. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . a: Washington, June 26, Orders JVo. loj. 1. The forces under Major-Generals Fremont, Banks and McDowell, includ-ing the troops now under Brigadier-General Sturgis, at Washington, shall beconsolidated, and form one army, to be called the Army of Virginia. IL The command of the Army of Virginia is especially assigned to ^Lajor-General Pope as commanding general. The troops of the Mountain Department, heretofore under command of Gen-eral Fremont (after F
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . a: Washington, June 26, Orders JVo. loj. 1. The forces under Major-Generals Fremont, Banks and McDowell, includ-ing the troops now under Brigadier-General Sturgis, at Washington, shall beconsolidated, and form one army, to be called the Army of Virginia. IL The command of the Army of Virginia is especially assigned to ^Lajor-General Pope as commanding general. The troops of the Mountain Department, heretofore under command of Gen-eral Fremont (after Fremonts resignation General Sigel was appointed), shallconstitute the first army corps, under the command of General Sigel. The troops of the Shenandoah Department, now under General Banks, shallconstitute the second army corps, and be commanded by him. The troops under the command of General McDowell, except those within the fortifications and the City of Washington, shall form the third army corps,. and be under his command. By order of the Secretary of War. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutaut-General. 230 THE TENTH REGIMENT. July 1st. Fortunatelythe author escaped thenight march toTennally-town, for he wrote, Iwas appointed on therear guard to remain atWashington and lookafter the stores and bag-T^ gage on the was no room forus either in the cabin orforecastle, so we triedto find a soft bed in the BacktoTennallytown! j^q|^|_ gj^^p ^^,^^ ^|jf^_ cult, however, among the boxes and barrels and smells which sur-rounded us, and we were glad when the morning came, and we couldmount up on deck and get a supply of fresh air. After gettingthe baggage loaded on the army wagons, we started for of us were put in charge of a sutlers provision wagon, andafter marching a while we climbed in behind, and, being almostfamished, feasted ourselves on bologna sausages, greasy pies,cakes, doughnuts, and cookies. The doughnuts were eitherhand made or machine sewed, but we h
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