. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . rnor Sprague made us a flying visit yesterday. Secre-tary of War Stanton and family, are spending the summer nearby, on the banks of the Potomac. Blackberries are in great quan-tity on the surrounding hills, while fish and eels in the canal andreservoir afford us an opportunity of varying our otherwise rathermonotonous life. There is a nice fruit orchard right across theroad where we can get our pie apples for nothing. Next door,the farmer never locks up his kindl
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . rnor Sprague made us a flying visit yesterday. Secre-tary of War Stanton and family, are spending the summer nearby, on the banks of the Potomac. Blackberries are in great quan-tity on the surrounding hills, while fish and eels in the canal andreservoir afford us an opportunity of varying our otherwise rathermonotonous life. There is a nice fruit orchard right across theroad where we can get our pie apples for nothing. Next door,the farmer never locks up his kindling wood. In fact, its a verygood neighborhood. One of our number, a mason by trade, hasbuilt a brick oven, in which we have already had baked beans andbrown bread, and bread and hasty puddings. RHODE ISLAND VOLI/NTEERS. 259 Fort De Russy the headquarters of Company D, says Lieuten-ant DeWolf, is situated two miles east of Tennallytown, upon ahigh knoll in the midst of farms cultivated with more than usualcare. With a short amount of labor, guided by engineeringtalent of a high order, our camp was first laid out upon an adja-. Fort De Russy, from the West. cent knoll, tents pitched, floors leveled, trenches dug, everythingin apple-pie order, when a one-armed gentleman of critical aspect,known as Colonel Haskin, of the Engineers, come round, andtold us to move nearer the fort. Now it seemed to us that incase of attack we could get there at least as soon as the enemycould, but the colonel didnt think so, and somehow the minorityrule prevailed. We now occupy a narrow terrace just under thewalls, very strong, very stumpy, and rather buggy. Before many 26o THE TENTH REGIMENT hours, however, the stones had been removed, the stumps trans-formed to seats and writing desks, and the bugs—well, the bugs,the spiders, the lizards, et id ovine genus, still roam througlitheir accustomed haunts, the ants build catacombs beneath ourbeds, the mosquitoes hum playfully about our ears, the wood-t
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