. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . h open haversacks,when instead of the neat package of sandwiches and sponge cakewhich most of them expected to be deposited therein, the afore-said assistant disappeared for an instant, head and shoulders intothe barrel, then rising suddenly crammed into the opening agreasy mass, which might be meat or bone, as it happened. Theold soldiers (First Regiment men are old soldiers now), lookeddoubtfully at it from the corners of their eyes, the younger mem-bers receive
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . h open haversacks,when instead of the neat package of sandwiches and sponge cakewhich most of them expected to be deposited therein, the afore-said assistant disappeared for an instant, head and shoulders intothe barrel, then rising suddenly crammed into the opening agreasy mass, which might be meat or bone, as it happened. Theold soldiers (First Regiment men are old soldiers now), lookeddoubtfully at it from the corners of their eyes, the younger mem-bers received it with enthusiasm, as the first trial of patriotism,and retained it till far out in the Sound, when a certain unsteadymotion taking possession of the steamer, they might be observed KIH >1H. ISLAND VOLUNT] I RS. I 2 stealing to the guards and quietly dropping it overboard. Thefloor ot the saloon was now assigned the men for sleeping New York we took the Am boy boat, and arrived at Phila-delphia about five p. m., of Wednesday. A capital supper wasawaiting us at the rooms of the Cooper Volunteer Relief Asso-. Cooper Volunteer Refreshment Building. cjation, and, not to be forgotten, plenty of water and association has fed since the war commenced more than200,000 hungry, way-worn men. Overhead are the hospital of our men being sick were taken thither, and treated withevery possible attention. If blessings were shingles, these asso-ciation rooms would be new roofed every week ; yet I am told itscharities are supported by the poor, and not the rich of that great 128 THE TENTH REGIMENT city ; that the subscriptions to it are mostly of one and two dol-lars ; that market-women and small store-keepers and country-men strain to the utmost their scant resources to spread thathospitable table. The city of Philadelphia lay in the channel of the great streamof Union volunteers from New England, New York and NewJersey, that commenced flowing abundantly
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