousand and twenty thou- 
 sand are already here. This famous camping-ground, over two 
 hundred acres in area, recently witnessed the stately march of the 
 grand army of the Potomac, on its departure for the Peninsula. 
 We hear that the various regiments and batteries assembling here 
 are to be consolidated into a division. Every hill top is crowned 
 with the inevitable fort ; near us are forts Ward, Worth, Blenker, 
 and Ellsworth. Fort Ward is a large earthwork mounting several 
 thirty-two pounders, and rifled field pieces. It commands the 
 roads to Fairfax Court-House, and Leesburg." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 207 
 
 " Seminary Hill takes its name from a« 1 
 group of handsome brick buildings partly 
 hidden in a grove on its southeastern slope, 
 known as Fairfax Seminary. Here Messrs. 
 Bancroft, Wheeler, and Hoffman studied. 
 In yonder grove they have many times 
 walked. We are now fairly entered on a sol- 
 dier's life, and expect a rough time. Break- 
 fast, this morning, consisted of hard-bread 
 and coffee, without sugar or milk. I was 
 on guard from ' five to seven o'clock,' and 
 had a pleasant time enjoying the view. Be- 
 fore me was Fort Ward ; off to the left 
 oblique Munson's Hill ; to the right oblique 
 was Washington and the Capitol, while the 
 unfinished Washington Monument loomed 
 up, plainly visible." 
 
 "As we marched through Washington, down Fourteenth Street, 
 we passed near the monument, which was on our right hand." 
 At that time it was but partially built, and was but little more 
 than a staring mass of marble blocks, covered with mighty der- 
 ricks and scaffolding. It was also surrounded by the government 
 cattle yards and slaughter-houses, and presented anything but an 
 inviting appearance. Corp. Nathan H. Baker, of Company B, tells 
 a good story of being detailed with a squad of men from Camp 
 Frieze, to get a supply of beef for the regiment, at the monu- 
 ment stock yards. After performing this duty, Baker accom- 
 panied by Nelson W. Aldrich, of Company D, made a visit to the 
 
 Washington Monument. 
 
208 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Capitol, and as Congress had not assembled for the day, they pro- 
 ceeded to the desk of Representative George H. Browne, of Rhode 
 Island, and decked it with some spring flowers. They then 
 retired to the gallery to await the result. Soon Colonel Browne 
 entered the chamber, noticed the floral decoration of his desk, 
 and was well pleased with this mark of attention and respect. 
 The next year Colonel Browne buckled on his sword and rendered 
 good service in his country's defence. A few more years passed, 
 peace and union were restored, and Nelson W. Aldrich, the young 
 volunteer of the Tenth, became a representative of the House 
 from his native state. 
 
 The Washington Monument is a granite shaft faced with white 
 marble, six hundred feet high, fifty-five feet square at the base, 
 and thirty feet square at the top. Under the auspices of the 
 Washington National Monument Society, the construction of 
 the monument was begun in 1848, on the very spot selected by 
 Washington himself for a memorial of the American Revolution. 
 Funds amounting to nearly $250,000 were contributed by the 
 people of the United States of all ages and from all quarters of 
 the Union, and the construction continued until 1856, when it 
 reached a height of over one hundred and fifty-six feet. The 
 financial embarrassments of the time led to the discontinuance of 
 the work, and it was not until 1877 when, by act of Congress, its 
 completion was authorized, and it was finally dedicated, in the 
 presence of President Arthur and his cabinet, on the 22d of Feb- 
 ruary, 1885. The address of the occasion was written by Robert 
 C. Winthrop, who in 1848 had delivered an oration on the laying 
 of the corner-stone. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 The Army Mule. 
 [Sweet Bye and Bye.] 
 
 "You may sing of your 
 beansand hard-tack, 
 < )t bad water you drank 
 from the pool : 
 Of tin cup. tin canteen, 
 haversack, 
 But you must not forget 
 the old mule ! 
 
 209 
 
 ^•::.:;v v ' v :;'^:": 
 
 The Army Mule. 
 Chorus'. Good old mule, army mule. 
 
 Both your ears were so graceful and long: 
 You were true to our flag, 
 
 So we'll praise you in story and song! " 
 
 " Shortly after crossing Long Bridge," wrote Chace, " on the 
 Virginia side, we noticed a large drove of mules, herded to- 
 gether by the road-side. They numbered upwards of two thou- 
 sand." The motive power of an army wagon usually consisted of 
 six of these long-eared creatures, although horses were substituted 
 when available. It requires special training to be a good mule 
 driver. Mules are stubborn things, — when you will, they won't ; 
 and when you won't they will ! After being kicked by a mule, 
 with both fore and hind feet, a young volunteer mule-driver was 
 glad to withdraw in disgust. I heard of a Virginia mule which 
 lived in a coal mine nine years after the war, without seeing 
 daylight. The old fellow was hoisted up the other day, and his 
 first act was to kick a boy sky-high. Nine years in a coal mine 
 won't make a mule anything but a mule. 
 
2IO 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Water Filter. 
 
 June 27. H. T. Chace, says, "At 
 ten o'clock we fell in for drill which 
 ended in our marching two miles to 
 Hurd's Run, and all bathing, which 
 was truly refreshing. When on the 
 march some of the men are provided 
 with filters, an ingenious device for 
 straining the water and relieving it 
 from the presence of insects and im- 
 purities. On the way we passed sev- 
 eral farms, one located on a rising knoll 
 with large trees affording a pleasant 
 shade. Near by, at the top, were the 
 ruins of an old mansion-house, while at the entrance by the road- 
 side two gate-posts still stood like grim sentinels. A fine meadow 
 extended to the right and left, with a crop of rotting, ungathered 
 grass, presenting a sad picture of war's desolation. To have been 
 obliged to leave such a home must have been painful indeed ; but 
 trees, fences, and houses, are all swept away. Briggs and I 
 were detailed, before dinner, to go to Fort Ward, for bricks, to 
 repair the cooks' fireplaces, many of which were left here by the 
 regiments preceding us. We obtained a good supply by boldly 
 venturing under the guns of the fort, where we found a great 
 many lying scattered about on the ground. It was an inspiriting 
 sight to see the various batteries drilling and hurrying from point 
 to point, in quick response to the bugle-calls, with an occasional 
 race, by way of diversion. All these things enliven us, and add 
 the spice of variety to a soldier's life. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 21 I 
 
 " Foraging appears to be re- 
 duced to a science here. Even 
 in pitching tents we had to look 
 out for our axes and mallets. 
 If we happened to lay them down 
 for a moment, just to turn round, 
 we were very likely to find them 
 missing. The contrabands, also, 
 arc great foragers, and the chick- mit 
 ens and the ducks have to suffer 
 accordingly." 
 
 Old Decatur, an aged African, 
 was recently found late at night 
 
 in the vicinity of a neighbor's hen-yard, when he was thus inter- 
 viewed by the proprietor : 
 
 " It's pretty damp, Decatur, for a person with rheumatism to 
 be prowling around here at this time of the night." 
 
 " Mebbe so, massa, but it's de doctor's advice." 
 
 "What, do you mean to tell me that the doctor advises you to 
 be out here nights ? " 
 
 " No sar, not 'zactly dat way, sar — but he says, ' Catur, you 
 mus' hab' chicken brof, whedder or no ! ' ' 
 
 " Our bill of fare at dinner to-day, was as follows," says Chace : 
 " * Soup — chicken, mock-turtle, oyster. * Roast — beef, lamb, 
 turkey. Fried — bacon, hard bread. Entrees — olives, sardines, 
 pickled shrimps. * Dessert — nuts, raisins, figs. Drinks— water." 
 
 Note.— The items marked * were unfortunately overlooked by the cook, and we were con- 
 sequently reduced to fried bacon, hard bread, and water. 
 
2 12 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Tempting Game. 
 
 " Corp. Nathan H. Baker went out 
 on a little foraging expedition yes- 
 terday afternoon," wrote the author 
 in a letter home, June 27th, "and 
 calling me out, on his return, dis- 
 played a single, solitary chicken. It 
 was safely landed in the High School tent, where it was secretly 
 stowed away, and in due time Corp. William P. Vaughan under- 
 took to construct a chicken stew for the whole mess, consisting of 
 seventeen hungry recruits. He said he could do it, and had never 
 failed us on good coffee, but it proved to be ' fowl play ' in this 
 instance. He proceeded to fill one of our large iron mess buckets 
 with water, prepared and placed the chicken therein. He then used 
 up about all our stock of pepper and salt for seasoning, and after so 
 many minutes by the watch, and a pretended tasting, he said 'fall 
 in for chicken stew.' So we all fell in, and each had his share, as 
 he found, unduly seasoned ; for he immediately passed his cup 
 along to the next victim, with a wry face. There was plenty of 
 stew for all, and a good supply left for the college boys. Our 
 cook says, ' next time draw a little less water and more chicken ! ' ' 
 "This afternoon," resumed Mr. Chace, " Cady and I are on 
 guard. We are on the second relief, two hours on, and then four 
 hours off. As we were on, the Ninth Rhode Island came march- 
 ing into camp. They left Camp Frieze at five o'clock this morning, 
 June 28th, reaching here about twelve, traveling by a shorter 
 route than we did. The weather is very warm, and for some 
 time the men came straggling into camp, tired out. The survey- 
 ors are now laying out the quarters of the Ninth, adjoining ours." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 2I3 
 
 "Judging from the variety we have thus far had," wrote Chace, 
 of Company D, "a soldier's life is about the spiciest of any." It 
 is well illustrated by the following excellent poem by Prof. W. 
 Whitman Bailey, another high private of Company D, Tenth 
 Rhode Island Volunteers : 
 
 A Day in Camp. 
 
 •• Faintly sounds the ' reveille,' and now it louder thrums ; 
 We hear the music of the life, the tapping of the drums, 
 And mutter ' you must louder beat before this private comes ! ' 
 
 What! calling to ' police ' the camp, is that our duty, too? 
 
 To sweep and dust with mop and broom, like common ' biddies ' do ; 
 
 And not a taste of coffee yet? This work is somewhat new! 
 
 There's ' peas upon a trencher,' the breakfast call, they say, 
 Our cup and pan we haste to seize, and gladly speed away. 
 To take our meagre little third of ' rations ' for the day. 
 
 'Guard-mounting' after breakfast comes, parade turned inside out, 
 Just watch the major of the drums how he doth strut about; 
 The greatest man upon our side, of this there is no doubt. 
 
 Then comes the call for morning drill, our 'cap' a man is he, 
 Who posted up the night before on his ' Revised Hardee,' 
 Just ' boned '* his tactics like a man, from ' taps ' to ' reveille.' 
 
 You cannot stick him, don't you try, and questions will not do; 
 The guard tent, lo, adjacent stands, in front of it a crew 
 Of myrmidons to execute, the insurbordinate few. 
 
 The morn is spent in drilling, but ' roast beef sounds at last, 
 The salt-junk motions us to come to our sublime repast, 
 Ere envious harpies from on post descend to break their fast. 
 
 "*Boned," a West Point cadet word for hard study. 
 
2 14 THE TEN TH REGIMENT 
 
 A pipe, and then more tactics, to help the captain out, 
 That he may know to-morrow how best to ' face about,' 
 Or form ' a line of battle,' ere the rebels knock us out. 
 
 Battalion drills and lots of things in time will interpose, 
 To let us feel that martial life is not 'coleur de rose,' 
 Nor idling all the time away, as most recruits suppose. 
 
 At dress parade the soldier, if he has a bit of pride, 
 Steps gaily forth, a gallant man, of all the earth espied, 
 And holding in his single hand his country's welfare wide, 
 
 Melodiously the bugle is sounding the ' retreat;' 
 
 The weary work of day is done; there's rest for tired feet, 
 
 The 'briar woods' will offer soon the night's supreme treat. 
 
 Ah! what is like those old-time nights around the flaring blaze? 
 What comrades like the ones we met in yonder vanished days! 
 Old time will keep their memory green and fresh for us always. 
 
 But hark! that surely is ' tattoo,' how quick the time has sped! 
 Now hasten every soldier true to unroll his ' little bed,' 
 For ' taps' will soon be beating, and a day in camp be fled." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 2 I 
 
 Headquarters Reserve Army Corps, 
 Genera/ Orders No. j. Washington", June 26, 1862. 
 
 All commands of the Reserve Army Corps south of the Potomac, not garri- 
 soning fortifications will constitute a Division to consist of two Brigades. 
 
 The first brigade to be under command of Brigadier-General Cooke, and to be 
 stationed at Cloud's Mills. Virginia, and will comprise the following commands: 
 
 Fourteenth United States Infantry, . . . Major Williams. 
 
 Seventeenth L'nited States Infantry, ... 
 
 Nineteenth United States Infantry, ... 
 
 First and Eleventh United States Infantry. . 
 
 Sixty-ninth New York Infantry, 
 
 Sixth New York Cavalry, .... 
 
 Ninth New York Cavalry, .... 
 
 Second Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
 
 Company L, Sixth United States Cavalry, 
 
 Detachment Fifth United States Cavalry, 
 
 Sixteenth New York Battery. 
 
 The second brigade to be under command of Col. Zenas R. Bliss, Tenth Regi- 
 ment Rhode Island Volunteers, and to be stationed near the Fairfax Seminary, 
 and will comprise the following commands : 
 
 Battery L, Second New York Artillery, 
 
 Sixteenth Indiana Battery, .... 
 
 Battery C, First New York Artillery, 
 
 Second Excelsior Battery, .... 
 
 Tenth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, 
 
 Ninth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, 
 
 Thirty-second Massachusetts Volunteers, 
 
 Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
 
 The above troops will report at once to their respective commanders. 
 
 The quartermaster will furnish the necessary transportation. 
 Official: S. D. STURGIS, 
 
 William C. Rawolle, Brig.-Gen. Commanding. 
 
 Captain and A. D. C. 
 
 Colonel Baglev. 
 Colonel Devin. 
 Colonel Beardsley. 
 C( ilonel Price. 
 Captain Brisbin. 
 Lieutenant Fosdick. 
 Captain Locke. 
 
 Captain Roemer. 
 Captain Naylor. 
 Captain Barnes. 
 Captain Bruen. 
 Colonel Blis>. 
 Lieit.-Col. Pitman. 
 Lieut.-Col. Parker. 
 Colonel Pierce. 
 
2l6 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF VIRGINIA, 
 
 Washington, June 27, 1S62. 
 < • < neral Orders No. /• 
 
 In accordance with instructions from His Excellency the President of the 
 United States, the undersigned assumes command of the forces comprising the 
 late departments of Major-Generals Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, together 
 with the forces in and around Washington, now under command of Brigadier- 
 General Sturgis. The headquarters of this command will be established for the 
 present in Washington. 
 
 '.. neral Order* Xo. 2. 
 
 Col. George D. Ruggles is announced as Assistant Adjutant-General and 
 Chief of Staff at these headquarters. 
 
 Official: JOHN POPE, 
 
 Maj .-Gen. Commanding. 
 
 Headquarters, Second Brigade, 
 
 Sturgis's Division, June 28, 1862. 
 
 ( a neral Orders No- 1 ■ 
 
 In obedience to instructions contained in General Orders Number Three, 
 Headquarters Reserve Army Corps, Washington, D. C, the undersigned 
 hereby assumes command of the Second Brigade, Sturgis's Division. 
 
 Official: ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 Col. Tenth R. I. Volunteers 
 JOHN V. Tobey, Commanding. 
 
 Adjutant and 
 
 I t'g Ass't . \d/"t <ien' I. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 2 I 7 
 
 (•Literal Orders No. 5. 
 
 Headquarters Reserve Army Corps, 
 Alexandria, Va . June 2(j, 1S62. 
 
 I. The Ninety-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Ninety-first 
 Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Fifty-ninth Regiment New York Vol- 
 unteers, and the Thirty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, will move 
 at once, provided with one hundred rounds of cartridges and five days' rations 
 to embark at Alexandria, Virginia. The quartermaster will furnish the neces- 
 sary transportation. 
 
 II. The Tenth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers (Col. Zenas R. Bliss), 
 will take immediate possession of the forts to he vacated by the Fifty-ninth 
 Regiment New York Volunteers. The colonel commanding is directed to send 
 an officer and a sufficient force in advance, to receipt for and take charge of all 
 Government property in said forts. 
 
 III. The Ninth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers (Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Pitman), will take immediate possession of the forts on the east branch of the 
 Potomac, extending from Fort Meigs to Fort Greble. 
 
 IV. The colonel commanding is directed to send an officer and a sufficient 
 force in advance to receipt for and take charge of all Government property in 
 said forts. 
 
 V. The Sixty-third Indiana Volunteers (Lieutenant-Colonel Williams com- 
 manding), will take the place of the Ninety-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, as 
 provost-guard, in Alexandria. 
 
 By order of 
 
 Brig.-Gen. S. D. STURGIS. 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 
 Capt. and A. A. G. 
 28 
 
2l8 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 < a- in- nil Order* Xo. S. 
 
 Headquarters Reserve Army Corps. 
 Alexandria. Va., June 29, iSf>2. 
 
 I. The following announcement of the staff of the general commanding is 
 made for the information of all concerned : 
 
 Lieut. -Col. J. A. Haskin, Inspector-General : 
 Capt. H. R. Mighels, Assistant Adjutant-General ; 
 " Nelson Plato, Chief Quartermaster: 
 
 F. E. Berrier, Chief Commissary : 
 " William C. Rawolle, Aide-de-Camp : 
 " I. K. Casey, " 
 
 ' : H. B. Sturgis, " 
 
 J. S. Grier, " 
 
 II. Col. J. A. Haskin is placed in charge of fortifications north of the Poto- 
 mac; his headquarters will be established in Washington City. All reports and 
 returns of the troops north of the Potomac intended for these headquarters will 
 
 be made to his office. 
 
 By order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURGIS. 
 
 H. R. Mighels, 
 
 Capt. a 7iti A. A. G. 
 
 Special (>>■</<>■ No. 9. 
 
 Headquarters Reserve Army Corps, 
 Alexandria, Va., June 30, 1S62. 
 
 Col. Zenas R. Bliss, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, is hereby relieved from 
 duty as Acting Brigadier-General, Second Brigade, Reserve Army Corps. 
 
 Bv order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURGIS, 
 
 H. R. Mighels, 
 
 Capt. and A. A. G. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 2IQ 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment, R. I. Vols., 
 Seminary Hill, Va., June 30, 1862. 
 
 Second Lieutenant William C. Chace, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, is 
 hereby detailed as Acting Assistant Quartermaster for the Tenth Rhode Island 
 Volunteers, and will report immediately to these headquarters for instructions. 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 Col. Tenth /.'. /. I r ols. 
 Commanding. 
 
 Col. Zen as R. Bliss. 
 
 Co»i'<r Tenth R. I. Vols. 
 
 Headquarters Reserve Army Corps, 
 Alexandria. Va., June 30, 1S62. 
 
 You will proceed at once to Fort Pennsylvania, Tennalh town. 1). C, with 
 jour entire command, the Light Battery included. 
 
 Bv order of 
 
 Brigadier-General STURGIS, 
 
 Henry R. Mighels, 
 
 Capt. and A. A. G. 
 
 Seminary Hospital, Georgetown, I). C, 
 June 29, iiSf>2. 
 
 Sir: I have to inform you of the death, this day, of Private William F. 
 Atwood, of Company A, Tenth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers. Disease, 
 peritonitis. His funeral will take place at four o'clock to-morrow. 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 JOSEPH R. SMITH. 
 To the Adjutant and Captain of Ass' t Surgeon U. S. Army 
 
 Company A. Tenth Regiment R. I '. in charge of Hospital. 
 
 Vols., Camp at Seminary //ill. Va. 
 
220 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 The sudden death of Fred Atwood produced a universal feeling 
 of sorrow. He was greatly beloved for his manly qualities. 
 
 June 15th, only two weeks before, he had written home that 
 he was well, and had been into Washington "to see the sights." 
 He then described his visit to the Capitol, and of going in to 
 listen to the debate in the Senate. " I also went," he continues, 
 
 " over the Patent Office, and among 
 the millions of curious things, the 
 most interesting to me were the 
 articles that belonged to General 
 Washington. There were his coat, 
 vest, and knee-breeches, which he 
 wore when he resigned his com- 
 Washington's Treasure Box. mission at Annapolis. There was 
 
 his iron treasure box, sword, lantern, chairs, 
 tent-poles, fire bucket, etc. That room con- 
 tained enough to interest me for a month. 
 I then visited the White House, and went 
 into the reception room, which is furnished 
 splendidly. I wish that you and I could stay 
 here a week and go around as much as we 
 liked. We have but little sickness. I am in 
 as good health as I ever was. We will have 
 to give up the good times we were going to Fire Bucket - 
 
 have, for the present, but if I get back at the end of the three 
 months, we will make up for lost time." Just two weeks later 
 came the sudden and startling intelligence of his death. He left 
 the noble example of a brave and spotless manhood. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 22 1 
 
 "Early on the morning of Monday, June 30th," wrote Lieut. 
 Winthrop DeWolf, " came the order assigning the Tenth Regi- 
 ment to garrison duty in the seven forts and three batteries 
 hitherto occupied by the New York Fifty-ninth, constituting that 
 portion of the defensive chain which protects the capital on the 
 northwest. A lieutenant, sergeant, and twelve men from each 
 company, under command of Lieut. Samuel H. Thomas, of Com- 
 pany B, were detailed to march at once and take possession of the 
 several posts, in advance of the main body, so as to expedite the 
 departure of the Fifty-ninth, ordered to join McClellan on the 
 Peninsula, who was then fighting and retreating to a new base on 
 the James river. The detachment of one hundred and forty men 
 reached Tennallytown soon after noon, with only twelve miles 
 marching. At Fort Pennsylvania, near by, our several posts were 
 assigned us. Much to my satisfaction our little party were sent 
 to Chain Bridge to occupy Battery Martin Scott, commanding 
 that important approach to Washington. Here we remained 
 three days, seemingly forgotten by the world, for no familiar face 
 presented itself ; no army wagon with rations crept down the long, 
 steep hill ; no newspapers, no mail, nobody came to see if we 
 were dead or alive. Yet do not grieve for us. We lived on the 
 fat of the land — and the water too. From the Potomac we had 
 shad, herring, and catfish ; by energetic foraging in the neighbor- 
 hood we obtained milk, butter, eggs, chickens, corn-bread, sugar, 
 and coffee, and a dilapidated stove found near by sufficed to cook 
 them. On the whole we were rather sorry when the message 
 came from headquarters that Company D was occupying Fort 
 De Russey, where we were to report forthwith." 
 
2 22 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Captain Hale, Company 
 I, under the nom-de-plume 
 of Matthew Bagnet, wrote : 
 "It is related somewhere 
 in profane poesy that : 
 
 'The king of France, with forty 
 thousand men, 
 Marched up the hill, and then 
 marched down again.' 
 
 Well, the gallant Tenth 
 have imitated his illustri- 
 ous example, on a some- 
 what more extended scale 
 in point of distance, if not 
 of numbers. In short we 
 have made a forced march 
 — at least, I suppose that is what they call it — for it was a march, 
 and we were forced to make it. After marching up the hill, we 
 were scarcely settled in our new location, had scarcely drawn 
 the vinegar bottle out of our stocking, and the pepper-sauce from 
 our shirt-sleeves (where they had been placed for safe transporta- 
 tion), had just filled to overflowing our eyes, ears, noses, mouths, 
 lungs, and epidermis, with the dusty exhalations of 'Old Vir- 
 ginny,' when the order came for us to move, and here was where 
 'we marched down the hill again.' 
 
 "Early Monday morning, June 30th, tents were struck in a 
 hurry, baggage-wagons loaded at the double-quick, and we were 
 ready to resume the march, at a run if necessary, anything to 
 
 Marching Orders. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 223 
 
 escape Camp Misery, Seminary Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia." 
 A three mile march brought us to Alexandria, where we marched 
 by the Marshall House, singing "John Brown " and "Ellsworth's 
 Avengers," led by Levi Burdon, of Company D, who stood on the 
 hotel steps. The headquarters of Acting Brig.-Gen. Zenas R. Bliss, 
 was also serenaded. "At length the regiment halted on a long 
 wharf, facing the Potomac. After the usual, and, of course, neces- 
 sary delay, we were packed, bag and baggage, men and guns, on 
 board some transports bound to Washington, where we arrived 
 about dusk, and, unfortunately too late to unload our baggage. 
 So, after a weary rest on Sixth street, we resumed our march for 
 Tennallytown, at 10.30 p. m., reaching that memorable locality 
 about 2.30 a. m., and a very cool and penetrating a. m. at that. 
 Here we bivouacked, without tents or blankets. 
 
 " Bivouac is a word of French extraction, and I am sorry that the 
 use of it is not confined to that volatile nation. But it is not, so 
 we bivouacked in a ten acre lot, without even a rail fence to keep 
 the cold out. Tired and foot sore, we lay down on the cold 
 ground, with the sky for our nearest covering, and the horizon 
 for the sides of our bed. I secured a handful of straw and tried 
 to fashion it into a luxurious couch, but the straw was obstinate 
 and wouldn't be fashioned. Corporal Stump tried to cover him- 
 self with his gun, but found he couldn't tuck in the sides, and so 
 didn't go to sleep for fear he should fall out of bed. Some 
 crawled into hay -ricks and some into barns, while the corporal, 
 after vainly trying the protection of his musket, betook himself to 
 the shelter of an empty flour barrel, which fitted him to a nicety, 
 and where he slept the sleep of innocence. 
 
224 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " Between dozing and shivering, the hours dragged slowly on. 
 Now nodding off into fancied comfort, and now waking up in real 
 discomfort ; now trying to soften the hard bosom of mother 
 earth, and then in a sleepy delirium trying to pull the edge of a 
 ten acre lot over one for a coverlet ; such is bivouacking." To 
 counteract the effects of the damp night air, whisky rations 
 were issued to stimulate the flagging zeal of the men who 
 were getting faint at heart, weak in the knees, and lame and 
 sore in body. "At early dawn, July ist," Capt. Elisha Dyer 
 wrote, "the regiment was in motion, and hungry, weary, and 
 dispirited, marched to the headquarters at Fort Pennsylvania. 
 At noon a piercing northeasterly storm came upon us, without 
 tents or other protection, except such as was afforded by the quar- 
 termaster's store-house and other lesser buildings left by the 
 Fifty-ninth New York. On the floor, among boxes and barrels, 
 our men lay huddled together for hours without food or relief of any 
 kind. The result of this last trying march from Virginia, was an 
 addition to our sick list, upon which the writer's name appeared 
 for a few days. Our camp equipage, knapsacks, and stores, at 
 length arrived, and company quarters were assigned and marching 
 orders given. Companies B and K, Captains Dyer and Low, to 
 Fort Pennsylvania, the regimental headquarters ; Company A, 
 CaptainTaber, to Fort Franklin ; Company C, Captain Vose, Bat- 
 teries Cameron and Martin Scott ; Company D, Captain Smith, 
 Fort De Russey ; Companies E and I, Captains Cady and Hale, 
 Fort Alexander ; Company F, Captain Harris, Fort Ripley ; Com- 
 pany G, Captain Greene, Fort Gaines ; Company H, Captain 
 Duckworth, Batteries Vermont and Martin Scott." 
 
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 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Plan of Fort Pennsylvania. 
 
 Fort Pennsylvania mounted three Parrott siege guns and nine 
 24-pounder barbette guns ; Fort Gaines, four 32-pounder barbette 
 guns ; Fort De Russy, three 24-pounder and four 32-pounder bar- 
 bette guns ; Fort Alexander, seven 32-pounder barbette guns ; Fort 
 Franklin, six 32-pounder barbette guns ; Fort Ripley, six 24-pounder 
 barbette guns ; Battery Vermont, three 32-pounder barbette guns, 
 and is mounting more ; Battery Cameron, two 42-pounder bar- 
 bette guns ; Battery Martin Scott, one 32-pounder barbette gun 
 and two mountain howitzers ; total, fifty guns. These forts and 
 batteries extends over a space of six or eight miles, from Battery 
 Cameron on the left, near the Potomac, to Fort De Russy on the 
 right, near Rock Creek, commanding the view at and near Chain 
 Bridge, and the roads to Harper's Ferry and Rockville. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 227 
 
 A brief review of the military situa- 
 tion in Virginia, in June, 1862, is neces- 
 sary in order to understand why our 
 forces around Washington were ordered 
 into Virginia, and a week later were 
 ordered back, or, how we resembled 
 the soldiers of another army, who 
 "marched up a hill, and then marched 
 down again ! " 
 
 Notwithstanding the success achieved at Fort Oaks, June 1st, 
 the situation of the Army of the Potomac besieging the Con- 
 federate capital, was becoming critical. And, although on the 
 following clay, the advance under Hooker pushed forward within 
 sight of the steeples of Richmond, McClellan declared that he 
 could accomplish nothing further until his right was reinforced 
 by McDowell's Corps, which had been withheld for the defence of 
 Washington. On the twelfth instant, McDowell advised Mc- 
 Clellan : "For the third time I am ordered to join you, and 
 hope this time to get through. . . . McCall's division goes 
 in advance by water. I will be with you in ten days with the 
 remainder via Fredericksburg." To support this forward move- 
 ment to the Peninsula, a general advance was ordered of all the 
 forces around Washington to concentrate at Seminary Hill and 
 Cloud's Mills, in Virginia, and, in a few days, an entire division 
 under the command of General Sturgis, was in position, the Ninth 
 and Tenth Rhode Island Regiments and Battery being assigned 
 to the Second Brigade, Col. Zenas R. Bliss, acting brigadier-gen- 
 eral, commanding. As we pitched our tents on Seminary Hill, 
 
228 HIE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 on the afternoon of June 26th, it was generally believed that at last 
 we were on our way to Richmond, perhaps to aid in making an 
 end of the Confederacy. Not much was said about fighting, but 
 doubtless a good deal of thinking was done on that tender subject. 
 But at that very hour, the turning-point of the Peninsula cam- 
 paign was reached. Jackson had escaped the combined pursuit 
 of Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, and joined the main army of 
 Lee at Richmond. By his masterly movements he had prevented 
 the reinforcement of McClellan's exposed right, by McDowell, 
 and now interposed his own corps of thirty-five thousand men 
 between them. He had so completely puzzled the authorities at 
 Washington, who appear to have been directing, or misdirecting 
 the campaign, that it seemed to them that Jackson was more 
 likely to be sweeping down the Shenandoah Valley than to be 
 marching back to Richmond. For this cause they held back the 
 reinforcements, and McClellan was left to meet the impending 
 attack, unaided. On the 25th, the Secretary of War telegraphed 
 him, " Neither Banks, Fremont, or McDowell, have any accurate 
 knowledge of Jackson's whereabouts." On the 26th, McClellan 
 reported that Jackson was on his right, driving in his pickets. 
 At three o'clock that afternoon, as the Tenth Rhode Island Volun- 
 teers were quietly pitching their tents at Seminary Hill, the 
 battle for Richmond was set in motion at Mechanicsville. The 
 next day, the 27th, Jackson took command of the left wing of the 
 enemy, and attacked McClellan's right with such overwhelming 
 force at Gaines's Mills as to turn his position and cause his retreat 
 to the James river. The order to withdraw was especially bitter 
 to Hooker, on the left, who had pressed forward to the very gates 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 229 
 
 of Richmond, where the prize seemed almost within his grasp. On 
 the same day, June 26th, when AlcClellan reported the arrival of 
 Jackson in his front, after outmanoeuvring and outmarching, the 
 combined forces of Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, these here- 
 tofore three independent commands were consolidated into one 
 army, called the Army of Virginia, and Maj.-Gen. John Pope, 
 whose success in the west had given him reputation, was assigned 
 by the President to the chief command. Two days later, when the 
 news of McClellan's retreat to the James reached Washington, 
 all orders for the advance of troops were countermanded, and, with 
 other forces, the Tenth Rhode Island Regiment and Battery were 
 ordered back to the vicinity of their old camps. 
 
 The following is the order creating the Army of Virginia : 
 
 Washington, June 26, 1S62. 
 General Orders Mo. 103. 
 
 I. The forces under Major-Generals Fremont, Banks and McDowell, includ- 
 ing the troops now under Brigadier-General Sturgis. at Washington, shall he 
 consolidated, and form one army, to be called the Army of Virginia. 
 
 II. The command of the Army of Virginia is especially assigned to Major- 
 General Pope as commanding general. 
 
 The troops of the Mountain Department, heretofore under command of Gen- 
 eral Fremont (after Fremont's resignation General Sigel was appointed), shall 
 constitute the first army corps, under the command of General Sigel. 
 
 The troops of the Shenandoah Department, now under General Banks, shall 
 constitute the second army corps, and be commanded by him. 
 
 The troops under the command of General McDowell, except those within 
 
 the fortifications and the City of Washington, shall form the third army corps, 
 
 and be under his command. 
 
 By order of the Secretary of War. 
 
 E. D. TOWXSEN1), 
 
 Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 
THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 July ist. Fortunately 
 the author escaped the 
 night march to Tennally- 
 town, for he wrote, " I 
 was appointed on the 
 rear guard to remain at 
 Washington and look 
 after the stores and bag- 
 gage on the transports. 
 There was no room for 
 us either in the cabin or 
 forecastle, so we tried 
 to find a soft bed in the 
 hold. Sleep was diffi- 
 cult, however, among the boxes and barrels and smells which sur- 
 rounded us, and we were glad when the morning came, and we could 
 mount up on deck and get a supply of fresh air. After getting 
 the baggage loaded on the army wagons, we started for camp. 
 Two of us were put in charge of a sutler's provision wagon, and 
 after marching a while we climbed in behind, and, being almost 
 famished, feasted ourselves on bologna sausages, greasy pies, 
 cakes, doughnuts, and cookies. The doughnuts were either 
 hand made or machine sewed, but we have become pretty well 
 'seasoned' for anything during our short campaigning, and we 
 managed to 'get away' with quite an allowance of the sutler's 
 pastry." It was the only time we had pie enough in the army. 
 Fortunately the road was rough, and we were well shaken up, 
 else we might have died from the graspings of indigestion. 
 
 Back to Tennallytown ! 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 23 I 
 
 The author had been in camp only an hour or two when he was 
 summoned to the officers' quarters, and informed that he had 
 been detailed from the regiment under the following orders : 
 
 Headquarters Reserve Army Corps, 
 Col. Zenas R. Bliss, Washington, D. C.July 1, [S62. 
 
 Com'g Tenth R. I. Vols. 
 The General Commanding directs me to say that you detail two intelligent 
 non-commissioned officers or men as clerks to Col. George 1). Ruggles, head- 
 quarters of General Pope, at the War Department. 
 
 WILLIAM C. RAWOLLE, 
 
 Captain and A. D. C. 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment, R. I. Vols., 
 
 Fort Pennsylvania, July 1, 1862. 
 Special Orders Xo. J 4. 
 
 Company B will detail one non-commissioned officer or man for service as 
 clerk to Colonel Ruggles, headquarters of General Pope, at the War Depart- 
 ment, who will report to these headquarters forthwith for instructions. 
 
 By order of 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 John F. Tobey, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 Adjutant . 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Vols., 
 
 Fort Pennsylvania, July 1, 1S62. 
 Special Orders A'o. /j. 
 
 Company D will detail one non-commissioned officer or man, for service as 
 clerk to Colonel Ruggles, headquarters of General Pope, at the War Depart- 
 ment, who will report to these headquarters forthwith for instructions. 
 
 By order of 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 John F. Tobey, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 Adjutant. 
 
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 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 General Pope had just arrived in 
 Washington, from the west, and as- 
 sumed command of the Army of Vir- 
 ginia. A fortnight was spent in organ- 
 izing his personal staff, and two men 
 were detached from the Tenth Rhode 
 Island Volunteers for special service at 
 headquarters, the author from Com- 
 pany B, and Charles H. Wildman from 
 Company D, and the following orders 
 were issued : 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Vols., 
 Special Orders Xo. 16. Fort Pennsylvania. July 2. 1S62. 
 
 Privates William A. Spicer, of Company B. and Charles H. Wildman, of 
 Company D, are hereby detailed for service in Washington as clerks to Col. 
 George D. Ruggles, Chief of Staff, at the headquarters of General Pope, and 
 will report at the War Department for duty forthwith. 
 
 By order of ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 John F. Tobev, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 Adjutant. 
 
 Gen. John Pope in 1862. 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Vols., 
 Colonel Ruggles, Fort Pennsylvania, July 2, 1862. 
 
 A. A. G. and Chief of Staff. 
 I have the honor to report that in accordance with orders yesterday received, 
 the bearers, Privates William A. Spicer and Charles H. Wildman are detailed 
 for service as clerks in your department. 
 
 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 Signed, JOHN F. TOBEY, 
 
 Adjt. Tenth R. I. Vols. 
 
Our Ambulance Ride. 
 
 RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 23^ 
 
 r> Letter from the author: "Head- 
 
 quarters Army of Virginia, 232 G 
 Street, Washington, July 3, 1862. 
 Don't be startled because I've turned 
 up in another new locality. Sunday 
 night, June 30th, was our last at 
 Camp Misery, in Virginia. Monday 
 night, July 1st, I slept on board a 
 transport at the Washington Navy 
 Yard, and Tuesday afternoon reported at Fort Pennsylvania. 
 Things were in a tipsy-topsy, hurly-burly state on my arrival." 
 "Unfortunately," says Captain Dyer, "that curse of the army, 
 whiskey, found its way among our men and confusion reigned." 
 One of the men always got drunk on pay-day, in order, as he 
 said, that he could see double, and thus, in imagination, get 
 double pay. Another man was wiser, who kept sober, but 
 always put on his spectacles when eating cherries, so that the 
 fruit might look larger and more tempting. 
 
 "Tuesday afternoon, June 2d, I had spent but an hour or two in 
 camp, at Fort Pennsylvania, when I was officially informed (see 
 orders inclosed), that two of us, had been detailed for special ser- 
 vice at the War Department, with orders to report at once. 
 Hurriedly packing our knapsacks, and loading all our personal 
 effects into an army ambulance, we bade our comrades good-bye, 
 and started for Washington about half past two p. m. The rain 
 was descending in sheets, as we halted at the War Department, 
 and we got our feet thoroughly soaked in transferring our bag- 
 gage from the ambulance to the corridor of the War Office. 
 
 30 
 
234 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " We found, on inquiring, that it was 
 past office hours, so we walked twice in 
 the pouring rain to Colonel Ruggles' 
 residence. He received us kindly, and 
 gave us a note to General Wadsworth, 
 the military governor of the district. 
 After scanning us pretty sharply he 
 gave us an order on the superintendent 
 of the Soldiers' Retreat, the place where 
 we stopped when we first arrived in 
 fuxyvo- f^££e0 Washington, and from which we were 
 secretary of Navy. glad to retreat. As it was fully two 
 
 miles away, in a drenching storm, and no umbrellas even hinted 
 at, we determined to beat a retreat to the War Department, and 
 see what would turn up. We told our story to the night janitor, 
 a kind hearted Irishman, and he at once became interested in our 
 behalf, and obtained permission for us to occupy Adjutant-General 
 Thomas's office for the night. Mr. Welles, with long, white 
 beard, the efficient secretary of the navy, was pointed out to us. 
 We then stepped across the street to a restaurant and enjoyed 
 the first square meal we have had since leaving home. On re- 
 turning to the War Department we had the great pleasure of 
 seeing President Lincoln walk down the corridor. He carried an 
 old fashioned umbrella big enough for two, and appeared anxious 
 and depressed. It was the day after the battle of Malvern Hill, 
 and the campaign against Richmond had ended in failure." During 
 these disheartening days Mr. Lincoln spent much of his time at 
 the war office. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 35 
 
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 " I am glad to report that we slept 
 soundly last night in the office of Uncle 
 Sam's Adjutant-General, which we think 
 is quite an honor for boys of seventeen ! 
 I am now writing at General Pope's 
 Headquarters, No. 232 G Street, near 
 the War Department. It is a good place 
 to see the leading officers. Generals 
 Sturgis and Banks called this morning. 
 General Pope is in citizen's dress. We 
 think we shall like our duties first-rate. 
 Our rations have been commuted at 
 seventy-five cents per day, with forty 
 cents additional for our services at headquarters. We are to 
 sleep here to receive night dispatches, and take our meals close 
 by the office. Wildman and I propose to make our beds on the 
 carpet in the general's office. To-morrow is the glorious Fourth 
 of July! How I would enjoy spending it at home! There will 
 be no public celebration here, but we are to have a holiday, with 
 passes from General Pope giving us permission to go about the 
 city independent of the provost guards. My pass reads as follows : 
 
 At Headquarters. 
 
 JPass Number 1 ■ 
 
 Headquarters, Army of Virginia, 
 Washington, lulv ^. 1S62. 
 
 The bearer, William A. Spicer, is employed as clerk at these headquarters, 
 and will be permitted to pass to any part of the city, at all time^. 
 
 By command of Major-General POPE. 
 
 George D. Ruggles, 
 Colon, i '. A. A. G., and Chief of Staff. 
 
236 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
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 I read in the Provi- 
 dence Journal of June 
 27: " The appointment 
 c — I of General Pope to the 
 command of the Army 
 of Virginia will be re- 
 garded as news almost 
 as welcome as that of a 
 victory." "It does look 
 as if he meant to 'push 
 things.' He has kept 
 us busy sending military 
 dispatches in all direc- 
 tions. What we don't know about what is going on, isn't worth 
 knowing. When the general arrived, a few days ago, he found 
 the forces under Fremont, Banks, and McDowell, widely scattered. 
 Then Fremont resigned, and General Sigel was appointed in his 
 place. His two division commanders are Generals Schenck and 
 Schurz. All this is very gratifying to the German soldiers. Sigel 
 is ordered to cross the Shenandoah Valley at Front Royal, and take 
 post at Sperryville. Banks is ordered to take up his position at 
 Little Washington, a few miles northeast of that place. One of 
 the divisions of McDowell's Corps has been ordered forward to 
 Waterloo Bridge, on the line of the Rappahannock, a few miles 
 southwest of Warrenton, while his other division is held at Fred- 
 ericksburg, by direction of the government. The total effective 
 force, including cavalry, is about fifty thousand. The whole plan 
 of the campaign is changed by the movement of the Army of the 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 237 
 
 Potomac to Harrison's Landing, which leaves the entire army of 
 General Lee interposed between that of the Army of the Potomac 
 and the Army of Virginia." 
 
 "July 6th. General McDowell called at headquarters, this 
 morning. I spent nearly all the forenoon carefully copying a 
 long personal letter from General Pope to General McClellan, at 
 Harrison's Landing, James River, headquarters Army of the 
 Potomac, fully stating his plans and position, and the disposition of 
 the troops under his command. He requests General McClellan 
 in all good faith and earnestness to write him freely and fully his 
 views, and to suggest any measures which he thinks desirable to 
 enable him to cooperate with him and promises on his part to render 
 all assistance in his power. He writes, ' I am very anxious to assist 
 you in your operations, and I will run any risk for that pur- 
 pose.' In conclusion, he says, 'I therefore request you to feel no 
 hesitation in full}' stating your plans, and, so far as in my power. 
 I will carry out your wishes with all the energy, and with all the 
 means at my command.' ' The only reply to this cordial commu- 
 nication was a very formal note from General McClellan, very 
 general in its tenor, and proposing nothing whatever toward the 
 accomplishment of the purposes suggested by General Pope. It 
 became apparent, therefore, that there was to be no harmonious 
 cooperation between the Union commanders in Northern and 
 Southern Virginia, so necessary for the success of the campaign. 
 " Later in the day I forwarded a military telegram to General 
 Banks, stating that the critical condition of affairs near Richmond, 
 renders it highly probable that the enemy will advance upon 
 Washington, in force." 
 
238 Tin: TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "July 15th. By direction of General Pope, I copied yesterday, 
 an important address to the Army of Virginia, for the government 
 printer. A copy will be forwarded to the Ninth and Tenth Rhode 
 Island Regiments and Battery." 
 
 HEAtiqUARTERS ARMY OF VIRGINIA, 
 
 Washington. D. C., July 14, 1862. 
 To the Officers and S,d<//crs 0/ tin Army of Virginia: 
 
 P>\ special assignment of the President of the United States, I have assumed 
 the command of this army. I have spent two weeks in learning your where- 
 abouts, your condition, and your wants : in preparing you for active operations, 
 and in placing you in positions from which you can act promptly and to the pur- 
 pose. These labors are nearly completed, and I am about io join you in the field. 
 
 Let us understand each other. I have come to you from the West, where we 
 have always seen the backs of our enemies ; from an army whose business it has 
 been to seek the adversary and to beat him when he was found; whose policy 
 lias been attack and not defence. In but one instance has the enemy been able 
 to place our western armies in defensive attitude. I presume that I have been 
 called here to pursue the same system, and to lead you against the enemy. It 
 is my purpose to do so, and that speedily. I am sure you long for an oppor- 
 tunity to win the distinction you are capable of achieving. That opportunity I 
 shall endeavor to give you. Meantime I desire you to dismiss from your minds 
 certain phrases which I am sorry to find much in vogue amongst you. I hear 
 constantly of taking " strong positions and holding them," of " lines of retreat," 
 and of " bases of supph ." Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position 
 a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance 
 against the enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, 
 and leave our own to take care of themselves. Let us look before us, and not 
 behind. Success and glory are in the advance: disaster and shame lurk in the 
 rear. Let us act on this understanding, and it is safe to predict that your ban- 
 ners shall be inscribed with man v a glorious deed, and that your names will be 
 
 dcai to your countrymen forever. 
 
 JOHN POPE. 
 
 Major- General Commanding. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 239 
 
 ileadquarters military defences, 
 North of the Potomac, 
 
 Washington, July 15, 1S62. 
 
 To Col. Zenas R. Bliss, 
 
 Tenth Reg 7 R. /. ( r ols. 
 
 By direction of General Sturgis, cqmraan 
 ing, the firing of blank cartridges at the forts 
 garrisoned by the companies of your regi- 
 ment will be discontinued. 
 
 Signed. J. A. IIASKIN. 
 
 T. lent. -Col. A. D. C, 
 In charge of defences north of the Potomac. 
 
 Lleut.-Col. J. A. Haskin. 
 
 The firing of the big guns on the forts had been clone for artil- 
 lery practice, but it disturbed certain nervous people in Wash- 
 ington, and was discontinued for military reasons. One of the men 
 wrote : " Colonel Haskin is a brave and accomplished officer, who 
 left his arm at Chapultepec, but who still preserves a certain 
 cheerful manliness which wins the admiration of all who meet him." 
 
 Colonel Shaw's report says : "The transfer from camp to gar- 
 rison was anything but agreeable to the regiment. It compelled 
 us to forego all hope of perfecting ourselves in infantry tactics, 
 and to commence with the rudiments of artillery, with which we 
 were entirely unacquainted. Commendable progress was soon 
 made with our new arms ; but extended as we were over so long 
 a line of fortifications, the garrison at each post was necessarily 
 small, and the duties severe. In addition to other duties, a detail 
 of forty men was required to report daily at Battery Vermont, to 
 complete the extension of that work." 
 
240 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Outfit for Battery Vermont. 
 
 " Building forts is one of those 
 heroic but unobstrusive occupa- 
 tions for which our soldiers got 
 little credit. I took an orderly's 
 horse in front of headquarters, and 
 rode out to Tennallytown, to see 
 the boys at Fort Pennsylvania. 
 They appeared glad to see me 
 back again. They say that be- 
 tween heavy artillery drill, gar- 
 risoning old forts, and building 
 new ones, their time is pretty well 
 used up. You should see them, hand-spike in hand, heaving at 
 the wheels of those forty-two-pounders. The latest conundrum is, 
 'Why are the boys of the Tenth in such good company now, at 
 the forts ? ' 'Because they are closely associated with so many 
 big guns ! ' But they say they would rather heave at those heavy 
 guns, or make another long tramp into Virginia, and even fight a 
 little than to wear their lives away these hot days, shovelling- 
 sand. There doesn't appear to be anything very exciting or in- 
 spiring about it, and the patriotism of the boys is at a low ebb. 
 Some of them wear a badge made of lead, consisting of a pick-axe, 
 spade, and broom in combination, to represent their new employ- 
 ment at Battery Vermont. It has been very warm at the fort. In 
 one of the tents the thermometer registered 102 degrees, so that you 
 can imagine how nice and cool it is here. The boys are all pretty 
 well browned, and a good many, I noticed, will go home adorned 
 with a beard which they did not support when they left home." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 24 I 
 
 Company A, Corp. Albert C. Winsor, furnishes the following 
 interesting article on "The Fourth," at Fort Franklin: "The 
 anniversary of National Independence was made a marked occa- 
 sion at Fort Franklin by a presentation of colors to Company A, 
 Capt. William E. Taber, the gift of the ladies of the Fifth Ward 
 in Providence. Comrade Wendell P. Hood presented the flag, in 
 a neat and patriotic speech, Captain Taber gracefully acknowl- 
 edging the gift in behalf of the company. Patriotic speeches were 
 also made by First Lieut. Joseph L. Bennett, Jr., Company A ; 
 Captains H. B. Cady, Company E ; William M. Hale, Company I, 
 and others, and at eleven o'clock the flag was hoisted to the head 
 of the staff greeted by nine rousing cheers and the singing of the 
 'Star Spangled Banner.' This will be a memorable day to the 
 members of Company A, also, from the fact that a large sized box 
 arrived at the fort last night, well filled with lemons, sugar, 
 tonics, cigars, and tobacco, the gift of the store-keepers and 
 friends in the vicinity of South and Point streets, to enable the 
 ' Blue Pointers ' to celebrate, and remind them that they were not 
 forgotten by the friends at home. The boys had remembered 
 their part, and after dinner the camp was visited by a party of the 
 Seventy-first New York Regiment, who were encamped about 
 two miles from Fort Franklin ; the comrades were welcomed, and 
 generously entertained, toasts were given, and the camp re- 
 sounded with patriotic songs ; fun and sociability were then in 
 order and greatly enjoyed, as many of the boys will testify by 
 the mementos that were exchanged in caps, buttons, and figures. 
 As the guests left the camp nine cheers were given for New York 
 and Rhode Island." 
 
 31 
 
24- 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 The following letter of acknowledgment from the chaplain, to 
 the ladies of the Fifth Ward, will be interesting : 
 
 Fort Pennsylvania, D. C. Julv 17. 1862. 
 Rev. C. H. Fay, Providence* 
 
 My Dear Brother: Please excuse the long delay in answering yours, 
 which accompanied the beautiful standard presented to Company A (Captain 
 William E. Taber). by the ladies of our Fifth Ward. 
 
 The delay has arisen from a little misapprehension, the captain supposing 
 that I had answered it, while I thought he had done so. 
 
 As the ladies have heard, a debilitating illness made it impossible for me to 
 go to Fort Franklin on the 4th of July, and present the standard, as desired by 
 you, in their behalf. 
 
 It was a grievous disappointment not to have that privilege; although, as far 
 as the company and the donors were concerned, nothing was lost; Mr. Hood, 
 a member of Company A, having made the presentation in terms which the 
 ladies would have regarded as eminently befitting the occasion. 
 
 They may rely on it, that nothing since we left home has given Company A 
 so much pleasure as this token of remembrance and of confidence from their 
 lady friends of the Fifth Ward. 
 
 1 will guarantee, moreover, that the Stars and Stripes will never be dis- 
 honored at the hands of that noble company. 
 
 I knew them at home. I have known them far more intimately here: and I 
 assure you that both officers and men are, as a body, of the right stamp to be 
 entrusted with the beautiful emblem of our country's liberty and greatness. 
 
 Please express to the lady donors the thanks of the company: assure them 
 that their gift is appreciated, and will be sacredly preserved as an honored 
 trust: and if borne into battle, will be defended to the last — upborne by no 
 coward's hands. 
 
 Please, also, to thank the ladies for the honor they conferred on myself, in 
 selecting me to make the presentation : and, believe me, 
 
 Ever, sincerelv. vours. 
 
 A. HUNTINGDON CLAPP, 
 
 Chaplain Tenth R- I- Vols. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 243 
 
 Company B, Fort Pennsylvania, July 4th : "Perhaps you would 
 like to know," wrote comrade James F. Field, "how we cele- 
 brated the day. The first thing was breakfast, consisting of beef- 
 steak, white bread, and coffee. At half past nine, Companies B 
 and K were formed in line and marched to the colonel's head- 
 quarters to listen to a literary feast. An oration was delivered 
 by Joshua M. Addeman, and a poem was read by Henry S. 
 Latham, both of Company B. After the exercises we had a very 
 spirited speech from Mr. Sheffield, one of our representatives 
 in Congress. Soon after we were dismissed, a large box of good 
 things arrived from the Ellsworth Phalanx (High School com- 
 pany). It was quickly opened and the contents were very much 
 appreciated. Your box was also very welcome, especially the 
 cookies. After a few minutes not a vestige of them remained. 
 They tasted tip-top, much better than the first lot, which got 
 mixed up with the catsup from the broken bottle. At half past 
 two dinner was served. Roast beef, potatoes with gravy, beets, 
 onions, peas, and, to crown all, lemonade — and the best of all was, 
 there was enough to 'go around, and around.' 
 
 " It was intended that the Declaration of Independence should 
 be read as a part of the exercises, but it had to be omitted, as one 
 of our company, Nathan H. Baker, rode all over the neighboring 
 country in vain, to procure a copy. He did at last succeed in find- 
 ing one framed, but it was in such fine print that he gave it up as a 
 bad job. At twelve o'clock a salute was fired by the Tenth Rhode 
 Island Battery. During the day and night previous there was 
 firing from the forts on the other side of the Potomac, but we have 
 had orders not to fire any more, for military reasons." 
 
244 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "Toward night, yesterday, July 3d, we had one of the most 
 terrific thunder-storms I ever saw. I happened to be out in it 
 for a few minutes, so I know, and got completely soaked through. 
 The wind blew almost a hurricane. You probably are aware that 
 in a fort the magazine is in the centre, and that the top is some- 
 what higher than the surrounding embankment. A guard or 
 picket is stationed on this magazine all the time. In order to 
 hold the fort, during the terrific storm of wind and rain, he had 
 to stick his bayonet in the ground the whole length, and then 
 brace himself against it. As it was, he came near being blown 
 off the magazine. But he held on all through the pelting storm, 
 which continued at least half an hour." 
 
 Mrs. Partington says, she pities the poor soldiers who have to 
 stay out on pickets in the scorching rain, especially when the pickets 
 arc driven in ! 
 
 "Companies B and K," wrote Private Edwin B. Fiske, "are 
 still in a flourishing condition, and we can say in the language of 
 a distinguished statesman, ' We still live ! ' Others have written 
 and told you of the glories of camp-life and its romantic associa- 
 tions, which are welded in a soldier's mind, never to be erased ; 
 and he who is permitted to return to his home after the conflict 
 is over, will have as many stories to tell, and stirring incidents to 
 relate to fire the hearts of the young, as fired our hearts when 
 listening to the tales of the old Revolutionary patriots, when our 
 fathers waded through blood and fire to rescue our country from 
 the tyrannical heel of Great Britain. And more, we labor to 
 secure the establishment of our government upon a broader and 
 freer system than has heretofore existed." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 245 
 
 Com.-Sergt. James O. Swan was a 
 capable and hard working official. 
 His constant care and vigilance 
 helped bring about a much needed 
 reform in the quality of our rations. 
 He had then, the same quiet, con- 
 vincing way, to make things move 
 right along — that distinguish him 
 now in his official duties at the City 
 
 Hall. Some Of the boys thought On Com.-Sergt. James 0. Swan. 
 
 account of his stern and dignified air that he must have a hard 
 heart. They were mistaken ; he always had the interests of the 
 regiment in mind, and demanded the fullest consideration for the 
 men from others, to the extent of his authority. 
 
 Private Fiske continues : "Allow me to say a few things about 
 ourselves in and around Fort Pennsylvania. The fort is built 
 upon a hill, in a commanding position, and if properly manned 
 could not easily be taken. General McCall's division was en- 
 camped in this vicinity last winter. These troops were badly cut 
 up in the late battles before Richmond. Fort Pennsylvania is now 
 garrisoned by Companies B and K, of our regiment, and the Tenth 
 Light Battery. The avenue of Company B is called Dyer Avenue, 
 and that of Company K, Low's Avenue, in honor of the company 
 captains. Here you find 'University Hall' with the students 
 from 'Brown;' the 'Martin Box,' named after the chief of the 
 mess ; ' Tiger's Retreat, &c. As you pass down Dyer Avenue, the 
 first tent is that of Orderly Phillips, called by the boys the ' Dio- 
 clesian Tower.' It appears that the 'orderly' used to advertise 
 
246 THE TENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 his store near Grace Church, Providence,' 'as the great skate and 
 floral depot directly opposite the Dioclesian Tower.' He is a 
 very lively and efficient officer (just the same), and has a prompt 
 way of calling the men into line with the order, 'Fall in B's ! ' 
 ' Lively B's ! ' On the opposite side of Dyer Avenue you see the 
 sign, 'Whang Hotel,' the quarters of the High School mess, 
 Charles L. Stafford, sergeant. The ages range from sixteen to 
 twenty. At dress parade last night, General Pope's stirring ad- 
 dress was read, and the resignation of our quartermaster, Lieut. 
 James H. Armington, with a general order from Colonel Bliss 
 complimenting him for the efficient management of his depart- 
 ment. Lieut. William C. Chace, of Company B, is now acting- 
 quartermaster, and is a model one. We live much better than 
 we did at Camp Frieze ; there it was tough enough! Some of 
 the tents look more like express offices than anything else, by 
 the number of boxes piled up in them, showing that our boys 
 are not forgotten by the friends at home." 
 
 Occasionally the opening of a box revealed an unwise selection, 
 or careless packing. A case was opened one morning, smooth 
 and polished without, and neatly jointed, when an overpowering 
 odor filled the air, and drove everybody from the neighborhood. 
 The intolerable stench proceeded from " concentrated chicken," 
 which had been badly prepared. The box had been for some time 
 on the journey, and the nicely cooked " concentrated chicken," 
 had become a mass of corruption. "Be Jabbers!" said Irish 
 Jimmy, the drayman, as he wheeled the box away, "I hope the 
 leddies — God bless 'em! won't send enny more of their 'conse- 
 crated chicken ' this way, for it smells too loud intirely ! " 
 
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 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " While Companies B and K were encamped at 
 Fort Pennsylvania," wrote Corp. Joseph E. Handy, 
 of Company K, "my friend and comrade, Carlo 
 Mauran, says, ' Corporal, I have found a hen-house, 
 with hens in it. Will you go with me to-night, and 
 visit the hen-roost ? ' I told him I would go with 
 him, so after dark we started out, through the brush. 
 'This is somethin' like huntin' squirrels, ain't it,' 
 said Carlo, as we groped our way along, but at length 
 we arrived at the coop. I went in, while Carlo 
 stood guard outside. It was a dark night, and 
 darker still inside the hen-roost, so I felt round all 
 over the place, but couldn't find anything. Then I 
 stooped down, and felt along on the ground, and 
 found a large hen hovering a brood of chickens. 
 The hen is a kind mother, but still she sits on her children ! I 
 took the hen and passed her out to Carlo, who retired a short dis- 
 tance, wrung her neck and plucked her feathers. We then re- 
 turned to our tent, and, after dressing the fowl, we got one of the 
 cook's mess kettles, and began cutting it up to cook, when ' taps ' 
 were sounded ; but we kept on, just the same, peeling our pota- 
 toes, and then seasoning the stew. Soon Capt. Frank Low came 
 along in front of the tent. ' Put out that light,' he said. Carlo 
 replied, ' Corporal Handy is sick ! ' 'All right,' said the captain, 
 'be as quiet as possible.' 'Yes, sir,' said Carlo. When all was 
 done and ready to cook, we put out the light. (A bayonet stuck 
 in the ground, holding a candle in the socket, provided us with a 
 convenient and portable light.) In the morning we turned the 
 
 Light after "Taps ! 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 249 
 
 chicken over to the company cook, George A. Whelden, and he 
 made us a first-class chicken stew. I then took a portion of it up 
 to Captain Low, steaming hot, for his breakfast. He scanned it 
 carefully, looked at me, and said, ' So this accounts for your sick- 
 ness last night, doesn't it?' I smiled audibly in the affirmative. 
 'Well,' said the captain, 'whenever you happen to be taken sick 
 again for chicken stew, let me know, and I will let you keep your 
 light burning as long as you wish ! ' " 
 
 This story from Company K is almost as good as that of a sol- 
 dier in a Pennsylvania regiment, encamped near some country 
 village, like Tennallytown, who trained his cat so that she would 
 go regularly to a neighboring grocery and steal mackerel for him 
 out of a tub. She didn't lie about it, though. 
 
 " Dr. Briggs, United States Medical Inspector, paid us an 
 official visit yesterday, examining closely, our tents, and the 
 grounds, to see if everything was kept neat and clean. He 
 seemed apparently well-pleased and satisfied, for he said that 
 everything was O K around here. 
 
 "A few clays ago one of the teamers of Company C, Captain 
 Vose, had his horse run awav, and by some means got entangled 
 in the reins, and fell from his horse. One of the wheels passed 
 over his head, bruising it badly ; the other passed over his 
 shoulder, breaking his collar bone. At first, his life was despaired 
 of, but by the skill of Dr. Wilcox, he is getting better." 
 
 " Our new rifles have arrived, and the remainder of the clothing- 
 due us. W T e have built quite a dam across a small stream near 
 our camp, which affords a nice place for bathing (with the water 
 up to our knees), which is a great luxury." 
 
 32 
 
25O THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " Fort Alexander, July 23d. In arranging our new camp," 
 wrote Captain Hale, "some generalship was required in selecting 
 the best location, both on sanitary and cautionary grounds. If 
 we were quartered inside the fort, we should be less exposed 
 to marauding parties of the enemy who could only get at us after 
 passing the abattis, ditch, and parapet. But if we were compelled 
 to run at last, we should have no where to run to except to run 
 away, and that is sometimes considered discreditable in good sol- 
 diers. Besides, a close inspection of the barracks showed that 
 marauding" parties already held possession of them, and that they 
 made up in numbers what they lacked in size. 
 
 "On the other hand if we had pitched our camps outside the 
 fort and were compelled to evacuate it, we could run into the fort, 
 and if finally compelled to run from there, we should become so 
 accustomed to running as to do it with perfect ease and consider- 
 able rapidity, and thus secure a double base of retreat. 
 
 " So we chose for our quarters a beautiful grassy slope, over- 
 looking the broad Potomac, fringed with wild flowers, and com- 
 manding a fine view of the hills and vales of Virginia. Here we 
 set up our tents, and our tin-ware, and thanked God that we had 
 found such comfortable quarters after all our weary wanderings. 
 But human happiness is liable to sudden reverses, and ours did 
 not differ from the common lot of man, for we were scarcely 
 settled in our new quarters, when we discovered that they had 
 previously been selected as a place of meeting of an immense 
 entomological convention, with delegates from every part of the 
 world of bugs. The convention holds uninterrupted session of 
 twenty-four hours' duration, the importance of their business being 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 25 I 
 
 such as to admit no intermission. In the discharge of their duties, 
 they enter our noses, skirmish about our ears, and commit forays 
 upon our unprotected eyes. Having discovered that shirts and 
 drawers are not the natural covering of man, they penetrate their 
 recesses, and institute minute examinations, and no doubt make 
 elaborate reports upon the formation and texture of the human 
 skin. Many of them, like other distinguished savants, fall mar- 
 tyrs to the cause of truth, especially when they turn their atten- 
 tion to the nature and quality of our food, in which branch of 
 inquiry they are as zealous as the best of our human conventions. 
 
 "Occasionally, J take the liberty to interfere with their pro- 
 ceedings, by covering such parts of the anatomy as are particularly 
 open to their inspection. I am not versed in the fly dialect but 
 am fully satisfied that on such occasions they make use of very 
 profane language. For I can hear a confused buzzing, that sounds 
 like ' Here he is, confound him, if we could only get at him,' ' He's 
 playing 'possum, blast his eyes,' etc., etc., when the crowd retire 
 in disgust to visit my fat lieutenant, who presents a much broader 
 and deeper field of inquiry than I do. 
 
 "At dusk, they are relieved by the moths, crickets, and wood- 
 ticks, and other insects, nameless and innumerable. The crickets 
 remind one of the female orators at an anti-slavery meeting, by 
 making a noise entirely disproportionate to their size. 
 
 "Since the settlement here of Companies E and I, we have 
 been practising at heavy artillery and rifle drill. I suppose the 
 two are combined to compensate for each other and establish a 
 general average. We handle the heavy guns in the morning to 
 settle our breakfasts, and the rifles in the afternoon to give us an 
 
252 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 appetite for supper. Both proceedings are eminently effectual. 
 In regard to the big guns, the amount of sponging and ramming, 
 heaving, pointing and firing that we have accomplished, ought to 
 be sufficient to quell a moderate size rebellion, if done in earnest." 
 
 Colonel Shaw says: "The exceeding kindness of Col. J. A. 
 Haskin, Inspector of Fortifications, in instructing our officers and 
 men in their new duties should be honorably mentioned. I have 
 seen him leave his desk and go to the door to show a private sol- 
 dier his way of doing it." 
 
 " Perhaps the most instructive, if not agreeable feature of 
 camp life at Fort Alexander, is displayed in the administration 
 of the culinary department. The 'Army Regulations,' alloiv a 
 cook, but unfortunately they don't furnish one, so that each 
 ' mess ' is obliged to look out for its own. We found ours in a 
 sable gentleman of the African persuasion, who came to us on 
 a broiling July day, with an oleaginous smile. We had been living 
 for some time, 'at loose ends,' and thought him a valuable acqui- 
 sition. He was said to be highly recommended, but I have never 
 been able to ascertain who said it. He could cook anything from 
 an egg to an elephant ; either with or without fire or water. We 
 have not had a chance to try him on the elephant, but he has 
 certainly failed on the egg. There is a pleasurable excitement 
 and delightful uncertainty in our relations with the cook. It is 
 like Tom Pinch and his sister in their first efforts at housekeep- 
 ing. You never know whether your beef-steak pudding will turn 
 out a pudding or something else. In our case, it frequently 
 doesn't 'turn out' at all. Judging from the results accomplished, 
 I should say that our cook followed some simple receipts not laid 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 253 
 
 down in the ordinary cook-book. The following are quoted for 
 the benefit of the uninitiated : 
 
 "Eggs are liable to be soft, unless boiled from five to fifteen 
 minutes. (If the cook is busy, they may remain a while longer.) 
 
 " Fried eggs should be done black on the under side, to give 
 them a relish. 
 
 "Salt cod-fish is freshened by being soaked in water. All 
 aqueous exposures are therefore to be avoided. 
 
 "Corn-bread, hoe-cake, johnny-cake, and corn dodgers, are 
 made of meal and water, carefully dried by a slow fire. Any sud- 
 den heat is liable to brown them, and is therefore to be avoided. 
 
 "Army beef is made tender by long boiling, and is thereby 
 made eatable. But, as it is not designed to be eaten, it should be 
 only half cooked. 
 
 "It is the chief duty of the cook to look out for number one, 
 and to see that volunteers do not become enervated by delicate 
 viands. He will therefore devour all tit-bits and choice morsels, 
 to keep them out of the way of temptation. 
 
 " Our cook is great at foraging. Foraging is procuring neces- 
 sary subsistence by buying when you can't steal it, or stealing 
 when you can't buy it, — or stealing, per se, whether you can buy 
 it or not. The last is the favorite mode in this section. Starting 
 off after an early breakfast, the cook is gone for the best part of 
 the day, foraging. The result of a day's active exertion may be 
 summed up in a pair of meagre chickens and a lank cod-fish. 
 The chickens are put into a coop to fatten, but after being care- 
 fully and bountifully fed, there is just enough of them to flavor 
 a stew. By some singular casualties they are generally minus 
 
254 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 legs or wings, or both, when served by our cook, who is never 
 able to account for the deficiency. I am happy to say, however, 
 that no such misfortune befalls the cod-fish, which always come to 
 the table, complete in all its parts. One specimen of our cook's 
 biscuits will suffice. We tried one, and then had the balance 
 piled up like cannon balls. If not used as projectiles against the 
 enemy, they will be distributed among the various cooking schools 
 of the country, carefully labelled, ' Not to be eaten on pain of 
 death.' Early applicants can secure choice specimens by paying 
 freight and charges. N. B. — Two postage stamps enclosed, will 
 entitle the sender to the best specimens, with the cook thrown in. 
 
 " We are still practising artillery drill, rifle drill, battalion drill, 
 company drill, and squad drill, and if we don't succeed in coming 
 home thoroughly drilled, we shall certainly be partially bored." 
 
 Battery Vermont, July 20th, Corp. B. F. Pabodie, wrote : "All 
 our visitors concur in saying that Company H has the most in- 
 viting spot of any occupied by the regiment. Our little battery 
 of three 32-pounders, is situated on the south side of the roads 
 leading to the Potomac, and about half a mile from it. It is built 
 partially on the site of an old stone house. From the appearance 
 of the ruins, the growth of shrubbery, and the remains of a large 
 stone barn below it, it must have been a country seat of no mean 
 pretensions. On the opposite side of the road, stands our quarters, 
 consisting of one frame, and two log-houses. A yard in front, is 
 nicely shaded by two rows of locust trees. This is a part of the 
 aqueduct property, and belongs to the government. The reservoir 
 from which the supply of water from Washington and George- 
 town is taken, lies near us at the foot of the hill." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 ?55 
 
 Fortunately a 
 fine sketch of 
 " Headquarters, 
 Company H," is 
 still preserved, 
 engraved by 
 Sergt. Charles 
 P. Gay, on the 
 bottom of his 
 mess-pan. It is 
 evident that 
 his hand was as 
 steady as at the 
 target shoot of 
 the Burnside 
 Zouaves in Au- 
 gust, 1 86 1, when 
 
 he bore off the first prize, a silver cup, which was presented to 
 him by Governor Sprague. He has a good record as a soldier, 
 serving not only in the Tenth, but afterwards as a lieutenant in 
 the Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Resuming, Corporal Pabodie wrote : " The work of enlarging 
 Battery Vermont has been commenced. Details of men from 
 each company, amounting to forty, have been at work for several 
 days, and when the addition is finished, and another 32-pounder 
 mounted, the battery will present quite a formidable appearance. 
 Our diet at present consists mainly of blackberries and milk." 
 
 Sergeant Gay tells the following story of their milk supply : 
 
 A Memorable Mess-Pan. 
 
THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "Job Armstrong was one 
 of the advance guards of 
 jjs?; Company H who first took 
 ' possession of Battery Ver- 
 mont. He was also a great 
 milk forager, and had a won- 
 derful faculty in deluding the 
 cows of the neighborhood 
 into the belief that he was 
 one of their own calves. A 
 cow would stand placidly, 
 chewing her cud, while Job 
 
 Milking the Cow. ■, i • . <-^ 1 i 
 
 with a persuasive ' bo bossy, 
 would milk with all his might. One day after he and another 
 comrade had filled pails and canteens, and drank the milk foam- 
 ing fresh from the cow, they hurried back to camp, and concealed 
 a large pan of milk under Job's bunk. Soon the farmer's wife 
 arrived and complained to Captain Duckworth, that some of his 
 men had milked her cows. Nobody knew anything about it, and 
 Job, who had overheard everything, declared with much warmth, 
 that he didn't believe there was a man in Company H mean 
 enough to do such a thing, but he'd make it his business to go 
 through every tent, and if he found anybody with milk in his 
 possession he would report him. Thus assured, the woman de- 
 parted. A few minutes later Job called me to the orderly's quar- 
 ters, and there under the bunk was a large pan full of milk. 
 'Now,' says Job, ' I want you to help me get rid of it, among the 
 boys; they'll find it just bully with their blackberries." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 257 
 
 Let us visit the room occupied by Orderly-Sergeant Winchester 
 and his mess. "They have fitted it up in imitation of a steamboat 
 cabin, with bunks arranged one above the other, several tiers high. 
 One night, recently, a private was allowed to occupy the upper 
 berth, and as he slept he dreamed that he was peacefully reposing 
 in his own cot at home, where he heard voices appealing to him : 
 
 ' Stay, stay with us, — rest, thou art weary and worn ! 
 And fain was their war-broken soldier to stay : — ' 
 
 But just at that moment he started up and rolled out of the top 
 berth, and struck the floor with a sound that aroused the other 
 sleepers with the impression that a bomb-shell had been dropped 
 in their midst, or that Stonewall Jackson was upon them. The 
 poor disappointed private felt hurt in more respects than one, 
 and murmured something about 'being at home,' and 'seeing 
 stars.' After a vigorous rubbing of his sore places, he climbed 
 back into his perch, and turned over against the wall. The next 
 day he was able to report for service, and went through the usual 
 drill, but evidently with a good deal of difficulty. 
 
 "There is an interesting member of the orderly's mess who goes 
 by the name of Richard Swiveller, Esq. He it is who soothes 
 the orderly's troubled nerves (when disturbed after the day's 
 arduous labors), with the musical notes of the flute. 
 
 "The extreme hot weather, the numerous drills, and the work at 
 Battery Vermont begins to affect the troops unfavorably. The 
 health of the regiment is not as good. Hospital accommodations 
 have been largely increased, but the sicknesses do not appear to 
 be alarming ; they are generally slow fevers. 
 33 
 
2v 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Home Messages. 
 
 "Since we have become 
 settled here, many letters and 
 delicacies from home, have 
 continued to pour in upon us. 
 We have received from the 
 Burnside Zouaves two dry 
 goods packing boxes, and one 
 pickle-keg full of things good 
 to eat and to wear. The ex- 
 press charges are enormous, but the disposition here appears to 
 be to charge soldiers fifty per cent, more than anybody else. 
 Captain Duckworth is a soldierly and efficient officer, and under 
 his direction we have made quite an advance in company and 
 also artillery drill. The other night one of our sentinels fired at 
 what was supposed to be an approaching rebel, but which proved, 
 on investigation, to be an innocent weed on the parapet, which 
 nodded and bowed to the guard, as it was swayed by the night 
 wind. Governor Sprague made us a flying visit yesterday. Secre- 
 tary of War Stanton and family, are spending the summer near 
 by, on the banks of the Potomac. Blackberries are in great quan- 
 tity on the surrounding hills, while fish and eels in the canal and 
 reservoir afford us an opportunity of varying our otherwise rather 
 monotonous life. There is a nice fruit orchard right across the 
 road where we can get our pie apples for nothing. Next door, 
 the farmer never locks up his kindling wood. In fact, it's a very 
 good neighborhood. One of our number, a mason by trade, has 
 built a brick oven, in which we have already had baked beans and 
 brown bread, and bread and hasty puddings." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 2 59 
 
 " Fort De Russy the headquarters of Company D," says Lieuten- 
 ant DeWolf, "is situated two miles east of Tennallytown, upon a 
 high knoll in the midst of farms cultivated with more than usual 
 care. With a short amount of labor, guided by engineering 
 talent of a high order, our cam}) was first laid out upon an adja- 
 
 Foit De Russy, from the West. 
 
 cent knoll, tents pitched, floors leveled, trenches dug, everything 
 in apple-pie order, when a one-armed gentleman of critical aspect, 
 known as Colonel Haskin, of the Engineers, come round, and 
 told us to move nearer the fort. Now it seemed to us that in 
 case of attack we could get there at least as soon as the enemy 
 could, but the colonel didn't think so, and somehow the minority 
 rule prevailed. We now occupy a narrow terrace just under the 
 walls, very strong, very stumpy, and rather buggy. Before many 
 
260 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 hours, however, the stones had been removed, the stumps trans- 
 formed to seats and writing desks, and the bugs — well, the bugs, 
 the spiders, the lizards, et id ovine genus, still roam through 
 their accustomed haunts, the ants build catacombs beneath our 
 beds, the mosquitoes hum playfully about our ears, the wood-ticks 
 
 Sibley Tent — Company D. 
 
 climb up the tent walls, and by the light of our solitary candle, 
 gaze curiously upon our little group, selecting the most promising 
 victim." The best remedy we found for getting rid of bugs was the 
 liberal use of Pennyroyal, one of the old lady's three P's for getting 
 rid of all her troubles, as narrated on page 168. 
 
 July 7th, H. T. Chace wrote : " Some of the boys call our tent 
 the 'Smithsonian Institute,' on account of the variety of bugs 
 and insects it contains. In reference to the proposed trip to 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 l6l 
 
 Washington, one said there was no use to spend any time at the 
 'Smithsonian ' there, as we have all the specimens of ants, flies, 
 bugs, and lizards, in our own quarters. 'That's so,' was the reply, 
 'We not only have ten-ants, here, but a thousand ants.' Sergeant 
 Mathewson has a pretty terrier, black and tan, named ' Lutitia ' 
 called for short 'Titia,' a good and playful creature. Speaking of 
 the army and navy at breakfast this a. m., one of the mess broke 
 in with the sage remark, 'There are many strong arms in the 
 navy, and many strong knaves in the army.' 
 
 Guard House — Fort De Russy. 
 
 " We shall soon commence heavy artillery drill. I am now in the 
 guard-house in the fort, being on duty till nine o'clock to-morrow 
 morning. The house is built of logs, and twelve by eighteen feet 
 in size. Cady and I were on guard duty last night. When our 
 turn came to be off, I placed my cartridge-box on the floor, and, 
 throwing my cape over my head, and folding part of it on the box 
 for a pillow fell asleep without other covering. Cady had no 
 overcoat, so he took my blanket, and placing his cap on a piece 
 of an inch and a half plank for a pillow, and throwing himself on 
 the hard floor was soon asleep." 
 
262 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "We are to have no bell ringing or gun firing, here to-day," 
 wrote Chace, "but still realize it is the Fourth of July. Six of 
 us were on guard in the fort, and at 2.30 this morning, we drew 
 lots to see which three should be relieved for all day. I was one 
 of the three relieved, and we will have to-morrow to ourselves 
 just the same. For breakfast we had each two slices of bread, 
 beefsteak, and coffee, from 'J. B. Chace's.' Adjutant Tobey 
 
 Entrance to Fort De Russy. 
 
 was in our camp to-day. We all like him. He is a pleasant 
 officer and appears to understand his business. We have cele- 
 brated in our mess to-day, on soup, peas, fish, coffee, custard with 
 cake and lemonade, and have ordered three pecks of peaches and 
 three dozen eggs for our mess for the glorious Fourth ! Some 
 milk will also be brought in. We have been gladdened to-day, by the 
 return of George Briggs. He will soon be all right. Armington 
 is also better. He is one of the quiet, uncomplaining, obliging- 
 fellows, that it is hard to do without. A little leaven leavens the 
 whole lump. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 263 
 
 "July 8th. Our little 
 mess-darkey was telling 
 one of his friends what 
 a glorious dinner was 
 given him on ' the 
 Fourth,' 'ham, an' peas, 
 an' custard, an' cake,, 
 an' cocoa, an' — ,' when^x__ w 
 the other interrupted 
 him, ' You talks like a 
 fool, you does. Folks 
 would know you never #\f 
 had a good dinner bef 0' ! 
 Oh ! ! ! (long.) You just 
 ought ter be where I 
 used to live on P'nsiva- 
 
 nia Av'nu' ! We could look right ober de heads of de white folks, 
 we could, and frow ham and chick' n away, ev'ry night ! ' 
 
 "Thursday, July 10th. Before 'tattoo' last night we had one 
 of those pleasant hours which relieve so much the monotony of 
 camp life. A guitar accompaniment, and an improvised choir did 
 the business. They treated us with 'Let me kiss him for his 
 mother,' ' Wav down in my old cabin home,' 'The old folks at 
 home,' 'Larboard Watch,' and several college songs, all very 
 finely rendered. From another post, a writer says, ' Notwith- 
 standing the hardships of a soldier's life, we do not lack for amuse- 
 ments. Two evenings we have been entertained by a negro 
 fiddler, with dancing by both negro men and women.' ' 
 
264 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 On Guard. 
 
 " Fred Armington, George Briggs, Sam 
 Brown, and John Cady, are on guard to-day, 
 from our mess. Privates N. W. Aldrich and 
 George W. Adams are detailed from the 
 company, to report for duty to the adjutant, 
 at Fort Pennsylvania. Howard Sturgis has 
 just gone over with the mail. It is very 
 warm here. The perspiration runs when 
 one is standing still. According to general 
 orders, the regiment will have battalion drill 
 three times per week, in a field near Tennallytown. The drill 
 is to commence at nine a. m., and continue for two hours. The 
 companies which are located at Forts Alexander, Franklin and 
 Ripley will have a hot march of over three miles. Have just had 
 a visit from three of my a(u)nts ; did not receive them very 
 graciously, but expelled them in a hurry as soon as made aware 
 of their presence. Never saw flies and things so tormenting as 
 at this post. Yesterday afternoon Company D marched to Fort 
 Pennsylvania to receive the new Enfield rifles. We went in 
 single file over a narrow foot-path through the woods, with the 
 trees often meeting overhead. We not only received our weapons, 
 with straps and tompions, but also mess-pans, spoons, knives and 
 torks. We shall really begin to live like civilized nations. This 
 noon wc had blackberries, which are now plenty here, served in 
 our new tin mess-pans. All our men are better, and Mason has 
 returned, greatly to our satisfaction. Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw 
 now quarters with company D. The men gave him a hearty wel- 
 come when he arrived at Fort De Russy." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 265 
 
 "Wednesday, July 1 6th. We are progressing rapidly with the 
 heavy artillery drill," wrote Chace. "This a. m. I acted both as 
 gunner and as chief of the piece. There is one chief, one gunner, 
 and four cannoneers to each gun. The cannoneers load, the gunner 
 tends vent (that there may be no premature discharges), inserts 
 the friction-primer, and sights the gun, and the chief then sees 
 that it is correctly done. To-day we went over the names of the 
 different parts of the gun-carriage." An amusing incident is re- 
 
 ■g^gStciX^, J^^ 
 
 
 ^^mtjmMi 
 
 The Magazines — Fort De Russy. 
 
 ported by Private Yerrington, of Company G. One clay during 
 artillery target practice at Fort Gaines, Lieut. James H. Allen 
 had just sighted the piece, when Colonel Haskin, Inspector of 
 Forts, stepped up, and said, " Lieutenant, your aim is too low, let 
 me assist you." After the gun was fired, the shot went over the 
 target, and made some contrabands scatter in the wheat-fields 
 beyond. The colonel enjoyed the joke at his expense, and went 
 on showing us how to do it, just as if nothing had happened. He 
 was a veteran in the military service, having won distinction in the 
 war with Mexico. He was a very obliging officer, and was much 
 
 respected by our officers. 
 3i 
 
266 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " July 20th. Yesterday Briggs and I were occupied most of 
 the clay in laying floors for Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw's and Cap. 
 tain Smith's tents. Both officers expressed themselves well satis- 
 fied with the work done. At dress-parade we marched in front 
 of the new flag-staff (just raised by the boys) when the company 
 having halted, Lieutenant-Colonel Shaw run up the 'Stars and 
 
 Raising the Flag at Fort De Russy. 
 
 Stripes.' I never heard more hearty cheering than was then 
 given. Never before had the sight of the flag excited such feel- 
 ings as then. We felt as though with that flag in sight, and with 
 such comrades, we could march or fight in its defence. Colonel 
 Shaw made a few appropriate remarks, to which the men responded 
 with three cheers. He then drilled the company for about fifteen 
 minutes, after which we were dismissed for rations. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 267 
 
 " Yesterday another box arrived, from the Second Ward folks. 
 It contained ginger snaps, soda powders, soap, writing paper, en- 
 velopes, etc., sugar, sardines, lemons and other eatables and drink- 
 ables. Briggs has dug a hole under the head of his bed, and 
 when he wishes to keep things cool he puts them down-stairs. 
 Another change in our cook department to-day. Corporal Kelley 
 goes out, Levi Bui don is in. We enjoyed, yesterday, the luxury 
 of some home-made gingerbread. Have some? 
 
 "July 20th. George Briggs had a box from home last evening. 
 Some of the articles were nicely packed in a tin-pan, and a little 
 coffee-pot. The sight of the pan caused visions of bread and rice 
 puddings to pass before our minds. All we lack are the eggs. 
 
 "July 23d. At the afternoon drill Lieutenants Amos D.Smith, Jr., 
 Samuel A. Pearce, Jr., Henry Pearce, and Sergt. Philip B. Stiness, 
 of the Tenth Battery, were present. A detachment selected from 
 our company was put on one of the thirtv-two-pounders. They 
 loaded and fired, running the gun from battery, out in full length, 
 once in sixty, and once in fifty-seven seconds. A few days since 
 we fired in fifty seconds. Mrs. General Burnside, Mrs. Richmond, 
 and Miss Gardner were in camp this noon. Lieut. -Col. James 
 Shaw has his wife and his little Ted with him. The mail just in 
 has brought Sergt. Tom Tobey a commission as lieutenant in the 
 Seventh Rhode Island Regiment. We heartilv congratulate him ; 
 he will make a good officer, and will treat his men like men. At 
 'retreat' this evening official orders from General Pope were read. 
 One prohibits the soldiers of his army leaving their camps. 
 Now we cannot go to Georgetown or Washington without a special 
 pass from his headquarters." 
 
268 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " Room Boys, Room, 
 By the Light of, the Moon. 
 
 "After sunset," wrote DeWolf, "on these 
 glorious July evenings, our own band assem- 
 bles, two violins, guitar, banjo, tamborine, 
 triangle and bones, accompanied by a dozen 
 manly voices, and song follows song, with an 
 occasional interlude, during which the ne^ro 
 field-hands from the neighboring farms, in- 
 dulge in a regular Virginia 'hoe down,' with 
 'walk round,' and 'double shuffle ' embellish- 
 ments. Our evening assemblies usually wind up with the strains 
 of sacred or patriotic song." What time so welcome in camp as 
 the still evening hour, and what influence so potent as music, to 
 cheer and refresh the drooping spirits of those whose roving tents 
 were pitched far from home and kindred. 
 
 ' Yes, music is the prophet's art; 
 Among the gifts that God hath sent, 
 One of the most magnificent! ' 
 
 "July 22cl. Our battalion drills near headquarters, are con- 
 ducted sometimes by Colonel Bliss, and sometimes by Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Shaw. The latter has recently finished his labors at the 
 general court martial, of which he was president. One of the 
 boys said he 'thought a little battalion drill went a great way,' to 
 which another replied : 'Yes, and we have to go a great way to 
 get a little battalion drill ! ' 
 
 "July 23d. While going through 'inspection of arms,' two of 
 the darkey boys joined in. It was too comical for a soldier's 
 gravity to see them gravely bring their sticks to the 'right 
 shoulder' and pass them to the man for 'inspection.' 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 269 
 
 "Thursday, July 24th. At the drill this afternoon, we used 
 powder, shot and shell. A target was placed nearly a mile dis- 
 tant at the edge of a piece of woods. The shots fell very near, 
 and the shells exploded over it. We are much pleased with the 
 success of the shell practice. 
 
 " I remarked to one of the boys, ' I believe your forte is exag- 
 geration.' Cady immediately rejoined, ' My fort(e) is Fort De 
 Russy ! ' Our relief on from two to four a. m., was not relieved 
 until 4.30, for which error the sergeant of the guard will have to 
 'take it.' He was asleep. We are glad to hear that General 
 Twiggs is dead. May many more of the Confederate leaders fol- 
 low his example ; and the sooner, the better. 
 
 "July 27th. After 'retreat' last evening, we were entertained 
 with drumming by Master James Shaw, 3d, and he certainly did 
 exceedingly well for a boy of his age. Yesterday we had a report 
 that the night before, fifty guerillas had attacked Fort Slocum, 
 not far from us, and were driven off. It may only have been 
 some men on a drunken frolic, but it has had the effect to keep 
 us on the alert. Later : The party of guerillas proved to be a 
 squad of Union cavalry, bearing dispatches to Secretary Stanton. 
 Rev. Mr. Woodbury was in camp to-day. 
 
 "Just after taps, one night, Fred. Hedge said, 'Boys who will 
 occupy this fort after we leave ? ' We couldn't tell so he informed 
 us. 'I suppose the bugs will be left tenants (lieutenants).' He 
 was immediately told to go to sleep. Between our fort and Fort 
 Pennsylvania, lives an old colored woman, who has invited some 
 of the boys to stop at her ' humble fabrication? when they go by. 
 We are to have fish-balls to-night, William A. Harris, chief cook." 
 
2/0 THE TENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 "Fort Alexander, July 1 8th. Companies E, I, F and A, 
 form the second battalion of the Tenth Rhode Island, under 
 Major Babbitt. We are encamped upon the heights of the 
 Potomac, about eight miles from Washington, under the walls of 
 Forts Alexander, Ripley, and Franklin, which crown as many 
 hills and form a triangle. The river, more than a hundred feet 
 below us, makes a short bend before reaching this point, and the 
 small sweep visible, being studded with islands, many of which 
 resemble stacks of bullrushes, has more the appearance of a frog 
 pond than of that Potomac of which we have heard so much. 
 But it is magnificent at sunset, where, after a smoky, hot day, 
 the sun goes down like a ball of fire ; and when we have retired 
 to our tents and our blankets, the noise of its waters as they rush 
 over the rocks which obstruct its channel, sounds not unpleasantly, 
 We are pleased with our location and its duties — pure air, spring 
 water, wood, cut and dried ; excellent drainage, good bathing 
 facilities, little policing, hardly more guarding, and a drill which 
 gives a pleasant change, — heavy artillery in the afternoon, rifle 
 drill in the morning. 
 
 "A change has come over the spirit of this battalion. Perhaps 
 I ought not to write it, but a week ago grumbling and indifference 
 had begun to be too prevalent in camp. And for this reason : 
 We had no muskets, save the same worthless ones which we 
 brought from Providence ; we, or at least not a man of Com- 
 pany E, had a cap-box; our belts were old and rotten; the ser- 
 geants had no swords ; bed-ticks and rubber blankets few possessed ; 
 and most of all, we had not, and for that matter still have not, 
 an ensign of the Republic to revive our tired patriotism, and to 
 
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 symbolize the land and the laws that we are helping to uphold. 
 Last Saturday, however, we received our splendid, new Enfields, 
 and the other 'fixings' wanting previously, and now we feel that 
 we play the soldier no longer. Increased attention at the drills, 
 stricter obedience, and, if I may so say, a revival of the whole 
 regiment is the result. The health of the company is good. 
 
 "An order has been issued offering to muster all those who 
 will enlist again in the Seventh Regiment for three years. That 
 some will reenlist is certain. Major Babbitt will return, ere long, 
 to take his position as major of the Seventh and expects to raise 
 a company from this battalion alone. Saturday, we were under 
 arms to receive His Excellency Governor Sprague." 
 
 Christopher A. Cady, of Company E, was detailed as "orderly" 
 for Major Babbitt, at Fort Alexander, and carried the mails and 
 other dispatches to headquarters at Fort Pennsylvania. Starting 
 late one dark night, he lost his bearings at a point where a small 
 stream was forded by a log, and fell into the water — mail and all, 
 but succeeded in scrambling out without loss of correspondence. 
 He was afterwards furnished with a horse, and continued to serve 
 as orderly till Major Babbitt left for home to take the position 
 of major of the Seventh Regiment. One morning on his way 
 for the mail, as Cady was riding through an apple orchard, he 
 stopped to fill his saddle-bags with fruit for the boys, when the 
 owner suddenly confronted him. Not desiring any complaint, 
 he turned over the apples, and rode on. A few days after, as he 
 was riding through the same locality, a musket shot whistled close 
 to his ear. He turned but could see no one. The matter was 
 investigated by the major, but nothing ever came of it. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 JO 
 
 Dr. George D. Wilcox. 
 (A recent picture. 1 
 
 In his official report to Governor Sprague, 
 Colonel Shaw says : "About the first of 
 August, an epidemic or malarial fever 
 broke out in Fort De Russy (Company D), 
 and twenty men were on the sick list at 
 one time. Subsequently thefever appeared 
 at Fort Pennsylvania, and prevailed so 
 generally in Companies B and K, that for 
 some time after the daily details were 
 made, not half a dozen men from both 
 could be mounted for cavalry drill." Dr. 
 George D. Wilcox, our efficient surgeon, assisted by Dr. Albert 
 G. Sprague, very faithfully attended to the needs of the sick, all 
 of whom, save one in Company B, recovered. 
 
 "Fort Gaines, August 7th," Capt. A. Crawford Greene wrote: 
 "The extreme heat under which we have been laboring for the 
 past two weeks has prevented our doing any extra duties ; but 
 to-day I have mustered courage, although the mercury on the 
 thermometer stands at about ioo° As I wrote you last, we are 
 continuing the drill in heavy artillery, and consider ourselves 
 pretty familiar with that arm of the service. We can load or 
 discharge our forty-two pounders at the rate of forty-five seconds 
 each round. Battery Vermont and Fort Gaines are engaged in 
 mounting more guns. The boys are not quite so fond of the en- 
 gineering department as we expected to be when first detailed for 
 that business. Many of us have never been used to handling the 
 pick and shovel, but considering it is our first attempt building 
 forts I think we are making marked progress. 
 
274 TIIE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " One week ago next Monday morning, Company G raised the 
 stars and stripes over Fort Gaines, when speeches were made by 
 Chaplain Clapp, Adjutant Tobey, Captain Gallup, of the Battery ; 
 Captain Duckworth, Lieut. J. H. Allen, Lieutenant Pierce, Dr. 
 King, Sergt. A. J. Manchester, and others. Cheer after cheer 
 was sent up for the old ensign and for the speakers. It was the 
 first flag raised over Fort Gaines. 
 
 " Colonel Bliss left us yesterday, to return to Rhode Island, to 
 take charge of the Seventh Regiment, now being mustered into 
 the service." 
 
 The following order was read to the regiment : 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment, R. I. Vols., 
 
 Fort Pennsylvania, August 6, 1S62. 
 General Orders No. 36. 
 
 The colonel commanding having been ordered to report immediately in 
 Rhode Island to take command of the Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volun- 
 teers, is obliged to leave his present command this day. Being unable in the 
 haste of departure to visit each post of his command, he takes this method of 
 expressing his regret at parting with the Tenth. 
 
 He begs each of his officers and enlisted men, to accept his thanks for the 
 cheerful faithfulness with which they have discharged all duties required of them, 
 and to receive assurances of his entire satisfaction with their conduct, while 
 under his command. To the Field and Staff especially, the Colonel command- 
 ing tenders his thanks for the kindness which has made his intercourse with 
 them uniformly agreeable. His regret at parting with them is tendered with 
 the certainty of life-long memories, of this brief but most pleasant association. 
 
 It is a pleasure to the colonel commanding to feel that though personally 
 separated from this command, he will be still united with them, in the service 
 of our honored State, the defence of our common country, and the triumph 
 which is speedily to crown our cause. 
 
 Signed, ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 Colonel Commanding. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 275 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Voi.s., 
 Eort Pennsylvania, August 6, 1862. 
 General Orders No. j~. 
 
 The undersigned hereby relinquishes command of the Tenth Regiment Rhode 
 Island Volunteers. 
 
 Signed, ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 
 Colonel Commanding. 
 
 "August 6th. The following resolutions were read to our 
 Battalion this afternoon at dress parade, when the companies 
 composing it (E, A, I, and F) joined heartily on adopting them 
 and in giving nine rousing cheers for Colonel Bliss. Many of us 
 hope to see him once more, and join hands again in crushing the 
 rebellion : 
 
 "Whereas, The exigencies of the service have required the recall of Col. 
 Zenas R. Bliss from this command, to assume his post at the head of the Sev- 
 enth Regiment, it is due to him as an officer and a man, that we tender to him 
 some slight testimony of our respect; therefore, be it 
 
 "Resolved, That during our short intercourse with Colonel Bliss, we have 
 learned to esteem him for the many high qualities which distinguish him, 
 both in his official and private relations; for the soldierly bearing that mark 
 the former, and for the kindly heart and social disposition which have made the 
 latter so pleasant to us. 
 
 "Jtesolved, That in parting with him. we are deprived of the services of an 
 officer who has done all in his power to improve us in drill and discipline, and 
 whose longer connection with us would have brought us to the highest state 
 of efficiency. 
 
 "Resolved, That we congratulate the Seventh that they will be led to the field 
 by so gallant and accomplished a commander, and that we tender to him the 
 best wishes of each officer and soldier in this command for his future welfare, 
 happiness and prosperity." 
 
2 7 6 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Tennallytown Church, 1862. 
 
 " In Tennally- 
 town, near Fort 
 Pennsylvania, 
 where we had 
 our first camp 
 ( Camp Frieze ) 
 there is a small, 
 meeting - house, 
 
 — which we used 
 ~ t _ at first for quar- 
 
 — ter-raaster's 
 V stores. When 
 
 the Anderson 
 Zouaves were 
 
 there they used it for a guard-house, and tore out the pulpit, and 
 destroyed the Sabbath School library. Quartermaster-Sergeant 
 Lysander Flagg learning about it, sent to the Methodist Sabbath 
 School in Pawtucket, and the Baptist Sabbath School in Central 
 Falls, and informed them of the facts, and they immediately sent 
 a large collection of their books to the little Sunday-school of 
 Tennallytown. The books we presented last Sabbath. Both 
 teachers and scholars were greatly pleased with this remembrance 
 from the children of the New England schools." 
 
 Comrade R. W. Chappell, of the Ninth Rhode Island Volun- 
 teers, says, "that the old meeting-house at Tennallytown, was the 
 last building in which John Brown preached on his way to Harper's 
 Ferry, in October, 1859, where in an effort to free the slaves he 
 lost his life, 'but his soul is still marching on.' " 
 
RHODE ISLAM) VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 277 
 
 General Orders No. ?<?. 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Vols. 
 Fort Pennsylvania, August 6, 1862. 
 
 The undersigned hereby assumes command of the Tenth Regiment Rhode 
 
 Island Volunteers. 
 
 Signed. JAMES SHAW, JR., 
 
 7, i, nt. -< 'a/. Commanding. 
 
 Headquarters North of the Potom u . 
 Washington, August 6, 1862. 
 
 To the Colonel of the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers: 
 
 Sir: If you have not one hundred rounds of cartridges per man in addition 
 to forty rounds in cartridge-box, please send in requisition, at once. 
 I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 CHARLES II. HALE, 
 
 Ca/lain and A. D. C. 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Vols., 
 
 Fort Pennsylvania, August 11, 1862. 
 Gen. S. P. Sturgis. 
 
 Dear Sir: I would respectfully request, if possible and consistent with the 
 interests of the public service, that this regiment may be released from the 
 daily details of laborers for Battery Vermont. 
 
 I have thirty-three men on my sick report this morning, nearly all of them 
 have a slow fever caused by hard work and exposure to the sun : with the ther- 
 mometer varying as it has done from ioo° to 130 in the sun. during the past 
 week, it is impossible for them to do the work effectually, and if attempted at 
 all, it is daily adding to my sick list. I have placed the detachment under com- 
 mand of a commissioned officer, and if they cannot be released, I will see that 
 they do all that it is possible for them to do. 
 
 I am, Sir, very respectfullv, vour obedient servant, 
 
 Signed. JAMES SHAW, JR., 
 
 Lieut. -Col. Comma tiding. 
 
278 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "A verbal reply was received through Lieutenant-Colonel Has- 
 kin, A. D. C, saying that a requisition had been made for 'con- 
 trabands,' but they had not been obtained, so that the regiment 
 would be expected to do all the work they were able. The details 
 were therefore continued until the regiment was ordered home. 
 It was a thankless task, which the men felt that idle hands in 
 Washington might better have been employed to do. Still the 
 orders were promptly obeyed, and a large amount of work was 
 performed." 
 
 August nth. Capt. William M. Hale, of Company I, was pro- 
 moted to be Lieutenant-Colonel, and First Lieutenant Samuel 
 H. Thomas, of Company B, was promoted to be Captain of Com- 
 pany I. These were two of our most efficient officers. 
 
 " Fort Alexander, August 13th," Lieutenant-Colonel Hale wrote : 
 " Thanks to our many friends, yesterday was a gala day with 
 the ' What Cheer Guards,' Company I, Tenth Regiment. It is 
 marked with a white stone in our calendar, for we received such 
 a supply of good things from our friends at home, as will cheer 
 our hearts, to say nothing of our bodies, for the remainder of our 
 campaign. Such fat living, such unctuous hams, such bursting 
 bolognas, such creamy cheese and pungent pickles, such golden 
 lemons, such fragrant tobacco, such crispy crackers, and soothing 
 sweet bread, my feeble pen in vain essays to describe. After the 
 solids were duly distributed among the messes, the liquids, 
 among which are included the lemons, were compounded into 
 lemonade, which, for a short time, claimed the undivided atten- 
 tion of the entire command. Resolutions were then passed, 
 toasts were drank, speeches were made, and songs were sung." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 279 
 
 " The following were rescued from the wreck : 
 
 '■'•Resolved, That Capt. Thomas W. Hart is a tall man, with a heart large 
 enough to reach from Rhode Island to the banks of the Potomac. 
 
 '■'■Resolved, That Lieut. Calvin Fuller is pure 'old government Java ' to the 
 backbone. 
 
 " Resolved, That we tender our sincere thanks to all the friends who have con- 
 tributed so bountifully to our comfort. 
 
 "Resolved, That when we get home, we will defend the Third Ward to the 
 last drop of our blood, against all foes, internal and external. 
 
 " Short and pithy speeches were made by Major Babbitt, Dr. 
 Sprague, Lieutenant Thurber, and others, which would undoubt- 
 edly have brought down the house, if we had occupied one, but 
 as we were under the 'broad canopy of heaven,' they brought 
 down 'all out-doors.' 
 
 " Corporal Stump, during the course of his remarks had frequent 
 occasion to 'return to his subject,' which seemed to be contained 
 in a pint cup, near by, of standard measurement." 
 
 August nth. First Sergeant Charles F. Phillips, of Company 
 
 B, was promoted to second lieutenant Company B, and William 
 
 C. Chase, second lieutenant Company B, to first lieutenant Com- 
 pany B, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 
 "August 14th." Corp. O. S. Alers wrote : "A part of Company I 
 went over to the quarters of Company F, Capt. Benjamin W, 
 Harris, and gave them a serenade, which was greatly appreciated. 
 
 "August 17th. We had a grand review to-day, Capt. Hopkins 
 B. Cady, of Company E, acting as colonel, and Lieut. Peter Read, 
 of Company I, as adjutant. The battalion showed a great im- 
 provement in discipline and drill." 
 
2 SO 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Ex-Mayor Henty R. Barker. 
 
 Ex-Mayor Henry R. Barker, 
 of Providence, was at this time 
 one of the youthful sergeants of 
 Company I, and was much es- 
 teemed by his comrades. Since 
 the war he has served in various 
 positions of official trust. He 
 was a member of the Common 
 Council from the Ninth Ward, 
 from June 1873 to January 1880, 
 and president in 1879; alder- 
 man, 1880 to 1883; president 
 in 1882; mayor, from 1S89 to 
 1 89 1. He has also been Com- 
 mander of Slocum Post, No. 10, G. A. R., and Department Com- 
 mander of Rhode Island. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Hale resumes: "Having completed one 
 term of service, we propose to return to the land of our nativity, 
 and make such a display as has never greeted the eyes of the 
 quiet dwellers at home. The regiment will be so formed as to 
 represent an entire corps d'armce. First : The ambulance wagon, 
 drawn by our reliable switch-tailed horse, will represent the cav- 
 alry, with the sharpshooters about the wheels and shafts, deployed 
 as skirmishers. Next, the mountain howitzer, borne in triumph 
 by its captors, will form the light artillery, having the ' stars and 
 stripes' floating gloriously from the vent, while the Confederate 
 flag is dragged in disgrace from its depressed muzzle. After that 
 the main body of the regiment will appear divided into light and 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 28 1 
 
 heavy infantry, dismounted huzzars and chasseurs, and the heavy 
 artillery, selected from the most ponderous men of the regiment, 
 armed with as many thirty-two and sixty-four pounders as pos- 
 sible. Captain Duckworth's Zouaves will close the column, acting 
 as the rear-guard, with instructions to close upon the main body 
 at the double-quick at the first instruction of danger. 
 
 " We shall bring home few trophies and less scars. We shall 
 bear no tattered, shot-rent banners from the bloody field, but 
 shall not be entirely destitute of tatters, if we are of banners, and 
 feeling that we have done what we have been ordered to do in 
 our limited sphere of action, shall not be ashamed to expose our 
 bared soles for public inspection." 
 
 August 20th. We have received the following order : 
 
 Headquarters, Defences of Washington, 
 Washington. August 20, 1862. 
 General Orders AFo. 1. 
 
 I. In virtue of Special Orders No. 196, from the headquarters of the army, 
 dated Washington, August 19, 1S62, Brig. -Gen. J. G. Barnard assumes the com- 
 mand of the fortifications of Washington and troops assigned to the defences. 
 
 II. The fortifications and troops on the south side of the Potomac will re- 
 main under the immediate command of Brig. -Gen. S. W. Whipple: those on 
 the north side, under charge of Lieutenant-Colonel Haskin, A. D. C, through 
 whom all orders will be transmitted, and to whom commanding officers will 
 make their usual reports. 
 
 III. Capt. J. Brice Smith is announced as assistant adjutant-general to this 
 command, and Lieut. T. M. Farrel. Fifteenth New York Volunteers, as A. D. C. 
 to the General Commanding. 
 
 J. (J. BARNARD, 
 Brigadier- General, 
 Commanding Defences of Washington. 
 36 
 
282 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 August 2 1 st. A note was received by Colonel Shaw from 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Haskin, asking if the regiment would be will- 
 ing to be sworn in for an extra term of from two to four weeks, 
 until relieved by another regiment. The following is his reply : 
 
 Headquarters Tenth Regiment R. I. Vols., 
 Fort Pennsylvania, August 22, 1S62. 
 
 Colonel: Yours of the 21st requesting the regiment to remain two weeks 
 or one month after the expiration of their term of service is received, and lias 
 been laid before the regiment. I regret to say it has not met their appro- 
 bation, although when all the circumstances are considered I am not surprised 
 at the result. You will remember that the regiment started from Rhode Island 
 at twenty-four-hours' notice, coming simply for the emergency, and expecting 
 to be released within a month. Many of them left important business matters, 
 and permanent situations, that the}' feel must be attended to. They will have 
 staid on the 26th inst. , the longest time as they understood it, when they left 
 home, that would possibly be required of them, and have made their arrange- 
 ments expecting to be at home at that time. We have many amongst us who 
 are expecting positions in the regiments to be sent from our State, and many 
 that wish to obtain the large bounties that are now being offered by many of 
 the towns. These all wish to go. The epidemic fever which now prevails at 
 Fort Pennsylvania has a great influence. Sick men always wish to get home. 
 Under these circumstances, I trust you will do the regiment the justice to be- 
 lieve that its disinclination to stay is not from any lack of patriotism or desire 
 to comply with every wish of the government. So much, we think, was mani- 
 fested by the readiness with which they volunteered for what then appeared 
 immediate, active service, and the cheerfulness with which they have served 
 through the longest time mentioned as the limit of our stay. I trust that our 
 reply when thus explained will meet the approbation of General Barnard. 
 
 I am, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 Signed, JAMES SHAW, JR. 
 
 To Col. J. A. Haskin, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 A. D. C. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 283 
 
 "This reply and the action of the regiment I was assured by 
 Colonel Haskin was perfectly satisfactory. He did not think the 
 regiment should have been called on to stay, and said that had 
 General Barnard (who had just assumed the command) under- 
 stood the circumstances, as he did, he would not have made the 
 request. 
 
 "On the 22d inst., the One Hundredth and Thirteenth New 
 York Volunteers arrived and encamped on our old ground of 
 'Camp Frieze,' and the next day the following order was issued : 
 
 Headquarters Defences of Washington, 
 
 Washington, August 23, iS6j. 
 General Orders No. 2. 
 
 1. Extract. In pursuance of orders from the War Department, all regi- 
 ments of three months' volunteers within this command, will he mustered out 
 of service at the points where they organized respectively. 
 
 They will be placed en route for the rendezvous, so as to arrive there one or 
 two days before the expiration of their time. 
 
 By order of Brigadier-General BARNARD, 
 0fficial: Signed, J. B. Smith, 
 
 J. A. Haskin, A. A. G. 
 
 A. D. C. 
 
 "On the 24th of August, the One Hundredth New York Vol- 
 unteers took their post at the several forts and batteries, and on 
 the 25th we took up our homeward march to Washington." 
 
 " Returning to the peaceful pursuits of life," says our worthy 
 and valiant Matthew Bagnet, "We sheathe our sword, hang our 
 armor on the wall, and return our ' Bagnet ' to its scabbard, until 
 our country again calls us to her defence." 
 
284 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 /7&<7Z~#-^ 
 
 General-in-Chief. 
 
 1 
 
 During the months of July and 
 August, 1862, when the Tenth Rhode 
 Island Regiment was quietly holding 
 the forts near the capital, an entire 
 change had taken place in the military 
 situation in Virginia. The retreat of 
 General McClellan to the James River, 
 July 1 st, and the bitter feelings and 
 controversies which it occasioned, led 
 General Pope to ask to be relieved from 
 the command of the Army of Virginia. 
 Instead of granting the request, President Lincoln, who appeared 
 to lack confidence in McClellan's ability, decided to appoint Gen. 
 Henry W. Halleck, general-in-chief. To bring this about, Gov- 
 ernor Sprague, of Rhode Island, was sent July 6th, on a confiden- 
 tial mission to Corinth, General Halleck's headquarters. On the 
 nth, General Halleck was appointed general-in-chief. General 
 Pope favored this course, and united with Secretary Stanton and 
 General Scott in advising that McClellan should be superseded 
 and Halleck placed in charge of military affairs at Washington. 
 Unfortunately General Halleck did not arrive in Washington and 
 assume command till July 23d, nearly two weeks after his appoint- 
 ment. After looking over the situation in Virginia, he deter- 
 mined to withdraw the Army of the Potomac from the James 
 river and unite it with the Army of Virginia. General McClellan 
 remonstrated in vain. General Halleck replying : " I find the two 
 armies hopelessly separated, with the Confederates between, and 
 I propose to reunite them." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 285 
 
 Senator Henry B. Anthor 
 
 What proved to be a singularly 
 just criticism of the capacity of 
 General Halleck appeared in the 
 Providence Journal of July 19th, 
 just a week after his appointment, „-;^ 
 and is doubtless from the pen of 
 Senator Anthony, the senior editor, 
 and also our accomplished senator. 
 He said, "The general impression is 
 that the talent of General-in-Chief 
 H. W. Halleck is more conspicuous in the council, than in the 
 field. Doubtless he has admirable qualities as a military coun- 
 cilor.' 1 '' In his subsequent efforts to direct the movements of our 
 armies in Virginia, from his office in Washington, he proved no 
 match for Lee and Jackson, in the field. Senator Anthony was 
 always an honored guest at the headquarers of the Tenth. 
 
 Henry B. Anthony was governor of Rhode Island from 1849 t0 
 185 1, and a senator of the United States from March 4, 1859 till 
 he died in Providence, September 2, 1884. His eloquent words 
 spoken for another, are his own fitting eulogy: "The State that 
 he served so faithfully and so well, in the time of her emergency, 
 proudly lifts his name and inscribes it on the roll of her honored 
 and remembered sons. And the history of that State cannot be 
 fairly written without honorable mention of his character and his 
 services. The Senate which he informed with wise councils, 
 which he adorned with dignity of manners and with purity of life, 
 bears equal testimony to his abilities and to his virtues, and equal 
 honor to his memory." 
 
286 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 July 23d. Author's correspondence : " Headquarters Army of 
 Virginia, Washington. General Halleck, from the West, arrived 
 to-day, and is now general-in-chief of the army. Colonel Ruggles, 
 chief of Pope's staff, says that arrangements to leave for 'the 
 front,' cannot be completed with General Halleck before Friday, 
 25th inst. An important movement is now on foot, General 
 Hatch of General Banks corps, is with the advance at Culpeper. 
 He has a large cavalry force with orders to move south to Gor- 
 donville, destroy the railroad to Lynchburg, and the James river 
 canal, if possible, the two sources from which the Confederates, 
 at Richmond, receive their supplies. General Pope says if Hatch 
 is successful, the President will make him a major-general, and 
 that the evacuation of Richmond must follow. 
 
 " Charles Wildman and myself (Tenth R. I. Vols.), have been 
 summoned before General Pope to answer a charge of appropriating 
 his fancy cigars. You know we sleep at the office. Pope is very 
 violent and profane at times. This was one of his times. We 
 finally got in a sockdolloger by proving that we didn't smoke. 
 Now Gen. Samuel P. Sturgis is the cigar forager. We have seen 
 him walk in to the office, step up to the mantel, and take a good 
 handful at a time, — but we thought that was his business — if he 
 could forage without being caught. 
 
 "July 24th. All quiet on the Potomac. I had my bunk last 
 night on top of an old shoe-case. I got to dreaming, and rolled 
 off on the floor. I jumped up quickly, thinking we were attacked, 
 but found it was only a 'change of base.' 
 
 "July 25th. General Pope is becoming vexed and impatient at 
 the continued delays. His letters and dispatches are harder than 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 287 
 
 Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of Slate. 
 
 ever to make out. In a message to 
 
 President Lincoln, he says : ' I am 
 
 becoming anxious and uneasy to join 
 
 my command in the field.' Generals 
 
 Burnside and McDowell called at 
 
 headquarters to-day. Officers in gold 
 
 lace and gilt buttons are thick here. 
 
 There are brigadier-generals enough 
 
 on Pennsylvania Avenue, if not at 
 
 'the front.' I met Hon. William H. 
 
 Seward, to-day, Secretary of State, 
 
 out for a walk. It was Mr. Seward, 
 
 who, at the opening of the war, spoke of the antagonism between 
 
 slavery and freedom as an 'irrepressible conflict.' 
 
 "A cavalry expedition recently went within thirty-five miles 
 of Richmond, to Beaver Dam Creek Station, tearing up the 
 railroad, destroying the depot, and taking a Confederate officer 
 and three privates, prisoners. Well, these prisoners were at 
 'headquarters' to-day, for examination. We had quite a talk 
 with them when the officers got through. They were a rough 
 looking crowd, no two dressed alike. The stuff their clothes 
 were made of, looked just exactly like that old bagging up 
 in the attic. Were they scared? Not any, I can tell you; nor 
 would they give a particle of information to anybody. They 
 wanted to know how quick they could be exchanged, as they 
 wanted to get right back to the Confederacy. One of them, an 
 adjutant of the First Virginia Cavalry, said to me, 'You uns will 
 find it will take the North a right smart while to whip the South.' 
 
288 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 General Hatch's great cavalry expedition to Gordonville was a 
 failure. It is claimed that Hatch didn't obey orders, and Pope 
 has relieved him from command. But other officers say that the 
 trouble was that Stonewall Jackson got there first, with fifteen 
 thousand of his foot cavalry. 
 
 "July 26th. The President has issued an order communicating 
 information of the death of Ex-President Martin Van Buren. As 
 a mark of respect for his memory, the Executive Mansion and 
 the several Departments, except of the Army and Navy, will be 
 placed in mourning, and all business will be suspended, to-day, 
 during the funeral. By order of the Secretary of War, suitable 
 military and naval honors will be paid to the memory of the illus- 
 trious dead. The national flag will be displayed at half staff, the 
 troops paraded, the orders read to them, and minute guns will be 
 fired. The following order has been issued here : 
 
 " Headquarters, Army of Virginia, 
 
 Washington, July 25, 1S62. 
 To Brigadier-Goicral Sturgis : 
 
 The Secretary of War directs by an order received at these headquarters that 
 
 the preceding orders of the President and Secretary of War be carried into effect 
 
 to-morrow, by the troops in this district. 
 
 Signed, GEORGE D. RUGGLES. 
 
 Colo?icl and Chief of Staff. 
 
 " Later, July 26th. Pennsylvania Avenue Hotel, near George- 
 town (a small family hotel). I am confined to my bed with 
 a severe attack of malaria. But I am in good hands. The head- 
 quarters' surgeon is looking after me, and a lady stopping here is 
 very kind, who says I remind her of an absent brother. It was 
 fortunate for me that I wasn't sent to a hospital." 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 289 
 
 "At this time the city was full of sick and wounded soldiers, and 
 more were arriving daily from the Peninsula. Many private build- 
 ings and public halls were taken for their accommodation, — where 
 they could receive better care and treatment. Hundreds of 
 the loyal women of the North came to Washington to minister 
 to the sick soldiers, and many a poor man lives to be grateful to 
 them for their cooling drinks and cheering words. Their devo- 
 tion touched Mr. Lincoln's heart, and in a speech which he made 
 about this time at the close of a soldiers' fair, he said : 'I am not 
 accustomed to the language of eulogy ; I have never studied the 
 art of paying compliments to women, but I must say, that if all 
 that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the 
 world in praise of woman were applied to the women of America, 
 it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. 
 God bless the women of America ! ' Much good was accom- 
 plished also, by those who remained at home, in corresponding with 
 the sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals. In addition to many 
 home comforts furnished, the sweet influences of home were con- 
 tinued and cherished, by many kindly messages of advice and 
 encouragement. Here are a few which have been preserved : 
 
 " ' Dear Soldiers. The little girls of send this box to 
 
 you. They hear that many of you are sick, and some of you have 
 
 been wounded in battle. They are very sorry, and want to do 
 
 something for you. They cannot do much, for they are small ; 
 
 but they have bought with their own money, and made what is in 
 
 here. They hope it will do some good, and that you will all get 
 
 well, and come home. We all pray to God for you night and 
 
 morning.' 
 37 
 
29O THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " In another case, on a pillow was pinned the following note : 
 
 " ' My dear friend. You are not my husband or son ; but you 
 are the husband or son of some woman who undoubtedly loves 
 you as I love mine. I have made these garments for you with a 
 heart that aches for your sufferings, and with a longing to come 
 to you, to assist in taking care of you. It is a great comfort to 
 me, that God loves and pities you, pining and lonely in a far off 
 hospital, and if you believe in God, it will also be a comfort to 
 you. Are you near death, and soon to cross the dark river ? Oh, 
 then, may God soothe your last hours, and lead you up "the 
 shining shore," where there is no war, no sickness, no death. 
 Call on Him, for He is an ever present helper.' 
 
 "'Dear soldier. If these socks had language they would tell 
 you that many a kind wish has been knit into them, and many a 
 tear of pity for you has bedewed them. YVe all think of you, and 
 want to do everything we can for vou, for we feel that we owe 
 you unlimited love and gratitude, and that you deserve the very 
 best at our hands.' 
 
 " Here is another of a different character : 
 
 "'My dear boy. I have knit these socks expressly for you. 
 How do you like them ? How do you look, and where do you live 
 when you are at home ? / am nineteen years old, of medium 
 height, of slight build, with blue eyes, fair complexion, light hair, 
 and a good deal of it. Write and tell me all about yourself, and 
 how you get on in the hospital. Direct to . 
 
 " ' P. S. — If the recipient of these socks has a wife, will he please 
 exchange with some poor fellow, who is not so fortunate ? ' 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 29 I 
 
 " 'My brave friend. I have learned to knit, on purpose to knit 
 
 socks for the soldiers. This is my fourth pair. My name is , 
 
 and I live in . Write to me, and tell me how you like the 
 
 foot-gear, and what we can do for you. Keep up your courage, 
 and bye and bye you will come home to us. Won't that be a grand 
 time, though ? And won't we all turn out to meet you, with 
 flowers and music, and cheers, and embraces? "There's a good 
 time coming, boys!" 
 
 "Very many of these notes were answered by the soldiers who 
 received them, and a correspondence ensued, which sometimes 
 ended in life-long friendship. 
 
 "A nicely made dressing gown, in one of the boxes, had one 
 pocket filled with hickory nuts, and the other with ginger-snaps. 
 The pockets were sewed across to prevent the contents from 
 dropping out, and the following note was pinned on the outside : 
 
 " 'My dear fellow : Just take your ease in this dressing-gown. 
 Don't mope, and have the blues, if you are sick. Moping never 
 cured anybody yet. Eat your nuts and cakes if you are well 
 enough, and snap your fingers at dull care. I wish I could do 
 more for you, and if I were a man I would come and fight with 
 you. Woman though I am, I'd like to help hang Jeff Davis 
 higher than Haman, — yes, and all who aid and abet him, too, 
 whether North or South ! ' 
 
 "There was exhumed from the depths of one great box, a 
 bushel of cookies tied in a pillow-case, with this benevolent wish 
 tacked on the outside : ' These cookies are expressly for the sick 
 soldiers, and if anybody else eats them, I hope they will choke him ! ' 
 
292 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "A very neatly arranged package, of second-hand clothing, but 
 little worn, was laid by itself. Every article was superior in qual- 
 ity, and in manufacture. Attached to it was the following card : 
 
 " 'The accompanying articles were worn for the last time by 
 one very dear to the writer, who lost his life at Shiloh. They are 
 sent to our wounded soldiers as the most fitting disposition that 
 can be made of them, by one who has laid the husband of her 
 youth — her all — on the altar of her country.' 
 
 "Thus we can realize the passionate interest in the soldiers, 
 felt by the women of the North. They toiled, retrenched, econ- 
 omized, to furnish the necessary supplies for the hospitals, and 
 hallowed them with their patriotic and religious spirit. Like 
 their grandmothers of the Revolution, they flung heart and soul 
 into the labor of willing hands. 
 
 " Here are a few of the directions on boxes for the hospitals : 
 
 "'For the love of God, give these articles to the sick and 
 wounded to whom they are sent ! ' 
 
 " ' He that would steal from a sick or wounded man, would rob 
 hen-roosts, or filch pennies from the eyes of a corpse ! ' 
 
 " ' Surgeons and nurses ! Hands off ! These things are not for 
 you, but your patients, — our sick and wounded boys ! ' 
 
 " ' Don't gobble up these delicacies, nurses ! They are for the 
 boys in the hospitals ! ' 
 
 " We close these sketches with a scene at the Washington 
 barracks : 
 
 " 'A pale and sick, but good looking soldier, ready for transpor- 
 tation, and an anxious young lady nurse, in search of a subject : 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 293 
 
 "Lady nurse. — 'My poor fellow, can I do anything for you ? ' 
 
 " Soldier (emphatically). — ' No, ma'am ! Nothin' ! ' 
 
 " Lady nurse. — ' I should like to do something for you ? Shall 
 
 I not sponge your face and brow for you ? ' 
 
 " Soldier (despairingly). — 'You may if you want to, very bad ! 
 
 but you'll be the fourteenth lady as has done it this blessed 
 
 mornin' ! ' " 
 
 Author's correspondence at "Headquarters" resumed : 
 
 "July 28th. Before General Pope left Washington, to join his 
 army in the field, at Warrenton, Va., General Halleck announced 
 his purpose to withdraw the Army of the Potomac, from the 
 James, and unite it with the Army of Virginia, via Fredericks- 
 burg ; that army (under Pope), to advance promptly to the Rapidan, 
 keeping the approaches to Washington covered, and oppose and 
 delay any advance of the enemy northward to the last extremity. 
 On the next day (the 30th), General Halleck ordered General 
 McClellan to send away his sick, and on the 3d of August he 
 telegraphed, ' It is determined to withdraw your army from the 
 Peninsula to Aquia Creek.' General McClellan again protested 
 against this movement, as did Generals Dix, Burnside, and Sumner. 
 General Halleck replied : ' There is no alternative, I have taken 
 the responsibility.' The movement began at once. Between the 
 1st of August and the 16th, 14,159 sick and wounded soldiers 
 were sent away, many of them necessarily to the North. The 
 first troops arrived at Aquia Creek within seven days, and the 
 last of the infantry within twenty-six days after the receipt of the 
 order. 
 
294 TIIE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "On the other hand, to meet the advance of Pope, Stonewall 
 Jackson with his own and Ewell's division, was at Gordonsville. 
 General Lee says in his official report : ' The army at Harrison's 
 Landing (McClellan's), continuing to manifest no intention of 
 resuming active operations, and General Pope's advance having 
 reached the Rapidan, Gen. A. P. Hill's division was ordered on 
 July 27th to join General Jackson, as it seemed that the most 
 effectual way to relieve Richmond was to advance upon General 
 Pope.' This was promptly done, and as soon as General Lee 
 became aware of the movement withdrawing the Army of the 
 Potomac from the Peninsula, he turned his whole army north- 
 ward, choosing between the danger of losing Richmond, the crush- 
 ing of Pope's army and the capture of Washington." 
 
 "July 30th." Author resumes: "Headquarters Army of 
 Virginia, in the Field, Warrenton, Va. We arrived here yester- 
 day afternoon. I was hardly fit to come, being still weak from 
 an attack of malaria ; but when I found that headquarters were 
 really off, I insisted on going, also. So, here I am, in Warrenton, 
 right side up, I guess, only a little the worse for wear. It took 
 us about two hours to get here, via Alexandria, Manassas and 
 Catlett's Station. The road was very rough, and the cars were 
 rickety. Headquarters are established at the Young Ladies' 
 Seminary, a large brick building, pleasantly located. Our office 
 is in the main school-room, and we now occupy the school desks. 
 I hardly expected to attend school 'down in old Virginny! ' As 
 everything here is contraband of war, we went through the desks 
 this morning, in search of information for General Pope, and suc- 
 ceeded in capturing quite a quantity of female correspondences. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 295 
 
 The Author at 17, "at Headquarters,' 
 in Warrenton, Va. 
 
 The young ladies of this school appear 
 to be in a very rebellious state of mind, 
 judging from these little rebel billet 
 doux, fancifully folded, three cornered 
 and otherwise, they were evidently in- 
 tended for parting gifts, when the school 
 broke up in a hurry. One young lady, 
 after enlarging on her music lessons, 
 and a recent serenade, adds: 'I hope 
 the Yankees won't get my letter ! ' 
 Another, addressed to 'My Dear Eloise,' 
 is more pathetic, and expresses a sort of melancholy foreboding. 
 She says: 'That was a very sad accident, was it not, which 
 befell our beloved General Ashby ? It does seem as though all 
 our distinguishd men were being taken ! Oh ! if we could only 
 have piece once more, how delightful it would be ! ' (The loss 
 of General Ashby was greatly mourned in the South. He was 
 one of the leading cavalry commanders of Stonewall Jackson's 
 army, and was killed in the battle of Cross Keys, Va., June 6th.) 
 Another letter captured by my comrade Charles Wildman, of the 
 Tenth, was signed, Hattie P. Beauregard, Corinth, Miss. He was 
 very choice of it, pretending to believe that it had come direct 
 from General Beauregard's headquarters, and was probably the 
 production of one of his fair daughters. They all indicated a 
 scarcity of envelopes, being directed like the inclosed on coarse 
 brown paper wrappers. Probably home communication will be 
 more difficult from here than from Washington. I don't suppose 
 that we will remain here long, as General Pope means to push on. 
 
296 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 " The Confederate prints indicate the spirit of the Southern 
 women : ' Messrs. Editors, I see that General Beauregard has 
 called for bells, to be manufactured into cannon. I send mine as 
 a beginning.' Another says, ' I send you the weight which was 
 attached to the striking part of our clock, with the hope that 
 everv woman in the Confederacy will do likewise.' 
 
 " The members of one of the regiments stationed here have 
 'good mouths for music' Here is their programme for to-morrow 
 night : 
 
 NINTH NEW YORK REGIMENT SOCIAL UNION, 
 Warrent.on Hotel, Thursday Evening, July 31, 1S62. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 
 Part First. 
 
 Grand March : " Norma," 
 
 Old Musketeer, 
 
 Ballad, 
 
 Comic Song, 
 
 Recitation, 
 
 Ballad, 
 
 Virginia Rose Bud, 
 
 Storm Galop, 
 
 Happy Dreams, 
 
 Recitation ; " Lady of Lyons," 
 
 Comic Song, 
 
 Ballad; " Miller's Song," . 
 
 Duett: "Larboard Watch," 
 
 Fairy Bell, chorus, 
 
 Limerick Races, 
 
 Part Second 
 
 Band. 
 
 Graham & Co. 
 
 Lodes. 
 
 Barnes. 
 
 Howard. 
 
 Joyce. 
 
 Graham & Co. 
 
 Band. 
 
 Atkinson. 
 
 Lieutenant Hubbard. 
 
 Adjutant Tuthill. 
 
 Graham. 
 
 Atkinson and Graham. 
 
 Thompson & Co. 
 
 Atkinson & Co. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 297 
 
 "Warrenton is a pleasant Virginia town. It is at the ter- 
 minus of the Warrenton branch of the Orange and Alexandria 
 Railroad, and nine miles from Warrenton junction. It appears to 
 be a place of considerable importance, and before the war had a 
 population of about eight thousand. Most of the men are in the 
 Confederate service, the once celebrated Black Horse Cavalry 
 having been principally recruited in this vicinity. The people 
 remaining are entirely secesh, and several of our men have been 
 shot at from the windows. The churches are occupied for hos- 
 pital purposes. The streets are bordered with fine shade trees. 
 Near by is the former elegant residence of the Confederate 
 general, Gustavus W. Smith. 
 
 "August 2d. Great numbers of our troops are constantly 
 passing here for Culpeper Court House, and the roads are liter- 
 ally blocked." As we watched them they appeared more like an 
 army of boys on a holiday excursion than soldiers who within a 
 brief week would be tried in the fierce encounter at Cedar 
 Mountain. Yet the official record shows that the younger men 
 stood the test of marching and fighting far better than the older 
 comrades. The Union Army was made up mainly of very young 
 men. It averaged a little under twenty-two years of age, The 
 " walk-soldiers," as the cavalrymen called them, looked with envious 
 eyes upon the officers, booted and spurred, as they galloped gayly 
 ahead with their clinking sabres, and many a foot-soldier, like 
 our own worthy Gen. Horatio Rogers, won his horse and spurs 
 by faithful and gallant service. General Rogers's motto when a 
 foot-soldier, with which he earned his way to deserved promotion, 
 was "a horse or a hearse." 
 
 38 
 
298 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 "August 2d, later. Headquarters are ordered to Sperryville 
 to-day, and by advice of the surgeon, I have been ordered back to 
 Washington for proper care and treatment. The fact is that 
 hard fare, hard travelling, and hard work, has brought about a 
 slight relapse of fever." It was a bitter disappointment, I remem- 
 ber, to be left behind, and witness the gay departure of officers 
 and comrades, as they rode rapidly away towards Sperryville ; but 
 subsequent events proved it to be a kind Providence which inter- 
 posed in my behalf. From that day General Pope's headquarters 
 were chiefly in the saddle, "somewhere on the Warrenton road." 
 His advance, under General Banks, met the enemy under Stone- 
 wall Jackson, August 9th, at Cedar Mountain, and although re- 
 pulsed with heavy loss, he succeeded in maintaining his position, 
 until the main army, under Pope, arrived, when an advance was 
 made to the Rapidan River, the movement being to delay and 
 retard the advance of the enemy, until Pope's army could be rein- 
 forced from the Peninsula. Soon after the Union army fell back 
 slowly from one position to another towards Washington, Pope suc- 
 cessfully delaying his assailants, but unable to hold them in check. 
 Daring and successful raids were made on his train on the night 
 of August 22d, by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, at Catlett's Station, 
 thirty-eight miles from Washington, and by Stonewall Jackson, 
 August 24th, at Manassas, twenty-seven miles from Washington, 
 which caused him to fall back more rapidly. The Federal army 
 fought bravely and suffered severely a second time at Bull Run, 
 on the 30th of August, but by stubbornly disputing the way, Gen- 
 eral Pope had gained time for McClellan's army to reach the 
 scene of action, and thus Washington was saved. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 ■99 
 
 Picketing the Rapidan. 
 
 On the evening of August 2d, my 
 comrade of the "Tenth" and at " Head- 
 quarters," C. H. Wildman, wrote me 
 from Little Washington, Va. : "We are 
 now encamped in a fine place in the 
 woods. We have wall-tents, and only 
 three in a tent. We shall fare well, 
 and have a colored cook from the cav- 
 alry. By orders just issued we expect 
 to come in contact with old Stonewall 
 Jackson very soon." Again on the ioth, he wrote me from head- 
 quarters, at Culpeper, Va. : "We started from our camp at or 
 near Little Washington, on Thursdav morning. We encamped 
 that evening about seven miles from Sperryville, by the side of 
 a wood. That evening one of General Banks's men, was out in 
 the woods, looking round, when a party of guerillas appeared and 
 shot him. General Pope sent out a company of cavalry, but did 
 not find them. We arrived at Culpeper yesterday morning, and 
 went about a mile from the town, and stopped at a house, on a 
 large farm. Of course you remember General Pope's address : 
 ' We, in the West, have always seen the backs of our enemies ! 
 Let us look before, and not behind us ! No modes of retreat, etc' 
 But I notice, though, that we retreated yesterday on the double- 
 quick, without stopping to look behind us ! Old Stonewall was 
 within three and a half miles of headquarters yesterday, and I 
 tell you we just pulled up stakes and travelled for Culpeper hum- 
 ming. We went away out of the town, and had just got things 
 into shape, and tents up, when troop after troop of cavalry came 
 
^oo 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 
 down the road 
 pell-mell, till in 
 a few minutes it 
 was completely 
 - blocked with 
 *- them. Come to 
 |j. find out, Jack- 
 V son had crossed 
 the Rapidan in 
 1 force and driven 
 our pickets, and 
 we, having cav- 
 alry only, and 
 he plenty of ar- 
 
 General Pope's Headquarters at Cedar Mountain. tlllei'V W6 Were 
 
 obliged to retire in a hurry. On the way back, we met the bri- 
 gades going out. They appeared full of fight, and some were 
 singing and others laughing at each other's jokes. There are 
 between twenty and thirty thousand of our troops." 
 
 August 1 6th, from headquarters near Cedar Mountain, he 
 wrote: "On Saturday afternoon, August 9th, the ball opened 
 here. It was a terrific encounter. General Banks bravely held 
 his ground against vastly superior force of the rebels. Our loss 
 was over fifteen hundred, killed, wounded and missing. General 
 Pope and staff arrived on the field about seven p. m. They would 
 not let the clerks go, but I could not see it in that light, and 
 went out in the evening with the surgeons. I shall never forget 
 that night. There were hundreds of killed and wounded men. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 30 1 
 
 The battle was over, but an artillery fire was kept up till mid- 
 night. I went out again on Tuesday, 12th instant, and saw the 
 old devils, just as the last of them skedaddled for the Rapidan. 
 I came near getting my old head knocked off, too. I tell you 
 that was quite a little fight (Cedar Mountain, 9th instant). Col- 
 onel Ruggles, Chief of Staff, had a horse shot under him. Colonel 
 Morgan, who signed your last pass, got a bullet through his hat, 
 and, in fact, Pope and the whole staff came near being captured. 
 We shall move forward again to-morrow, to the Rapidan, to join 
 the advance. Our pickets watch that river from Raccoon's Ford 
 to the base of the Blue Ridge. We now have a colored cook, and 
 have ordered cooking utensils forwarded here from Washington." 
 But on that very day August 16th, a party of Confederate cav- 
 alry was captured, with orders from General Lee, which disclosed 
 the plan that he was moving northward, by forced marches, with 
 the main Army of Richmond, to attack Pope's little army with 
 overwhelming force before he could be reinforced by the troops 
 from the Peninsula. In consequence of this information, General 
 Pope hastily broke up his camps on the Rapidan and on the 1 8th 
 and 19th, retired to a new position behind the north branch of the 
 Rappahannock, in the hope that by holding the fords, sufficient 
 time would be gained for the Army of the Potomac to come to 
 his relief. But Lee and Jackson had pressed forward with such 
 vigor, that General Halleck soon found, when it was too late, that 
 the line of the Rappahannock was too far forward for the union 
 of Pope's and McClellan's armies. The troops which had not 
 been landed were conveyed to Alexandria, and assembled in time 
 to assure the safety of the capital. 
 
^02 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 Ca- ett's S:a:on in 1862. 
 
 On August 22d, 
 when General 
 Pope was watch- 
 ing the line of 
 the Rappahan- 
 nock, Gen. J. E. 
 B. Stuart, the 
 noted Confed- 
 erate cavalry 
 leader, made a 
 daring raid in 
 his rear, with 
 
 fifteen hundred horsemen, to interrupt his railroad communica- 
 tions with Washington. Stuart crossed the Rappahannock at 
 Waterloo Bridge, and marching rapidly via Warrenton, arrived 
 at Catlett's Station, General Pope's camp, after dark. My com- 
 rade, Wildman, of the Tenth, says : " The rain poured in torrents, 
 and the sudden attack at midnight was a complete surprise. 
 Everyone at headquarters was startled from sleep by the firing of 
 volley after volley in their midst, and all started up in the dark- 
 ness, in the endeavor to find a place of safety, 'I escaped,' " he 
 said, "but had a hard tramp through the mud, rain, and darkness, 
 — but I am thankful to get off alive.'' Fortunately for the author, 
 his brief leave of absence from headquarters, to recover his health, 
 was perhaps the means of saving his life, as he could hardly have 
 withstood, in his physical condition, the perils and exposures of 
 that night attack. Stuart and his horsemen remained, gathering 
 up the spoils till a little before daylight, when they departed 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 3^3 
 
 southward, via Warrenton Springs. They carried off about two 
 hundred horses, General Pope's uniform, baggage, and important 
 dispatches, several of his clerks and staff officers, and about two 
 hundred prisoners. A few were killed on both sides. All the 
 sick men were taken from the hospitals, and many of them were 
 put on the Confederate horses to ride. All this happened in the 
 rear of General Pope's army, within thirty-five miles of Washing- 
 ton, on the night of August 22d. 
 
 Encouraged by the success of Stuart's raid, Stonewall Jackson 
 with his own and Early's division, started a day or two later, 
 made a grand circuit to Pope's right, through Thoroughfare Gap, 
 and on the night of the 25th, struck the Orange and Alexandria 
 Railroad, at Manassas Junction, capturing an immense quantity 
 of army supplies. This movement caused Pope to abandon the 
 line of the Rappahannock and his communication with Fredericks- 
 burg, and concentrate his whole army in the neighborhood of War- 
 renton and Gainesville, to reopen the railroad to Washington, and, 
 if possible, crush Jackson. But Longstreet succeeded in making 
 a junction with Jackson via Thoroughfare Gap, on the morning 
 of August 29th, on the same field on which the first battle of 
 Bull Run was fought in 1861. Then followed the second battle 
 of Bull Run. The Union army fought bravely, and General Pope 
 showed his usual energy, but on the following day, the 30th, the 
 Confederates succeeded in driving his army across Bull Run to 
 Centreville, from which they retired in good order to the defences 
 of Washington, but General Pope had succeeded in gaining time 
 for the Army of the Potomac, to assemble for the defence of 
 Wash in £ft on. 
 
>04 
 
 THE TENTH REGIMENT 
 
 One of the officers of General 
 Pope's staff, in the campaign of 
 July and August, 1862 (who has 
 since won a national reputation as 
 a civil engineer), was Washington 
 Augustus Roebling. Under his 
 direction a suspension bridge was 
 constructed across the Rappahan- 
 nock River, early in 1862, and later 
 another across the Shenandoah, at 
 Harper's Ferry. He served till 
 January, 1865. His greatest work 
 is the building of the Brooklyn sus- 
 pension bridge, which was begun 
 in 1S69, and completed in 1883. 
 This structure, built by him, is the largest suspension bridge in 
 the world, and cost about $13,000,000. The picture shows it 
 incomplete, as it was in ] S77, when the writer crossed it by the 
 picket foot-path attached to the cables suspended from the tops of 
 the towers. Its total length, including approaches, is about 6,000 
 feet, or one and one-eighth miles. 
 
 Charles H. Wildman, of the Tenth Rhode Island, from General 
 Pope's headquarters, rejoined the regiment at Washington, August 
 25th. As he told the story of the night attack and escape at 
 Catlett's Station, on the night of the 22d, he became the centre of 
 interest. He agreed that the order for " cooking utensils for Cedar 
 Mountain," might safely be countermanded, and was glad to let 
 General Pope's "line of retreat " take care of itself. 
 
 Brooklyn Suspension Bridge. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 305 
 
 We regret to record the death of Private Mathew M. Meggett, 
 of Company B, who died of typhoid fever, in the hospital, at Fort 
 Pennsylvania, August 18th. He was a young man greatly he- 
 loved by his companions, and was a student of Brown University. 
 A sketch of his life is given on page 30. 
 
 The Tenth Regiment and Battery arrived home, via Baltimore, 
 Harrisburg, and Elizabethport, N. J., on the morning of August 
 28th, and was received with a national salute, and escorted by 
 the Marine Artillery and the First Ward Light Guards, led by 
 the American Band, to Exchange Place, where it was dismissed 
 to the several armories to receive the hospitalities and congratu- 
 lations of its friends. 
 
 The Providence Journal of the j 8th thus welcomed its return : 
 
 The Tenth Regiment and Battery, which have completed their term of ser- 
 vice, sailed from New York vesterday, at one o'clock, in the steamer />'<m' State, 
 which probably anchored in the bay during the night. 
 
 The gallant fellows will come up as soon as the tide allows, and several of 
 the companies will have special receptions by the companies of the National 
 Guards, to which they respectivel v belonged. And all will be most cordially 
 welcomed home by their friends and neighbors. These brave men went off on 
 the shortest notice, at the time that Washington was supposed to be in danger, 
 after Banks's retreat down the Shenandoah Valley. They went in the closing 
 days of May. It has so happened that they have not been called into active 
 service on the battlefield. But they went prepared and expecting to meet the 
 foe. It was not their fault that they did not meet him. They have been en- 
 gaged most of the time in most exhausting labors. They have been construct- 
 ing, altering or strengthening forts, and have performed the most wearying 
 tasks. They have discharged their duties with credit to themselves, and to their 
 state. We rejoice that we can now take them by the hand and hid them a 
 hearty Welcome Home! 
 
 39 
 
306 the tenth regiment 
 
 September ist. The several companies of the Tenth Regiment 
 
 were mustered out of service and paid off this morning. The 
 
 following farewell order from Colonel Shaw was read to the 
 
 companies : 
 
 Headquarters Tenth R. I. Vols., 
 
 Providence, September i, 1S62. 
 Special Order Xo. 48. 
 
 The term for which this regiment was called into the service of the United 
 States has now expired, and the Colonel Commanding takes this opportunity 
 to return to each and every officer, and every man of his command, his thanks 
 for the courtesy and kindness that have marked their intercourse. 
 
 Suddenly called from the quiet pursuits of private life to the hardships and 
 dangers of the camp, you have vindicated the character of the National Guard 
 of Rhode Island, and shown that the citizen soldier can be depended upon when 
 the country is in danger. The dispatch of the Secretary of War to our Gover- 
 nor, saying that General Banks was completely routed, and that the enemy was 
 advancing on Washington, reached this city at midnight. At nine o'clock the 
 next morning, you were called on to assemble and to volunteer for the defence 
 of the Capital. At 7.30 o'clock the same evening, your Commandant had the 
 honor of presenting six hundred and thirteen names to the Governor, as ready 
 to respond to his call: within thirty hours from the first call, you were armed, 
 equipped, and ready to proceed to Washington, with every expectation of imme- 
 diate active service. 
 
 Starting from home in the midst of a pouring rain, crowded in the cars on 
 your long and tedious journey, packed in the barracks at Washington, march- 
 ing to Tennallytown under a burning sun, then drenched and chilled by the 
 heavy rain that greeted your arrival in camp: these, with the cold and stormy 
 weather of the next three weeks, were experiences to try even older soldiers. 
 
 Breaking camp on the morning of the 25th of June, you marched to Fairfax 
 Seminary, eighteen miles, in six and a half hours, with every man in his place 
 in the ranks. Three days after, while yet foot-sore and weary from your last 
 march, you were ordered to return and garrison the fort near your old camp. 
 Arriving there at two o'clock the next morning, after working and marching 
 for twenty-two hours, you came into jour cheerless bivouac with a cheerful 
 song. Well did our Colonel say, "A better regiment I never saw." Separated 
 from each other, with so many batteries and forts to garrison, your duties were 
 necessarily more numerous and severe, while the extra work at Battery Ver- 
 mont, was well calculated to tax your patience to the utmost. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 307 
 
 A kind Providence has spared you from the dangers of the battlefield, but 
 judging from the manner in which every other duty was performed, the call for 
 battle should have met with a ready response. 
 
 Sickness has visited your camp, and three of your members have been taken 
 away from you bv death, leaving the legacv of a bright example of soldierly 
 faithfulness, to a regiment that will ever cherish their memory. 
 
 Of the character and conduct of the regiment, your Commandant could not 
 speak in too high praise. It has been all that could be asked, and the guard- 
 house has been almost a useless institution. And, now, as you close your 
 labors, you can carry with you the consciousness of having faithfully performed 
 every duty, and \ou will receive, as you deserve, the thanks of jour fellow- 
 citizens. 
 
 Bv order. 
 
 JAMES SHAW, JR., 
 
 John F. Tobey, Coloiii-l Commanding. 
 
 Adjutant. 
 
 Mustered Out. 
 
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TENTH R. I. VOLUNTEERS 
 
 FIELD AND STAFF. 
 
 Colonels — Zenas R. Bliss, James Shaw, Jr. 
 Lieutenant-Colonels — James Shaw, Jr., William M. Hale. 
 Majors — C. H. Merriman (Acting), Jacob T. Babbitt. 
 Surgeon — George D. Wilcox. 
 Assistant-Surgeon — Albert G. Sprague. 
 Chaplain — A. Huntington Clapp. 
 
 Adjutants — B. F. Thurston (Acting), John F. Tobey. 
 Quartermasters — James H. Armington, Winthrop DeWolf, 
 
 Charles W. Angell. 
 Sergeant- A lajors — John F. Tobey (Acting), Edward K. Glezen. 
 Quarter master- Sergeant — Lysander Flagg. 
 Hospital Steward — Charles G. King. 
 Commissary-Sergeant — James O. Swan. 
 
 COMPANY OFFICERS. 
 
 COMPANY A. 
 
 Capt. William E. Taber, ist Lt. Joseph L. Bennett. Jr., 
 
 2d Lt. Leander C. Belcher. 
 
 COMPANY B. 
 Capt. Elisha Dyer, 
 i st Lt. Samuel H. Thomas, 2d Lt. William C. Chase, 
 
 " William C. Chase, " Charles F. Phillips. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 315 
 
 COMPANY ('. 
 
 Capt. Jeremiah M. Vose, 1st Lt. John E. Bradford, 
 
 2d Lt. Caleb B. Harrington. 
 
 COMPANY 1). 
 
 Capt. Charles H. Dunham (Acting). Capt. William S. Smith, 
 
 1st Lt. James H. Armington, 2d Lt. Winthrop DeWolf, 
 
 " Winthrop DeWolf, " Charles W. Angell. 
 
 COMPANY E. 
 
 Capt. Hopkins B. Cady, 1st Lt. Stephen Thurber, 
 
 2d Lt. Moses ( ). I )arling. 
 
 COMPANY F. 
 
 Capt. Benjamin W. Harris, 1st Lt. Orville P. Jones, 
 
 2d Lt. George W. Fairbanks. 
 
 COMPANY G. 
 
 Capt. A. Craweurp Greene, 1st Lt. James H. Allen. 
 
 2d Lt. Eben Burlingame. 
 
 COMPANY H. 
 
 Capt. Christopher Duckworth, 1st Lt. Nicholas P. Bolles, 
 
 2d Lt. William H. Mason. 
 
 COMPANY I. 
 
 Capt. William M. Hale, 1st Lt. Charles H. Mumford, 
 
 " Samuel H. Thomas, 2d Lt. Peter Alexander Reid. 
 
 COMPANY K. 
 Capt. G. Frank Low. 1st Lt. John P. Tobey, 
 
 20! Lt. William O. Pettis. 
 COMPANY L. 
 
 Tenth Light Battery Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 
THE OLD COFFEE KETTLE. 
 
 ( Tune: " The Old Oaken Bucket," or " Araby's Daughter.") 
 Note.— In singing- these ten line verses to the printed music, sing twrce the notes in second 
 line [or bar) of music before D. C. or return to beginning lor the music for last two lines ol 
 each verse. 
 
 
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 OW dear to our hearts are the days when we soldiered, 
 
 As fond recollection presents them to view; 
 The long line of earthworks, the deep tangled thicket, 
 
 And every rough spot that our army life knew, 
 The long parks of artillery, with harness and saddle, 
 
 The picket roped horses oft trying to roll ; 
 The cook-house, the guard tent and the muskets stacked nigh it, 
 
 And the old Coffee Kettle that hung on a pole; 
 That old Coffee Kettle, that welcome old kettle, 
 
 The old Coffee Kettle that hung on a pole. 
 
 How dear to this day are the forms and the faces, 
 
 Of those who stood with us in those trying times; 
 So many are gone from their ranks and their places, 
 
 It mightily shortens the original lines; 
 Hard camping and marching we all well remember, 
 
 And everything trying to body and soul ; 
 Yet one thing we had that was genuine pleasure, 
 
 'Twas the old Coffee Kettle that hung on a pole, 
 That old Coffee Kettle, that welcome old kettle, 
 
 The old Coffee Kettle that hung on a pole. 
 
Tenth Light Battery 
 
 R. I. VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 
 T 
 
 HE Tenth Battery Rhode 
 Island Volunteers was raised 
 simultaneously with the 
 Ninth and Tenth regiments of 
 infantry, for three months' service 
 in Washington. It was mainly 
 recruited from the Providence 
 Marine Corps of Artillery, under 
 the supervision of Col. Edwin C. 
 Gallup, and other officers of this 
 organization, who went into service as officers of the Tenth Bat- 
 tery, taking position as they stood in the home organization, as 
 follows : Captain, Edwin C. Gallup ; Senior First Lieutenant, 
 Samuel A. Pearce, Jr. ; Second Senior Lieutenant, Amos D. 
 Smith, Jr.; Junior First Lieutenant, Frank A. Rhodes; Junior 
 Second Lieutenant, Henry Pearce. 
 
 On the 24th of May, 1862, Governor Sprague received a dis- 
 patch from the Secretary of War, announcing that the little army 
 under command of Gen. N. P. Banks had been routed, that the 
 
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 THE TENTH LIGHT BATTERY 
 
 Capt. Edwin C. Gallup. 
 
 enemy were advancing on Washington, 
 and calling upon the Governor to send all 
 his available militia to the defence of the 
 capital. 
 
 Under special orders from the adjutant- 
 general's office of Rhode Island, Colonel 
 Gallup was directed to organize a com- 
 pany of artillery, and assisted by his fel- 
 low officers, he immediately commenced 
 the formation of the Tenth Battery. 
 On the 29th of May, Lieut. Samuel A. Pearce, Jr., started for 
 Washington with a detachment of ninety men and three officers. 
 Lieutenants Frank A. Rhodes and Amos D. Smith, Jr., went 
 with this detachment, which arrived in Washington on Sunday 
 morning, May 31st, and reported to Governor Sprague, who had 
 preceded his troops to the capital. 
 
 The detachment of the battery was immediately ordered to 
 Tennallytown, a village seven miles from Washington, where it 
 arrived at noon and reported to Col. Charles T. Robbins, of the 
 Ninth Rhode Island Infantry. The detachment was received 
 with cheers from the Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island Regiments. 
 The first camp was located at the right of and in front of the 
 Tenth Regiment and was called Camp Frieze. 
 
 The arrival of the detachment was unexpected and no provision 
 had been made for the men by the quartermaster and commis- 
 sary departments, but through the energy and obliging disposi- 
 tion of Quartermaster George Lewis Cooke all were soon made 
 comfortable. Colonel Robbins was particularly attentive and 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 319 
 
 furnished the men with cooked rations from his regimental stores. 
 Sunday afternoon was occupied in pitching tents and in other 
 camp duties ; and when at night the new recruits retired to their 
 beds of straw, under canvas roofs, they felt that they had begun 
 a soldier's life. 
 
 On the 6th of June, Captain Gallup arrived in camp with forty 
 men, followed on the 9th by Lieut. Henry Pearce, with twenty- 
 five more men, which brought the battery up to the required 
 standard of one hundred and fifty ; and the following order was 
 
 issued : 
 
 Headquarters, Tenth R. I. Vols., 
 
 Camp near Tennallytown, June S, 1862. 
 Special Orders No. 5. 
 
 Two commissioned officers and fiftv privates are hereby detailed from Light 
 Battery " L," attached to the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, for the purpose 
 of bringing from Washington, the horses and equipments belonging to the 
 battery. The regimental quartermaster will furnish the transportation necessary. 
 
 ZENAS R. BLISS, 
 Benjamin F. Thurston, Colonel Tenth R. I. Vols. 
 
 Adjutant. 
 
 On the 14th of June, a battery of six twelve-pounder guns 
 (Napoleons), were received, and active drilling in the field began. 
 Each of the three branches or "arms" of the military service had 
 its distinguishing color ; blue for infantry, yellow for cavalry, and 
 red for artillery. The body of the uniform worn by all was blue, 
 — the trousers light, and the blouse dark blue. Artillerymen 
 usually wore upon the front of their caps, a brass device repre- 
 senting two cannon crossed. A battery usually had six guns, 
 was complete in itself, and in almost all cases served indepen- 
 
320 THE TENTH LIGHT BATTERY 
 
 dently. In the case of the Tenth Rhode Island Light Battery, by 
 order, it was numbered as Company L, Tenth Rhode Island 
 Volunteers. Each piece of artillery, and each caisson, battery- 
 wagon, etc., was drawn by four or six horses, with numerous 
 drivers, one of whom rode the " nigh " animal of each pair. 
 The officers and men diligently devoted themselves to duty and 
 the Tenth Battery was soon ready for active service. 
 
 On the 23d of June, the battery received orders to move to 
 Cloud's Mills, Va., to support a general advance of troops to the 
 Peninsula, to join McClellan. The movement was made in a 
 storm of rain, the battery being followed by a train of from fifteen 
 to eighteen army wagons loaded with tents and supplies. As 
 this was the first time the teams had been harnessed up, there was 
 naturally considerable confusion and delay, which was aggravated 
 by the increasing storm. Quartermaster-Sergeant Asa Lyman was 
 hard at work in the rear, urging the line forward, with words of di- 
 rection and encouragement. The battery had a lot of spare horses, 
 which were ridden by men specially detailed for that purpose. 
 As it crossed Long Bridge into Virginia, the rain and darkness 
 increased. The spare horses became very unmanageable, as the 
 men clambered into the rear of the army wagons for shelter, and 
 still attempted to hold them ; but with the sudden flashes of light- 
 ning, they began to break away, and disappear in the darkness. 
 Lyman relates an amusing episode that occurred under his eye. 
 "As I rode up from the rear, completely drenched, a vivid 
 flash of lightning, illuminating earth and sky, revealed one of the 
 battery men, on a rising knoll by the roadside, struggling with two 
 horses, which were pulling in opposite directions. In his terror, 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 A Dismal Nieht. 
 
 the man was beseeching the Almighty to strike 
 one of the horses dead, and relieve him of the 
 ionsibility. He declared, with an oath, that 
 he couldn't ' hould ' but one baste, any longer." 
 A considerable loss of horseflesh occurred on 
 that dismal night — but it was more than re- 
 placed by foraging — so that a gain of one was 
 reported at camp the following day. 
 
 The final halt was made at Clouds's Mills, 
 near the camp of the Sixty-ninth New York, 
 and the hospitalities extended to our men were very gratefully 
 appreciated. The surgeon of that regiment drew very liberally for 
 Us from his hospital stores. It was real Irish hospitality given in 
 full measure without stint or formality. The camp of the battery 
 was located near Seminary Hill, commanding roads leading into 
 Washington. Near by were the Sixty-ninth New York, the 
 Thirty-second Massachusetts, and part of the Eleventh and Four- 
 teenth United States Infantry, and three batteries of light artil- 
 lery. The brigade was under the command of Colonel Bliss, of 
 the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, acting-brigadier-general. 
 
 With such an environment, the Tenth Battery soon attained a 
 most creditable degree of efficiency. An officer on the staff of 
 Gen. Samuel P. Sturgis, commanding the division, paid it the 
 compliment of saying that it had been selected by the General 
 for a service, in which its efficiency would be thoroughly tested. 
 The test of battle was not given but it is fair to say that the 
 Tenth Battery was ready and willing to obey any call that could 
 be made upon it. Immediately after the failure of the Peninsula 
 
 41 
 
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 THE TENTH LIGHT BATTERV 
 
 Lieut. Samuel A. Pearee, Jr. 
 
 campaign, under McClellan, it returned 
 to its old camp, near Fort Pennsylvania, 
 the headquarters of the Tenth Rhode 
 Island Volunteers, relieving veteran troops 
 for active service. During the absence 
 of Captain Gallup, who was detailed on 
 court martial duty in Washington, Lieut. 
 Samuel A. Pearee, Jr., commanded the 
 battery. 
 
 Our surgeon, Edward Carrington Frank- 
 lin, rendered excellent service and was much esteemed by officers 
 and men. He graduated at Trinity College, and studied medi- 
 cine with Dr. A. H. Okie, of Providence, and later at the New 
 York Medical College. 
 
 One death only occurred, during our term of service, and that 
 by accident. Corp. James Flate was struck by the pole yoke of 
 a limber, during an exhibition drill, and so badly injured that he 
 died in four hours. He enlisted in New York as a detachment 
 was passing through that city. He was faithful in the discharge 
 of his duty, and by his social qualities gained universal favor. 
 
 The officers and men of the battery maintained very agreeable 
 relations with their brother soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Regi- 
 ments. Col. Zenas R. Bliss, of the "Tenth" often honored the 
 battery with a visit, and was always warmly welcomed. These 
 pleasant relations have been continued and kept alive by annual 
 reunions of the survivors of the Tenth Regiment and Battery. 
 
 During its term of service it acquired a proficiency in drill 
 and artillery movements that excited the admiration of military 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 323 
 
 visitants from Washington. Though it did not receive its "bap- 
 tism of fire" as was confidently expected when it was ordered to 
 an advanced position, the battery formed an important arm of 
 the defence of Washington at a time when it became necessary 
 to withdraw experienced troops from the fortifications around the 
 city to reenforce the armies in the field. 
 
 At the close of its term of service, the Battery returned home 
 in company with the Tenth, and shared the welcome which 
 greeted their arrival. It was mustered out of service August 30, 
 1862. Some of the officers and men again volunteered, and made 
 an honorable record. 
 
 In closing this brief sketch of the Tenth Battery, it is due to 
 the men who originated and organized the Rhode Island National 
 Guard, in 1S61, to say that the promptness with which the men 
 responded to this sudden call, was the result of patient and 
 arduous military preparations to provide for just such emergencies 
 as occurred in May, 1862. The Rhode Island National Guard 
 maintained the efficiency of the militia companies, and enabled 
 them to respond promptly in the time of need. In this regard 
 special honor is due Col. James Shaw, Jr., its commander. 
 
 Lieut. Samuel A. Pearce, Jr., 
 
 Tenth R. I. Battery. 
 
324 the tenth light battery 
 
 The Providence Marine Corps of Artillery. 
 
 LIEUT. SAMUEL A. PEARCE, JR. 
 
 The Providence Marine Corps of Artillery was the mother of 
 ten batteries of light artillery, and the officers of this company 
 assisted in the recruiting and drilling of these batteries during 
 the War. By sending recruits to fill the depleted ranks they per- 
 formed an important duty ; and, it may be timely said, that the 
 history of none of the Rhode Island Light Batteries would be 
 complete without the history of the " Providence Marine Corps 
 of Artillery." 
 
 It was organized in the year iSoi, and is therefore one of the 
 oldest military organizations in Rhode Island, and was the first 
 militia light battery in the United States. It bears upon its roll 
 of membership many of Rhode Island's distinguished citizens. 
 Several of its former officers were chiefs of artillery, having reg- 
 ular army officers under them. Gov. William Sprague, Governor 
 of Rhode Island, at the outbreak of the war, was a former com- 
 mandant of this organization, and while holding his position as 
 colonel developed the soldierly qualities which made Rhode Isl- 
 and's Governor conspicuous for his promptness in sending troops 
 to Washington at the first call of the President of the United 
 States. 
 
 In filling Rhode Island's quota, Governor Sprague conceived 
 the idea of putting a regiment of light batteries into the field. 
 These batteries were distributed in the armies of Virginia and 
 the W T est, and made a proud record for themselves and in the 
 great battles of the war. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 325 
 
 Well may the old " Mother of Batteries " be proud of her chil- 
 dren ; and long may her name be perpetuated by preserving the 
 organization under its present charter. 
 
 An account of the visit of the "Marines" to Boston, in 1852, 
 under the command of Col. Joseph P. Balch, taken from a Boston 
 paper, may be of interest to the younger members of this com- 
 pany, and will show to some extent the character of the organi- 
 zation in which the war batteries were schooled. 
 
 "Boston, Saturday, September 18, 1852. Grand Review of 
 the Marine Artillery of Providence, R. I., by His Excellency 
 Governor Boutwell and staff, on Boston Common. 
 
 " Our artist has given us below a very correct view of this fine 
 body of citizen soldiers, under command of Colonel Balch, as they 
 appeared on Boston Common a few days since when reviewed by 
 Governor Boutwell and suite. Did our space permit we should 
 be pleased to give a detailed account of the review, but we must 
 be concise. The artist has chosen the scene to depict the com- 
 pany as they appeared a la Sherman's Flying Artillery at full 
 speed passing in review. It is a fact that the Providence Corps, 
 as represented below, fired one hundred guns (notwithstanding a 
 rain storm), in a second over six minutes with four pieces, while 
 Sherman's Battery took seven minutes. The drill and discipline 
 of the Marine Artillery was most excellent, and has infused a 
 spirit among our own military that may result in the formation of 
 a similar corps in Boston. 
 
 "The company was instituted and organized and the charter 
 granted by the legislature of Rhode Island, under the name of the 
 Providence Marine Corps of Artillery, in the year 1801. Upon 
 
326 THE TENTH LIGHT BATTERY 
 
 the petition of the ' Marine Society,' 'praying for an act of incor- 
 poration for the purpose of perfecting themselves in the art mili- 
 tary, and for the attack and defense of ships and batteries; ' and 
 one section of the charter provided that all the officers of the 
 company should be chosen from the Marine Society ; this provi- 
 sion has been modified from time to time and finally annulled. 
 At the present time no connection with the Marine Society exists. 
 
 "' From the time of their organization until the close of the war 
 of 1 812, the company was in a very efficient state of drill and dis- 
 cipline; the forts and preparations for the defense of the harbor 
 of Providence during the war, were constructed under their direc- 
 tion. After this period, the interest in the company appeared to 
 decline. New members, however, were admitted and the annual 
 election held, that the charter might not be forfeited. 
 
 "In 1842, at the commencement of the 'Dorr Rebellion' a 
 communication was addressed by the Executive to the several 
 military companies of the State, requesting to be informed if in 
 case of necessity, he could depend upon their services to aid in 
 the preservation of law and orde)'. 
 
 " Upon laying this executive communication before the com- 
 pany they at once took measures to render themselves efficient. 
 
 " Numerous accessions were made to their ranks, and during 
 the campaign of 1842, the active roll of the company numbered 
 about one hundred men. During this season, they uniformed 
 themselves, and the next year assisted by the State erected a 
 commodious stone building, which is occupied jointly with the 
 State as the armory of the company and the State Arsenal. 
 
 "At this time the company were drilled and equipped as in- 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 327 
 
 fantry. In 1847-48 the State furnished the company with their 
 present battery and since that time they have drilled as light or 
 flying artillery." 
 
 POEM. 
 
 Dedicated to the Tenth Battery Rhode Island Volunteers, 
 before leaving their camp for home. By Lieut. Samuel A. 
 Pearce, Jr. : 
 
 Amid the joys that fill our every heart 
 
 At happy greetings from the loved at home, 
 'T'is joy to feel that as true friends we part, 
 
 That so few shadows o'er our path has come. 
 
 Days, weeks, and months we've shared each others lot, 
 
 And each his portion of the burden borne, 
 And pleasant mem'ries linger round the spot, 
 
 Where rapidly those days and weeks rolled on. 
 
 We leave this spot, — but not without a sigh. 
 
 For here we've counted many a happy day, 
 Yet still we bid the moments swiftly fly 
 
 And hail the hour which sees us on our way. 
 
 Safely returned we'll count our hardships sweet, 
 
 And looked for dangers but a calm repose, 
 And ever as such friends we'll always meet, 
 
 And thus remain until our lives shall close. 
 
Homeward Bound. 
 
Fort Hill, Pawtuxet Neck, R. I., 
 
 July 4, 1893. 
 
 Comrades : Just a year ago the author wrote the introduction 
 to this volume. To-day marks its completion. In the brief space 
 during which it has been compiled there has been little oppor- 
 tunity for elaboration. It has been prepared one form of sixteen 
 pages at a time, and an edition of six hundred copies printed. 
 
 No revision of the completed work has thus been possible, 
 nor any opportunity afforded to leave out some irrelevant matter ; 
 but the writer has had the advantage of letting the plan of the 
 book, so far as there is any, develop itself from month to month. 
 It is made up of incidents furnished by a large number of comrades, 
 who thus join the writer in bearing witness to the faithfulness 
 
 42 
 
330 THE END AT LAST. 
 
 of his record. From collections of old diaries, old letters, old 
 newspapers and orders, he has had to puzzle out and piece to- 
 gether his material, but has at last, got together the needed facts, 
 so far as it is now possible to discover them. He has sought by 
 the liberal introduction of the spice of army life, to make the book 
 entertaining, especially to the children of " the boys who marched 
 in ' Sixty-two.' ' On this account the volume has far outgrown 
 his original purpose. 
 
 He gratefully acknowledges the assistance rendered from many 
 sources, and the manifestations of deep interest, as the work has 
 slowly yet surely progressed to the end. Whatever the reception 
 which the critic of to-day may give to this book, it may be one 
 of that class which Abraham Lincoln said people will read with 
 satisfaction two hundred years hence, if fortunately a copy should 
 be preserved so long in the Public Library. 
 
 It closes with brief sketches of the reunions of the Ninth and 
 Tenth Rhode Island Veteran Associations, and a corrected roster 
 of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments, and Tenth Battery Rhode 
 Island Volunteers. 
 
 If by the perusal of these pages the comrades shall experience 
 any added satisfaction for duty well performed in scenes of trial 
 and danger, if in coming years it shall delight the hearts of their 
 children, and children's children, to read the story of the eventful 
 days when they put on uniform and hurried to the defence of the 
 capital, — above all, if any impetus shall thus be given to the 
 sacred cause of loyalty to our reunited country, then the desire 
 of the writer will be abundantly satisfied. 
 
 William Arnold Spicer, 
 
 Company B, Tenth R. I. Vols. 
 
REUNIONS 
 
 THE NINTH R. I. VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 
 
 I 
 
 ffid 
 
 NEARLY every year since the close of the War some of our 
 comrades have held reunions to renew the old friend- 
 ships of "Sixty-two." 
 The Ninth Rhode Island Veteran Asso- 
 ciation was organized in 1873, and has 
 held twenty annual reunions up to the 
 present time. The Association badge 
 was adopted in 1875. 
 
 One of the most enjoyable gatherings 
 was that at Silver Spring, on Septem- 
 ber 2, 1890, the twenty-eighth anniversary 
 of the muster-out day. The following re- 
 port has been preserved : 
 
 " Col. J. Talbot Pitman was reelected 
 president, and Hon. Harrison H. Richard- 
 son, of Nayatt, sergeant of Company H, 
 secretary and treasurer. After the routine 
 business was completed, the secretary, 
 in behalf of members of the Association, 
 presented to Colonel Pitman a gold badge, appropriately inscribed, 
 embodying the State coat-of-arms, and military emblems, sug- 
 
 jJp^Regtp 
 
 BADGE. 
 Ninth R. I. Veteran Association. 
 
332 THE NINTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 gestive of the recipient's rank in the service. In presenting the 
 badge, Sergeant Richardson said : 
 
 "Mr. President : A few days ago I submitted for your approval 
 the 'notice,' since issued, for this reunion, and possibly you may 
 remember asking me ' what other important business besides the 
 election of officers was therein referred to.' Perhaps ray answer 
 was hardly satisfactory, for I tried to evade the question. 
 
 " In truth, sir, I had been drawn into a conspiracy. A plot had 
 been devised which would fail of success if you should get knowl- 
 edge of it before we were ready to spring the mine. 
 
 " For some time past, members have felt that there was due to 
 you from them some recognition of your untiring efforts to pro- 
 mote the success of this Association and to keep alive the spirit 
 of comradeship among those who, twenty-eight years ago, shared 
 with you the honors, as well as the toils and dangers of our hun- 
 dred days' watch and ward over the city of Washington. 
 
 " Now, after the lapse of many years, as we recall the events of 
 ' Sixty-two,' we can better understand the responsibility then 
 weighing upon you as colonel, commanding the regiment, and 
 there has come to us some appreciation of your patience with our 
 imperfect, and sometimes none too earnest efforts to conform to 
 military rule and discipline. 
 
 "We can now even remember with complacency that too pre- 
 vious fife and drum, which were wont to make such sad havoc 
 with our early morning dreams. For surely the dulcet strains of 
 the 'Reveille' were to be preferred to the clamor of the 'Long 
 Roll,' which, at some midnight hour, we might have heard in our 
 camp, if through our lack of vigilance the enemy had found an 
 unguarded opening through our lines. 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 333 
 
 " So too, those daily drills, by squad, by company, and by 
 battalion, sometimes irksome, especially to our cherished ' whangs ' 
 (army shoes), yet who shall say how much they may have had to 
 do with our immunity from attack ? 
 
 "These thoughts tend to impress upon us the sense of obliga- 
 tion to you sir, inasmuch as, in those days of our country's trials, 
 your zeal in her service never abated, your vigilance never re- 
 laxed ; and although ours was a bloodless campaign, yet to the 
 Ninth Regiment belongs the honor of having faithfully performed 
 all duties imposed upon it, and we can take pride in sharing that 
 honor with our commander. 
 
 "Mr. President : Probably knowing how inadequate my words 
 would be, to fittingly express their feelings towards you, the com- 
 rades have placed in my hands as a tangible testimonial of their 
 regard, this badge, which in their behalf, I now present for your 
 acceptance, in the hope that it may be found worthy to be worn 
 by you upon all suitable occasions, in remembrance of the cam- 
 paign of the Ninth Regiment in 1S62, for the defence of the 
 national capital." 
 
 Colonel Pitman responded with fitting acknowledgments, but 
 was so completely taken by surprise, as to find it impossible at 
 the moment to find words to suitably express his feelings. He 
 fully appreciated the gift, and was very proud of the honor con- 
 ferred upon him by his comrades of the Ninth Rhode Island Vet- 
 eran Association. 
 
 Sergt. Harrison H. Richardson, of Company H, has filled the 
 position of secretary and treasurer, with untiring zeal and fidelity 
 since the organization in 1873. 
 
OJ 
 
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 THE NINTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 The officers of the Xinth Rhode Island Veteran Association 
 have been as follows : 
 
 Presidents. 
 
 Col. John Talbot Pitman, Lt.-Col. John Hare Powel. 
 
 V r ice-Presideiits. 
 
 Lt.-Col. John Hare Powel, 
 
 Capt. Henry C. Card, 
 " Henry F. Jenks, 
 
 Lieut. John Pollard, 
 " J. Clarke Barber, 
 " Richard W. Howard, 
 " George H. Burnham, 
 
 Adjt. Henry C. Brown, 
 
 Sergt. Robert S. Blair, 
 " James B. Streeter, 
 
 Corp. Edward P. Lowden, 
 " Sanford A. Robbins. 
 
 Priv. Darius Cook, 
 " John S. Davis, 
 " George Carmichael, Jr., 
 " Joseph Bigelow, 
 " Andrew Crumley, 
 " Henry C. Sayles, 
 " Charles F. Pierce, 
 " Stephen A. Peck, 
 " Orland Freeborn, 
 
 Capt. Robert McCloy, 
 " John A. Brown, 
 
 Lieut. Francello G. Jillson, 
 " Nathan D. Benton, 
 " William McCready, 
 " H. J. Whitaker, 
 " William R. Landers, 
 
 Sergt. Enos A. Clarke, 
 " James F. Mowkey, 
 
 Corp. Jeremiah I. Greene, 
 " Benjamin B. Martin, 
 " Hugh O'Donnell, 
 
 Priv. Edmund Bray, 
 " William Massey, 
 " Edward H. Burdick, 
 " John McDeyitt, 
 " William J. Milan, 
 " Luke A. Wood, 
 " Frank D. Fiske, 
 " Henry A. Bowen, 
 " John H. Stacy. 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 
 
 THE SOLDIER'S WELCOME. 
 
 BY MARY E. KILBL'RN, LONSDALE, K. I. 
 
 Welcome, thrice welcome, soldier friends, 
 
 We give you hearty cheer, 
 We've watched and waited for this hour 
 
 With mingled hope and fear; 
 We've missed you in our hearts and homes, 
 
 Friends, brothers, sons and sires, 
 And now we shout that " Welcome Home," 
 
 Which trust and love inspires. 
 
 We lent you to " our holy cause," 
 
 To guard the nation's dome, 
 To keep the rebel hordes at bay, 
 
 And save " fair freedom's " home; 
 And now your duty nobly done, 
 
 We grasp with honest pride 
 Your sun-browned hands, that tell of toil, 
 
 Near the " Potomac's side." 
 
 But in our joy we'll humbly raise 
 
 Our grateful hearts above, 
 To Him whose guardian care has kept 
 
 The objects of our love; 
 In sun, and in light and shade. 
 
 His strong, protecting arm 
 Has been outstretched for your defence, 
 
 To shield from every harm. 
 
336 THE NINTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 And while with happy hearts we sing, 
 
 Oh let us not forget 
 The sorrowing and the suffering ones, 
 
 Whose respite is not jet; 
 With loving hearts and ready hands, 
 
 To cheer and to relieve, 
 We'll stand heside the soldier-boys, 
 
 And comfort those who grieve. 
 
 And shall we not stand by our arms, 
 
 And heed again the call; 
 Shall patriot blood forget to flow, 
 
 And patriots fear to fall? 
 Oh, what are we, if land, and home, 
 
 And liberty, and law, 
 Are weighed against our little life ! 
 
 (Prepare, then, for the war). 
 
 Our country! all we are to-day, 
 
 And all we hope to be, 
 We gladly on thy altar lay, 
 
 And consecrate to thee ; 
 We ask not wealth, we ask not fame, 
 
 This loan thy blessing be, — 
 United States may we remain, 
 
 One land, one hope, one destiny. 
 
 Chorus : 
 
 Then while Ave shout a welcome, 
 We'll sing in grateful lays 
 
 Of His kind love and tenderness, 
 Who merits all our praise. 
 
VETERAN ASS< >( IATION. 
 
 THE STARRY STANDARD. 
 
 By Capt. J. McKinlav, Company D, 
 Written for a Flag-r.iisinsr. 
 
 Behold jour starry standard, 
 
 Aloft in ambient air! 
 What heart so cold but rapturous throbs 
 
 To see it floating there! 
 Be scorned the man who views the flag 
 
 Of Valley Forge renown, 
 Who'd not resist the rebel arm 
 
 Upraised to tear it down. 
 
 That flag : — beneath those streaming stripe-,, 
 
 Your martyr'd fathers stood : 
 That flag they raised on Bunker Hill, 
 
 And baptized with their blood : 
 We fling not forth defiantly, 
 
 From towering spire and dome, 
 But rally round its hallowed shrine 
 
 To guard fair Freedom's home. 
 
 Why are these starry ensigns raised 
 
 To flaunt and flutter free, 
 Till towns appear like pennoned fleets, 
 
 At anchor on the sea? 
 They're all unfurled to indicate 
 
 That rebellion we detest, 
 And show the brave and loyal heart 
 
 Within the nation's breast. 
 
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338 THE NINTH R. I. VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 
 
 We court not war, with all the ills 
 
 That follow in its train ; 
 But order, law. and government, 
 
 We surely dare maintain : 
 When mad, rebellious, wicked men, 
 
 Would lawlessly break through 
 The glorious Constitution 
 
 Your father framed for you. 
 
 Is there a heart with not enough 
 
 Of patriotic fires. 
 To rally to the rescue, ere 
 
 Loved Freedom's home expires? 
 Is there an arm so enervate 
 
 That would not wield a blade, 
 To guard the Constitution 
 
 Our noble fathers made? 
 
 Let Warren's gallant spirit now 
 
 Inspire each sire and son : 
 Of every creed and nation, 
 
 Let all unite in one ! 
 Be party spleen and rancor drowned, 
 
 In Union's swelling flood, 
 To save the glorious heritage 
 
 Bought with our fathers' blood. 
 
 And may our patriot volunteers 
 
 In triumph soon be seen, 
 Returning to their native home 
 
 Of Perry and of Greene ! 
 And though their war-worn features be 
 
 With blood and smoke begrimm'd 
 May their flag stream forth triumphantly 
 
 With all the stars undimnrd. 
 
THE TENTH R. I. VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 
 
 T 
 
 HE first reunion of the 
 Tenth Rhode Island Vet- 
 eran Associationwas held 
 
 at Silver Spring, R. I., July 24, 
 
 1877. Col. James Shaw, Jr., 
 
 was chosen president, and Acljt. 
 
 John F. Tobey, toastmaster. 
 It was at the time of the 
 
 labor riots in Pennsylvania, and 
 
 the Providence Journal, refer- 
 ring to the Tenth reunion, said : 
 
 " These are good times for vet- 
 erans to be getting together. 
 
 Possibly they may be wanted 
 
 again, 'armed and equipped.' " 
 The Association Badge was 
 
 adopted at the reunion in May, 
 
 1887, with the motto, " Volens et 
 
 pamtUS" "ready and Willing." BADGE— Ten'.h R. I. Veteran Association. 
 
 Its form, a spade, is suggestive of the shoveling done by the 
 regiment on Battery Vermont, with the mercury at ioo° in the 
 shade. The badge also bears the date of enlistment, May, 1862, 
 with the State anchor of hope. In the lower left hand corner is an 
 infantry emblem, crossed muskets on a field of blue, and in the 
 
340 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 opposite corner an artillery emblem with crossed cannon on a field 
 of red. The badge is supported by a gold bar with a military cap 
 in the centre, marked 10, R. I. Vols, and Battery, the whole 
 resting upon a ribbon of blue, with plain bar and pin at the top. 
 
 At the first reunion of the Tenth Rhode Island Veteran Asso- 
 ciation, His Honor Mayor Thomas A. Doyle, in responding to a 
 toast, "The City of Providence," said: "The city is proud of 
 this regiment, and of the alacrity with which it responded to the 
 call of duty. We should keep our militia organizations strong." 
 
 Lieut. Samuel A. Pearce, Jr., followed with an original poem, 
 which was received with much enthusiasm : 
 
 As friends, as soldiers, aye, as brothers all, 
 
 We here have met our camp-life to recall : 
 
 To pledge our friendship in a friendly drink 
 
 Of something mild, would surely have you think; 
 
 To eat our rations in a Christian style. 
 
 No fierce guerillas to molest the while, 
 
 No signal lights far in the distance seen, 
 
 No anxious -patchings on the magazine. 
 
 No Stonewall Jackson coming o'er the hills, 
 
 No " grand round" escorts, no battalion drills, 
 
 No balky horses, and no kicking teams, 
 
 No bugle calls to wake us from our dreams; 
 
 But here we are with hands and dishes clean, 
 
 Plenty of napkins, — isn't it serene? 
 
 Though large our number there's an absent friend, 
 Whose genial presence doth a sunshine lend: 
 llis name — you've guessed it; for I know you miss 
 Our friend, companion, brother: — Colonel Bliss. 
 Nine cheers for Bliss ; — come, join me now, 
 And drink the Colonel's health :— so, here's how! 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 34 1 
 
 On June 28, 1S77, the Tenth regiment took part in the recep- 
 tion of President Rutherford B. Hayes, and the line was reviewed 
 by him at Rocky Point, the Tenth being commanded by Capt. 
 William E. Taber, Jr., of Company A. 
 
 The second reunion was held in Providence, in May, 1882, and 
 the third in May, 1883, when Col. Zenas R. Bliss was present, 
 and expressed his satisfaction at meeting his old comrades. He 
 is still in the United States regular service. Hon. William A. 
 James (formerly sergeant of Company A), speaker of the House 
 of Representatives of the State of Illinois, was also present. 
 
 Since 1883 annual reunions have been held, nearly all on May 
 26th, the anniversary of the date of enlistment. 
 
 On the Fourth of July, 1887, the Tenth Rhode Island Veteran 
 Association, William A. Spicer, president, participated in the 
 ceremonies incident to the unveiling of the Burnside Equestrian 
 Statue, on Exchange Place, Providence. Soldiers and citizens, 
 State and city, joined in the tribute. The Providence Journal 
 in referring to the presence of General Sherman said : 
 " Other cities had interesting features in their celebration of the 
 Fourth, but to Providence alone was reserved the best of all, 
 William Tecum seh Sherman." 
 
 At the reunion of May, 1888, the steel howitzer, captured by 
 the Tenth in 1862, was exhibited on the platform. It has since 
 been placed with other memorials, in the museum of the Rhode 
 Island Historical Society, Providence. 
 
 Quartermaster James H. Armington exhibited a sample of the 
 "hard-tack" dealt out to the boys in 1S62. He said according to 
 the date thereon it was officially inspected in 1855. 
 
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 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 The officers of the Tenth Veteran Association, have been as 
 follows : 
 
 1877 to 1884 
 18S5 
 1886 
 1887 
 1888 
 18S9 
 1890 
 1891 
 1892 
 
 1S93 
 1894 
 
 Presidents. 
 
 Col. James Shaw, Jr. 
 Capt. and Ex-Gov. Elisha Dyer. 
 Capt. William E. Taber. 
 Sergt. Philip B. Stiness. 
 Priv. William A. Spicer. 
 Sergt. Henry R. Barker. 
 Priv. William A. Harris. 
 Lieut. Leander C. Belcher. 
 Ouar.-Sergt. Asa Lyman. 
 Sergt. Albert J. Manchester. 
 Corp. William A. H. Grant. 
 
 Vice-Presidents. 
 
 Capt. William E. Taber, 
 
 Sergt. William H. H. Brayman, 
 
 Sergt. Philip B. Stiness, 
 
 Lieut. Charles F. Phillips (president pro ten/), 
 
 Sergt. William Stone, 
 
 Priv. Robert B. Holden, 
 
 Priv. William A. Harris, 
 
 Lieut. Leander C. Belcher, 
 
 Sergt. Albert J. Manchester, 
 
 Corp. William A. H. Grant, 
 
 Capt. Hopkins B. Cady, 
 
 Capt. Christopher Duckworth. 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 343 
 
 Members who have served on the Executive Committee. 
 
 Company A — Capt. William E. Taber, Lieut. Leander C. 
 Belcher, Priv. Caleb C. Greene, Jr., Corp. Eugene F. Phillips, 
 Corp. Albert C. Winsor. 
 
 Company B — Corp. Nathan H. Baker, Corp. George T. Baker, 
 Priv. William A. Spicer, Priv. James F. Field. 
 
 Company C — Priv. George W. Lewis, Corp. Joseph W. Padel- 
 ford, Priv. Elisha W. Sweet, Priv. Edmund J. Munroe. 
 
 Company D — Corp. William H. H. Brayman, Priv. S. Erastus 
 Merchant, Priv. Levi L. Burdon. 
 
 Company E — Lieut. Stephen H. Thurber, Sergt. William Stone, 
 Corp. Ira R. Wilbur, Priv. Christopher A. Cady. 
 
 Company F — First Sergt. Joel Metcalf. 
 
 Company G — First Sergt. John B. Benson, Sergt. Albert J. 
 Manchester, Musician John F. Parks. 
 
 Company H — First Sergt. George A. Winchester, Sergt. Charles 
 P. Gay. 
 
 Company I — First Sergt. Henry R. Barker, Corp. Oliver S. 
 Alers, Corp. Moses B. Chace, Corp. B. D. Hale. 
 
 Company K — Corp. Joseph E. Handy, First Sergt. Munson H. 
 Najac. 
 
 Company L, Battery — Sergt. Philip B. Stiness, Priv. A. D. 
 White, Ouar.-Sergt. Asa Lyman, First Sergt. Amasa C. Tourtellot. 
 
 Staff. 
 
 Com.-Sergt. James O. Swan. 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 Corp. Benjamin F. Pabodie, Sergt. George A. Winchester. 
 
;_|4 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 REUNION POEMS. 
 
 By Mrs. B. F. Pabodie, 
 Wife of Corp. Benjamin F. Pabodie, Company H. 
 
 The cherry snow had fallen, in the beautiful month of May, 
 
 The robins sung in the twilight, — on the purple lilac spray, 
 
 The grass was green in the meadows, in the freshening springtime life, 
 
 And we followed our peaceful duties, nor thought of the distant strife. 
 
 When early one sunny morning came a summons to our ears, 
 
 The enemy threatens Washington, and we need more volunteers! " 
 
 The quick response from patriot hearts, our annals past will show, 
 
 Six hundred men, in scarce ten hours, had pledged themselves to go. 
 
 No time for preparation, scarce time to say farewell, . 
 
 One night at home, with sorrowing friends, how fast the teardrops fell : 
 
 Sn thirty hours from the summons, all ready to meet the foe, 
 
 We started off for Washington, just twenty-six years ago. 
 
 How many of us remember the beginning of that campaign, 
 How we stood on Exchange Place, hours and hours in the midst of the pour- 
 ing rain. 
 How they crowded us into the depot, and packed us into the cars, 
 But nought could dampen the courage of our valiant " Sons of Mars." 
 As through the long, long night we sailed, we talked of days to come, 
 And jest and jokes went freely round, for we dared not think of home. 
 What lay in the distant future, was hidden from every eye, 
 Suppose we never come back! What then? We have only once to die. 
 And so we traveled through the night and thro' the wearisome day, 
 With welcomes warm, and cheers and shouts in the cities along our way; 
 Then through the dust and mud we marched, till the fourth night settled down, 
 As we built our fires, and pitched our tents, on the hills near Tennallytown. 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 345 
 
 Then came the drill, and picket-guard, and the morning bugle call. 
 
 O, that getting up so early, 'twas the hardest trial of all! 
 
 Yet prompt to call we worked and drilled, and at night we took our ease, 
 
 As we gathered round the evening fires, that lighted up old Camp Frieze. 
 
 At length we were ordered to Fairfax, how gladly we hurried awav, 
 
 On that long, hot march to Seminary Hill, for only three days' stay, 
 
 Not one of us wants to revisit that barren desert again. 
 
 Where the grasshoppers carried their rations, when they marched across the 
 
 plain. 
 We hoped to have reached the battlefield, for courage there was no lack, 
 But a soldier's duty is " to obey," and the Tenth was ordered back. 
 'Tis hard no battles to recount, no skirmishes to relate, 
 But yet we know " they also serve, who only stand and wait." 
 So the old and veteran soldiers went forward to meet the foe. 
 While we guarded the forts around Washington, just twenty-six years ago. 
 
 More work, more drill, more " mounting guard," 'twas tiresome day by day, 
 
 But looking back, thro' the mist of years, it seems like nothing but play. 
 
 'Twas not for our pastime we tarried there, we felt whatever might come, 
 
 We were simply doing our duty for our country and our home. 
 
 Our patriotism no time can dull, nor trials make us forget: 
 
 Should the nation need us again, they'd find life in the old Tenth yet. 
 
 Alas! my brothers, those hours have flown, and the years have hurried past, 
 
 And sorrows many have sapped the strength which we thought would always 
 
 last. 
 Our youth departed, our manhood fled, old age comes swiftly and sure, 
 There is little left for some of us, but patiently to endure. 
 The deeds we've done are not perhaps what we planned in our youthful 
 
 dreams, 
 Is life worth living," we sometimes ask, as we mourn o'er our shattered 
 
 schemes. 
 Still one oasis in this bleak desert this festival night will show, 
 When we meet to talk of the pleasant times of twenty-six years age. 
 44 
 
546 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 OLD ARMY DAYS. 
 
 By Prof. W. Whitman Bailey. 
 Corporal Company D. 
 
 Dear fellow vets, 
 
 In such familiar phrase, 
 
 I now address my comrades of old days: 
 
 Yet as I think by no especial right, 
 
 I come before you on this festal night: 
 
 For, if you'll pardon what is scarcely meant, 
 
 A pun, I served my country by in-tent: 
 
 Still I remember in a mighty shower 
 
 Being " turned out " at some ungodly hour, 
 
 To walk before the Colonel's tent, and keep 
 
 The rebels silent while he went to sleep: 
 
 I often wonder as I think of this, 
 
 Whether our brave commander slept in Bliss, 
 
 For though a high wind blew with tempest's rack 
 
 And streams of water flowed adown my back 
 
 I guarded him so well that my relief 
 
 Forgot me for a while, much to my grief: 
 
 Perhaps to theirs: I will not here inquire 
 
 Lest I should stir some long-forgotten fire: 
 
 Speaking of fires, what a jolly thing 
 
 Those camp-fires were when Burdon used to sing: 
 
 Do the young soldiers of the present day 
 
 See Nelly home " in that familiar way? 
 
 Or if they're modern " Titia's," are they still 
 
 Charmed by the glittering sword of Bunker Hill? 
 
 In nightly visions of a certain sort 
 
 I often find myself at this old sport, 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 347 
 
 And if a corporal called " attention " then. 
 
 I'd come bolt upright as I used to when 
 
 He'd turn us out at early reveille. 
 
 And talk cpiite loudly of our corps d'esprit ; 
 
 Still plainer vet the captain's voice I hear. 
 
 Loud calling for some lusty volunteer, 
 
 To right his tent, or chop the wood, or go 
 
 To hunt up '• System," in the realms below ; 
 
 De mortuis nisi bonitm hope I may, 
 
 And so about our grub I'll nothing say ; 
 
 Except that hard-tack, when it's marked B. C., 
 
 Is even now avoided still by me 
 
 As is that meat denominated junk, 
 
 And flung in hogsheads by the salted chunk ; 
 
 Do I remember Fairfax and the clay. 
 
 In which we tried to drive our pegs one daj ? 
 
 Do I recall the march by night to town. 
 
 How cold we were, and how we washed it down 
 
 By something fluid, I will not say what. 
 
 Administered by the Colonel from a pot: 
 
 On that same night, or else I am a slave, 
 
 I stretched my full length on a barrel stave: 
 
 I wondered then, and even now can't see. 
 
 How I disposed of all mv vertebra-: 
 
 My lucky comrades, made of sterner stuff, 
 
 Had fire, they said, and pies and food enough ; 
 
 But now I'll order arms, and break my ranks, 
 
 To all my comrades I return my thanks: 
 
 I hope they'll pardon, if they don't agree 
 
 With a poor private once ot Company D ! 
 
 This brilliant effusion was followed by the ever popular song of 
 Seeing Nelly Home," by Burdon, of Company D. 
 
348 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 Poem for the reunion of the Tenth Veteran Association, May 
 26, 1882. 
 
 By Sergt. A. T. Starkey, Company D. 
 
 Glad welcome to-night to the comrades assembled. 
 
 Glad remembrance of those who in young manhood's strength, 
 Raised aloft their right hands as their country's defenders, 
 
 And enlisted their names in the Rhode Island "Tenth." 
 Long years have passed by since we left our loved firesides, 
 
 At fair Liberty's summons — her cause to defend ; 
 The friendships we formed in the days of our service 
 
 Were friendships for life, that shall never know end. 
 It was not given us on fair Liberty's altar 
 
 To lay down our lives, as our brothers had done; 
 Had our country demanded, — not a soul would have faltered, 
 
 Such was the spirit sublime, our comrades among. 
 How well I recall the events of the journey, 
 
 The question our colonel, so gallant and true, 
 Asked De Wolf, who by looks was all of us junior. 
 " My son, you look youthful : how old, boy, are you ? "' 
 " Twenty-four," says De Wolf. " O, ho! " says the colonel, 
 " You'll do, my brave boy, put your name on the books : 
 I'll enter an item right here in my journal. 
 
 You can't always tell a man's age by his looks! " 
 In the City of Brotherly Love behold our flirtations, 
 
 The meal at " the Cooper Shop," ample and good : 
 The last ere we entered on Uncle Sam's rations 
 
 And gave him our time for his clothes and his food. 
 Then the night march in Baltimore, through the street so historic 
 
 Where the first brave martyrs to Liberty fell, — 
 The clank of our bayonets meeting the awnings, 
 
 Our fears and our fancies we remember full well. 
 Then the strange disappearance of our friends in the darkness; 
 
 Av to right and to left they mysteriously fell 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 349 
 
 Down the dark, open cellar-ways left all unguarded. 
 
 Till we all met at the station our adventures to tell. 
 Oh, the first meal at Washington, so rough and forbidding, 
 
 With great chunks of meat, all gristle and fat: 
 How they flew through the air in that dining-hall dreary, 
 
 Then the midnight alarm, — do you e'er think of that? 
 Our camp at Tennallytown, and the daily manoeuvres : 
 
 The return of Mauran, so triumphal and grand. 
 From his visit at home for his teeth's benefaction: 
 
 His queer donkey-chariot and quaint driving-man. 
 " Poor darkness" was arrested for quitting his station 
 
 Before the white tent of our Colonel so true; 
 To procure for himself a nice cold, creamy " ration," 
 
 Which he'd waited and longed for, who could blame him — could you? 
 The march over the river. So many crossed over 
 
 Who never returned to glad Liberty's shore. 
 Our camp at old Fairfax — the return — and the journey 
 
 To the Forts, — I've dreamt of them over and o'er. 
 Then our pathways divided, and each of our hundreds 
 
 Lived a separate camp-life, and marched various ways: 
 At the fort called " De Russy," not far from headquarters, 
 
 Company D of the Tenth whiled away the long days: 
 On the silvery banks of the creek near our camp-fires, 
 
 With the cool water bathing our limbs day by day : 
 In the blackberry fields just over the river. 
 
 We reveled at will, as the time wore away. 
 Till the day came at length when our campaign was ended 
 
 With discharge from the service we had truly enjoyed, 
 Homeward bound every comrade now joyfully wended, 
 
 To greet friends and loved ones, our footsteps employed. 
 Twenty years of success, as the world counts success: 
 
 Twenty years of defeat, as the world counts defeat, 
 Have gladdened or saddened our swift-passing years, 
 
 Since the days when as comrades we each other did greet. 
 
35 
 
 O THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 Some have grown great in the eves of the nation, 
 
 Some have gone down in the race after wealth : 
 Some been content with a quiet vocation, 
 
 Others been hindered by the loss of their health. 
 Till time with its hours of deep sorrow and pleasure, 
 
 Rolling steadily on toward eternity's sea, 
 Has brought us at length to this festal reunion : 
 
 And welcome, thrice welcome, the absent would be. 
 No. all are not here: some have ended life's history, 
 
 Crossed o'er the dark river and entered Heaven's gate, 
 And while our paths widen o'er life's fleeting mystery, 
 
 We shall all at one portal meet early or late. 
 Then may God keep us all through the rest of life's march in; 
 
 May He prosper us all, give to one and all strength ; 
 And may we, dear comrades, in all of our journevings 
 
 Ne'er forget the srlad davs of " the °lorious old Tenth! " 
 
 THE TENTH BOYS. 
 
 Poem by Corp. W. Whitman Bailey, 
 Company D, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 
 I know the Tenth boys, I am not mistaken, 
 
 Though heads now are silvered, once auburn or brown 
 
 Though shoulders are bent and knees may be shaken, 
 Since pitching those " Sibleys " at Ten-ally-town. 
 
 'Tis all a delusion to treat them as older, 
 
 Rheumatics: bronchitis? neuralgia? What then? 
 
 They march as they once did, aye, shoulder to shoulder, 
 And " get there" precisely like average men. 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 35 I 
 
 Their notes still are tuneful : just list to the singing, 
 
 Is Burdon less musical now, than of yore? 
 He'll warble of " Nelly," the famed " Sword of Bunker." 
 
 And come up still smiling, to meet an encore. 
 
 Just happen to mention the Tenth lias no glory. 
 
 In view of yon howitzer, desperately won, 
 Dispute her proud title, the ,; regiment gory! " 
 
 And seek your own quarters, for quarters we've none. 
 
 And so I repeat it and know it is truthful, — 
 
 These comrades around me, despite what they say. 
 
 Are slender, erect and perennially youthful : 
 
 Why! bless me! They mustered this very same May! 
 
 THE BOYS OF SIXTY-TWO. 
 
 By Sergt. T. A. Starkey, Company D. 
 
 Written for the Tenth Regiment Reunion. May 265 1SS7. 
 
 [Air: "Auld Lang Syne," "The Sword of Bunker Hill."] 
 
 We gather here, this festal night, 
 
 To clasp each comrade's hand, 
 To flash the beams of memory's light 
 
 On days dark to our land : 
 To greet the present, — mourn the lost, 
 
 To pledge our faith anew 
 To the cause for which we left our homes 
 
 In eighteen sixty-two. 
 
152 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 Long years have passed since first we met 
 
 And we've grown old and gray, 
 And widely scattered are the boys, 
 
 And some have passed away. 
 But thro' the years, where'er we've roamed 
 
 Whatever we've found to do, 
 We've held in loving memory strong 
 
 Those hours of sixty-two. 
 
 And could our days exceed in length 
 
 The prophet's days of old, 
 The golden tale of those bright days 
 
 To us will ne'er grow old. 
 The hours we passed on Southern soil 
 
 With comrades tried and true, 
 Are treasured deep within the hearts 
 
 Of the boys of sixty-two. 
 
 So, comrades, through the coming years, 
 
 While life and strength endure, 
 We'll gather here with hearty cheer 
 
 And friendship strong and pure. 
 And on each glad Memorial Day, 
 
 Our comradeship renew; 
 That comradeship which made us one 
 
 In eighteen sixty-two. 
 
45 
 
 VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 35 _ 
 
 A CAMP-FIRE. 
 
 W Corp. \V. Whitman Bailey, Company D. 
 
 Our watchfire burns, 
 
 The soldier turns 
 To meet the friend of long ago; 
 
 The moments fly, 
 
 The years haste by, 
 But dearer doth each comrade grow. 
 
 We con once more 
 
 Our marches o'er, 
 We sing the songs we loved of old ; 
 
 We grasp the hand. 
 
 Our hearts expand, 
 And closer to each friend we hold. 
 
 Can we forget? 
 
 Ah no ! Not yet ! 
 Despite our heads in rebel gray ; 
 
 The fact is true, 
 
 We wore the blue, 
 And started hence the other day. 
 
 If comrades fell, 
 
 To them " farewell ! " 
 And o'er them votive offerings place: 
 
 Recall the while 
 
 Each hero's smile, 
 And cherish his familiar face. 
 
 Remember, boys, 
 
 Beside the joys, 
 That duty calls us hence once more : 
 
 Our motto scan ! 
 
 Let eveiy man 
 Be li ready, willing," as of yore ! 
 
354 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 LOYAL EVER. 
 
 By Corp. W. Whitman Bailey, Company D. 
 
 Tenth Regiment Reunion, May 26, 1891. 
 
 Boys, though our hair be gray, 
 Yet shall this month of May, 
 Ever recall the day — 
 
 Long, long ago, 
 When at our country's call, 
 Left we the college hall, 
 Business or trade, and all 
 
 Marched on the foe. 
 
 Nor can we e'er forget, 
 
 How, though their cheeks were wet, 
 
 Maid, wife, or mother met — 
 
 Sacred each name ! 
 Though we might ne'er come back, 
 Better the battles' wrack, 
 Storm-blast and tempest's track, 
 
 Honor than shame ! 
 
 So then, with loyal pride, 
 Stood we, boys, side by side, 
 Comrades all, true and tried, 
 
 So still we stand. 
 Gather we round about, 
 Fling wide " old glory " out, 
 Hail it with song and shout, 
 
 God bless our land ! 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 
 
 355 
 
 AFTER DECORATION. 
 
 By Corp. W. Whitman Bailey, Company D. 
 
 Out in the pitying rain. 
 Leave we our dead again, 
 The gallant ranks of those 
 Who sleep beneath the rose. 
 
 Here where our children tread, 
 Lie the heroic dead, 
 For them nor shield nor name; 
 Their's is their country's fame, 
 
 Let every eye behold 
 Our starry banner's fold. 
 The dead did dare maintain, 
 It's glory without stain. 
 
 All that they had they gave — 
 Their victory, the grave, 
 For them 'tis mete to bring, 
 These garlands of the spring. 
 
356 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 Our national poetry and song have been the offspring of mighty 
 struggles and glorious achievements. These stirring melodies, 
 every line bristling with patriotic devotion to home and country 
 did much in preserving our National Unity. 
 
 In September, 1862, one of the darkest periods of the war for 
 the Union, as the shadows of night fell upon the gory field of 
 Antietam, but sixty miles away from our old camp at Fort Penn- 
 sylvania, a sick and wounded soldier in one of the hospitals, in 
 a clear and strong voice, sung this song of victory at midnight : 
 
 '■ Our flag is there ! Our flag is there ! 
 
 We hail it with three loud huzzas! 
 Our flag is there ! Our flag is there ! 
 
 Behold the glorious ' Stripes and Stars! ' 
 Brave hearts have fought for that bright flag; 
 
 Strong hands sustained it, mast-head high, 
 And, O. to see how proud it waves, 
 
 Bring tears of joy to every eye ! " 
 
 On the memorable 14th of April, 1865, just after the final sur- 
 render to Grant at Appomattox, and the fourth anniversary of the 
 fall of Fort Sumter, by order of President Lincoln, the same old 
 flag, lowered by rebellious hands in 1861, was raised again over the 
 ruins of the fort. It was the writer's good fortune to participate 
 in the ceremonies at Fort Sumter, and to be on the steamer which 
 carried the news of the surrender of Lee, to the city of Charleston. 
 
 Arrived within hailing distance, we gave each ship, gunboat, 
 and monitor, the good news, as we passed, upon which a scene of 
 of the wildest enthusiasm followed, which quickly spread through- 
 out the entire blockading squadron. 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 357 
 
 The sailor boys in blue crowded to the bulwarks, and, mounting 
 aloft, manned the yards, climbing even to the main-tops, and, 
 turning, swung their caps, and rent the air with their shouts. 
 
 " Hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah ! Lee has surrendered ! Lee has 
 surrendered ! How welcome the tidings after the long struggle ! 
 ' Sweet after danger's the close of the war ? ' ' 
 
 On the morrow, as we descended to the interior of Fort Sum- 
 ter, we passed from the wall-steps to the platform near the new 
 flag-staff, through a double file of navy boys in trimmest holiday 
 attire. Here was assembled the great audience of five thousand 
 soldiers, sailors and citizens, and we joined them in the stirring 
 song of "Victory at Last,"' composed for the great occasion : 
 
 For manv years we've waited to hail the day of peace. 
 When our land should be united, and war and strife should cease; 
 And now that day approaches, the drums are beating fast, 
 And all the boys are coming home: there's victory at last! 
 
 The heroes who have gained it and lived to see the day. 
 We will greet with flying banners and honors on the way; 
 And all their sad privations shall to the winds be cast, 
 For all the boys are coming home; there's victory at last! 
 
 O happy wives and children ! light up your hearts and homes ; 
 For see, with martial music " the conquering hero comes." 
 With flags and streamers flying, while drums are beating fast ; 
 For all the boys are coming home: there's victory at last ! 
 
 Chorus : 
 
 There's victory at last, bovs, victory at last ! 
 O'er land and sea. our flag is free, we'll nail it to the mast : 
 Yes. we'll nail it to the mast, bovs, nail it to the mast, 
 For there's victory, victory, victory at last! 
 
;5§ 
 
 THE TENTH RHODE ISLAND 
 
 Gen. Robert Anderson, the 
 hero of Sumter, then stepped 
 forward and said : " I thank 
 God that I have lived to see 
 this day, and after four long 
 years of war to be here to restore 
 to its proper place this dear 
 flag, which floated here during 
 the days of peace. My heart is 
 filled with gratitude to God, who 
 has so signally blessed us, who has given us blessings beyond 
 measure. May all the nations ; bless and praise the 
 
 name of the Lord and all the ] ;W world proclaim, 'Glory 
 
 to God in the highest, and LjiPlb on earth peace, good 
 
 Gen. Robert Anderson. 
 
 The Ruins of Fort Sumter in 1865. 
 
 will toward men ! ' ' "Amen ! Amen ! " responded the vast mul- 
 titude. Then the old veteran firmly grasped the halyards, and 
 
 " Forthwith from the glittering staff unfurled 
 The starry banner, which full high advanced, 
 Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind." 
 
VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 359 
 
 Thirty years have passed since that eventful day, and the pre- 
 cious remains of Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter, 
 repose in the National Cemetery at West Point, but his noble 
 character, and devoted service to his country, can never be for- 
 gotten. 
 
 From the smoke of Sumter day quickly arose the Sumter Club, 
 whose anniversary it celebrates with "feast of reason, and flow 
 of loyal soul." Among its treasures is the Confederate flag of 
 Fort Moultrie, but nothing is so highly prized by the writer as 
 the following note from the widow of General Anderson, in 
 acknowledgment of a little pamphlet printed by the writer, en- 
 titled "The Flag Replaced on Sumter" : 
 
 New York Hotel, N. Y., 
 
 December, 11, 1SS5. 
 Mr. William. A. Spicer, Providence, R. I., 
 
 Rhode Island Vice-Piesident Sumter Club. 
 
 Dear Sir : Accept my thanks for your very kind letter and for your pam- 
 phlet which accompanied it, '-The Flag Replaced on Sumter," both of which 
 were forwarded to me from Green Cove Springs. 
 
 I often weep bitter tears that my dear husband and his services to his country 
 at the moment of her greatest peril, seem so clean forgotten throughout the 
 land; but now and then I am cheered by kind and pleasant words like jours, 
 and I take heart again and my faith in God's promises and in my countrymen 
 is renewed and strengthened. Be assured, my dear sir, that the effort of one 
 of the youngest members of the Sumter Cluh to perpetuate General Anderson's 
 " worthy name and fame" is fully appreciated and most highly prized by his 
 widow and the mother of his children. 
 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 E. B. ANDERSON. 
 
Roster 
 
 The Ninth and Tenth Rhode Island Regiments and Tenth Rhode 
 Island Battery, present the usual entertaining variety in their ranks, as to 
 age, position, and occupation. The average age of enlistment, it is safe to say, 
 was under twenty. Many of the recruits gave their ages more than they 
 actually were, fearing that they would be rejected were the correct ages known. 
 The author knows personally of several of his comrades who reported as 
 eighteen who were barely sixteen. Every effort has been made to make the 
 " Roster" as correct as possible. 
 
ROSTER 
 
 Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 
 Field ^nd Staff. 
 
 Colonel. 
 
 John* Talbot Pitman. 
 
 Captain, First Rhode Island Detached Militia, May 6, 1861 ; 
 mustered out Aug. 2, 1861 ; major, Ninth Rhode Island In- 
 fantry, May 26, 1862; lieutenant-colonel, June 9, 1862; 
 colonel, July 3, 1862 ; mustered out, Sept. 2, 1S62; lieuten- 
 ant-colonel, Eleventh Rhode Island Infantry, Oct. 1, 1862; 
 mustered out, July 13, 1863. 
 
 L ieiitenant- Colonels. 
 John T. Pitman. (See Colonel) 
 
 John Hare Powel. 
 
 May 26, 1862, mustered in; originally served as captain Co. L; 
 June 9, 1862, promoted to major; July 3, 1862, promoted 
 lieutenant-colonel; Sept. 2, 1S62, mustered out. 
 
 4G 
 
302 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 Majors. 
 John T. Pitman. {See Colonel.) 
 
 John Hare Powel. {See Lieutenant-Colonel.) 
 
 George Lewis Cooke. 
 
 Originally served as first lieutenant, Co. L ; detached as regi- 
 mental quartermaster; July 3, 1862, commissioned and mus- 
 tered in as major; Sept. 2, 1862, mustered out. 
 
 Surgeon. 
 Lloyd Morton. 
 
 Assistant Surgeon. 
 Henry King. 
 
 Chaplain. 
 N. W. Taylor Root. 
 
 Adjutant. 
 
 Henry C. Brown. 
 
 Originally served as second lieutenant, Co. A ; June 2, 1862, pro- 
 moted adjutant. 
 
 Quarter masters. 
 George Lewis Cooke. {See Majors.) 
 
 William McCready, Jr. 
 Regimental quartermaster from May 26 to July 3, 1862. 
 
 Sergeant- Major. 
 Robert Fessenden. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 363 
 
 Quartermaster- Sergeant. 
 Alfred 0. Tilden. 
 
 Hospital Stewan/. 
 Henry E. Tyler. 
 
 Commissary Sergeant. 
 Horace G. Miller. 
 
 Served as sergeant, Co. H ; June 9, 1862, appointed commissary 
 sergreant. 
 
 COMPANY A. 
 
 Captain. 
 
 Robert McCloy. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Albert W. Tompkins. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 Henry C. Brown. 
 June 2, 1S62, appointed adjutant. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Oliver H. Perry, John R. Anderson, 
 
 Arnold F. Salisbury, Joseph P. Farnsworth, 
 
 George Morris, Charles C. Crocker. 
 
364 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 Frederick Schneider, 
 Thomas H. Holmes, 
 Daniel H. Johnson, 
 John McKelvey, 
 William H. Chace, 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 George Schneider, 
 Alfred Jerauld, Jr., 
 Henry M. Stetson, 
 Simeon B. Ramsbottom. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 William Bartlett, 
 Samuel A. Bennett, 
 Zephaniah Bennett, 
 Jubal Blount, 
 Edmund Bray, 
 fCharles E. Buffum, 
 George N. Burlingame, 
 George Burns, 
 William A. Carter, 
 Henry H. Clark, 
 Joseph H. Clark, 
 Darius Cook, 
 Patrick Coyle, 
 Israel F. Crocker, 
 Alonzo Crovvell, 
 John Cullen, 
 Joseph D. Davenport, 
 John S. Davis, 
 John T. Fanning, 
 Ferdinand A. Follett, 
 Thomas Forrest, 
 Albert Fuller, 
 Ferdinand A. Gardner, 
 John Glancy, 
 
 t Minor; di 
 
 Michael Goodwin, 
 Stephen A. Grover, 
 Thomas Hallovvell, 
 Henry L. Hammond, 
 William Hay, 
 John Hay ward, 
 Thomas H. Holmes, 
 Daniel A. Hopkins, 
 William J. Hughes, 
 James A, Kelley, 
 William H. Kelley, 
 Thomas J. Kennedy, 
 Henry Kimpton, 
 Edward Knight, 
 Augustus A. Leach, 
 John E. Lee, 
 Thomas Locking, 
 Thomas Locklin, 
 John T. Lowden, 
 John H. Lundy, 
 Peter Lyme, 
 Aldine Manier, 
 William Massey, 
 Charles H. Mathewson, 
 
 ed, July, 1S62. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 165 
 
 John McCabe, 
 Peter McCabe, 
 Patrick McCusker, 
 John McGinnity, 
 David McKelvey, 
 Daniel B. McKenna, 
 Amaziah B. Merchant, 
 Peter Merchant, 
 Hugh Muldoon, 
 George W. Newell, 
 Thomas Norris, 
 William O'Donnell, 
 John Ramsbottom, 
 Patrick Ready, 
 James Riley, 
 George A. Roberts, 
 Richard Roberts, 
 A. Sylvester Rounds, 
 
 Alonzo F. Salisbury, 
 Thomas Sawyer, 
 George B. Sharpies, 
 James R. Sherman, 
 Edward Shuttleworth, 
 Lewis F. Slocum, 
 William H. Slocum, 
 Patrick Starrs, 
 William Stewart, 
 Ansel L. Sweet, 
 Charles I. Sweet, 
 Roger Tattersall, 
 Oscar Thayer, 
 John Trainor, 
 Nathaniel Walker, 
 Thomas Wheeler, 
 James A. Williams. 
 Svlvanus C. Wilson. 
 
 COMPANY B. 
 
 Captain. 
 Henry C. Card. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 J. Clarke Barber. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 James McDonald. 
 
3 66 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 William R. Lewis, 
 Thomas Place, 
 James H. Perrigo, 
 
 John Tweedie, 
 Nathan J. Crandall, 
 Edwin R. Cottrell, 
 Peleg D. Sisson, 
 
 Pardon Babcock, 
 
 Andrew J. Allen, 
 Joshua Allen, 
 William D. Babcock, 
 John W. Barber, 
 T. Stanton Barbour, 
 Uriah Baton, 
 George Bellamy, 
 Andrew Bray, 
 Edward C. Brown, 
 E. James Buddington, 
 Thomas A. Buell, 
 Edward H. Burdick, 
 Thomas T. Burdick, 
 William H. Burdick, 
 George Carmichael, 
 Thomas H. Champlain, 
 Stephen Coleman, 
 William T. Collins, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 James M. Holmes, 
 Amos L. Burdick. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Joseph Richmond, 
 James A. Sisson, 
 William F. Hawkins. 
 
 Musicians. 
 
 Daniel B. Jackson. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 James A. Congdon, 
 John P. Crandall, 
 Edward G. Crandall, 
 William Davenport, 
 Daniel Donovan, 
 John Ecclestone, 
 James A. Edwards, 
 Charles H. Eldred, 
 Charles H. Gavitt, 
 Horace P. Gavitt, 
 Dean Gould, 
 Courtland T. Hall, 
 Joseph Haywood, 
 William Horsfall, 
 Daniel B. Jackson, 
 William Jackson, 
 James Johnson, 
 Milton P. Johnson, 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 ;67 
 
 T. W. Johnson, 
 William Johnson, Jr., 
 David Kenneth, 
 Moses D. Kinkade, 
 Edmund R. Langworthy, 
 George E. Leonard, 
 George W. Livsey, 
 John McAvoy, 
 Thomas McLean, 
 James McNulty, 
 J. Howard Morgan, 
 Nathan E. Nash, 
 George P. Neugent, 
 Isaac Partelovv, 
 
 Horace L. Peckham, 
 James M. Pendleton, 2d, 
 George A. Richmond, 
 Gilbert S. Roach, 
 Everett A. Schofield, 
 Nathan S. Sheffield, 
 John Surber, 
 Francis W. Taylor, 
 Charles W. Thompson, 
 John P. Trant, 
 James L. Ward, 
 Richard Welch, 
 John B. Wells, 
 William H. Wells. 
 
 COMPANY C. 
 
 Captain. 
 John A. Bowen. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 George A. Spink. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 William H. Potter. 
 
 John C. Potter, 
 William C. Nichols, 
 Horace Remington, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Crawford R. Williams, 
 Allen E. Keech. 
 
:68 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 Nathan B. Whipple, 
 Lewis G. Arnold, Jr. 
 John Devlin, 
 George C. Gilmore, 
 
 George R. Tourjee, 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 John Remington, 
 Hugh O'Donnell, 
 Jonathan R. Weaver, 
 *Hollis Taber, Jr. 
 
 Musicians. 
 
 Horace H. Wooclmancy 
 
 / J T agoner. 
 Henry H. Roberts. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Albert Arnold, 
 Edward P. Baker, 
 William H. Baker, 
 Nathaniel G. Ball, 
 John J. Battey, 
 Allen H. Bennett, 
 Jesse Bicknell, 
 Joseph Bigelow, 
 Samuel E. Bower), 
 Peter Brown, 
 William B. Browning, 
 Daniel W. Cady, 
 Peter Carroll, 
 John Carey, 
 Joseph P. Cornell, 
 George W. Dawley, 
 William H. Dimond, 
 James F. Fanning, 
 Thomas Farmer, 
 
 * Died Augu 
 
 Cornelius Franklin, 
 Charles C. Gardner, 
 Peter Goodness, 
 William Hunt, 
 Thomas Hughes, 
 Zephaniah Jenkins, 
 John D. Jordan, 
 Zebulon Londeau, 
 Thomas Lindsay, 
 James Malaney, 
 George Matteson, 
 John McArthur, 
 James McDonnell, 
 Patrick McMann, 
 Joseph Miller, 
 Charles Morris, 
 Henry Nichols, 
 Michael Noon, 
 William H. Northup, 
 
 : t 13, 1862, in hos-pital. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 ;6 9 
 
 Felix O'Donnell, 
 Frederick Owen, 
 John O. Neill, 
 William O'Neil, 
 Robert Piatt, 
 Henry Peagot, 
 Charles H. Prew, 
 Harrison Provost, 
 John Ouigley, 
 Samuel J. Randall, 
 Patrick Reagan, 
 Ambrose P. Rice, 
 Henry H. Roberts, 
 Lewis Roberts, 
 
 Elisha Sherman, 
 Elisha O. Sherman, 
 Francis Smith, 
 Michael Spellacy, 
 George A. Spencer, 
 Lewis T. Spencer, 
 William C. Spencer, 
 Edward Tathroe, 
 Joshua W. Tibbitts, 
 William H. Tucker, 
 Oliver T. Wilbur, 
 John Wilson, 
 Alonzo G. Wood, 
 Warren Young:. 
 
 COMPANY D. 
 
 Captain. 
 John McKinlav. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 John Pollard. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 
 William McCready, Jr. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 William T. Crawford, 
 Thomas McCarthy, 
 Israel Arnold, Jr., 
 
 47 
 
 Robert S. Blair, 
 William T. Gildnrd. 
 
o/ 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 John McFadden, 
 Joseph R. Stafford, 
 Samuel C. Lomas, 
 Horatio Giles, 
 
 Alfred Hough, 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Thomas Meagher, 
 Ferdinand Haskins, 
 Christopher T. Geldard, 
 John Crumlay. 
 
 Musicians. 
 
 Charles E. Greene. 
 
 Uriah M. Adams, 
 James Aigan, 
 Robert Arnett, 
 Noah A. Ashworth, 
 Jonathan M. Bass, 
 George Birchell, 
 Thomas Boyd, 
 James Boyle, 
 James Brennan, 
 Samuel Briden, 
 Alonzo Colvin, 
 Lyman Colvin, 
 William H. Cory, 
 Andrew Cramley, 
 Thomas Crumlev, 
 George Davis, 
 Daniel Devlin, 
 George H. De Wolf, 
 Peter Dolan, 
 Luke Duxbury, 
 David Fogarty, 
 Patrick Freeman, 
 
 t Discharged 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Matthew Green, 
 William Greenlese, 
 David Glover, 
 Robert Hall, 
 Thomas Hall, 
 Alexander Harkness, 
 Michael Hafferin, 
 John Hollingsworth, 
 Daniel Hoyle, 
 James Jackson, 
 James H. Jolly, 
 Walter Loudergan, 
 John McCaffrey, 
 Michael McCormick, 
 Neil McCourt, 
 John McDevitt, 
 Michael McKern, 
 Cornelius Moninihan, 
 Hugh McMullen, 
 fBenjamin North, 
 John North, 
 James O'Brien, 
 
 for disability June 2$, 1S62. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 0/ 
 
 Henry O'Neil, 
 James Parker, 
 Thomas S. Parker, 
 James Pollard, 
 Thomas Quinin, 
 William Rankin, 
 Orrin G. Rawson, 
 Alexander Ritchie, 
 William J. Root, 
 John Ryan, 
 
 John Schofield, 
 Aim on C. Shorey, 
 James Smith, 
 Patrick Smith, 
 James Stewart, 
 Walter S. Sutcliffe, 
 James Wood, 
 James White, 
 Olney Whipple. 
 Richard J. Whittle. 
 
 COMPANY E. 
 
 Captain. 
 Isaac Place. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Philip D. Hall. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 Nathan D. Benton. 
 
 Fenner Colvvell, 
 George W. Haradon, 
 Trowbridge Smith, 
 
 Byron S. Thompson, 
 William T. Brooks, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 George H. Johnson, 
 Joseph Miett, Jr. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Martin G. Cushman, 
 Henry E. Baker, 
 
ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 David Dines, 
 James Jaques, 
 
 Samuel Preston, 
 Gilbert A. Thompson. 
 
 Musician. 
 Albert Beverlv 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Moses A. Aldrich, 
 Cyrus R. Bennett, 
 Henry A. Bennett, 
 Jacob Butterfield, 
 George W. Buxton, 
 Willard D. Cohvell, 
 Marcus M. Cooke, 
 James Demick, 
 f Edmund Esty, 
 George B. Evans, 
 William H. Fuller, 
 John Gallagher, 
 Frederic C. Gove, 
 Alexander Henderson, 
 Thomas Hughes. 
 Thomas \V. Irons, 
 George H. Johnson, 
 Martin G. Lyons, 
 Walter Mather, 
 William J. Milan, 
 
 \ Discharged a? 
 
 Thomas Pryor, 
 John Regan, 
 Robert Sandford, 
 Joseph Sedgwick, 
 Osborne M. Southwick, 
 Enoch Spencer, 
 Thomas B. Spooner, 
 Dustin D. Stevens, 
 Augustus R. Steere, 
 James Sullivan, 
 John Sullivan, 
 Winfield S. Thompson, 
 Alexander Tongue, 
 Charles F. Tifft, 
 Joseph Wilmouth, 
 George Wilson, 
 Thomas D. Wilson, 
 Hiram Wood, 
 Joseph M. Young. 
 
 a minor, July o, iS6j. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 COMPANY F. 
 
 Captain. 
 John M. Taylor. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Randall Holden. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 Richard \V. Howard. 
 
 Edward F. Steere, 
 Benjamin Hill, 
 Moses Brown, 
 
 William F. Hill, 
 James R. Read, 
 S. Wildes Coggeshall, 
 J. Phillips Pond, 
 John E. Whipple, 
 
 David Spencer, 
 
 William Atchison, 
 Henry W. Ballou, 
 Charles Ballou, 
 Lillibridge Barber, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Jeffrey G. Davis, 
 Henry P. Babson, 
 George T. Lamphear. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 James Bushee, 
 Stephen P. Steere, 
 George T. Lamphear, 
 Delondo Bennett. 
 
 Musicians. 
 
 Daniel Baxter. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Wilcox Barber, 
 Daniel Barney, 
 fStephen L. Barney, 
 George Blackington, 
 
 \ Discharged for disability, July, rS62. 
 
374 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 Daniel Brayton, 
 Thomas Britton, 
 George Britton, 
 Charles Bowers, 
 William T. Brown, 
 John Burns, 
 Alfred Crandall, 
 Frank P. Chace, 
 Oliver H. Clark, 
 Charles Colvin, 
 George R. Congdon, 
 Henry N. Cook, 
 William R. Cornell, 
 Benjamin Cottrell, 
 William Davenport, 
 Albert Davis, 
 Cortes A. Darling, 
 Michael Fleming, 
 Samuel K. Gardiner, 
 fRichard Gibney, 
 Samuel Graves, 
 Thomas B. Greene, 
 Edward Harvey, 
 Sylvan us C. Holbrook, Jr., 
 Thomas L. Hopkins, 
 Albert F. Howard, 
 Alfred A. Jackson, 
 Samuel C. Jenckes, 
 Arnold Jennerson, 
 George C. Johnson, 
 Thomas Johnson, 
 
 Jesse D. Keach, 
 Edward King, 
 Mosier Lock, 
 Bernhard Morris, 
 George A. Nichols, 
 John Niles, 
 Rufus H. Northup, 
 
 fjohn O'Brien, 
 Thomas Owen, 
 H. B. Perry, 
 B. Ray Phelon, 
 Elisha Place, 
 William Price, 
 Henry Price, 
 G. W. Henry Pollard, 
 George B. Pollard, 
 William H. Rice, 
 Richard R. Richmond, 
 Nelson Searle, 
 Simon G. Sherman, 
 Thomas Sipple, 
 Otis W. Smith, 
 Thomas L. Smith, 
 Javis Smith, 
 George Smith, 
 James E. Spencer, 
 George W. Spencer, 
 John T. Spencer, 
 Otis Spencer, 
 Edward F. Steere, 
 
 fAlonzo P. Stone, 
 
 f Discharged as a minor. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 375 
 
 William Taylor, 
 Henry B. Terry, 
 B. Greene Tew, 
 Robert \V. Townshend, 
 
 B. Egbert Vaughan, 
 Jerome Weaver, 
 John Westgate, 
 Edward J. Wilbur. 
 
 COMPANY G. 
 
 Captain. 
 Charles L. Watson, 
 
 First L ten tcua n t. 
 Francello G. Jillson. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 Henry J. Whitaker. 
 
 Austin J. Scott, 
 James B. Streeter, 
 William T. Smith, 
 
 Horace A. Scott, 
 James A. Sweet, 
 William P. Davis, 
 A. Sayles Clarke, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Enos A. Clarke, 
 Daniel E. Wilcox. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 George H. Baker, 
 Edwin W. Whipple, 
 Sanford A. Robbins, 
 George W. Thayer. 
 
 Musician. 
 William M. Goff. 
 
J/ 
 
 76 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Jenckes Bartlett, 
 Allen F. Baxter, 
 Alba Bellows, 
 Asa Bennett, 
 George W. Bolton, 
 Charles W. Bradford, 
 Henry W. Brown, 
 Charles A. Burlingame, 
 Alexander Campbell. 
 Albert Carey, 
 Edwin Carter, 
 Christopher Carter, 
 Charles A. Chase, 
 Foster H. Clark, 
 Henry Congdon, 
 Aaron Congdon, 
 Edmond Congdon, 
 Timothy Curran. 
 John H. Durgin, 
 Caleb Freeman, 
 Irving Gaskill, 
 Oscar F. Gifford, 
 Abraham Greaves, 
 John Green, 
 Richard Green, 
 William Henry Harrison, 
 Thomas Healy, 
 
 George J. Hendrick, 
 Terny Hogan, 
 Albert Hudson, 
 William A. Jenckes, 
 Thomas Judge, 
 Samuel Longley, 
 George Law, 
 Alexander Levine, 
 Thomas Lewis, 
 Luke Lynch, 
 William E. Mason, 
 Samuel Parrish, 
 Hiram Parker, 
 Charles A. Pierce, 
 George S. Potter, 
 Thomas Prior, 
 Thomas Riley, 
 Henry C. Sayles, 
 Marcus L. Smith, 
 Horatio I. Stockbridge, 
 Patrick O. Sullivan, 
 Thomas Sullivan, 
 James Swindles, 
 Isaac S. Tanner, 
 Benjamin Tourtellott, 
 Joseph H. Wheelock, 
 Luke A. Wood. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 0/ 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Captain. 
 Henry F. Jenks. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Frank Allen. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 George A. Bucklin. 
 
 Edmund Crocker, 
 Horace G. Miller, 
 Latimer LeFavour, 
 
 George P. Grant, 
 Edward P. Lowden, 
 Alanson P. Wood, 
 Edward Thayer, 
 
 Lyman A. Aldrich, 
 William T. Arnold, 
 John H. Almy, 
 Frederick A. Baker 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Charles E. Adams, 
 Ambrose P. Rice, 
 Harrison H. Richardson. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Joseph Harrison, , 
 
 W. C. Benedict, 
 Richard Eldredge, Jr., 
 Jabez W. Pitcher. 
 
 Musician. 
 George F. Olney. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 George F. Ballon, 
 Stephen J, Ballou, 
 Phanuel Bishop, 
 Jerome D. Bliss, 
 
51 
 
 78 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 Horatio N. S. Booth, 
 fCharles D. Bray, 
 Joseph A. Brown, 
 Andrew A. Buckley, 
 Charles H. Bullock, 
 Frank H. Carpenter, 
 Charles E. Carpenter, 
 David E. Cash, 
 George H. Cole, 
 Warren F. Cook, 
 Henry Crocker, 
 Robert E. Curran, 
 fByron E. Daggett, 
 Benjamin A. Dennis, 
 John H. Eaton, 
 David L. Fales, 
 James H. Fairbanks, 
 Stephen F. Fisk, 
 Frank D. Fisk, 
 George H. Foster, 
 David A. Gage, 
 William H. Gardner, 
 Luke Glancy, 
 Joseph B. Gooding, 
 Thomas A. Gregson, 
 *Richard Gridley, 
 Albert F. Howe, 
 Charles A. Ide, 
 
 George T. Jeffers, 
 Pardon Jenks, Jr., 
 Edwin Leach, 
 Charles A. Mathewson, 
 Walter Merry, 
 George Murphy, 
 Charles W. Xickerson, 
 Edward A. Patt, 
 Henry N. Pervear, 
 Stephen A. Peck, 
 Charles F. Pierce, 
 Henry A. Pierce, 
 Jabez W. Pitcher, 
 Joseph Rice, 
 Robert Saunders, 
 Joseph W. Seagraves, 
 Frank S. Shove, 
 William H, Slocum, 
 Smith Tattersall, 
 William G. Thurber, 
 fTate Timony, 
 Frank M. Tyler, 
 Percival D. Warburton, 
 Henry H. Welden, 
 Hamlet Wheaton, 
 John F. Whiting, 
 Charles D. Wood, 
 Anthonv G. Wood. 
 
 t Discharged as a minor. 
 
 * Discharged on surgeon's certificate. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 379 
 
 COMPANY I. 
 
 Captain. 
 Samuel Pearce. 
 
 First Lieutenants. 
 
 George Lewis Cooke, 
 William H. Surgens. 
 
 Second Lieutenants. 
 
 William H. Surgens, 
 Horace G. Barrus. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Horace G. Barrus, 
 
 Samuel B. Cole, 
 Luther Cole, Jr., 
 
 Jeremiah I. Greene, Jr., 
 Caleb S. Carr, 
 Frederic A. Driscoll, 
 George L. C. Wheaton, 
 Nathaniel T. Sanders, 
 
 John W. Hubbard, 
 
 John P. Abbott, 
 Albert J. Adams, 
 
 Charles H. Rounds, 
 
 Haile Turner, 
 
 James A. Manchester. 
 
 Coif orals. 
 
 Peleg Bosworth, Jr.. 
 Isaac Gorham, 
 Thomas F. Marion, 
 Benjamin B. Martin. 
 
 Musicians. 
 
 Samuel D. Maxwell. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 A. C. Aldrich, 
 Joseph W. Aldrich, 
 
iSo 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 William A. Arnold, 
 Isaac Barn urn, 
 John Booth, 
 William Booth, 
 Henry A. Bowen, 
 William Bradshaw, 
 Mark P. Brown, 
 John H. Buffi ngton, 
 Charles H. Bullock, 
 Robert H. Bullock, Jr., 
 Henry T. Burr, 
 Norman G. Burr, 
 Elijah Calland, 
 William Champlin, 
 Thomas Clarke, 
 Thomas Clifford, 
 Edwin J. Collamore, 
 Robert Crowther, 
 Thomas A. Curran, 
 Willard B. Drown, 
 James B. Drown, 
 James F. Follett, 
 George C. Franklin, 
 Nathaniel W. Gushee, 
 George Guyette, 
 Charles D. Horton, 
 
 George H. Hunter, 
 R. H. Johnson, 
 James H. Johnson, 
 John Kelly, 
 Wilson Little, 
 Theodore Medbury, 
 William H. Myers, 
 Galen F. Nichols, 
 Thomas W. D. Peck, 
 James E. Peck, 
 Allen P. Peck, 
 Joseph Price, 
 Robert Ridgwell, 
 Eugene I. Roffee, 
 Matthew Ryan, 
 John P. Salisbury, 
 Jeremiah Sheehan, 
 A. J. Shurtleff, 
 ^Joseph N. Simonds, 
 Walter F. Thompson, 
 Win field. S. Tompkins, 
 James E. Viall, 
 George W. Walker, 
 John R. Wheaton, 
 Barton J. Whipple, 
 William Williams. 
 
 * Died September, 1S62, at Warren, R. I. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 ;8i 
 
 COMPANY K 
 
 Captain. 
 James R. Holden. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 William H. Gardner. 
 
 Seeond Lieutenant. 
 George H. Burnham. 
 
 Albert B. Streeter, 
 George H. Abbott, 
 James F. Movvry, 
 
 William C. Clark, 
 Samuel B. T. Crandall, 
 Alonzo A. Greenman, 
 Daniel J. Viall, 
 
 *Sylvester B. Arnold, 
 William Ash, 
 William Baker, 
 George B. Bromer, 
 Job Butler, 
 San ford Buxton, 
 Joseph C. Clarke, 
 John Cooney, 
 Patrick Coyne, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 George H. Allen, 
 Ambrose L. Atwood. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 David Briggs, 
 George W. Allen, 
 Thomas Johnson. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Patrick Fanning, 
 Peter Gormley, 
 
 William Groves, 
 Joseph A. Green, 
 James Haggett, 
 James Hughes, 
 David W. James, 
 James Kelley, 
 Patrick Kennedy, 
 
 Died August 2, 1S02, in hospital. 
 
;S2 
 
 ROSTER OF THE NINTH 
 
 William W. Maxon, 
 Joseph Mechling, 
 Robert F. Northup, 
 George Nye, 
 Nathan T. Oatley, 
 John R. Oatley, 
 Welcome A. Potter, 
 Harry A. Richardson, 
 
 George W. Richmond, 
 Jesse W. Richmond, 
 William H. H. Swan, 
 John M. Taylor, Jr., 
 Brightman Tucker, 
 Nehemiah Watson, 
 Isaac Westcott, 
 William Young:. 
 
 COMPANY L. 
 
 Captains. 
 
 John Hare Powel. (See Lieutenant-Colonels.) 
 
 Benjamin L. Slocum. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 William R. Landers. 
 
 Seeond Lieutenant. 
 William H. King. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 William M. Minkler, 
 Thomas S. Nason. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Schuyler Van Renssellaer, 
 William C. Rogers, 
 
 Edmund W. Fales, 
 Lance De Jough, 
 George H. Tabor, 
 
 Sumner Lincoln, 
 William L. Pfeiffer, 
 
RHODE ISLAM) VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 3° 3 
 
 Frank Morgan, 
 Sigourney B. Goffe, 
 
 William S. Slocum, 
 Benjamin A. Peckham. 
 
 Musicians. 
 
 Cassius M. C. Freeborn, Christopher Gladding. 
 
 Theodore Almy, 
 Samuel Babcock, 
 William H. Barber, 
 Alexander N. Barker, 
 Henry B. Bateman, 
 Thomas Blacklock, 
 Edward T. Bosworth, 
 James M. Brown, 
 Benjamin T. Brown, 
 George M. Brown, 
 George F. Boone, 
 Charles G. Burnett, 
 William F. Barlow, 
 Truman Burdick, 
 Thomas Campbell, 
 Robert W. Chappell, 
 Samuel Clark, 
 William E. Coggeshall, 
 Daniel C. Denhan, 
 James Dewick, 
 Theophilus C. Dunn, 
 John B. Durfee, 
 Benjamin B. Durfee, 
 John Fludder, 
 Orland Freeborn, 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Henry T. French, 
 Michael Garrick, 
 John E. Goffe, 
 John Gould, 2d, 
 Robert W. Gould, 
 George B. Harrington, 
 Henry I. Hudson, 
 James Melville, 
 John L. Nason, 
 Michael O'Brien, 
 Jefferson O' Riley, 
 David Peabody, 
 Alexander Peckham, 
 Charles T. Prouty, 
 Randall Pullen, 
 John Ramsden, 
 Ferdinand S. Read, 
 Frank Rice, 
 Henry Ridell, 
 Edward R. Seagur, 
 Albert G. Sherman, 
 Thomas W. Sherman, 
 James Simmons, 
 Edmund D. Slocum, 
 John H. Stacy, 
 
;84 ROSTER OF THE NINTH R. I. VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 Edmund Stanhope, John Vicars, 
 
 Frank M. Swan, William W. Wales, 
 
 John W. Tayer, Nicholas A. Wilkey, 
 
 John E. Tabor, Edward V. Wescott, 
 
 Edward H. Tilley, Thomas Young. 
 William S. Vose, 
 
ROSTER 
 
 Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers. 
 
 Field axf> Staff. 
 
 Colonels. 
 Zenas R. Bliss. 
 
 Military Record from /-; < io ■ 
 
 He was appointed a cadet at West Point in 1850 by the Hon. 
 Nathan F. Dixon, of Rhode Island. Graduated in 1854. 
 Was appointed a brevet second lieutenant in the First Infan- 
 try and ordered to Fort Duncan, Texas ; served there till 
 June, 1855 ; was transferred to Fort Chadbourne, Texas, and 
 was adjutant of the battalion en route to that post. Was 
 promoted second lieutenant, Eighth United States Infantry, 
 and ordered to Fort Davis, Texas, and served there till 1857 
 or 1858, most of that time in command of a detachment of 
 mounted infantry and engaged in scouting for hostile Indians. 
 Was transferred with company to Fort Hudson, Texas, and 
 to various other posts on that frontier till i860, when he was 
 promoted first lieutenant, and ordered to the command of his 
 49 
 
$S6 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 company and the post of Fort Quitman, on the Rio Grande. 
 From 1856 was in command of a detachment of mounted 
 infantry, and also served in command of a company, and the 
 posts of Forts Hudson, Clark and Quitman, and as post quar- 
 termaster, commissary and adjutant at various posts. 
 
 In March, 1S61, while in command of Fort Quitman, he 
 received orders to march to San Antonio, Texas, for the pur- 
 pose of being transferred to the North. He abandoned the 
 post and marched about forty miles, when he received orders 
 to await the arrival of Colonel Reeve, Eighth Infantry, who 
 was on the march to the coast with other companies of the 
 regiment. He returned to his post, and on the 5th of April 
 joined Colonel Reeve's command and marched to San An- 
 tonio, Texas, a distance of about six hundred and fifty miles. 
 On the 9th of May, 1S61, when they were about fifteen miles 
 from San Antonio, they were met by a large force of over two 
 thousand men, under rebel Gen. Earl Van Dorn, consisting 
 of a regiment of infantry, one of cavalry, a battery of six 
 pieces of artillery and an independent company of about one 
 hundred men. On leaving their posts they had been led to 
 believe they were to be transferred to the North, and were 
 ordered to take only sufficient ammunition to protect them- 
 selves from the Indians, and to take rations from post to 
 post. When met by the rebels they had not, according to 
 their orders, more than ten or fifteen rounds of ammunition per 
 man, and only one day's rations. An unconditional surrender 
 was demanded, and Lieutenant Bliss was ordered by Colonel 
 Reeve to inspect the rebel troops, to see if they were well 
 armed and equipped, and to count or estimate the number of 
 men After some difficulty he did so and made his report 
 that they were well armed, etc. They had previously cap- 
 tured the arsenal at San Antonio, and supplied themselves 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 38/ 
 
 from the stores there. A council of war was held, of which 
 Lieutenant Bliss was not a member, and the command was 
 surrendered. He was a junior first lieutenant, and had noth- 
 ing to do with the surrender any more than any private, but was 
 held as much responsible for it as any one. No officer who 
 was with the command at the time of surrender was promoted 
 during the war, though several of them received the strongest 
 recommendations for promotion for gallantry and good con- 
 duct on frequent occasions. 
 
 He remained a prisoner of war at San Antonio till Febru- 
 ary, 1S62, when he was ordered to Richmond, Va., for 
 exchange. There were but three left of the officers captured 
 in May, the others having succeeded in getting North on 
 parole. On their arrival in Richmond they were shut up in 
 the negro jail and remained there till April 5th, when they 
 were exchanged, having been held prisoners of war eleven 
 months. 
 
 In May, 1862, he was appointed colonel of the Tenth Rhode 
 Island Volunteers and served with it till August, when he 
 was appointed colonel of the Seventh Rhode Island and re- 
 mained colonel of it till honorably mustered out after the 
 close of the war. He commanded the regiment on the Fred- 
 ericksburg campaign, and at the first battle of Fredericks- 
 burg, and was recommended by all his superiors for promo- 
 tion to the rank of brigadier-general, for gallantry and skillful 
 handling of his regiment under fire. 
 
 In 1865 he went with the corps to Kentucky and thence 
 to Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss., on the campaign after 
 Johnston, and at the conclusion of it was recommended, first 
 in the corps, for promotion to the rank of brigadier, and his 
 promotion, with others, asked for by General Grant. But 
 he did not receive it. He returned with the corps to Ken- 
 
388 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 tucky, and started for Knoxville with the corps in the winter 
 of 1863 and 1S64, but at the request of General Ammen, 
 commanding the district or department, he was ordered to 
 the command of the District of Middle Tennessee, and re- 
 mained in command of it till the corps was withdrawn from 
 Tennessee. It was an important command. He had a large 
 post and several regiments, and protecting about two million 
 rations for Sherman's army and a large extent of country. 
 At the end of the campaign he was again recommended for 
 promotion to the rank of brigadier-general, but did not get it 
 though all others recommended did. 
 
 He went with the corps to Annapolis, Md., and was as- 
 signed to the command of the First Brigade, Second Division, 
 Ninth Army Corps, and commanded in the \\ 'ilderness, where 
 he was brevetted for gallant and meritorious services. He 
 was in command of the brigade to Spottsylvania, where he 
 was injured by his horse jumping on him in crossing a stream 
 in the night. He commanded the brigade at the mine which 
 was constructed by a regiment of his brigade, and at the 
 explosion of the mine and ensuing battle, and received a very 
 complimentary letter from his division commander, Gen. 
 Robert B. Potter. He remained in command of the brigade 
 to some time in the early fall when he was obliged to take a 
 sick leave. After being absent sick some weeks, he was placed 
 on light duty on a board of officers, as president, and remained 
 on that duty till the close of the war in the following spring. 
 
 After being mustered out of the volunteer service he was 
 on recruiting service, and in command of Schuylkill Arsenal 
 and Fort Porter, N. Y., till May, 1S66, when he went with 
 his company to South Carolina and was assigned to the com- 
 mand of the district of Chester, in that State. He was 
 Acting Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Freedmen 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 389 
 
 and Abandoned Lands, provost judge and provost marshal, 
 etc., and had charge of all the civil and military business of 
 that district. In August he was ordered on recruiting ser- 
 vice, receiving the detail for having served longer in the 
 field during the rebellion than any officer in his regiment. 
 In August, 1867, he was promoted major of the Thirty-ninth 
 Infantry, and commanded the posts of Jackson Barracks, 
 Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and Ship Island, Miss., till 
 1870, when he was transferred with the regiment to Texas, 
 and commanded the posts of Forts Duncan, Clark, Stockton, 
 Davis and Bliss, and for more than a year the regiment. In 
 1878 he was ordered on duty in command of the principal 
 depot, general recruiting service, David's Island, New York 
 Harbor, and having been promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 
 Nineteenth Infantry, he was in 1880 ordered to the command 
 of Fort Hays, Kansas. In 18S1 he was transferred with the 
 regiment to Texas, and commanded the post of Ringgold 
 Barracks. In 1882 he went on sick leave and at the expira- 
 tion of it returned to Texas and commanded Forts Duncan 
 and Clark, and for more than a year the regiment, till in 
 1886 he was promoted colonel of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, 
 and has commanded it and the posts of Fort Supply, Indian 
 Territory, and Fort Bayard, New Mexico, to the present 
 time. 
 
 Colonel Bliss has been in command of an independent 
 organization, district, brigade, regiment or post since i860, 
 except for about six or eight months, and has not been 
 absent from his regiment on detached service but once since 
 1867, and has served longer on the southwestern frontier 
 than any officer ever in the service. 
 
390 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 James Shaw, Jr., 
 
 Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General. 
 
 Entered service as lieutenant-colonel, Tenth Rhode Island Volun- 
 teers, May 26, 1862; promoted colonel, Aug. 6, 1862, served 
 in defences of Washington ; mustered out by reason of expir- 
 ation of term of service, Sept. 1, 1862. Re-entered service 
 as lieutenant-colonel, Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, Dec. 
 31, 1862 ; served with Ninth Army Corps before Fredericks- 
 burg, at Newport News and in Kentucky, and with General 
 Carter at Somerset, Ky. ; mustered out, expiration of term 
 of service, July 29, 1863. Went before "Casey's Board," 
 passed as colonel, being the fifth of that grade out of 700 
 examined, and was appointed colonel, Seventh United States 
 Colored Troops, Oct. 27, 1863 ; joined for duty and assumed 
 command, Nov. 12, 1863, at Camp Stanton, Md. Served con- 
 tinuously with the regiment or in command of the forces to 
 which it was attached, as follows : Commanding post at 
 Jacksonville, Fla , and brigade on expeditions to Cedar Creek 
 and Camp Melton ; commanding First Brigade, Third Divi- 
 sion, Tenth Army Corps, Aug. 13 to 21, Aug. 25 to Sept. 25, 
 and Oct. 26 to Dec. 4, 1864 ; commanding First Brigade, 
 Second Division, Twenty-fifth Army Corps, from and after 
 Dec. 4, 1864; commanding Second Division, Twenty-fifth 
 Army Corps, Feb. 21 to March 13, 1865 ; commanding sub- 
 district of Victoria, Tex., from Jan. 16, 1S66, to Feb. 21, 
 1866; commanding Central District of Texas, Feb. 21 to 
 May 9, 1866. Contusion on head from rifle ball in action, 
 Sept. 30, 1864. Brigadier-general by brevet "for meritorious 
 services during the war," to date from March 13, 1865. 
 Discharged with the regiment at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 16, 
 1 866. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 39 1 
 
 L ieit tenant- Colonels. 
 
 James Shaw, Jr. {See Colonel.) 
 
 William M. Hale. 
 
 (Promoted from captain. Company I. Augusl ti, [862.) 
 
 Majors. 
 Charles H. Merriman. 
 
 (Acting till June 9, 1S62.) 
 
 Jacob Babbitt. 
 
 (Killed at the first battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December, 1S62 1 
 
 Adjutants. 
 
 Benjamin F. Thurston. 
 
 Acting till June 9, 1862. ) 
 
 John F. Tobey. 
 
 (Served as first lieutenant Company K.) 
 
 Quartermasters. 
 James H. Armington. 
 
 (Resigned July 19, [S62. 
 
 Winthrop De Wolf (acting). 
 Charles W. Angell. 
 
 (Fir>t lieutenant and quartermaster, July 25, 1862.) 
 
 Surgeon. 
 
 George D. Wilcox (major). 
 
 Assistant Surgeon. 
 
 Albert G. Sprague (first lieutenant.) 
 
 Chaplain. 
 
 A. Huntington Clapp. 
 
39 2 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 Sergeant-Majors. 
 John F. Tobev. 
 
 (Acting till June 9, 1S62.) 
 
 Edward K. Glezen. 
 
 Quartermaster- Sergeant. 
 Lysandek Flagg. 
 
 Commissary Sergeant. 
 James O. Swan. 
 
 Hospital Steward. 
 Charles G. King. 
 
 COMPANY A. 
 
 Captain. 
 William E. Taber. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Joseph L. Bennett, Jr. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 Leander C. Belcher. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 William A. James, Sullivan H. Dawley, 
 
 Pembroke S. Eddy, Daniel D. Bucklin. 
 
 Ambrose R. Peck, 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 39; 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 William W. Thompson, Eugene F. Phillips, 
 
 Albert C. Winsor, 
 George W. S. Burroughs, 
 Joseph Smith, 
 Joseph C. Cheetham, 
 
 William H. Aldrich, 
 t Frank H. Angell, 
 * William F. Atvvood, 
 
 Henry B. Barrows, 
 
 Joseph E. Blake, 
 
 Nathan S. Blake, 
 
 William T. Brown, 
 
 John Buchanan, 
 
 Robert Charnley, 
 
 Daniel E. Corev, 
 
 Isaac Dakin, 
 
 Charles H. Dexter, 
 
 William H. Dingwell, 
 
 Barnard M. Eddy, 
 
 John Farrell, 
 
 Franklin B. Ham, 
 
 Frank T. Hazlewood, 
 fWilliam H. Heath, 
 
 Wendell P. Hood, 
 fjames B. Horton, 
 
 John H. Johnson, 
 fjohn Larramore, 
 
 Edwin Morse, 
 
 Caleb C. Greene, Jr., 
 Godfrey Greene, Jr., 
 John H. Johnson. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 In man A. Mo wry, Jr., 
 
 fjames Murphy, 
 Michael O'Connell, 
 Ebenezer Peck, 
 Joseph S. Phipps, 
 Silas W. Plimpton, Jr., 
 Ashael Potter, 
 Adam Pomfret, 
 
 fOwen H. Quinland, 
 James Redfern, 
 Charles H. Saunders, 
 John Shawcross, 
 Henry B. Shearer, 
 
 fEben Thing, 
 Orlando P. Thompson, 
 Reuben L. Thornton, 
 
 f John Torrance, 
 George R. Waite, 
 John A. Waite, 
 Lewis C. Whittier, 
 
 f Frank H. Williams, 
 Charles Wilson, 
 Luther T. Win slow. 
 
 * Died at Georgetown hospital, June 29, 1S62. 
 t Discharged as a minor, July ^, 1S62. 
 
 50 
 
394 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 COMPANY B. 
 
 Captain. 
 
 Elisha Dyer. 
 
 May 4, 1842, adjutant-general, State of Rhode Island ; honorably 
 discharged, May 4, 1847; 1857, Governor of the State of 
 Rhode Island; 1861, captain, Fourth Ward Company, First 
 Regiment Rhode Island National Guard ; May 26, 1862, 
 mustered in captain, Co. B, Tenth Regiment Rhode Island 
 Volunteers; Sept. 1, 1862, mustered out of service. 
 
 First Lieutenants. 
 Samuel H. Thomas. 
 
 (August n, 1S62. promoted to captain Company I.) 
 
 William C. Chace. 
 
 Second Lieutenants. 
 William C. Chace. 
 
 (August 11, 1S62, promoted to first lieutenant.) 
 
 Charles F. Phillips. 
 
 (August 11. 1S62. promoted from first sergeant Company B.) 
 
 Sergeants. 
 Charles F. Phillips, Charles L. Stafford, 
 
 Henry B. Franklin, Eben W. McGlaulin, 
 
 Nathaniel B. Chace, George T. Baker. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Samuel W. Church, Barnabas J. Chace, 
 
 Nathan H. Baker, Addison W. Goffe, 
 
 John Tetlow, Jr., John B. Kelley, 
 
 William P. Vaughan, Charles H. Scott. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 395 
 
 Musician. 
 Edward M. Ga<re. 
 
 Frederick Alexander, 
 Samuel A. W. Arnold, 
 Joshua M. Addeman, 
 Charles H. Anthony, 
 Thomas Burlingame, 
 De Forest Brown, 
 John G. Browning, 
 James W. Blackwood, 
 William W. Bliss, 
 Horace K. Blanchard, 
 
 fjesse AI. Bush, 
 Charles H. Clarke, 
 Charles M. Corbin, 
 Charles C. Cragin, 
 William P. Cragin, 
 James T. Cook, 
 Forrest F. Emerson, 
 James F. Field, 
 George AI. Fanning, 
 
 f Byron Harris, 
 Edwin B. Fiske, 
 Frank Frost, 
 Henry G. Gay, 
 Charles B. Greene, 
 Charles T. Greene, 
 Francis Gould, 
 
 Privates. 
 
 George W. Handy, 
 
 fWilliam H. Hawks, 
 Robert B. Holden, 
 John S. Holmes, 
 Charles E. Hosmer, 
 
 t David Hunt, Jr., 
 Enoch F. Hoxie, 
 
 fGeorge A. Jenckes, 
 George P. Kenyon, 
 Joseph W. Lake, 
 Charles AI. Latham, 
 Henry S. Latham, Jr., 
 Dean S. Linnell, 
 Richard P. Lobdell, 
 Benjamin T. Marble, 
 
 •Matthew AI. Aleggett, 
 Charles S. McCreading, 
 William H. Moffitt, 
 James Nicholson, 
 Charles E. R. Page, 
 
 t Allen G. Peck, 
 Addison Parker, Jr., 
 John F. Pierce, 
 Owen S. Pond, 
 Thomas T. Potter, 
 Samuel H. Pratt, 
 
 ♦August iS, 1862, died in hospital, Fort Pennsylvania, D. C. 
 t July S, 1S62, discharged as :i minor. 
 
396 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 Samuel G. Rawson, George H. Spat-hawk, 
 
 John A. Reynolds, *William A. Spicer, 
 
 Dana B. Robinson, Franklin A, Steere, 
 
 George W. Robinson, fFrank F. Tingley, 
 
 William W. Salisbury, fGeorge E. Thompson, 
 
 Livingston Scott, James R. D. Thompson, 
 
 Orville B. Seagrave, Benjamin \V. Wilbour. 
 Thomas J. Smith, 
 
 COMPANY C. 
 
 Captain. 
 
 Jeremiah M. Vose. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 John E. Bradford. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 Caleb B. Harrington. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Henry N. Stevens, Harry D. Perkins, 
 
 Daniel B. Rodman, Joseph W. Padelford. 
 
 Amos G. Thomas, 
 
 * July 1, 1S62, detached on special service at General Pope's headquarters. 
 t July S, 1S62, discharged as a minor. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 397 
 
 Corporals, 
 
 Joseph W. Bradford, Caleb E. Thayer, 
 
 William C. Angell, William B. Durfee. 
 
 Joshua Hunt, 
 
 Musician. 
 
 fjoshua H. Thomas. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 William Allen, Daniel E. Kiley, 
 
 John Atkinson, William H. Leonard, 
 
 Ezra Bisbec, George W. Lewis, 
 
 James Bowden, Theodore F. Lewis, 
 
 fWilliam T. Boyden, . Rice A. Miller, 
 
 Edward L. Brown, Edmund J. Munroe, 
 
 John A. Brown, Thomas B. Munroe, 
 
 fThomas A. Brown, George A. Pettis, 
 
 Charles R. Burke, George P. Rose, 
 
 James E. Campbell, Frank Seamans, 
 
 William B. Durfee, Stephen A. Shaw, 
 
 George Eagan, Silas Sherman, Jr., 
 
 Jerome B. Farnum, Henry H. Steadman, 
 
 John H. Gardner, Elisha W. Sweet, 
 
 Ellis T. Hay ward, George L. Thurber, 
 
 Albert F. Hoxic, James Tomman, 
 
 John L. Hussey, William Tremble, 
 
 Gilbert A. Irons, John H. Tyler, 
 
 Nathan Jacques, James H. Waterman, 
 
 Isaac C. Kendall, Andrew J. Williams, 
 
 John E. Kenyon, Ferdinand A. Williams. 
 
 t |ulv 7, 1S62, discharged for disability. 
 
39§ 
 
 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 COMPANY D. 
 
 Captains. 
 Charles H. Dunham. 
 
 (Acting till June S, 1862.) 
 
 William S. Smith. 
 
 Firs t L ien tena n ts . 
 James H. Armington. 
 
 (Resigned July 19, 1S62.) 
 
 William S. Smith. 
 
 (June S, 1S62, promoted to captain.) 
 
 Winthrop De Wolf. 
 
 Second Lieutenants. 
 Winthrop De Wolf. 
 
 (July 25, 1862, promoted to first lieutenant.) 
 
 Charles W. Angell. 
 
 (July 25, 1S62. promoted from private.) 
 
 Thomas A. Starkey, 
 Charles S. Mathewson, 
 Edward W. Brown, 
 Thomas F. Tobey, 
 
 Howard O. St urges, 
 Henry A. Foster, 
 George H. Daniels, 
 Edward N. Gould, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 fSamuel R. Dorrance, 
 Daniel Bush, 
 William H. H. Brayman. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Philip Kelley, 
 Brockholst Mathewson, 2d, 
 Frederic Buttendorf, 
 Edward K. Thompson. 
 
 7 July 15, 1S62, discharged on surgeon's certificate. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 399 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Edward Aborn, 
 George W. Adams, 
 Nelson W. Aldrich, 
 Willard J.Allen, 
 Frederic J. Armington, 
 fWilliam Whitman Bailey, 
 Alfred H. Barber, Jr., 
 James H. Barney, 
 George B. Barrows, 
 George B. Binney, 
 George D. Briggs, 
 Samuel T. Brown, 
 Herman Buttendorf, 
 George Bucklin, 
 Levi L. Burdon, 
 John G. Burro ugh, 
 John H. Cacly, 
 Henry T. Chace, 
 Edward C. Clarke, 
 Peleg Clarke, Jr., 
 Harry Castello, 
 Eben B. Crane, 
 Samuel S. Davis, 
 Charles H. DeWolf, 
 J. Halsey DeWolf, 
 John K. Dorrance, 
 James D. Dougherty, 
 Henry P. Eldridge, 
 James M. Flagg, 
 Charles O. Giles, 
 
 Albert E. Ham, 
 Henry A. Hamilton, 
 William A. Harris, 
 Frederic H. Hedge, Jr., 
 Charles H. Hidden, 
 William H. Hubbard, 
 Lucien E. Kent, 
 George W. Kennedy, 
 Albert B. Kimball, 
 Henry J. Levalley, 
 Thomas Livingston, 
 Hugh McGovern, 
 Norman N. Mason, 
 Frank S. Mead, 
 S. Erastus Merchant, 
 Joshua Mellen, 
 James Morning, Jr., 
 Elisha C. Mo wry, 
 Charles K. Newcomb, 
 William R. Okie, 
 Edward S. Parker, 
 Robert H. Paine, 
 J. Haradon Peck, 
 John Pitman, Jr., 
 John Anson Price, 
 John M. Richmond, 
 Christopher Rhodes, 
 John R. Sisson, 
 Herman C. Stillwell, 
 Charles M. Smith, 
 
 tjuly 15, 1S62, discharged 
 
400 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 John E. Smith, Joseph Ward, 
 
 John R. Smith, George C. Webster, 
 
 fSolomon Smith, *Charles H. Wildman, 
 Edward K. Thompson, William L. Wickes. 
 
 Robert Thompson, 
 
 COMPANY E. 
 
 Captain. 
 Hopkins B. Cady. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Stephen Thurber. 
 
 Seeond Lieutenant. 
 Moses O. Darling. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 John A. Jeffrey, William Stone, 
 
 Raymond W. Cahoone, Frank Holclen. 
 
 Ray G. Burlingame, 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Orsmus A. Taft, J. Collins Gould, 
 
 Isaac S. Burke, Nathan T. Robinson, 
 
 Joseph C. Whiting, Jr., Ira R. Wilbur, 
 
 Welcome B. Darling, William A. H. Grant. 
 
 * July i, 1S02, detached on special service at General Pope's headquarters. 
 t J ul y 'Si 1S62, discharged on surgeon's certificate. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 4OI 
 
 Musician. 
 Amos B. Sherman. 
 
 Samuel S. Baker, 
 John Bishop, 
 James B. Brogden, 
 Chauncey Brown, 
 Joseph R. Burrows, 
 
 f Arthur Burt, 
 Charles H. Burt, 
 Christopher A. Cacly, 
 Walter D. Colwell, 
 Lewis E. Davis, 
 Samuel Dunkerly, 
 John F. Durfee, 
 James A. Foster, 
 Joseph B. Hayward, 
 William H. Henshaw, 
 
 f Edwin Herrick, 
 Michael Hickey, 
 Joseph H. Horr, 
 Theodore Horton, 
 George W. Horton, 
 Henry H. James, 
 
 Privates. 
 
 fF. M. Johnson, 
 Daniel Kelly, 
 
 |A. W. Ladd, 
 George W. Lindsay, 
 Thomas A. Manchester, 
 
 jC. W. Mason, 
 Edward T. Nichols, 
 
 f Henry W. Pearce, 
 Ellery W. Price, 
 John Russell, 
 John Sawyer, 
 Job W. Sherman, 
 William H. Sherman, 2d, 
 William Simmons, 
 Charles A. Sweet, 
 Nathan J. Sweetland, 
 Charles J. Tourtellott, 
 Gilbert P. Vallett, 
 William H. White, 
 Henry A. Well man, 
 Henrv S. Yarwood. 
 
 f T u 'v, 1S62. discharged as a minor. 
 
 51 
 
4-02 
 
 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 COMPANY F, 
 
 Captain. 
 Benjamin* W. Harris. 
 
 First L ieu tenan t. 
 
 Orville P. Jones, 
 
 Second L ien ten a n t. 
 George \V. Fairbanks. 
 
 Joel Metcalf, Jr., 
 Charles A. Barbour, 
 Charles H. Worsley, 
 
 William E. Thurston, 
 Samuel A. Whelden, 
 William W. Crandall, 
 Charles E. Carnes, 
 
 John Buckley, 
 George N. Capron, 
 Michael Carlin, 
 James Collins, 
 James Curran, 
 John Drugan, 
 Patrick Fay, 
 Joseph Field, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Charles G. Ingraham, 
 
 George T. Bowen. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Thomas H. Shannon, 
 Andrew Greenhalgh, 
 James Ferguson, 
 William H. Luther. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 John Goucl, 
 William D. Gardiner, 
 James Hanney, 
 John Hannifen, 
 Edward Healey, 
 George C. Luther, 
 John McDonnell, 
 James McElroy, 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 Samuel Meegan, Michael J. Ryan, 
 
 Peter Mullen, John Rouch, 
 
 William Mullen, Joseph Simons, 
 
 John Niles, Simon Smith, 
 
 Andrew O'Hare, Henry Sherman, 
 
 David O'Hare, Solomon Taylor, 
 
 Charles O'Neil, Charles E. Tetlow, 
 
 William Piatt, James Welch, 
 
 Seaman Pattinson, Henry Zuill. 
 James W. Randall, 
 
 403 
 
 COMPANY G. 
 
 Captain. 
 
 Albert Crawford Greene. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 James H. Allen. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 Eben Burlingame. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 John B. Benson, Albert J. Manchester, 
 
 Philip C. Gray, Andrew J. Dexter. 
 
 Edmund W. Hawkins, 
 
 Corporals, 
 
 Charles H. Allen, Charles F. Northup, 
 
 George Crittenden, Franklin Cooley, 
 
4°4 
 
 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 Charles H. Jordan, 
 William C. Thurston, 
 
 Asahel H. Harris, 
 James A. Peckham. 
 
 Rlusician. 
 John F. Parks. 
 
 George M. Adams, 
 George F. Aldrich, 
 Thomas W. Angell, 
 John R. Atwood, 
 Stephen A. Barry, 
 Henry N. Brown, 
 Henry R. Brown, 
 Greenleaf D. Brown, 
 Isaac Brown, 
 Joseph E. Brown, 
 Gustavus B. Burlingame, 
 Hiram Brand, 
 John R. Burke, 
 David R. Campbell, 
 Patrick Cashman, 
 George Chace, 
 George Chatterton, Jr., 
 Richard Clarke, 
 James Doran, 
 William W. Eddy, 
 Erwin S. Eggleston, 
 Pardon B. S. Fords, 
 George W. Franklin, 
 
 Privates. 
 
 fFrederick A. Fry, 
 Albert L. Greene, 
 Samuel H. Hopkins, 
 Erastus M. Hunt, 
 William G. Hynds, 
 Royal E. Jones, 
 George Kellogg, 
 Frank R. Lewis, 
 
 tAlbert A. McDougald, 
 John E. Mathewson, 
 Dennis McLaughlin, 
 Lewis A. Medbury, 
 Frank B. Mott, 
 Thomas E. Xoonan, 
 Benjamin F. Nicholas, 
 George W. Nicholas, 
 Charles E. Osborne, 
 Allen Paine, 
 Arnold J. Paine, 
 Charles H. Philbrick, 
 Benjamin E. Phillips. 
 Stephen Phetteplace, 
 Stephen W. Poole, 
 
 t June 24, 1S6.2, discharged for disability. 
 X June 9, 1S62, discharged as a minor. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 405 
 
 William H. Poole, 
 Henry Schoch, 
 Benjamin Scott, 
 Albert W. Sprague, 
 Daniel Sullivan, 
 John W. Taylor, 
 George H. Tyler, 
 
 Lewis O. Walker, 
 John Warner, 
 Samuel S. Warren, 
 Alonzo Whipple, 
 James C. Whipple, 
 Reuben Wickes, 
 Preston D. Yerrinuton. 
 
 COMPANY H 
 
 Captain. 
 Christopher Duckworth. 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Nicholas B. Bolles. 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 William H. Mason. 
 
 George A. Winchester, 
 Edward C. Kendall, 
 Henry G. Lillibridge, 
 
 Charles H. Beadle, 
 Benjamin F. Pabodie, 
 William T. Hovey, 
 Alphonso W. Martin, 
 
 Sergeants 
 
 Alfred Baker, 
 Charles P. Gay. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 George A. Kendall, 
 Albert G. Knowles, 
 James A. Buck! in, 
 Charles A. Kimball. 
 
406 
 
 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 William E. Dickerson, 
 
 James Annis, 
 Job Armstrong, 
 Bradford W. Bennett, 
 William A. Brown, 
 William A. Brownell, 
 Frederick G. Chaffin, 
 Henry Clark, 
 Warren F. Clemence, 
 William H. Crins, 
 John H. Dodge, 
 Albert E. Fuller, 
 Mark Hartsine, 
 William H. Heclley, 
 Joshua M. Hunt, 
 Charles H. Jackson, 
 Robert Knight, 
 
 Musicians. 
 
 William J. Tiiley, Jr. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Benjamin Lewis, 
 John E. Larned, Jr., 
 Almy Mathewson, 
 Alonzo Mathewson, 
 William H. Mathewson, 
 William B. Pierce, 
 Henry Read, 
 Henry Reinwald, 
 Charles A. Remington, 
 Albert F. Remington, 
 George F. Sheldon, 
 Edwin A. Smith, 
 William H. Thornton, 
 Edwin I. Thurber, 
 Edward Updike, 
 fGeorge Williams. 
 
 COMPANY I. 
 
 Captains. (See Lieutenant-Colonel.) 
 William M. Hale. 
 Samuel H. Thomas. 
 
 A gust ii. 1862, from first lieutenant Company B. | 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Charles H. Mumford. 
 
 t July 7, 1S62, discharged as a minor. 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 
 
 407 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 Peter Alexander Reid. 
 
 Frank R. Dennis, 
 William T. Luther, 
 John R. Allen, 
 
 John W. Greene, 
 Moses B. Chace, 
 Frederic A. Studley, 
 Frederic S. Luther, 
 
 John G. Alers, 
 Fenner R. Allen, 
 William H. Ayer, 
 Leander Baker, 
 Horace E. Barker, 
 James G. Brown, 
 Horace R. Butts, 
 Matthew A. Chace, 
 Richard J. Chappell, 
 Charles F. Church, 
 Robert Dickerson, 
 George Foster, 
 Joseph Garrett, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Henry R. Barker, 
 Daniel E. Barney. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Benjamin D. Hale, 
 Thomas N. D. Reynolds, 
 Oliver S. Alers, 
 Charles W. Howe. 
 
 Musician. 
 Edwin R. Burr. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Charles Gerlach, 
 George W. Grant, 
 William F. Green, 
 James S. Griffin, 
 George G. Gunn, 
 George B. Hale, 
 George W. Harris, Jr., 
 Thomas W. D. Horton, 
 
 f Charles E. Millard, 
 Cornelius W. Miller. 
 
 fGeorge W. Mereweather, 
 Thomas Moore, 
 James M. Munroe, 
 
 t July 7, iSuj, discharged as .1 minor. 
 
40S 
 
 ROSTER OF THE TENTH 
 
 Charles W. Peck, 
 John F. Peck, 
 Edward B. Peck, 
 John F. Paine, 
 George Pepall, 
 James W. Presbrey, 
 George H. Pike, 
 William H. Pullen, Jr., 
 Frederic Roberts, 
 Charles E. Ross, 
 
 Daniel O. Sullivan, 
 Charles A. Schuler, 
 Henry P. Tillinghast, 
 William Toye, 
 William H. Trenn, 
 Pardon Wilbur, 
 Chauncey C. Williams, 
 Albert W. White, 
 Samuel Y. Weaver. 
 
 COMPANY K. 
 
 Captain. 
 G. Frank Low. 
 
 First L ieu tena n t. 
 John F. Tobey (adjutant). 
 
 Second Lieutenant. 
 William G. Pettis. 
 
 Munson H. Najac, 
 William A. Wilson, 
 James E. Blackmar, 
 
 Frederick W. Ellis, 
 James F. Davison, 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Sylvester Martin, 
 Nathan S. K. Davis. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 James F. Mason, 
 I. Bradley Adams, 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 409 
 
 John D. Edgell, Zephaniah Brown, 2d, 
 
 Jesse P. Eddy, Joseph E. Handy. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Israel M. Bullock, Carlo Mauran, 
 
 Mathew Blanchard, Frederick McCausland, 
 
 Benjamin Briggs, tj. Wilson McCrillis, 
 
 James P. Brown, George H. Messer, 
 
 Benjamin H. Case, Samuel N. Mitchell, 
 
 Edison C. Chick, Henry L. Place, 
 
 John S. Chick, Albert B. Pond, 
 
 Frank A. Church, Harris H. Potter, 
 
 Amos Cross, Horatio N, Reynolds, 
 
 John B. Davison, JCharles E. Rhodes, 
 
 Edgar J. Doe, Henry W. Robinson, 
 
 Thomas Farrell, Lewis L. Sagendorph, 
 
 Amasa R. Goffe, George W. Shaw, 
 
 ^Stephen P. Greene, Elisha Smith, 
 
 John B. Hanna. Daniel Sullivan, 
 
 Daniel H. Helme, Charles D. Thurber, 
 Benjamin H. Hemminway, Frank H. Thurber, 
 
 John J. Holmes, George K. Tyler, 
 
 John C. Hopkins, William H. Underbill, 
 
 Stephen A. Horton, Levi C. Walker, 
 
 William C. Ives, A. Fuller Warren, 
 
 Walter M. Jackson, George W. Welden, 
 
 Willis B. Jackson, Charles S. White, 
 
 Reuben W. Johnson, Thomas G. Whaley, 
 
 Gilbert A. Kenney, William C. Witter, 
 
 George H. Kenyon, Charles D. Wilbur, 
 
 Frank A. Love, William H. Young. 
 De Witt C. Mathewson, 
 
 f June 7, 1S62, discharged as a minor. 
 \ July 7, 1S62, discharged as a minor. 
 § Discharged as a minor. 
 52 
 
ROSTER 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Tenth Light Battery Rhode Island Volunteers, 
 
 ( Company L. ) 
 
 Captain. 
 Edwin C. Gallup. 
 
 First Lieutenants. 
 
 Senior. Samuel A. Peakce, Jr. 
 
 Junior. Frank A. Rhodes. 
 
 Second Lieutenants. 
 
 Senior. Amos D. Smith, Jr. 
 
 Junior. Henry Pearce. 
 
 Hospital Steward. 
 Charles W. Cady. 
 
 First Sergeant. 
 Amasa C. Tourtellott. 
 
 Quartermaster Sergeant. 
 Asa Lyman. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 James S. Davis, Jr., George W. Paton, 
 
 Henry W. Brown. Stephen G. Luther, 
 
 Calvin J. Adams, Philip B. Stiness, Jr. 
 
ROSTER OF TENTH LIGHT BATTERY R. I. VOLS. 
 
 411 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Alphonso Bennett, 
 Henry A. Boss, 
 Isaac S. Andrews, 
 James Flate, 
 James M. Harrison, 
 Liscomb C. Winn. 
 
 John L. Remlinger, 
 Henry A. Guild, 
 Smith F. Phillips, 
 Nathaniel F. Winslow, Jr., 
 Ephraim Greene, 
 John P. Dow, 
 Charles H. Starkey, 
 
 Artificers. 
 
 William Almy, Charles J. Noonan. 
 
 Musician. 
 
 1 )aniel F. Read. 
 
 [ 'oluutccr Surgeon. 
 Edward Carrincton Franklin. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 George H. Adams, 
 Robert Aldrich, 
 George Aldermick, 
 Smith A. Alexander, 
 Henry H. Almy, 
 Thomas Atwood, 
 Henry C. Bailey, 
 Samuel Bailey, 
 Edwin H. Barnes, 
 Norman K. Barnes, 
 William A. Bates, 
 George H. Baxter, 
 Alfred A. Bicknell, 
 
 Horatio N. Billington, 
 Frederic D. Bliss, 
 William J. Booth, 
 William A. Bragg, 
 William B. Briggs, 
 Gardner K. Browning, 
 Henry A. Burchard, 
 Frederic L. Burden, 
 Frederic Campbell, 
 Donald Cameron, 
 Joseph Carroll, 
 Thomas Chace, Jr., 
 John Carvey, 
 
 *AugustS, )S62, killed hy accident ncur Fort Penns} Ivania. 
 
412 
 
 ROSTF.R OF THE TENTH LIGHT BATTERY 
 
 Frank \V. Cole, 
 Nelson G. Cole, 
 Elijah D. Collins, 
 James Cruiksbanks, 
 James Crook, 
 Edgar A. Cummings, 
 George Cummings, 
 James Curran, 
 Bethil Curtis, 
 Charles Dougherty, 
 Joseph D. Dow, 
 Aaron Duxbury, 
 Ezekiel Emerson, 
 Joseph R. Elsbree, 
 Mitchell J. Fagan, 
 Mitchell A. Feeley, 
 Edson D. Follett, 
 Joseph A. Fowler, 
 Thomas H. French, 
 Smith Goodspeed, 
 Frederic W. Granger, 
 George W. Greene, 
 Patrick Gleason, 
 Edward P. Harney, 
 David Hart, 
 Henry N. Hopkins, 
 James F. Hopkins, 
 J. Ray Hopkins, 
 Daniel H. Horton, 
 Gideon M. Horton, 
 Mitchell F. Holden, 
 Patrick Herren, 
 
 William H. Harvey, 
 William Jenkins, 
 William F. Johnson, 
 George P. Johnson, 
 George Kearney, 
 Patrick Kelly, 
 Willard A. Knight, 
 William Londaigon, 
 Timothy McCarthy, 
 Joseph McClellan, 
 Patrick McGettrick, 
 Peter McCready, 
 Peter McDermott, 
 Prescott Miller, 
 George F. Munroe, 
 Patrick Murphy, 
 Henry Myers, 
 Matthew Meehan, 
 Hugh McGuire, 
 John McCarty, 
 Ambrose A. Newbert, 
 Ellery Northup, 
 Francis Perkins, 
 Duty Place. 
 James C. Potter, 
 Oliver A. Potter, 
 Thomas H. Ray, 
 Jason B. Reynolds, 
 Albert Richards, 
 Henry A. Remington, 
 Isaac Riley, 
 George Robinson, 
 
RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 4 I 3 
 
 Myron Rounds, Henry Tucker, 
 
 William A. Ryan, Stephen D. Tucker, 
 
 Augustus Read, William L. Tyrrell, 
 
 John Schaab, Daniel R. Tennant, 
 
 Matthew Scott, William Turner, 
 
 Henry L. Shippen, Brayton Vallett, 
 
 William Somerville, Stillman W. Wade, 
 
 William Southers, Allen T. White, 
 
 George Stone, Alpha B. White, 
 
 Charles N. Sheldon, David H. Wright, 
 
 John Stewart, James Wood, 
 
 Henry J. Stewart, William E. Woodworth, 
 
 John Taylor, Patrick Welch. 
 Israel O. Taylor, 
 
414 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 Tillinghast's Assembly Rooms, ) 
 Providence. R. I.. May 26, 1S93. ( 
 
 At a meeting of the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers and Battery Veteran 
 Association, held this evening, upon motion of Comrade Charles F. Phillips, 
 the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That a vote of thanks he tendered to Comrade William A, Spicer, 
 as an acknowledgment of the satisfactory manner with which he has performed 
 the arduous duty of editing and compiling the History of the Ninth and Tenth 
 Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and Tenth Rhode Island Battery. 
 
 Resolved, That a special copy of the new Regimental History, suitably hound 
 and inscribed, with these resolutions inserted, be presented to Comrade Spicer 
 by this Association. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the President to carry 
 into effect the foregoing resolutions. 
 
 President Albert J. Manchester appointed as this committee Charles F. 
 Phillips and William A. 11. Grant, of the Tenth Regiment, and Philip B. 
 Stiness, of the Tenth Battery. 
 
 Upon motion, Comrade Harrison II. Richardson, of the Ninth Regiment, was 
 added to the committee. 
 
 Attest : 
 
 (jeo. A. Winchester, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
RESOLUTIONS. 4 I 5 
 
 Providence, R. I.. Oct. 21st, i s v;- 
 
 At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Publication of the Ninth and Tenth 
 R. I. Regiments Veteran Association, Comrade Henry F. Jenks, of the Ninth 
 Regiment Association, was appointed Chairman, and William A. II. Grant, of 
 the Tenth Regiment Association. Secretary. 
 
 Comrade William A. Spicer, the regimental historian, reported that he had 
 completed the work assigned him by the Committees on Publication, and had 
 now the pleasure of presenting them with a copy of the History. 
 
 Comrade Harrison H. Richardson, of the Ninth Regiment Committee, said 
 he had no doubt but that the history now completed would receive the hearty 
 endorsement and approval of the comrades, as it had of the Committee on Pub- 
 lication, and ottered the following resolutions : 
 
 Whereas. Comrade William A. Spicer has brought to a successful conclusion 
 his labors as Editor of our Regimental History, and has produced a volume 
 which, while not recording any thrilling teats of arms, presents a graphic 
 picture of life in the camp and on the march, as described by the Boys in Blue 
 of '62 : therefore. 
 
 Resolved, That the thanks of our several Associations are due to Comrade 
 Spicer for the patient persistency displayed in his search for material, and the 
 skill with which he has woven the threads of his narrative, as well as for the 
 careful discrimination displayed in the production of a book which may find its 
 welcome in the family circle, or the public library, as well as at the camp-fire; 
 anil. 
 
 Resolved, As a further testimonial of our appreciation, that Comrade W illiam 
 A. Spicer be, and he is. hereby appointed Treasurer, to receive and to disburse 
 all funds appropriated or coming from the sale of books, reporting as required 
 to this committee, or its successor. 
 
 The above resolutions were unanimously adopted. 
 
 Henry F. Jenks, Chairman. 
 \\ . A. 11. Grant, Secretary. 
 
 Oct. 2ISt, I.893. 
 
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