. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . Gen. Robert The Ruins of Fort Sumter in 1865. will toward men ! Amen ! Amen ! responded the vast mul-titude. Then the old veteran firmly grasped the halyards, and Fortlnvitli from the glittering staft unfurledThe starry banner, -which full high advanced,Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 359 Thirty years have passed since that eventful day, and the pre-cious remains of Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter,repose in the N
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . Gen. Robert The Ruins of Fort Sumter in 1865. will toward men ! Amen ! Amen ! responded the vast mul-titude. Then the old veteran firmly grasped the halyards, and Fortlnvitli from the glittering staft unfurledThe starry banner, -which full high advanced,Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. VETERAN ASSOCIATION. 359 Thirty years have passed since that eventful day, and the pre-cious remains of Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter,repose in the National Cemetery at West Point, but his noblecharacter, and devoted service to his country, can never be for-gotten. From the smoke of Sumter day quickly arose the Sumter Club,whose anniversary it celebrates with feast of reason, and flowof loyal soul. Among its treasures is the Confederate flag ofFort Moultrie, but nothing is so highly prized by the writer asthe following note from the widow of General Anderson, inacknowledgment of a little pamphlet printed by the writer, en-titled The Flag Replaced on Sumter : New York Hotel, N. Y., December, ii,
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