History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862, Part 19

Author: Spicer, William Arnold, 1845-1913
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Providence, Snow & Franham, printers
Number of Pages: 858


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"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 remen- 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.


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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 Picketing the Rapidan. 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 Thursday 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


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down the road pell-mell, till in a few minutes it was completely blocked with them. Come to find out, Jack- son had crossed the Rapidan in force and driven our pickets, and we, having cav- alry only, and he plenty of ar- General Pope's Headquarters at Cedar Mountain. tillery, we 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 16th, 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.


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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 18th 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.


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Catlett's Station 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


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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 Washington.


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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 Brooklyn Suspension Bridge. in 1869, 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 1877, 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.


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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 be- 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 18th thus welcomed its return :


The Tenth Regiment and Battery, which have completed their term of ser- vice, sailed from New York yesterday, at one o'clock, in the steamer Bay 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 respectively 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 bid them a hearty WELCOME HOME!


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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 1, 1862.


Special Order No. 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 imine- 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 your 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.


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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 by death, leaving the legacy 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 you will receive, as you deserve, the thanks of your fellow- citizens.


By order,


JOHN F. TOBEY, Adjutant.


JAMES SHAW, JR., Colonel Commanding.


Mustered Out.


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The portrait of Lieutenant- Colonel Hale, has just been received. He was the captain of Company I, until August IIth, when he was promoted to lieutenant - colonel. He was an ideal officer, and the author of the interesting let- ters in the Evening Press, from the Tenth Regiment, signed Mathew Bagnet.


The fine view of Fort Alex- ander, on the opposite page, will be appreciated by the Lieut .- Col. William M. Hale. members of Companies E and I, of the "Bloody " Tenth Rhode Island, as it was christened in 1862. It was reproduced from a larger sketch furnished by Hon. Henry R. Barker, formerly a sergeant of Company I.


Some of the more familiar bugle-calls will touch responsive chords in the memory of the old comrades :


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Headquarters Companies E and I, Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers, July and August, 1862.


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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-Majors-JOHN F. TOBEY (Acting), EDWARD K. GLEZEN.


- Quartermaster-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,


Ist Lt. SAMUEL H. THOMAS, 2d Lt. WILLIAM C. CHASE,


CHARLES F. PHILLIPS.


WILLIAM C. CHASE,


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COMPANY C.


Capt. JEREMIAH M. VOSE, Ist Lt. JOHN E. BRADFORD, 2d Lt. CALEB B. HARRINGTON. COMPANY D.


Capt. CHARLES H. DUNHAM (Acting), Capt. WILLIAM S. SMITH, Ist Lt. JAMES H. ARMINGTON, 2d Lt. WINTHROP DEWOLF,


WINTHROP DEWOLF, CHARLES W. ANGELL. COMPANY E.


Capt. HOPKINS B. CADY, Ist Lt. STEPHEN THURBER, 2d Lt. MOSES O. DARLING. COMPANY F.


Capt. BENJAMIN W. HARRIS, Ist Lt. ORVILLE P. JONES, 2d Lt. GEORGE W. FAIRBANKS. COMPANY G.


Capt. A. CRAWFORD GREENE. Ist Lt. JAMES H. ALLEN, 2d Lt. EBEN BURLINGAME. COMPANY H.


Capt. CHRISTOPHER DUCKWORTH, Ist Lt. NICHOLAS B. BOLLES, 2d Lt. WILLIAM H. MASON. COMPANY I.


Capt. WILLIAM M. HALE, Ist Lt. CHARLES H. MUMFORD, " SAMUEL H. THOMAS. 2d Lt. PETER ALEXANDER REID. COMPANY K.


Capt. G. FRANK LOW. Ist Lt. JOHN F. TOBEY, ed Lt. WILLIAM G. PETTIS.


COMPANY L.


Tenth Light Battery Rhode Island Volunteers.


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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 twice the notes in second Jine for bar) of music before D. C. or return to beginning for the music for last two lines ct each versc.


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H 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, "Iwas 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. Battery on Drill. 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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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


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. 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 8, IS62.


Special Orders No. 5.


Two commissioned officers and fifty 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, Colonel Tenth R. I. Vols.


BENJAMIN F. THURSTON, 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-


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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,




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