. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . National Independence seemed like a civil war has at length solved the problem, . . and hasproved that devotion to country has not withered in the hearts ofAmerican youth. And to-day, as we behold with patriotic prideour countrys flag proudly floating over our public schools andcolleges, we feel that it has a new meaning of freedom and bless-ing for this generation and the generations to come. Certainly no class of our citizens exhibited a purer patrio
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . National Independence seemed like a civil war has at length solved the problem, . . and hasproved that devotion to country has not withered in the hearts ofAmerican youth. And to-day, as we behold with patriotic prideour countrys flag proudly floating over our public schools andcolleges, we feel that it has a new meaning of freedom and bless-ing for this generation and the generations to come. Certainly no class of our citizens exhibited a purer patriotismduring the war, than the members of our high schools and colleges,and as a considerable part of the good material of the Ninth andTenth Regiments and Battery, was drawn from the ProvidenceHigh School and Brown University, we will introduce this historywith brief sketches of those institutions at the time of the warof the Rebellion. ALBERT J. MANCHESTER, Tenth R. I. Vols. WILLIAM A. SPICER. ( HistoricalWILLIAM A. II. GRANT. ) i H. RICHARDSON. Ninth P. B. STLNESS, Tenth R. I. Batt. Providence, July 4. THE HIGH SCHOOL IN 1862. THE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS OF PROVIDENCE. We are the boys, the gay old boys,Who marched in sixty-one,Well neer forget old times, my boys,When vou and I were young. Old song: OUR school days were cast in eventful times. Some of theProvidence boys who met thirty years ago in the old HighSchool on Benefit Street, can hardly have forgotten thestirring events which preceded the war, and the memorable presi-dential campaign of i860. Joining the Lincoln wide awake army,they proudly shouldered their torches and marched on to victory,little heeding the threatening clouds of secession gathering in theSouthern horizon. How few then, North or South, young or old,realized the nearness of the whirlwind of civil war, which was soonto burst forth and rage for four long years, carrying desolationinto almost every family in the land. A struggle which killed
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