. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . Says Lieutenant Phillips : Our route of march lay throughWashington, where General Scotts fine residence was pointed we approached Willards Hotel Colonel Bliss requested us tostrike up John Brown ; a thousand voices responded, the ladiesthronged the balconies, and, recognizing the colonel, they wavedtheir best wishes, as we went marching on. Between nine andten the regiment passed over Long Bridge, making the oldwooden structure shake with its measured trea
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . Says Lieutenant Phillips : Our route of march lay throughWashington, where General Scotts fine residence was pointed we approached Willards Hotel Colonel Bliss requested us tostrike up John Brown ; a thousand voices responded, the ladiesthronged the balconies, and, recognizing the colonel, they wavedtheir best wishes, as we went marching on. Between nine andten the regiment passed over Long Bridge, making the oldwooden structure shake with its measured tread. Tramp, tramp,tramp, how many thousands crossed this bridge of sighs neverto return ! The day was oppressively hot, as we tramped on, pastrifle-pits, fortifications and earthworks. We hadnt been in oleVirginia an hour before we realized that there wasnt so muchfun in it after all. We marched, and marched, and marched till RHODE ISLAM) VOLUNTEERS. we reached Alexandria. Af- 20 s ter a further tramp of several ^||gjg^ f& ^JM/imiles, we finally halted about S^VVv^V1 SSw^ zSwSv1two oclock p. m., on a vast, //7 / • JJi :*. elevated plain, under the guns ^-?>_- |i ,.-of Fort Ward, near FairfaxSeminary. A man who liveshere told me that we inarchedtwelve miles this side of LongBridge,or twenty miles in Hale, Company , That the length ofthe march had been variouslyestimated, according to the off. length of limb and strength of muscle of those who participated,ranging from eighteen miles (about the actual distance), to thirtyor forty; while Corporal Stump declares that he must havetraveled at least a hundred and fifty miles ! Somebody askedhim on the road what regiment it was, and he promptly responded,the One Hundred and Tenth Rhode Island ! An old soldierwrote home after such a tramp, Im all right except the dog-gorned blisters on my feet, and I hope these few lines will find youenjoying the same blessings ! Surely, the monks who used toput peas in the
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