. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . have recited, of prompt and patriotic response tothe call of duty. Within thirty hours after the call, two regimentsof infantry and a battery of artillery were organized, armed, andequipped. The novelty and excitement attending the first caltroops had largely subsided, and the days of liberal bounties hadnot yet come. But men were needed at once. The order of the governorshowed how pressing he deemed the emergency, and, as the newsdashed along the wires, men leape
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . have recited, of prompt and patriotic response tothe call of duty. Within thirty hours after the call, two regimentsof infantry and a battery of artillery were organized, armed, andequipped. The novelty and excitement attending the first caltroops had largely subsided, and the days of liberal bounties hadnot yet come. But men were needed at once. The order of the governorshowed how pressing he deemed the emergency, and, as the newsdashed along the wires, men leaped from their beds and hastenedto the places of rendezvous. It was no night for sleep. Messen-gers on horses transmitted the alarm from hand to hand. Cityrepeated it to town, and town to village, till the entire countrywas aroused. Well may the Rhode Island National Guard beproud of its record, for the emergency found it ready and was it for Rhode Island that she had in reserve such a norganization to come forward when needed to the help of ourarmies in the field. Let no one who saw it ever despair of the Republic. J&* Til I: IflNTH AID TENTH ij. I. VOLUNTEER AND I III. TENTH R. I. BATTERY
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