. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . 98 THE NINTH REGIMENT. Maj. George Lewis Cooke. so regularly in your columns, you have hadhot days at home, but here, we of theNinth have sweltered through the blazinghours of days and weeks together, on thebare summit of a shadeless hill, our onlycomfort being to look clown upon smokyWashington and say Sorry for the Sen-ators. Our post, the regimental head-quarters, is named in honor of the braveSenator Baker, who made the name heroicat Balls Bluff ; but we get f
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . 98 THE NINTH REGIMENT. Maj. George Lewis Cooke. so regularly in your columns, you have hadhot days at home, but here, we of theNinth have sweltered through the blazinghours of days and weeks together, on thebare summit of a shadeless hill, our onlycomfort being to look clown upon smokyWashington and say Sorry for the Sen-ators. Our post, the regimental head-quarters, is named in honor of the braveSenator Baker, who made the name heroicat Balls Bluff ; but we get familiar with heroism—we soldiers—and have taken the liberty of calling our earth-works the to our Cooke, however, we shall all be done inabout thirty days more. An admirable Cooke, a very modelcook, have we; but I cannot speak of his praises without includ-ing our other field officers. We pit our colonel against any otherman ; and to say of our lieutenant-colonel that he is every incha soldier, is to give him only about seventy-six inches of Powell is a faithful and accomplished officerand has won the
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