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   LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY 
    
    
    
    
    
   THE

SEVENTH REGIMENT

Rhode Island Volunteers

IN THE CIVIL WAR

1862-1865

william   p: hopkins

Che providence press

Snow & Farnham, Printers

Providence, R. I.

Hub Engraving Co., Engravers

Boston, Mass. 1903. 
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ZENAS R. BLISS

NATHAN B. LEWIS

CHARLES W. HOPKINS

jEottor

GEORGE B. PECK

mr LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1903, by William P. Hopkins, in the office of the Librarian of Congress

at Washington, D. C. 
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committee's preface.

NEARLY" all of the military organizations from Rhode Island that served in the Civil War, have put forth histories for the purpose of perpetuating, in enduring form, their services in that war. Some of these histories were written soon after the return of the different organizations from the field, when the events of the struggle were fresh in the minds of the officers and men who participated therein, while there was a keen interest in the public mind for everything pertaining to the details of the strife, and while the tender chords of grief for the fallen were still painfully vibrating.

Since then the greater portion, perhaps, of the participants in the war have joined their comrades who fell upon the field, and gone beyond the reach of our criticism or our praise. A new generation has come upon the stage, to whom the stirring events in that crisis of our national existence, are only a tradition. While time has dimmed the perspective of the scenes in camp and field, and while the public interest in the events of that struggle may not now be so keen as formerly, nothing which has vitally affected the welfare of our country can ever be regarded with indifference by the worthy and intelligent citizens of the Nation; and especially to the tried and true, to the gray-haired veterans who fought the war for the preservation of the life of the Nation to a successful finish, and to the descendants and immediate relatives of the soldiers themselves, the heroic deeds of any regiment that saw long and active service in the Civil War will be of profound interest; and we may therefore 
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be pardoned if we indulge in the belief, that many besides those who actually bore a part in the active work of suppressing the " Great Rebellion," will read this narrative of the brave and manly part borne therein by the Seventh Rhode Island Infantry, as recorded in the following pages, with mingled feelings of pride and affectionate interest. This would seem to be a sufficient excuse for offering to the public a record of the services of this organization at this late day.

Most of the regimental histories hitherto prepared, have been written by men not themselves actually engaged in the strenuous work of the Civil War, and in the compilation of their stories, distance has lent more or less enchantment to their view, so that in the historic pictures they have painted, their perspective has enlarged the glory and hidden much of the suffering, the weariness, and the horrors of actual military life in the fluctuating progress of a great war.

In the following pages, the reader will find a plain unvarnished narrative, truthfully told, of the everyday life of the soldier, on the march, in the camp and in the field, written from the standpoint of the private soldier who was an active daily participant in the scenes and struggles of which he tells. This narrative has been reviewed and revised by a well-known professional gentleman of high standing who was also himself a soldier in the same war. More or less desultory talk in regard to the importance of having a history of the Seventh written, was frequently indulged in by the comrades immediately following the close of the war, at the reunions of the regiment and at other times, but this wish on the part of the comrades, to preserve a record of their deeds in some permanent form, took no definite shape until the annual reunion of the regiment, held at Crescent Park, in the Summer of 1889. At this time there was considerable discussion of the subject, and William h. Joyce, President 
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of the Seventh Rhode Island Veteran Association, at that reunion, appointed an historical committee of twenty-five, consisting of the following members of the Association:

Col. Zenas R. Bliss, Dr. Albert G. Sprague, Nathan B. Lewis, Edwin R. Allen, Mander A. Maynard, Thomas E. Noyes, William H. Barstow, James P. Merrill, William W. Webb, Joseph R. Brown, Esek R. Darling, William A. Holley, William P. Hopkins, William A. Baker, Charles H. Perkins, Matthew Donahue, James Carpenter, George N. Stone, Thomas B. Carr, Joseph N. Morris, Daniel S. Remington, Joseph N. Smith, Elisha C. Knight, Edward S. Babbitt and William H. Joyce, Jr., the two last named being honorary members. At a later meeting, William H. Johnson and Charles W. Hopkins were added to the committee.

At a reunion held after the death of Major Joyce, at Prescott Post Hall in the City of Providence, on the eighth day of October, A. D. 1890, this committee organized by the choice of Nathan B. Lewis as chairman. A committee composed of so many members was found ito be unwieldy and inefficient and accomplished little of importance. I At the summer reunion held at Cranston's on the Bay, on the twenty-second day of August, A. D. 1893, the President of the Association, Nathan B. Lewis, appointed a sub-committee of five from the general committee, consisting of Mander A. Maynard, Elisha C. Knight, James F. Merrill, Edwin R. Allen and Charles H. Perkins, and, by vote of the Association, the President and Secretary were also made members of this sub-committee.

The work of this sub-committee was designed to be more particularly that of raising funds for the publication of the history. This committee solicited funds from divers members of the Association and from prominent persons in the State, and succeeded in raising a sum which was deemed sufficient to warrant the committee in pro 
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ceeding with the work. Among the larger of the contributors were Gen. Zenas E. Bliss, Captain George N. Stone and Captain George A. Wilbur, who subscribed one hundred dollars each, and Captain George E. Church and United States Senator George Peabody Wet-more, who gave fifty dollars each.

One of the members of the general committee, Comrade William P. Hopkins, from the time of his appointment, and even before that, had been indefatigable in collecting material for such a work, had written thousands of letters, taken numerous pictures of comrades, and even revisited some of the camps and fields where the Seventh had been while in service. He had been untiring in his devotion to this work, and, at the time of the appointment of this sub-committee, had material sufficient to make a creditable history of the regiment.

At the winter reunion, held in the City of Providence on the thirteenth day of December, A. D. 1898, the sub-committee entered into a contract with Comrade Hopkins which provided for the editing and publishing of his material, and appointed Comrades Zenas R. Bliss, Nathan B. Lewis and Charles W. Hopkins a special committee to supervise the publication of the same, with full power of approval and rejection of any matter which might be submitted for such a book. General Bliss, however, died at Washington, on the first day January, A. D. 1900, before this supervisory committee had accomplished much in perfecting its plans for the publication of the history, and the great bulk of the work has necessarily fallen upon the two remaining members. This supervising committee employed Dr. George B. Peck, of Providence, to edit the histroy, and he has faithfully devoted a large amount of time to that work, and has shown a personal zeal and interest in it which the committee did not expect when they secured his services, and for which, the small amount which has been paid him, is but slight compensation.   He has been 
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untiring and most conscientiously faithful in verifying his dates and facts, and it is a pleasure on the part of the committee to commend his services. In preparing a history of this kind, it is inevitable that some comrades will not be given the prominence in the work that their character and services would seem to demand, and while this book contains personal sketches and the pictures of a large number of comrades, there are many others whom the committee would have been glad to have noticed in one or both of these ways, who have been necessarily omitted, partly for want of funds, but more particularly on account of the inability of the committee to secure portraits, or the requisite information for personal sketches, from living comrades or from the friends of those deceased, although Comrade Hopkins has spent a vast amount of time and carried on a very extensive correspondence with all persons whose addresses could be obtained, that were thought likely to be interested, for the purpose of perfecting the work in these particulars. So that, if any comrade, or any relative of deceased comrades should think themselves slighted or ignored in the preparation of this history, the committee trusts that it will not be considered intentional, and is regretted by them as much as by any interested person.

Doubtless in all regimental organizations that have seen much service, there has inevitably been more or less of friction, jealousies and heart-burnings among the officers and men on account of promotions that were thought not to have been deserved, and by the want of official recognition and lack of promotion which had been really well-earned, and the Seventh furnished no exception to the common lot of military organizations in that respect.

It is no part of the object of this work to discuss the relative merits or demerits of any officer or soldier of this command, but to give, as far as possible, an impartial statement of the duties per- 
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formed by the regiment and to avoid, as far as possible, all personal comment and criticism.

It is said that nothing succeeds like success, and every man has to bear his own disappointments and failures as becomes a man, even though he richly deserved a better fate. The tides of human events do not always cast upon the shores of observation the most valuable pearls of human character or human ability. History only records things as they appear on the surface.

Perhaps it may not be amiss to say that the Seventh Regiment was recruited in the dark days of the war, not in the first fever of excitement and high tide of enthusiasm which followed the firing on Sumpter; not while the pleasing delusion prevailed in the North that the war would be of short duration, and that the superior numbers and the weight of the financial and material wealth of that section of the country would speedily crush the Rebellion; nor yet while the belief was still cherished that a breath of fervent patriotic sentiment could extinguish the fires which the hands of treason had lighted.

The Seventh, on the other hand, was recruited after the North had already sent to the field its most emotional sons and those who could best be spared, at a time when the South was exulting in its victories, and the people of the North were humiliated by repeated defeats, at a time when rebellion had reached the high tide of its successes and the North was depressed by many failures, when treason permeated many of the northern states themselves, and the Nation was threatened with foreign intervention. It was at a time when the people of the North had wrestled with the serious problems of the gigantic task, its terrible cost in blood and in treasure, had carefully discounted the sacrifices required and decided to prosecute the work of strangling the monster of secession, even though 
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their pockets and their hearts should become bankrupt. So the men of the Seventh enlisted at a time when the rank and file of the army and the great body of our citizens had come to realize what war meant and well knew that those who donned the blue uniform of the United States Army were entering upon no holiday excursion.

Under such circumstances, perhaps it is not surprising that this regiment was composed of good material for the making of soldiers. They came from among all classes and from all conditions in civil life. They came from the workshops, from the farms, from the foundries, from the schools and from the marts of trade. The great bulk of the regiment was composed of young men who were from fifteen to twenty-five years of age     mere boys they would be thought to be to-day. But they developed into very efficient soldiers. Perhaps the fact that the colonel of the regiment was a graduate of West Point and a captain in the regular army at the commencenent of the war, contributed much to the high degree of discipline and soldierly bearing of the regiment. Many of the omrades, it is well known, considered the Seventh Rhode Island, on account of that fact, a little nearer akin to the regular army than most of the other regiments with which they came in contact. Although the different cities and towns of the State offered bounties, 't cannot be fairly said that this was any great inducement to teachers who were getting fifty dollars per month, or mechanics who were getting still more, and at a time when wages in all lines of employment were rapidly increasing, to enlist in a service requiring such strenuous work and involving so much of personal danger, where the pay of a private soldier was only thirteen dollars per month. So it is no imaginative assertion to say, that they went to this work largely from principle and love of country, inspired by the example of their grandsires at Bunker Hill and Yorktown; the 
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following stanza from an unknown author is fairly expressive of the sentiments by which they were actuated :

" Hurrah ! for our riflemen !   Men of the land

Who have sprung up from a true-hearted yearning, Not eager or willing to kindle war's brand, But to guard what that brand had set burning."

There is no intention here to eulogize their work, lest the committee be thought egotistical, but this plain narrative of the modest part they bore in the effort to preserve these United States an undivided nation, without further comment, is submitted to the considerate judgment of the impartial reader.

Nathan B. Lewis, Charles W. Hopkins. 
   compiler s preface.

FORTY years have now passed since the organization of that body of men whose daily life and deeds of valor are herein recorded. Since the close of the momentous struggle for the ^reservation of the Union, the writer has been engaged from time to time in gathering up from many sources the fragments of informa-ition pertaining to the service of that regiment. While thus employed he became more deeply impressed with the value of the service rendered and the character of the men comprising the rank and file of this organization. Rhode Island's Seventh Regiment was composed of volunteers from the various walks and vocations of life; the laborer, the mechanic, the student, the teacher, the merchant and : the professional man were all represented in its ranks. They were above the average in all that goes to make up an ideal command     fearless, courageous and determined; a large proportion of them rere sons of sturdy farmers, who came directly from their homes and lifelong firesides, who knew not fatigue or exhaustion; the}' were in the prime of young manhood, conscientious and patriotic. Their leader was a tried soldier, skilled in the art of war, in whom they had implicit confidence; a confidence mutual, confirmed and cemented on the hard-fought battlefield, on one memorable occasion finding sxpression in the words of the commander, who had shared with them the terrific ordeal at the very front, " You have covered yourselves with mud and glory."   Thus it was that the Seventh Rhode 
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Island was never known to falter in the performance of its duty, however severe or dangerous the task.

This work is essentially a regimental history; it is not intended to include within its scope matters belonging more properly to a history of the war and which have been fully treated elsewhere. The result sought in the publication of this volume is to place on record an authentic account of the part performed by the Seventh Rhode Island Regiment in the suppression of the Rebellion and to perpetuate the memory of the heroic men who gave up their lives in the service of their country. To this end, personal narratives, minor details, and incidents of daily occurrence, as well as the more serious and important events of a soldier's life, find a place in its pages. Special attention has been given to personal memoirs; a complete series of biographical sketches of all the commissioned officers, and of many of the prominent men, aj)pears. Another important feature is the ntunerous portraits and other illustrations, which in many instances have been secured only by persistent effort and at considerable expense. Many hundreds of letters have been written and many miles traveled to secure this result. It is a pleasure to note that, in visiting the battlefields of Virginia, -with camera and measuring line, and in his official visit to Vicksburg and surrounding country, the writer was received and entertained by men whose cordial greeting was only equalled by their bravery as foemen.

Attention is called to the closing pages of the volume, where brief notes and corrections of errors which have occurred in the body of the work may be found.

The writer desires to express his thanks to the comrades for the many favors they have always been ready to bestow. He is under great obligations to General Bliss (now deceased), to General Dan- 
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iels, and many other officers, for aid and supjjort. He is exceedingly indebted to Comrades Nathan B. Lewis and Charles W. Hopkins, the publication committee, for their earnest co-operation and valuable aid, and to the editor, Dr. George B. Peck, for his able assistance and untiring devotion to the work.

It is with a sense of relief, as well as satisfaction, that the writer now submits to the favorable consideration of his comrades of the "Seventh," to their friends and to posterity, this record of their deeds and memorial of the men who "died that their country might five."

" Soldier rest! thy warfare o'er,

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; Dream of battled fields no more     Days of danger, nights of waking."

William P. Hopkins.

Lawrence, Mass., January, 1903. 
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0 hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure," has been the sole aim of the editor in the preparation of this volume.

The difficulty of its accomplishment by one who was an absolute stranger to well-nigh every place, person and occurrence herein described or referred to, and at the same time was distant sixty-two miles as the crow flieth from the only source of definite information in the premises, may perchance be imagined. Nevertheless it is believed no material inaccuracy exists in these pages, for their contents were culled from letters and journals carefully selected, arranged and copied by Comrade William P. Hopkins. Any slight inexactnesses should be ascribed to the limited and the unreliable sources of information open to enlisted men or to the coloring of interested reporters. When seeking their existence, however, remember an " official" stamp does not establish certitude. A number of brilliant gems have been lost to the work because the editor possessed not the knowledge essential to their proper recutting. Whatever of special interest and value herein obtains must be credited to the keen observation, the tenacious memory and the persistent efforts of the compiler.

A careful perusal of the Personal Sketches is essential to an adequate appreciation of the services of the Seventh. Thereby more perfectly is one acquainted with the sacrifices of the soldier and of his friends.   Indescribably pathetic are incidents here recorded. 
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foreign to the scope of the History proper. Here also is to be found graphic delineations of New England life midward the nineteenth century, and here finally may be traced, step by step, the development of the volunteer soldier into the model citizen. Not a whit less interesting and instructive than the story of field service has been that of his subsequent life.

The following extract from a private letter from Colonel Church, dated Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, September 11, 1902, is apropos: " I suggest that you give the private soldier his due praise. If the regiment earned honors, let his be the laurel wreath; the officers only directed the sturdy blows which came from his energy, his sacrifices and devotion. When the Seventh Regiment was at my heels I felt myself a match for anything the Confederacy could produce    therefore, give the rank and file more honor in your book than you give to the officers."

It is well known Uncle Sam calls his servants whatsoever he pleases and exercises similar authority regarding the orthography of the titles bestowed. Lesser individuals naturally follow his example. Therefore, within the accompanying Register have been placed the various names by which a given individual was known to the Register of 1893, or to that of 1865, or to any person (as far as advised), that the genealogist or other antiquarian of the twenty-first or any subsequent century may not be misled as to the identity of the one under investigation. Such are hereby cautioned to waive any and all differences in spelling or form of name, if conjoined evidence establishes a probability any given comrade is he for whom search was instituted.

The thanks of the Seventh Rhode Island Veteran Association are due the Hon. George S. Bernard, of Petersburg, Va., author of 
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" War Talks of Confederate Veterans " and a wearer of the gray, for the use of his plate, from which was printed the map of that city and contiguous entrenchments accompanying this volume.

The editor gratefully acknowledges his obligation to Comrade Charles W. Hopkins for the accurate and ample index of the regimental history proper.

To the courtesy of the Publication Committee the editor is indebted for the opportunity of more perfectly identifying his personality with that of comrades whose achievements alike in war and in peace render association however slight a distinguished honor.

Providence, R. I., January 31, 1903.

Geo. B. Peck. 
   contents.

Chapter I.

May 22    September 12, 1862. Page From the Narragansett to the Potomac,.......1

Chapter II.

September 13    November 20, 1862. From the Potomac to the Rappahannock,......12

Chapter III.

November 21, 1862     February 8, 1863. Fredericksburg,............35

Chapter IV.

February 9    June 8, 1863. 'rom the Rappahannock to the Mississippi,......62

Chapter V.

June 9    August 17, 1863. The Mississippi Campaign,.........87

Chapter VI.

August 18   December 23, 1863. From Cairo to Lexington,.........125

Chapter VII.

December 24, 1863    April 7, 1864. From Lexington to Annapolis,.........141 
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Chapter VIII. April 8   June 16, 1864. p From Annapolis to Petersburg,........161

Chapter IX. June 17   November 29, 1864. Around Petersburg to Fort Hell,........192

Chapter X. November 30, 1864    April 3, 1865. From Fort Hell into Petersburg,........231

Chapter XI. April 3     April 23, 1865. From Petersburg to Farmville and Return,     ...... 263

Chapter XII.

Life in Fort Hell and Elsewhere,........'272

Chapter XIII.

The Color Guard,...........291

Chapter XIV. April 24    July 17, 1865. From Petersburg to Providence,      ........ 294

Chapter XV.

Thirty-Seven Years After..........30ti

Personal Sketches,...........311

The Register,............431

Addenda,...... .      , ... .526

Partial List of Comrades Buried in the South, ,      .      .      . 532 
   SKIRMISHES AND BATTLES.

Amissville, Rappahannock Co., Va. :

Monday, November 10, 1862, .

White Sulphur Springs, Va. :

Wednesday, November 12,1862,

Fbedeeicksbueg, Va. :

Saturday, December 13, 1862, . Siege of Vicksbueg:

Sunday, June 14   Saturday, July 4, 1863, Jackson, Miss. :

Monday, July 13, 1863, .... Spottsylvania Couet House, Va. :

Tuesday, May 10   Thursday, May 19, 1864 Crossing of the North Anna, Va. :

Tuesday, May 24, 1864, .... North Anna River, Va. :

Wednesday, May 25    Friday, May 27, 1864, Tolopotomy Creek, Va. :

Tuesday, May 31, 1864, .... Bethesda Church, Va. :

Wednesday, June 1, Thursday, June 2, 1864, Cold Harbor. Va. :

Friday, June 3, 1864, .... Mechanicsville, Va. :

Monday, June 6, 1864, .... Near Mechanicsville, Va. :

Saturday, June 11, 1864, .... 
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Shand's Faem, near Petersburg, Va.:

Thursday, June 16, 1864, .... Taylor's Farm, near Petersburg, Va.:

Friday, June 17, 1864,.....

Avery Farm, near Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad :

Sunday, June 19,1864,.....

Near Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Cut :

Wednesday, June 29, 1864, .... The Crater (explosion of the mine), Petersburg, Va.:

Saturday, July 30, 1864.....

The Pegram House, near Petersburg, Va.:

Friday, September 30, 1864, .... Pegram Farm, near Petersburg, Va.:

Saturday, October 8, 1864, .... Hatcher's Run, near Petersburg, Va.:

Thursday, October 27, 1864, .... Fort Sedgewick (Fort Hell), Petersburg, Va.:

under fire, November 27, 1864    April 2, 1865, Expedition to Stony' Creek, Va. :

Sunday, December 11, 1864, .... Assault and Capture of Petersburg, Va. :

Sunday, April 2, 1865,.....

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   illustrations.

Hawkins House, Newport News, Va............................................64

National Cemetery, Camp Nelson, Ky...........................................82

Riding Black Horse Cavalry....................................................82

Map of Milliken's Bend, including Vicksburg and the country to Jackson, Miss.....92

"Wlckey Ups"..................................................................96

National Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss:

Entrance .................................................................120

Interior ........,...........................................................120

Map of Petersburg, Va., lines.............................................____192

Petersburg, Va., Poplar Spring Church........................................214

Petersburg, Va., Plan of Fort Sedgwick.........................................230

Petersburg, Va., View of interior, 1865.........................................234

Petersburg, Va., View of same location, 1892....................................234

Petersburg, Va., View of Rearward of Fort.....................................240

Petersburg, Va., View of Confederate Prison....................................260

Vicksburg, Miss., Court House.................................................262

Petersburg, Va., Court House..................................................262

Petersburg, Va., Headquarters, Seventh Regiment in Sedgwick..................264

Petersburg, Va., Last meeting place of President Lincoln and General Grant......264

Petersburg, Va., Union Picket Posts, front of Fort Sedgwick, 1865................280

Petersburg, Va., View of same location, 1892...................................280

Regimental Flag...............................................................290

Lieutenant Merrill's Blanket..................................................364

"The Sutler's Camp"..........................................................422 
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Allen, Edward T., Capt..........48, 388

Allen, Edwin R., Lieut...........48, 388

Alexander, Hartford.................268

Albro, Mr.........................308

Anthony, Edward   Corp............306

Arnold, Job  Lieut-Col...............56

Arnold, Emery J., Corp...............22

Austin, Wanton G...................216

Babbitt,  Jacob,  Maj.................56

Baker, William A., Corp.........86, 306

Barstow, William H., Sergt......246, 306

Barber, John N., Sergt..............86

Barber, Gilbert M..................276

Barber, Jesse W....................276

Bassett, Nathan S., Oorp............306

Batchelder, George T., Sergt..........86

Bates, Gustavus D., Capt.........12, 340

Bennett, Lyman M., Capt...........216

Bezeley, Jeremiah P., Sergt.........138

Bennett, George W., Sergt...........86

Belcher, Jonathan S., Sergt..........138

Beaumont, Ralph...............268, 374

Beckford, George C..................86

Bliss, Zenas R., Gen., Frontispiece.308,310

Bisbee, William A., Sergt............246

Blanchard, Isaac, Sergt.............246

Bolles, Albert A., Lieut.............118

Boyden, Decatur M., Sergt...........138

Brownell, Dexter L., Lieut...........12

Brownell.Thomas S., Lieut..........118

Brown, Joseph R., Sergt............172

Brown, John D..................22, 306

Brown, George H...................306

Burgess, William R., Sergt...........22

Burgess, Benjamin W..............276

Burdick, Joseph W.................284

Carr, Thomas B., Capt..........118, 306

Carr, Jesse, Sergt...................284

Carpenter,  James...............22, 308

Carpenter Richard W...............306

Carter, Gideon W....................22

Caswell, James D...................308

Church, George E., Lieut.-Col.....48, 314

Channell, Alfred M., Capt...........US

Chappell, Winfleld S., Lieut.........138

Chase, Charles F...................276

Clark, Jonathan R., Sergt............8C

Clark, Steadman, Sergt..............246

Clark, Stephen A..................270

Cole, Darius L, Lieut................172

Cole, Edward C, Sergt..............240

Colvin, Charles F., Lieut...........268

Collins, Gideon F.....................70

Collins, Charles H...................70

Collins, Edward F....................22

Coman, William A..................276

Gongdon, George W., Sergt.........13S

Corey, Charles G., Dr...............128

Costello, George B., Lieut...........US

Davis, John W., Ex-Governor of R. I. .308

Danforth, George A., Sergt...........70

Darling, Esek R., Corp.........138, 402

Dawley, Varnum H..............160, 308

Danforth, Ozias C...................306

Daniels, Herbert.....................I38

Daniels, Percy, Col..............100, 322

Deane, Arthur W., Sergt.........268, 308

Dexter, Alonzo......................3("'

Denico, Joseph......................30C

Dingley, Fuller, Lieut...............11S

Donahoe, Matthew, cergt............306

Durfee, Ueorge N    Capt.........118, 344

Eagan, William J...................308

Eddy, Albert C, Capt...............216

Eddy, John H.......................21t;

Farnum, Samuel, Sergt..............I7-

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Fay, William, Corp.................268

Fessenden, Samuel, Lieut.............12

Fiske, Alfred, Sergt.................276

Follensbee, Nathan G., Sergt.........86

Folsom,  William.....................22

Franklin, Chester L................178

Gaylord, William A., Dr.............128

Gallagher, William A., Sutler.......422

Gavitt, James W....................208

Gardiner, George W..................70

Gates, Hazard R....................306

Gonsolve, Franklin, Sergt.......268, 306

Gomez, Frank P....................306

Greene, Thomas, Capt...............118

Groves,  Joseph,  Lieut..............118

Grafton, Joseph J. D., Sergt..........12

Green, Esek, Sergt...............86, 308

Greene, Charles B...................268

Green, George D....................306

Harris, James, Surgeon.............128

Hathaway, Cyrus B., Lieut...........12

Harris, Orren, Sergt.................70

Harrington, Willia