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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.
Quartermasters. GEORGE LEWIS COOKE. (See Majors.) WILLIAM MCCREADY, JR.
Regimental quartermaster from May 26 to July 3, 1862.
Sergeant- Major. ROBERT FESSENDEN.
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RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS.
Quartermaster-Sergeant. ALFRED O. TILDEN. Hospital Steward. HENRY E. TYLER. Commissary Sergeant. HORACE G. MILLER.
Served as sergeant, Co. H ; June 9, 1862, appointed commissary sergeant.
COMPANY A.
Captain.
ROBERT McCLOY.
First Lieutenant.
ALBERT W. TOMPKINS.
Second Lieutenant. HENRY C. BROWN.
June 2, 1862, appointed adjutant.
Sergeants.
Oliver H. Perry, Arnold F. Salisbury, George Morris,
John R. Anderson, Joseph P. Farnsworth, Charles C. Crocker.
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Corporals. .
Frederick Schneider, Thomas H. Holmes, Daniel H. Johnson, John McKelvey, William H. Chace,
George Schneider, Alfred Jerauld, Jr., Henry M. Stetson, Simeon B. Ramsbottom.
Privates.
William Bartlett,
Michael Goodwin,
Samuel A. Bennett,
Stephen A. Grover,
Zephaniah Bennett,
Thomas Hallowell,
Jubal Blount,
Henry L. Hammond,
Edmund Bray,
William Hay,
¡Charles E. Buffum,
John Hayward,
George N. Burlingame,
Thomas H. Holmes,
George Burns,
Daniel A. Hopkins,
William A. Carter,
William J. Hughes,
Henry H. Clark,
James A, Kelley,
Joseph H. Clark,
William H. Kelley,
Darius Cook,
Thomas J. Kennedy,
Patrick Coyle,
Henry Kimpton,
Israel F. Crocker,
Edward Knight,
Alonzo Crowell,
Augustus A. Leach,
John Cullen,
John E. Lee,
Joseph D. Davenport,
Thomas Locking,
John S. Davis,
Thomas Locklin,
John T. Fanning,
John T. Lowden,
Ferdinand A. Follett,
John H. Lundy,
Thomas Forrest,
Peter Lyme,
Albert Fuller,
Aldine Manier,
Ferdinand A. Gardner,
William Massey,
John Glancy,
Charles H. Mathewson,
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John McCabe,
Alonzo F. Salisbury,
Peter McCabe,
Thomas Sawyer,
Patrick McCusker,
George B. Sharples,
John McGinnity,
James R. Sherman,
David McKelvey,
Edward Shuttleworth,
Daniel B. McKenna,
Lewis F. Slocum,
Amaziah B. Merchant,
William H. Slocum,
Peter Merchant,
Patrick Starrs,
Hugh Muldoon,
William Stewart,
George W. Newell,
Ansel L. Sweet,
Thomas Norris,
Charles I. Sweet,
William O'Donnell,
Roger Tattersall,
John Ramsbottom,
Oscar Thayer,
Patrick Ready,
John Trainor,
James Riley,
Nathaniel Walker,
George A. Roberts,
Thomas Wheeler,
Richard Roberts,
James A. Williams.
A. Sylvester Rounds,
Sylvanus C. Wilson.
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First Licutenant. J. CLARKE BARBER. Second Lieutenant. JAMES McDONALD.
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Sergeants.
William R. Lewis, Thomas Place, James H. Perrigo,
John Tweedie,
Nathan J. Crandall,
Edwin R. Cottrell, Peleg D. Sisson,
Pardon Babcock,
Daniel B. Jackson.
Privates.
Andrew J. Allen,
Joshua Allen,
John P. Crandall,
William D. Babcock,
Edward G. Crandall,
John W. Barber,
William Davenport,
T. Stanton Barbour,
Daniel Donovan,
Uriah Baton,
John Ecclestone,
George Bellamy,
James A. Edwards,
Andrew Bray,
Charles H. Eldred,
Edward C. Brown,
Charles H. Gavitt,
E. James Buddington,
Horace P. Gavitt,
Thomas A. Buell,
Dean Gould,
Edward H. Burdick,
Courtland T. Hall,
Thomas T. Burdick,
Joseph Haywood,
William H. Burdick,
William Horsfall,
George Carmichael,
Daniel B. Jackson,
Thomas H. Champlain,
William Jackson,
Stephen Coleman,
James Johnson,
Milton P. Johnson,
William T. Collins,
James M. Holmes, Amos L. Burdick.
Corporals.
Joseph Richmond, James A. Sisson, William F. Hawkins.
Musicians.
James A. Congdon,
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T. W. Johnson,
Horace L. Peckham,
William Johnson, Jr.,
James M. Pendleton, 2d,
David Kenneth,
George A. Richmond,
Moses D. Kinkade,
Gilbert S. Roach,
Edmund R. Langworthy,
Everett A. Schofield,
George E. Leonard,
Nathan S. Sheffield,
George W. Livsey,
John Surber,
John McAvoy,
Francis W. Taylor,
Thomas McLean,
Charles W. Thompson,
James McNulty,
John P. Trant,
J. Howard Morgan,
James L. Ward,
Nathan E. Nash,
Richard Welch,
George P. Neugent,
John B. Wells,
Isaac Partelow,
William H. Wells.
COMPANY C.
Captain. JOHN A. BOWEN.
First Lieutenant.
GEORGE A. SPINK.
Second Lieutenant. WILLIAM H. POTTER.
Sergeants.
John C. Potter, William C. Nichols, Horace Remington,
Crawford R. Williams, Allen E. Keech.
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Corporals.
Nathan B. Whipple, Lewis G. Arnold, Jr., John Devlin, George C. Gilmore,
John Remington, Hugh O'Donnell, Jonathan R. Weaver, *Hollis Taber, Jr.
Musicians.
George R. Tourjee,
Horace H. Woodmancy.
Wagoner. Henry H. Roberts.
Privates.
Albert Arnold,
Cornelius Franklin,
Edward P. Baker,
Charles C. Gardner,
William H. Baker,
Peter Goodness,
Nathaniel G. Ball,
William Hunt,
John J. Battey,
Thomas Hughes, Zephaniah Jenkins,
Allen H. Bennett,
Jesse Bicknell,
John D. Jordan,
Joseph Bigelow,
Zebulon Londeau,
Samuel E. Bowen,
Thomas Lindsay,
Peter Brown,
James Malaney,
William B. Browning,
George Matteson,
Daniel \V. Cady,
John McArthur,
Peter Carroll,
James McDonnell,
John Carey,
Patrick McMann,
Joseph P. Cornell,
Joseph Miller,
George W. Dawley,
Charles Morris,
William H. Dimond,
Henry Nichols,
James F. Fanning,
Michael Noon,
Thomas Farmer,
William H. Northup,
* Died August 13, 1862, in hospital.
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Felix O'Donnell,
Elisha Sherman,
Frederick Owen,
John O. Neill,
Elisha O. Sherman, Francis Smith, Michael Spellacy,
William O'Neil,
Robert Platt,
George A. Spencer,
Henry Peagot,
Lewis T. Spencer,
Charles H. Prew,
William C. Spencer,
Harrison Provost,
Edward Tathroe,
John Quigley,
Joshua W. Tibbitts,
Samuel J. Randall, Patrick Reagan,
William H. Tucker, Oliver T. Wilbur,
Ambrose P. Rice, Henry H. Roberts, Lewis Roberts,
John Wilson,
Alonzo G. Wood,
Warren Young.
COMPANY D.
Captain. JOHN MCKINLAY.
First Lieutenant. JOHN POLLARD. Second Lieutenant. WILLIAM MCCREADY, JR.
Sergeants.
William T. Crawford, Thomas Mccarthy, Israel Arnold, Jr.,
Robert S. Blair, William T. Gildard.
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John McFadden, Joseph R. Stafford, Samuel C. Lomas, Horatio Giles,
Thomas Meagher, Ferdinand Haskins, Christopher T. Geldard, John Crumlay.
Musicians.
Alfred Hough,
Charles E. Greene.
Privates.
Uriah M. Adams,
Matthew Green,
James Aigan,
William Greenlese,
Robert Arnett,
David Glover,
Noah A. Ashworth,
Robert Hall,
Jonathan M. Bass,
Thomas Hall,
George Birchell,
Alexander Harkness,
Thomas Boyd,
Michael Hafferin,
James Boyle,
John Hollingsworth,
James Brennan,
Daniel Hoyle,
Samuel Briden,
James Jackson,
Alonzo Colvin,
James H. Jolly,
Lyman Colvin,
Walter Loudergan,
William H. Cory,
John McCaffrey,
Andrew Cramley,
Michael McCormick,
Thomas Crumley,
Neil McCourt,
George Davis,
John McDevitt,
Daniel Devlin,
Michael McKern,
George H. De Wolf,
Cornelius Moninihan,
Peter Dolan,
Hugh McMullen,
Luke Duxbury,
+Benjamin North,
David Fogarty,
John North,
Patrick Freeman,
James O'Brien,
t Discharged for disability June 23, 1862.
Corporals.
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RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS.
Henry O'Neil,
James Parker,
John Schofield, Almon C. Shorey,
Thomas S. Parker,
James Smith,
James Pollard,
Patrick Smith,
Thomas Quinin,
James Stewart,
William Rankin,
Walter S. Sutcliffe,
Orrin G. Rawson,
James Wood,
Alexander Ritchie,
James White,
William J. Root, John Ryan,
Olney Whipple.
Richard J. Whittle.
COMPANY E.
Captain. ISAAC PLACE.
First Lieutenant.
PHILIP D. HALL.
Second Lieutenant. NATHAN D. BENTON.
Sergeants.
Fenner Colwell, George W. Haradon, Trowbridge Smith,
George H. Johnson, Joseph Miett, Jr.
Corporals.
Byron S. Thompson, William T. Brooks,
Martin G. Cushman, Henry E. Baker,
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David Dines, James Jaques,
Samuel Preston, Gilbert A. Thompson.
Musician. Albert Beverly.
Privates.
Moses A. Aldrich,
Thomas Pryor,
Cyrus R. Bennett,
John Regan,
Henry A. Bennett,
Robert Sandford,
Jacob Butterfield,
Joseph Sedgwick,
George W. Buxton,
Osborne M. Southwick,
Willard D. Colwell,
· Enoch Spencer,
Marcus M. Cooke,
Thomas B. Spooner,
James Demick,
Dustin D. Stevens,
¡Edmund Esty,
Augustus R. Steere,
George B. Evans,
James Sullivan,
John Gallagher,
Winfield S. Thompson,
Frederic C. Gove,
Alexander Tongue,
Alexander Henderson,
Charles F. Tifft,
Thomas Hughes.
Joseph Wilmouth,
Thomas W. Irons,
George Wilson,
George H. Johnson,
Thomas D. Wilson,
Martin G. Lyons,
Hiram Wood,
Walter Mather,
Joseph M. Young.
William J. Milan,
t Discharged as a minor, July 9, 1862.
William H. Fuller,
John Sullivan,
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COMPANY F.
Captain. JOHN M. TAYLOR.
First Lieutenant.
RANDALL HOLDEN.
Second Lieutenant. RICHARD W. HOWARD.
Edward F. Steere, Benjamin Hill, Moses Brown,
Sergeants.
Jeffrey G. Davis, Henry P. Babson, George T. Lamphear.
Corporals.
William F. Hill,
James R. Read,
S. Wildes Coggeshall, J. Phillips Pond, John E. Whipple,
James Bushee, Stephen P. Steere, George T. Lamphear, Delondo Bennett.
David Spencer,
Daniel Baxter.
Privates.
William Atchison, Henry W. Ballou, Charles Ballou,
Lillibridge Barber,
Wilcox Barber, Daniel Barney, +Stephen L. Barney, George Blackington,
! Discharged for disability, July, 1862.
Musicians.
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Daniel Brayton,
Jesse D. Keach,
Thomas Britton,
Edward King,
George Britton,
Mosier Lock,
Charles Bowers,
Bernhard Morris,
William T. Brown,
George A. Nichols,
John Burns,
John Niles,
Alfred Crandall,
Rufus H. Northup,
Frank P. Chace,
tJohn O'Brien,
Oliver H. Clark,
Thomas Owen,
Charles Colvin,
H. B. Perry,
George R. Congdon,
B. Ray Phelon,
Henry N. Cook,
Elisha Place,
William R. Cornell,
William Price,
Benjamin Cottrell,
Henry Price,
William Davenport,
G. W. Henry Pollard,
Albert Davis,
George B. Pollard,
Cortes A. Darling,
William H. Rice,
Michael Fleming,
Richard R. Richmond,
Samuel K. Gardiner,
Nelson Searle,
+Richard Gibney,
Simon G. Sherman,
Samuel Graves,
Thomas Sipple,
Thomas B. Greene,
Otis W. Smith,
Edward Harvey,
Thomas L. Smith,
Sylvanus C. Holbrook, Jr.,
Javis Smith,
Thomas L. Hopkins,
George Smith,
Albert F. Howard,
James E. Spencer,
Alfred A. Jackson,
George W. Spencer,
John T. Spencer,
Otis Spencer,
Edward F. Steere,
Thomas Johnson,
¡Alonzo P. Stone,
t Discharged as a minor.
Samuel C. Jenckes, Arnold Jennerson,
George C. Johnson,
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RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS.
William Taylor, Henry B. Terry, B. Greene Tew, Robert W. Townshend,
B. Egbert'Vaughan, Jerome Weaver, John Westgate, Edward J. Wilbur.
COMPANY . G.
Captain. CHARLES L. WATSON,
First Lieutenant.
FRANCELLO G. JILLSON.
Second Lieutenant. HENRY J. WHITAKER.
Austin J. Scott, James B. Streeter, William T. Smith,
Sergeants.
Enos A. Clarke, Daniel E. Wilcox.
Corporals.
Horace A. Scott, James A. Sweet, William P. Davis, A. Sayles Clarke,
George H. Baker, Edwin W. Whipple, Sanford A. Robbins, George W. Thayer.
Musician.
William M. Goff.
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Privates.
Jenckes Bartlett,
George J. Hendrick,
Allen F. Baxter,
Terny Hogan,
Alba Bellows,
Albert Hudson,
Asa Bennett,
William A. Jenckes,
George W. Bolton,
Thomas Judge,
Charles W. Bradford,
Samuel Longley,
Henry W. Brown,
George Law,
Charles A. Burlingame,
Alexander Levine,
Alexander Campbell.
Thomas Lewis,
Albert Carey,
Luke Lynch,
Edwin Carter,
William E. Mason,
Christopher Carter,
Samuel Parrish,
Charles A. Chase,
Hiram Parker,
Foster H. Clark,
Charles A. Pierce,
Henry Congdon,
George S. Potter,
Aaron Congdon,
Thomas Prior,
Edmond Congdon,
Thomas Riley,
Timothy Curran.
Henry C. Sayles,
John H. Durgin,
Marcus L. Smith,
Caleb Freeman,
Horatio I. Stockbridge,
Irving Gaskill,
Patrick O. Sullivan,
Oscar F. Gifford,
Thomas Sullivan,
James Swindles,
Abraham Greaves, John Green,
Isaac S. Tanner,
Richard Green,
Benjamin Tourtellott,
William Henry Harrison,
Thomas Healy,
Joseph H. Wheelock, Luke A. Wood.
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RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS.
COMPANY H.
Captain. HENRY F. JENKS.
First Lieutenant. FRANK ALLEN. Second Lieutenant. GEORGE A. BUCKLIN.
Sergeants.
Edmund Crocker, Horace G. Miller, Latimer LeFavour,
Charles E. Adams, Ambrose P. Rice, Harrison H. Richardson.
George P. Grant, Edward P. Lowden, Alanson P. Wood, Edward Thayer,
Corporals.
Joseph Harrison, W. C. Benedict, Richard Eldredge, Jr., Jabez W. Pitcher.
Musician.
George F. Olney.
Privates.
Lyman A. Aldrich, William T. Arnold, John H. Almy, Frederick A. Baker, 48
George F. Ballou, Stephen J, Ballou, Phanuel Bishop, Jerome D. Bliss,
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Horatio N. S. Booth,
George T. Jeffers,
+Charles D. Bray,
Pardon Jenks, Jr.,
Joseph A. Brown,
Edwin Leach,
Andrew A. Buckley,
Charles A. Mathewson,
Charles H. Bullock,
Walter Merry,
Frank H. Carpenter,
George Murphy,
Charles E. Carpenter,
Charles W. Nickerson,
David E. Cash,
Edward A. Patt,
George H. Cole,
Henry N. Pervear,
Warren F. Cook,
Stephen A. Peck,
Henry Crocker,
Charles F. Pierce,
Robert E. Curran,
Henry A. Pierce,
+Byron E. Daggett,
Benjamin A. Dennis,
Joseph Rice,
John H. Eaton,
Robert Saunders,
David L. Fales,
Joseph W. Seagraves,
James H. Fairbanks,
Frank S. Shove,
Stephen F. Fisk,
William H, Slocum,
Frank D. Fisk,
Smith Tattersall,
George H. Foster,
William G. Thurber,
David A. Gage,
+Tate Timony, Frank M. Tyler,
William H. Gardner,
Luke Glancy,
Percival D. Warburton,
Joseph B. Gooding,
Henry H. Welden,
Thomas A. Gregson,
Hamlet Wheaton,
*Richard Gridley, Albert F. Howe, Charles A. Ide,
John F. Whiting,
Charles D. Wood,
Anthony G. Wood.
t Discharged as a minor.
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Jabez W. Pitcher,
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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.,
Charles H. Rounds, Haile Turner, James A. Manchester.
Corporals.
Jeremiah I. Greene, Jr., Caleb S. Carr,
Peleg Bosworth, Jr., Isaac Gorham,
Frederic A. Driscoll,
Thomas F. Marion,
George L. C. Wheaton,
Benjamin B. Martin.
Nathaniel T. Sanders,
John W. Hubbard,
John P. Abbott, Albert J. Adams,
Musicians.
Samuel D. Maxwell.
Privates.
A. C. Aldrich, Joseph W. Aldrich,
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William A. Arnold,
Isaac Barnum,
George H. Hunter, R. H. Johnson,
John Booth,
James H. Johnson,
William Booth,
John Kelly,
Henry A. Bowen,
Wilson Little,
William Bradshaw,
Theodore Medbury,
Mark P. Brown,
William H. Myers,
John H. Buffington,
Galen F. Nichols,
Charles H. Bullock,
Thomas W. D. Peck,
Robert H. Bullock, Jr.,
James E. Peck,
Henry T. Burr,
Allen P. Peck,
Norman G. Burr,
Joseph Price,
Elijah Calland,
Robert Ridgwell,
William Champlin,
Eugene I. Roffee,
Thomas Clarke,
Matthew Ryan,
Thomas Clifford,
John P. Salisbury,
Edwin J. Collamore,
Jeremiah Sheehan,
Robert Crowther,
A. J. Shurtleff,
Thomas A. Curran,
Willard B. Drown,
James B. Drown,
*Joseph N. Simonds, Walter F. Thompson, Winfield S. Tompkins, James E. Viall,
James F. Follett,
George C. Franklin,
George W. Walker,
Nathaniel W. Gushee,
John R. Wheaton,
George Guyette,
Barton J. Whipple,
Charles D. Horton,
William Williams.
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COMPANY K.
- Captain. JAMES R. HOLDEN.
First Lieutenant.
WILLIAM H. GARDNER.
Second Lieutenant. GEORGE H. BURNHAM.
Sergeants.
Albert B. Streeter, George H. Abbott,
James F. Mowry,
William C. Clark,
Samuel B. T. Crandall,
Alonzo A. Greenman, Thomas Johnson.
Daniel J. Viall,
Privates.
*Sylvester B. Arnold, William Ash, William Baker, George B. Bromer, Job Butler, Sanford Buxton,
Joseph C. Clarke, John Cooney, Patrick Coyne,
Patrick Fanning, Peter Gormley,
William Groves,
Joseph A. Green, James Haggett, James Hughes,
David W. James, James Kelley, · Patrick Kennedy,
* Died August 2, 1862, in hospital.
George H. Allen, Ambrose L. Atwood.
Corporals.
David Briggs, George W. Allen,
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William W. Maxon,
George W. Richmond,
Joseph Mechling,
Jesse W. Richmond,
Robert F. Northup,
William H. H. Swan,
George Nye,
John M. Taylor, Jr.,
Nathan T. Oatley,
Brightman Tucker,
John R. Oatley,
Nehemiah Watson,
Welcome A. Potter,
Isaac Westcott,
Harry A. Richardson,
William Young.
COMPANY L.
Captains. JOHN HARE POWEL. (See Lieutenant-Colonels.) BENJAMIN L. SLOCUM.
First Lieutenant. WILLIAM R. LANDERS.
Second Lieutenant. WILLIAM H. KING.
Sergeants.
Edmund W. Fales, Lance De Jough, George H. Tabor,
William M. Minkler, Thomas S. Nason.
Sumner Lincoln, William L. Pfeiffer,
Corporals. Schuyler Van Renssellaer, William C. Rogers,
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RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS.
Frank Morgan, Sigourney B. Goffe,
William S. Slocum, Benjamin A. Peckham.
Musicians.
Cassius M. C. Freeborn, Christopher Gladding.
Privates.
Theodore Almy,
Henry T. French,
Samuel Babcock,
Michael Garrick,
William H. Barber,
John E. Goffe,
Alexander N. Barker,
John Gould, 2d,
Henry B. Bateman,
Robert W. Gould,
Thomas Blacklock,
George B. Harrington,
Edward T. Bosworth,
Henry I. Hudson,
James M. Brown,
James Melville,
Benjamin T. Brown,
John L. Nason,
George M. Brown,
Michael O'Brien,
George F. Boone,
Jefferson O'Riley,
William F. Barlow,
Alexander Peckham,
Truman Burdick,
Charles T. Prouty,
Thomas Campbell,
Randall Pullen,
Robert W. Chappell,
John Ramsden,
Samuel Clark,
Ferdinand S. Read,
William E. Coggeshall,
Frank Rice,
Daniel C. Denhan,
Henry Ridell,
James Dewick,
Edward R. Seagur,
Theophilus C. Dunn,
Albert G. Sherman,
John B. Durfee,
Thomas W. Sherman,
Benjamin B. Durfee,
James Simmons,
John Fludder,
Orland Freeborn,
Edmund D. Slocum, John H. Stacy,
Charles G. Burnett,
David Peabody,
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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,
William S. Vose,
Thomas Young.
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ZENAS R. BLISS.
Military Record from 1850 to 1893.
He was appointed a cadet at West Point in 1850 by the Hon. Nathan F. Dixon, of Rhode Island. Graduated in I854: 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 1860, when he was promoted first lieutenant, and ordered to the command of his
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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, 1861, 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, 1861, 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
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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, 1862, 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-
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tucky, and started for Knoxville with the corps in the winter of 1863 and 1864, 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 Wilderness, 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, 1866, 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
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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 IS70, 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 1881 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.
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