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Title: History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Spicer, William Arnold, 1845-1913
Subjects: Rhode Island Infantry. 9th Regiment, 1862 United States. Army. Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 10th (1862) Rhode Island Artillery. 10th Battery, 1862 United States. Army Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865) United States. Army Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 10th (1861-1865) United States. Army Rhode Island Artillery ,10th (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Providence, Snow & Franham, printers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ommands an extensive view. There is an abun-dance of water, shade, and pure air. There is also a great supplyof nothing to eat, as all we have is what was left of the rations webrought 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. JohnM. 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 K, Capt. IsaacPlace, 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, exceptwhat we marched in yesterday ; all are in the wagons, which havenot as yet reached camp. But most of us had foraged plenty
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^^#r0^ ^v NINTH RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 95 of cherries and blackberries, and some of the boys had foundlittle difificulty in deluding some cows into the belief that theywere their own calves, so that we became quite reconciled to thenon-appearance of our baggage wagons. Soon Captain Jenksannounced that he had made arrangements for hot coffee, and theuse of the African Methodist Episcopal Church near by, for ourcompany to lodge in. So we shouldered our muskets, andmarched into the church, a small brick edifice, about the formand size of a New England country school-house. It was nearlynew, and quite neat and clean, and we slept none the worse forits being a negro church. Some of the men were disappointedbecause they found no cushions on the seats, for myself I gladlystretched myself upon one of them near the pulpit, with mycartridge-box for a pillow and slept the sleep of the weary, whilethe boys were making the house ring with their vocal music,singing army songs mixed with hymns and

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