. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . onsLanding. McDowellsarmy was ordered back toFredericksburg, and theNinth and Tenth RhodeIsland Volunteers withother organizations wereordered back to the neigh-borhood of the forts sur-round i n g Ninth Regiment re-turned by water to Wash- The MarshaU House-ington by the way of Alexandria. It was an ancient and dilapi-dated looking place, trying to live on its old reputation in slave-holding days. We marched, says a correspondent, by thehistoric Ma
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . onsLanding. McDowellsarmy was ordered back toFredericksburg, and theNinth and Tenth RhodeIsland Volunteers withother organizations wereordered back to the neigh-borhood of the forts sur-round i n g Ninth Regiment re-turned by water to Wash- The MarshaU House-ington by the way of Alexandria. It was an ancient and dilapi-dated looking place, trying to live on its old reputation in slave-holding days. We marched, says a correspondent, by thehistoric Marshall House where the youthful commander, ColonelEllsworth, had been shot in 1861. Alexandria had been in quietpossession of the National troops since May of that year, but therewere many violent secessionists there who would not them was a man named Jackson, the proprietor of theMarshall House. The Confederate flag had been flying overhis premises for many days, and had been plainly visible fromthe Presidents house in Washington. It was still there whenColonel Ellsworth went in person, with a few of his men, to. THE NINTH REGIMENT
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