. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . ! In a few daws the Tenth was on its way to Providence, bearingthe sick, discouraged soldier to his yearning friends. The last entry in his journal was on Thursday, August 28th : Arrived this morning at Providence, both <rlad and sad. Sadthat I was not able to march with my company—a dee;) disap-pointment. Such is the brief military career of Levi Carey Walker. Hewent to the field with as lofty a patriotism as ever inspired aUnion soldier. He returned a mere wr
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . ! In a few daws the Tenth was on its way to Providence, bearingthe sick, discouraged soldier to his yearning friends. The last entry in his journal was on Thursday, August 28th : Arrived this morning at Providence, both <rlad and sad. Sadthat I was not able to march with my company—a dee;) disap-pointment. Such is the brief military career of Levi Carey Walker. Hewent to the field with as lofty a patriotism as ever inspired aUnion soldier. He returned a mere wreck of his former he lived on, battling with a fatal disease, till Feb. 23, 1865,when the end came. The last words in his journal arc : Howhave my hopes been blasted ! Yet I thank God my trust is stillfirm in Him. His remains were borne to the cemetery by hisclassmates, and tenderly committed to their last had not been permitted to go clown in the bloodystrife, but he gave to the country a youth and life full of all noblepromise as truly as the slumbering hero of Stone River or of RHODE ISLAND NATIONAL GUARD. » i r I f Yankee Doodle Dandy ! — Ex-Mayor Wm. M. Rodman, 1861. THERE was a sad lack of military education and organi-zation in [861, when the President called for 75,00x3 ment
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