. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . t curse of the army,whiskey, found its way among our men and confusion of the men always got drunk on pay-day, in order, as hesaid, that he could see double, and thus, in imagination, getdouble pay. Another man was wiser, who kept sober, butalways put on his spectacles when eating cherries, so that thefruit might look larger and more tempting. Tuesday afternoon, June 2d, I had spent but an hour or two incamp, at Fort Pennsylvania, when I was officially
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . t curse of the army,whiskey, found its way among our men and confusion of the men always got drunk on pay-day, in order, as hesaid, that he could see double, and thus, in imagination, getdouble pay. Another man was wiser, who kept sober, butalways put on his spectacles when eating cherries, so that thefruit might look larger and more tempting. Tuesday afternoon, June 2d, I had spent but an hour or two incamp, at Fort Pennsylvania, when I was officially informed (seeorders inclosed), that two of us, had been detailed for special ser-vice at the War Department, with orders to report at packing our knapsacks, and loading all our personaleffects into an army ambulance, we bade our comrades good-bye,and started for Washington about half past two p. m. The rainwas descending in sheets, as we halted at the War Department,and we got our feet thoroughly soaked in transferring our bag-gage from the ambulance to the corridor of the War Office. 30 234 THE TENTH REGIMENT. We found, on inquiring, that it waspast office hours, so we walked twice inthe pouring rain to Colonel Rugglesresidence. He received us kindly, andgave us a note to General Wadsworth,the military governor of the scanning us pretty sharply hegave us an order on the superintendentof the Soldiers Retreat, the place wherewe stopped when we first arrived infuxyvo- f^££e0 Washington, and from which we weresecretary of Navy. glad to retreat. As it was fully two miles away, in a drenching storm, and no umbrellas even hintedat, we determined to beat a retreat to the War Department, andsee what would turn up. We told our story to the night janitor,a kind hearted Irishman, and he at once became interested in ourbehalf, and obtained permission for us to occupy Adjutant-GeneralThomass office for the night. Mr. Welles, with long, whitebeard, the effici
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