. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . evere, while the extra work at Battery Ver-mont, was well calculated to tax your patience to the utmost. RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 307 A kind Providence has spared you from the dangers of the hattlefield, butjudging from the manner in which everv other duty was performed, the call forbattle should have met with a ready response. Sickness has visited your camp, and three of your members have been takenaway from you by death, leaving the legacy of a bright example of
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . evere, while the extra work at Battery Ver-mont, was well calculated to tax your patience to the utmost. RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 307 A kind Providence has spared you from the dangers of the hattlefield, butjudging from the manner in which everv other duty was performed, the call forbattle should have met with a ready response. Sickness has visited your camp, and three of your members have been takenaway from you by death, leaving the legacy of a bright example of soldierlyfaithfulness, to a regiment that will ever cherish their memory. Of the character and conduct of the regiment, your Commandant could notspeak in too high praise. It has been all that could be asked, and the guard-house has been ahnost a useless institution. And, now, as you close yourlabors, you can carry with 30U the consciousness of having faithfully performedevery duty, and 30U will receive, as 30U deserve, the thanks of jour fellow-citizens. Bv order, JAMES SHAW, JR., John F. Tobey, Colonel Commanding. Mustered Out. 3o8 THE TENTH REGIMENT. The portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Hale, has just beenreceived. He was the captainof Company I, until Augustiith, when he was promotedto lieutenant - colonel. Hewas an ideal officer, and theauthor of the interesting let-ters in the Evening Press,from the Tenth Regiment,signed Mathew Bagnet. The fine view of Fort Alex-ander, on the opposite page,will be appreciated by themembers of Companies Eand I, of the Bloody Tenth Rhode Island, as it was christenedin 1862. It was reproduced from a larger sketch furnished byHon. Henry R. Barker, formerly a sergeant of Company I. Some of the more familiar bugle-calls will touch responsivechords in the memory of the old comrades :
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