. History of the Fifth Regiment of Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, during three years and a half of service in North Carolina. January 1862-June 1865 . artake of their hospitality, and did so, themen receiving a piece of bread and boiled pork and a cup of coffeeeach. You are our first guests, said the entertainers. Beforethe battalion left, however. Major Wright was asked to give a re-ceipt for the rations issued to his men. Up to that time all in thebattalion supposed it was what it purported to be, the free hospitalityof the citizens. At noon, on the 29th, the battalion left for Anna-polis Jun
. History of the Fifth Regiment of Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, during three years and a half of service in North Carolina. January 1862-June 1865 . artake of their hospitality, and did so, themen receiving a piece of bread and boiled pork and a cup of coffeeeach. You are our first guests, said the entertainers. Beforethe battalion left, however. Major Wright was asked to give a re-ceipt for the rations issued to his men. Up to that time all in thebattalion supposed it was what it purported to be, the free hospitalityof the citizens. At noon, on the 29th, the battalion left for Anna-polis Junction, where they met General Burnside. He was greetedwith rousing and enthusiastic cheers. At this point cars were takenfor Annapolis, which was reached in the evening, and the battalionAvent into camp on the grounds of the Naval Academy, where, whenthe men had time to look around, the presence of so large a force ofmen, and the vast preparations both on land and water, made eachone realize that for them all preparatory steps were over and that hewas in very deed one of the army in tiie field. iiMiiiiBiiiiiillini liilllihl irjlnf ^^^^^^^. i«. ■»«««^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ CHAPTER II, FROM ANNAPOLIS, MD., TO HATTER AS INLET. THE first of the new year, 1862, found the battalion still in eampon the grounds it had first occupied on an-ival at was known as Camp Harris. On the 4th of Januarythe Fourth Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers and Battery F,First Rhode Island Light Artillery, Captain Belger, commanding,arrived in camp. There had been an especial transfer of theseorganizations from the army of the Potomac to this expedition. Inthe case of Battery F, it Avas the beginning of that strong mutualcomradeship and warm friendship between its officers and men andthose of the Fifth Rhode Island Regiment known only to soldiers whohave cemented these feelings bj sharing the same toils and the samedangers, who have experienced the same joys and the same sorrows,duri
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