. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . , of Company E, was detailed as orderlyfor Major Babbitt, at Fort Alexander, and carried the mails andother dispatches to headquarters at Fort Pennsylvania. Startinglate one dark night, he lost his bearings at a point where a smallstream was forded by a log, and fell into the water—mail and all,but succeeded in scrambling out without loss of was afterwards furnished with a horse, and continued to serveas orderly till Major Babbitt left for home t
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . , of Company E, was detailed as orderlyfor Major Babbitt, at Fort Alexander, and carried the mails andother dispatches to headquarters at Fort Pennsylvania. Startinglate one dark night, he lost his bearings at a point where a smallstream was forded by a log, and fell into the water—mail and all,but succeeded in scrambling out without loss of was afterwards furnished with a horse, and continued to serveas orderly till Major Babbitt left for home to take the positionof major of the Seventh Regiment. One morning on his wayfor the mail, as Cady was riding through an apple orchard, hestopped to fill his saddle-bags with fruit for the boys, when theowner suddenly confronted him. Not desiring any complaint,he turned over the apples, and rode on. A few days after, as hewas riding through the same locality, a musket shot whistled closeto his ear. He turned but could see no one. The matter wasinvestigated by the major, but nothing ever came of it. RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. 73. Dr. George D. Wilcox.(A recent picture.) In his official report to Governor Spragiie,Colonel Shaw says : About the first oiAugust, an epidemic or malarial feverbroke out in Fort De Russy (Company D),and twenty men were on the sick list atone time. Subsequently thefever appearedat Fort Pennsylvania, and prevailed sogenerally in Companies B and K, that forsome time after the daily details weremade, not half a dozen men from bothcould be mounted for cavalry drill. D. Wilcox, our efficient surgeon, assisted by Dr. AlbertG. Sprague, very faithfully attended to the needs of the sick, allof whom, save one in Company B, recovered. Fort Gaines, August 7th, Capt. A. Crawford Greene wrote : The extreme heat under which we have been laboring for thepast two weeks has prevented our doing any extra duties ; butto-day I have mustered courage, although the merc
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