. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . Iln flftemoriam. ROLL OF STUDENTS OF THE PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL Will) Died in, t^e Service of tfjeir Country during the Rebellion. Munro H. Gladding, ^ Class of [846 Francis B. Ferris, . [848 William Wake Hall, •• [848 John P. Shaw, •• 1 (ii i irge W. Field, . •• ,s5j James II. Earle, - 853 Howard Gkeeni , 1855 George Wheaton Cole, •• [856 Samuel Foster, 2d, •• 1856 Jesse Comstock, •• 1858 J. Nelson Bogman, . •• 186] Peter Hunt, •• William F. Atwood, •• [862 Benja


. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . Iln flftemoriam. ROLL OF STUDENTS OF THE PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL Will) Died in, t^e Service of tfjeir Country during the Rebellion. Munro H. Gladding, ^ Class of [846 Francis B. Ferris, . [848 William Wake Hall, •• [848 John P. Shaw, •• 1 (ii i irge W. Field, . •• ,s5j James II. Earle, - 853 Howard Gkeeni , 1855 George Wheaton Cole, •• [856 Samuel Foster, 2d, •• 1856 Jesse Comstock, •• 1858 J. Nelson Bogman, . •• 186] Peter Hunt, •• William F. Atwood, •• [862 Benjamin K. Kelly, •• i ■ Ciiakli s M. Latham, .. Fri derick Metcai I . •• [864 Eugene F. Granger, •• Note. 1 i is in .ill ■ ■ j. BROWN UNIVERSITY IN 1S62. THE COLLEGE BOYS OF BROWN. ■ For each of them considered thai not for his father and mother onlj was heborn, but also for his fatherland.—Demosthenes DeCorona. A LARGE number of the students of Brown left thecampus for the camp, some at the very outbreak of theWar of the Rebellion. During the winter of [860, the politi-cal affairs of the nation assumed an aspect which no lover of hiscountry could regard with indifference. The distant mutteringsot the approaching storm were heard in Hope College and Uni-versity Hall. The literary societies in their meetings discussedthe questions of the day. These questions also furnished thechief topics in social intercourse, and studies correspondinglylanguished. In the spring of i860, when Abraham Lincoln came to RhodeIsland, he found no more attentive listeners to the two addresthat he delivered,—one in Providence and one in Woonsocket—than the students of Brown, who flocked to hear him. Omthem, William Ide Brown,


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