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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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d when we have retiredto our tents and our blankets, the noise of its waters as they rushover the rocks which obstruct its channel, sounds not unpleasantly,We are pleased with our location and its duties—pure air, springwater, wood, cut and dried ; excellent drainage, good bathingfacilities, little policing, hardly more guarding, and a drill whichgives a pleasant change,—heavy artillery in the afternoon, rifledrill in the morning. A change has come over the spirit of this battalion. PerhapsI ought not to write it, but a week ago grumbling and indifferencehad begun to be too prevalent in camp. And for this reason :We had no muskets, save the same worthless ones which webrought from Providence; we, or at least not a man of Com-pany E, had a cap-box ; our belts were old and rotten ; the ser-geants had no swords ; bed-ticks and rubber blankets few possessed ;and most of all, we had not, and for that matter still have not,an ensign of the Republic to revive our tired patriotism, and to
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2/2 THE TENTH REGIMENT symbolize the land and the laws that we are helping to uphold.Last Saturday, however, we received our splendid, new Enfields,and the other fixings wanting previously, and now we feel thatwe play the soldier no longer. Increased attention at the drills,stricter obedience, and, if I may so say, a revival of the wholeregiment is the result. The health of the company is good. An order has been issued offering to muster all those whowill enlist again in the Seventh Regiment for three years. Thatsome will reenlist is certain. Major Babbitt will return, ere long,to take his position as major of the Seventh and expects to raisea company from this battalion alone. Saturday, we were underarms to receive His Excellency Governor Sprague. Christopher A. Cady, of Company E, was detailed as orderlyfor Major Babbitt, at Fort Alexander, and carried the mails andother dispatches to headquarters at Fort Pennsylvania. Startinglate one dark night, he lost his bearings at a point whe

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