. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . n, and helped secure the election of Nathaniel as speaker of the House, and the election of AbrahamLincoln as President of the United States, in i860. At the con-vening of the first, or extra session of the Thirty-seventh Con-gress, on July 4, 1861, Mr. Grow was elected speaker of theHouse of Representatives, and held the position until March 4,1863, when, on retiring, he received a unanimous vote of thanks,the first vote of the kind given to any speaker i
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . n, and helped secure the election of Nathaniel as speaker of the House, and the election of AbrahamLincoln as President of the United States, in i860. At the con-vening of the first, or extra session of the Thirty-seventh Con-gress, on July 4, 1861, Mr. Grow was elected speaker of theHouse of Representatives, and held the position until March 4,1863, when, on retiring, he received a unanimous vote of thanks,the first vote of the kind given to any speaker in many years. I dont see anything in the papers about a scarcity of specieat the North. It is worth ten per cent, premium in is now four oclock, and the order will soon be given for DressParade, so I must stop and give my whangs a little polish, andequip myself in all the paraphernalia of war. July 23d. An order has just been issued by our general-in-chief, Pope, forbidding all officers or soldiers leaving their campon any account, without an order from his headquarters. This klh >M. ISLAND vol I VI l ERS. i;. shuts us up pretty close, and had it been in force when we wenton our night expeditions to Washington, we should very likelyhave been taken prisoners by the provost guard. If we remain here very long we shall haveto fall back upon General Popes late generalorder, July iS, that the troops in the armyunder his command (and we are) shall drawtheir subsistence from the region in whichthey may be quartered. There is no doubtbut that we might do that to our hearts con-tent without robbing a single Union since we have been here a body of cav-alry have moved past our camp scouting, andboth times, after being away several days, have brought in severalprisoners. Day before yesterday they went by with ten or twelveprisoners, among them one wearing a captains uniform. He wastaken within five or six miles of here. A court-martial is now in session in the Nin
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