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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 Rhode Island Infantry. 10th Regiment, 1862 Rhode Island Artillery. 10th Battery, 1862 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Rhode Island Infantry 9th United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Rhode Island Infantry 10th United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Rhode Island Artillery 10th Battery
Publisher: Providence, Snow & Franham, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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es, 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 speedilyemptied them What hospitality ever equaled that of comradesin the days when we drank from the same canteen ! How weall slept that night ! Phat a blessing, said Pat, that noightniver comes in till late in the day, when yer all toired out, andcouldnt march no more, anyhow, at all, at all, not even if it wasmorn in ! The morning dawned at length and found us a gooddeal refreshed, but somewhat stiff and sore. It proved to beanother 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 it4 Camp Scorch, although no special order was issued to that effect. fell ! 1.1 ;lt
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r 6«4 206 THE TENTH REGIMENT I should judge from appearances that this particular portionof 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 itas far as the eye can reach, and Corporal Stump, after scouringthe plain with a critical eye, remarked, that the most nimble ofgrasshoppers could not cross it unless he carried three days rationson his back. The country has been even stripped of its fencesand hedges to remove every cover for the enemy, and everythinghas a grim, ravaged look. Our camp became generally known asCamp Misery, while the members of the Ninth Regiment,which arrived the following day, Saturday, preferred to call itCamp Desolation, a very appropriate name. Our present camp, says H. T. Chace, is in one respect, atleast, superior to the old one, viz. : in the evenness of the tem-perature. The nights are not so cold or damp as at Tennall

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