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 AND THE 
 
 Monument to His Memory. 
 
 GEORGE N. BLISS, 
 
 Late Captain Company C, First Rhode Island Cavalry. 
 
 
General Dueeie. 
 
 (AT THE AGE OF 28, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MANCHESTER 
 BROTHERS, TAKEN IN 1863.) 
 
DUFFIE 
 
 AND THB 
 
 Monument to His Memory. 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE N. BLISS, 
 [Late Captain Company C, First Rhode Island Cavalry.] 
 
 PKOVIDElfCE : 
 
 1890. 
 
Snow & Faknham, PjKiJrTERS. 
 
 37 Custom House Street. 
 1890. 
 
DUFFIE 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Monument to His Memory, 
 
 Alfred Napoleon DuFriE was born in the city 
 of Paris, May 1, 1835. He was a pupil in the 
 school of St. Barbe from his fifth to his tenth year, 
 and was then for seven years in the preparatory 
 Military Academy at Versailles, and in 1852 com- 
 menced the regular course of study in the Military 
 College of St. Cyr, at Versailles, having in the 
 autumn of 1851 been one of the two hundred and 
 twenty admitted out of the eleven thousand candi- 
 dates examined. After two years at St. Cyr he 
 completed the course, passed the examinations, was 
 commissioned a Lieutenant in the French army, and 
 at once sent into active service, first in Algiers, and 
 later in Senegal, in Africa, where he was wounded 
 in action. 
 
b DUPFIE AND THE 
 
 He went to the tlrimea and was in action in the 
 battles of Alma, Inkerman, Balaklava, Chernaia, 
 Gangel and Sebastapol, was several times wounded 
 and was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant in 
 the Fifth Huzzar Eegiment. At the close of the 
 Russian war, in 1856, he returned to France and 
 served with his regiment until the war with Austria 
 again called him into action and a severe wound 
 compelled him to leave the field for the hospital, but 
 not until he had borne his part in the battles of 
 Palestro, Jlagenta and Solferino. 
 
 During his service in Africa and Europe, Duffie 
 received eight wounds and four military decorations, 
 the Cross of the Legion of Honor from his own 
 country ; the Sardinian Cross from the Emperor of 
 Sardinia, who decorated him with his own hand as 
 he lay wounded ; the Turkish Cross from the Sultan ; 
 and the English Cross from Victoria. 
 
 An effort has been marde to obtain from the widow 
 and son of the General a more full and satisfactory 
 account of his life before he left Europe for America, 
 but while desirous to assist they had no information 
 to add to the publications already made in this State. 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMOKY. 7 
 
 A recent letter from the son, Daniel P. Duffi^, 
 narrates the following incident : 
 
 During the Crimean War, at one time, the Rus- 
 sian and allied powers being very near each other, 
 a Russian officer (a celebrated swordsman) chal- 
 lenged the enemy to a single combat. My father 
 accepted the challenge and killed the Russian. For 
 his skill and bravery on this occasion and other brave 
 services during his two years' service in the Crimean 
 War, he received from the Sultan of Turkey the 
 Medjidie medal, and also an expression of thanks 
 (in acknowledgment of his services), beautifully 
 written in gold and red letters on vellum and signed 
 by the Sultan. 
 
 When asked by my mother " if he did not feel 
 sorry to kill the Russian," he answered, " Why, no ! 
 If I had not killed the devil, the devil would have 
 killed me ! " 
 
 In the autumn of 1859 he came to the United 
 States intending to visit Saratoga for the benefit of 
 his health, and on the outbreak of the Rebellion ac- 
 cepted the tender of .a Captain's commission in the 
 First New Jersey Cavalry, and in July, 1861, was 
 
DXJrriE AND THE 
 
 appointed Major of the Harris Ligiit Cavalry, a New- 
 York regiment, in which be was distinguished for 
 efficiency upon the drill ground and gallantry in 
 action. 
 
 On the 8th of July, 1862, he assumed command 
 as Colonel of the First Rhode Island Cavalry. Chap- 
 lain Frederic Denison, to whose labors as historian 
 of the regiment I am greatly indebted in preparing 
 this paper, thus describes his appearance at that 
 time : 
 
 " He is of medium stature, erect form, light frame, 
 nervous temperament, dark complexion, full hazel 
 eyes, black hair, athletic in action, humorous in man- 
 ner, exact in routine, firm in discipline, and thor- 
 oughly accomplished in his profession," 
 
 At this time there was great dissatisfaction with 
 the action of Governor Sprague in thus appointing a 
 foreigner to the command of the regiment, and it re- 
 sulted in the resignation of their commissions by all 
 but four of the Rhode Island officers Cwe had four 
 companies from New Hampshire then), and there 
 was evidence of hostile feeling in the ranks. Chap- 
 lains are not always discreet in such times of excite- 
 
MONtJMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 9 
 
 ment, and, as a result, before the sun went down on 
 his first day in camp, Colonel Duffi6 sent for this of- 
 ficer and said : " Chaplain, I understand you have 
 been stirring up a spirit of mutiny in my regiment. 
 I put you in arrest in your tent. I am very sorry 
 to begin with the servant of God, but must begin 
 somewhere." The arrest was of short duration, and, 
 in a few days, there were no closer friends than the 
 Colonel and the Chaplain. 
 
 A few hours after taking command the Colonel 
 assembled the officers at his tent and said to them : 
 " I understand most of you have sent in your resig- 
 nations. I give you four days to send and get your 
 resignations back ; if you do not get them back they 
 will be accepted. I will stay with you four weeks ; 
 if you do not like me then, I pledge you my word I 
 will resign myself." With two or three exceptions 
 the resignations were withdrawn. The following 
 order was issued : 
 
 Headqtjabtbbs FnssT Rhode Island Cavalby, 1 
 Manassas, July 10, 1862. j 
 
 Officers and Soldiers of the First Rhode Island Cavalry : 
 
 In taking command of this regiment as your Colonel, I was 
 pained and grieved to see a disinclination on your part to re- 
 
10 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 ceive a stranger, manifested in such a mannei- as to leave no 
 doubt as to your sentiments. If it lias pleased your much be- 
 loved Governor and the War Department at Washington to 
 make a change in the construction of your executive depart- 
 ment, as good soldiers, patriots and defenders of the one great 
 and holy cause now animating all true American hearts, it is 
 your bounden duty to God and man, to the cause of human 
 liberty throughout the entire world, to every manly impulse, 
 to every hope of peace and happiness for yourselves and your 
 posterity, that you sink all personal considerations in one grea,t 
 holocaust, whose flames shall illumine a world, and whose 
 end shall be Union. 
 
 As for myself, I like you. You have all the material for suc- 
 cess. I say it not in the poor spirit of mere compliment, nor 
 with the slightest disrespect for your former commander, as 
 circumstances beyond his control may have prevented him 
 from giving to you the benefit of his undoubted military 
 knowledge; but Hike you, and here say to you, in my place, 
 that if you will give to me your undivided time and labor for 
 the space of a few weeks, I will add to them my own best en- 
 deavors to make you at once the pride and glory of your own 
 gallant State and of the nation. 
 
 Soldiers! Do you hear me? Soldiers! Do you answer me? 
 Say, yes ! And fear not the result ! 
 
 A. N. DuFrrf, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 The zeal and skill of the new commander was felt 
 at once throughout the regiment, and in a few days 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 11 
 
 oflScers and men were convinced that no mistake had 
 been made in the appointment. 
 
 On the 9th of August, 1862, the regiment was 
 under fire at the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va., and 
 the value of the drill and discipline of our new Colo- 
 nel tested. Under a heavy fire from infantry and 
 artillery the regiment moved and formed several 
 lines of battle with as much coolness and precision 
 as upon the peaceful drill ground. The regiment 
 was complimented by General Banks for its good 
 behavior in action, and from that day was ever ready 
 to follow with full confidence wherever Duffi6 might 
 lead. 
 
 Near Groveton, Va., Aug. 2«, 1862, the regi- 
 ment, while acting as advance guard, became the 
 target of eighteen guns of the artillery of Jackson's 
 force. One man appalled by the fury of the burst- 
 ing shells urged his horse to a trot ; instantly 
 Duffi^'s voice rang out, " Walk that horse ; one man 
 run, all run." The order was obeyed and at a walk 
 the regiment moved to a new position and gave oar 
 own guns an opportunity to answer the enemy. 
 August 29th and 30th upon the field in what has 
 
12 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 been called the second battle of Bull Run, the en- 
 gagement having been on nearly the same ground as 
 that of the battle of 1861, the regiment was conspic- 
 uous for the precision of its movements. When the 
 army retreated to Centreville on the 30th,Duffi6 fell 
 back slowly, forming successive lines of battle with 
 his regiment. At Chantilly, Va., on Sept. 1, 1862, 
 the First Rhode Island deployed a skirmish line and 
 were the first to draw the enemy's fire. The follow- 
 ing order, a compliment to the regiment, is also a 
 tribute to the ability of the commander : 
 
 Hbadquaetees Piest Ehode Island Cavalkt, i 
 PoouEViLLB, Md., October 5, 1862. j 
 
 (Special Order, JVo. — .) 
 Calling tlie attention of the regiment to the late campaign 
 from the Potomac to the Rapidan and back, your commagder 
 wishes to assure you of the high encomiums which have been 
 passed by officers high in rank and military attainments, upon 
 the admirable manner in which you performed your part of 
 that ever memorable retreat from the Eapidan to the Potomac. 
 The last Federal soldiers to leave the Eapidan; the last to 
 leave the Eappahannock; the last to leave Warrenton and its 
 vicinity; in several of the severest battles; under fire many 
 times; at all other times on outpost or other hazardous duty • 
 and in almost every march the rear guard of the Grand Army 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 13 
 
 of Virginia, or to a main column — you never faltered; you 
 never even hurried, but, steady and in good order, as upon a 
 parade ground, you retired, when obliged reluctantly to turn 
 from the superior numbers of the foe. 
 
 Upon the 30th of August, at Bull Kun, it is especially true 
 that, when thousands around, in direst confusion, were escap- 
 ing as fast and best as they might, your evolutions were more 
 steadily and perfectly performed than I have ever seen them at 
 any other time. That is so true that you here, by your beauti- 
 ful appearance, attracted the confidence of your brothei's with- 
 out command, and soon behind your ranks were eight hundred 
 seeming to implore your protection. 
 
 Generals of divisions have been anxious for our services, and 
 many applications were made for them. Tou endured fatigue 
 and privations without murmuring. You are known and ap- 
 preciated in the proper quarters. Soldiers ! Tour record is a 
 proud one. See that it is not blotted ! 
 
 A. K. DuFFiB, Colonel. 
 
 The regiment was on picket duty along the line 
 of the Potomac River during the battle of Antietam, 
 and Oct. 22, 1862, crossed into Virginia with the 
 advance of McClellan's army. Near Warrenton a part 
 of the regiment engaged on November 11th, in a short 
 skirmish with a force of rebel cavalry, during which 
 Colonel Duffie emptied a rebel saddle by a carbine 
 shot and afterwards issued the following order : 
 
 2a 
 
14 DUTTIE AND THE 
 
 {Special Order No. — .) 
 Officers and Men of the First Battalion and Captain Manchester's 
 
 Squadron : 
 
 Tour Colonel has great pride In thanking you for gallant con- 
 duct on the 11th instant. Your charge up die hill, in the face 
 of the enemy outnumbering you many to one, was an act of 
 courage and heroism seldom seen, and in its results never ex- 
 celled. With their ranks completely broken, they were driven 
 more than three miles in the utmost confusion ; and when in their 
 insolence they afterwards returned, you again attacked and dis- 
 persed them, thus freeing that part of our lines from annoy- 
 ance. 
 
 The cavalry service is, in the main, a thankless one ; the du- 
 ties hazardous and severe, both for men and horses ; and it is 
 only by a manly, self-sacrificing spirit that we are able to bring 
 about results, so important in themselves, and which seldom 
 appear on the surface. Our reward is not in the blazing en- 
 comiums of army correspondents, but in the consciousness of 
 having done our duty; that our blows have been sharp and de- 
 cisive; that we have done our work at the right time and in 
 the right way; in a word, that we have done the work laid out 
 for us, and done it effectually; and, depend upon it, that in 
 military circles, whence praise falls so gratefully upon the ear, 
 we are, and we shall continue to be, appreciated. 
 
 This regiment is both my joy and my pride. I shall continue 
 to give to it my constant care ; and, sure of your cooperation 
 in all that shall raise it to highest standard of excellence and 
 effectiveness, we may each of us indulge in the fond belief 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 15 
 
 that, in after years, we sliall be proud to say, " I belonged to 
 the First Ehode Island Cavalry." 
 
 I am happy that I can thank Major Farrington, Captain Man- 
 chester, Lieutenants Allen and Chase. 
 
 A. N. DuFFli, Colonel Commanding. 
 
 On the 7th of November, 1862, General Am- 
 brose E. Burnside succeeded McClellan as Com- 
 mander of the Army of the Potomac, and, on the 
 first day of December, following, the First Rhode 
 Island Cavalry, First Massachusetts Cavalry and the 
 Third and Fourth Regiments Pennsylvania Cavalry 
 were put under the command of Brig.-General 
 William W. Averill. This putting the cavalry into 
 brigades by Burnside was the beginning of the move- 
 ment towards consolidation of this arm of the ser- 
 vice, finally resulting under Hooker in the formation 
 of a cavalry corps. After joining Averill's brigade 
 Colonel Duffi6 renewed his eflforts to perfect the reg- 
 iment in military knowledge. Copies of tactics 
 were bought for the use of the non-commissioned 
 officers, and all officers were practically put into 
 a school for soldiers. The sergeants and corporals 
 had their regular recitations in the tents of the 
 
16 DTJFIFE AND THE 
 
 captains, and all the commissioned officers were 
 frequently summoned to the colonel's quarters for 
 instruction and examination, while daily drills in 
 company, squadron and regimental formations tested 
 the lessons of the book, and the results fully justified 
 the following order : 
 
 Headquabtebs First Rhode Island Cavaley, 1 
 Camp neab Falmouth, Va., January 16, 1863. ) 
 
 (Special Orders, No. 23.) 
 
 Fellow- Soldiers : Again it is my proud privilege to congratu- 
 late you upon your admirable appearance, drill and discipline, 
 as a regiment. It has been granted me before, in all truth, to 
 applaud the efforts you have made to become the first among 
 the cavalry in the service. 
 
 General Koberts, Chief of Cavalry on General Pope's staff, on 
 the 18tli of last August, said: " While I have no hesitancy in 
 saying yours is the best regiment I have inspected so far, there 
 is still much to be done." Since that time, unqualified praise 
 from high military sources has been repeatedly accorded to 
 you; and now, to crown the whole, our most distinguished, 
 most esteemed General, commanding this brigade, after the 
 inspection of the 15th instant, says : "It is the best regiment 
 in my brigade." 
 
 Sharing equally alike the glorious possession of such a pres- 
 tige, we must all see to it, with jealous care, that we hold the 
 position assigned us against all comers. 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 17 
 
 Let no mark or blot mar the fair page ; and I hope soon 
 across the river which intercepts us from our foe, you will fin- 
 ish your brilliant achievements. 
 
 A. N". DuFFii^, 
 
 Colonel Commanding First Rhode Island Cavalry. 
 
 March 1, 1863, General Averill had his force in- 
 creased by the addition of three regiments and the 
 whole was divided into two brigades, forming the 
 Second Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Po- 
 tomac. Colonel Duffie, although not the senior 
 Colonel, was appointed to command the First Brio-- 
 ade, composed of the First Ehode Island, First Mas- 
 sachusetts, Fourth New York, and the Sixth Ohio 
 Cavalry. March 17, 1863, General Averill crossed 
 the Kappahannock River at Kelley's Ford, and on 
 that day was fought the first cavalry battle in Vir- 
 ginia. Here the First Rhode Island was first in 
 every encounter with the enemy, and Duffie had rea- 
 son to be proud of his regiment. Upon the right 
 bank of the river the enemy, sheltered by rifle-pits, 
 commanded the ford and repulsed the first regiment, 
 and then a platoon of eighteen men of the First Rhode 
 Island Cavalry, led by Lieutenant Simeon Brown, 
 
18 DtrrriE and the 
 
 charged across under a fire so severe that only the 
 Lieutenant and three of his men reached the oppo- 
 site shore, the others having been stopped by bullets 
 striking them or their horses. It had been shown 
 that the crossing could be made, and the remainder 
 of the regiment followed, capturing twenty-five of 
 the enemy before they could retreat from the rifle- 
 pits to their horses. In this contest, called the Bat- 
 tle of Kelley's Ford, General Fitz-Hugh Lee was in 
 command of the rebels, although Gen. J. E. B. 
 Stuart was present, and the best Virginia regiments 
 of cavalry were there to meet the Yankees ; but 
 three times the First Rhode Island charged them 
 with the sabre and were each time victorious. The 
 total loss on the Union side was eighty-one, and 
 forty-two of that number came from the First Ehode 
 Island. 
 
 Colonel Duffie was with Hooker's army during the 
 disastrous battle of Chancellors ville, but was not in 
 action beyond some skirmishing with the enemy. 
 General Hooker was not pleased with General 
 Averill and relieved him from duty with the Army 
 of the Potomac, and Colonel Daffie took command 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 19 
 
 of the division. In the great cavalry battle of 
 Brandy Station, June 9, 1863, Duffi4 crossed the 
 river at Kelley's Ford and led his division against 
 the rebel cavalry, driving them back in confusion 
 through Stephensburg, with considerable loss to the 
 enemy in killed, wounded and prisoners. Near 
 Stephensburg a force of the enemy was found sup- 
 porting a battery, upon which our battery opened 
 fire, and one of its shells took off one leg of Col. 
 M. C.Butler, now United States Senator from South 
 Carolina. Duffie was rapidly forming his men for an 
 attack when an order came for a march back to 
 Brandy Station. We marched along the rear of the 
 entire battle line of that day, recrossing the Eappa- 
 hannock at Beverly Ford several miles up the river 
 from our crossing of that morning. 
 
 After this battle Duffie was removed from the com- 
 mand of the division and sent back to the regiment. 
 There seemed to be some dissatisfaction with his 
 conduct, although it was ndver alleged that he did 
 not obey his orders, and he was certainly operat- 
 ing against the enemy with great success when 
 checked by orders to retire. I have seen in some 
 
20 DTXFFIE AND THE 
 
 military paper that Duffi^ ought to have marched 
 towards the heavy firing at Brandy Station instead 
 of pushing on towards Stephensburg, but his orders 
 were to drive the enemy out of Stephensburg, and 
 I am inclined to think that Duffi6 was made an ex- 
 cuse for some other officer's blunder on this hard- 
 fought field. 
 
 Early in the morning of June 17, 1863, the fol- 
 lowing order was received : 
 
 " Col. A. N. Duffie, First Shode Island Cavalry : 
 
 " You will proceed witli your regiment from Manassas Junc- 
 tion, by the way of Thoroughfare Gap, to Middleburg; there 
 you will camp for the night, and communicate with the head- 
 quarters of the Second Cavalry Brigade. From Middleburg 
 you will proceed to Union; thence to Snickersville ; from 
 Snickersville to Percy ville; thence to Wheatland, and passing 
 through Waterford to Nolan's Ferry, where you will join your 
 brigade." 
 
 The regiment, numbering then 280 strong, en- 
 countered troops of G-en. W. N. F. Lee's brigade at 
 Thoroughfare Gap under command of Col. J. K. 
 Chambliss. This brigade was at that time about 
 1,200 strong, and a force of the enemy larger than 
 our own was seen at the Gap, but they fell back as 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMOEY. 21 
 
 our men pressed boldly forward, and the position 
 was carried with no loss except that of a few horses 
 killed by rebel bullets. Leaving this force in his 
 rear Duffie marched to Middleburg, arriving at 4 p. 
 M. where Greneral Stuart had his headquarters, hav- 
 ing with him three companies as a body guard. 
 The charge of our men was the first news Stuart 
 had of our movement, and he was driven out of the 
 place in haste, narrowly escaping capture. The 
 order was to camp here for the night and communi- 
 cate with the headquarters of the Second Cavalry 
 Brigade. Captain Frank Allen, with two men, was 
 sent to Aldie with a dispatch stating the situation 
 and asking for reinforcements, and after several de- 
 lays by encounters with the enemy, safely delivered 
 his message at 9 p. m., but no effort was made by 
 our generals to send troops forward. When we 
 -first occupied Middleburg, Aldie, five miles in our 
 rear, was held by Fitz Lee's brigade under com- 
 mand of Col. T, T. Munford, against which Pleas- 
 anton's cavalry corps had made charge after charge 
 and been repulsed with heavy losses. As soon as 
 we forced Stuart out of Middleburg he sent orders 
 
22 DUTFIE AND THE 
 
 to Munford to fall back from Aldie and join him, 
 and also ordered Chambliss to march to Middleburg 
 from Salem. General Stuart himself proceeded to 
 Eector's Cross Roads, eight miles west of Middle- 
 burg, where Eobertson's brigade, 1,000 strong, was 
 stationed, and immediately returned with it, so that 
 upon our small regiment Stuart's entire cavalry force 
 was marching. At 7 p. m. Eobertson's brigade 
 charged upon us and found no easy victory. Three 
 times they were driven back, but superior numbers 
 at last prevailed, and Duffi6 was forced out of the 
 town. Duffi^ fell back two miles and halted for the 
 night in some woods near Little Eiver, where with 
 horses saddled and men under arms, he waited for 
 daylight, hoping for reinforcements. This was a 
 fatal error. His only hope was to escape from the 
 enemy approaching from all directions by cut- 
 ting his way out that night ; but he was a French- 
 man, felt he must obey his orders, and could not 
 take the responsibility of using his own judgment 
 as a native-born officer would have done in this des- 
 perate situation. Afterwards he wrote : "I could 
 certainly have saved my regiment in the night, but 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMOETr. 23 
 
 my duty as a soldier and as Colonel obliged me to be 
 faithful to my orders. During those moments of re- 
 flection, and knowing that my regiment was being 
 sacrificed, contemplating all this through more than 
 five hours, my heart was bleeding in seeing the lives 
 of those men whom I had led so many times sacri- 
 ficed through the neglect and utter forgetfulness of 
 my superior officers ; but in the midst of my grief, 
 I found some consolation beholding the manner in 
 which the Khode Island boys fought." 
 
 At daybreak on the morning of June 18th the 200 
 of the regiment who remained were attacked by over- 
 whelming numbers, and were scattered in the attempt 
 to cut through the enemy, and Duffi6 passed through 
 Hopewell Gap, and reached Centreville at noon with 
 four officers and twenty-seven men, which he sup- 
 posed to be all that remained of his gallant regi- 
 ment. There were others, however, who had es- 
 caped. Major Farrington brought in two officers 
 and twenty-three men ; Lieutenant Colonel Thomp- 
 son, eighteen men ; Sergeant Palmer, twelve men, 
 and Captain George N. Bliss, six men. Some others 
 who had been captured escaped, so that the total 
 
24 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 loss of the regiment in killed, wounded and prison- 
 ers was less than two hundred in these two days. 
 Colonel Duffie made his report direct to General 
 Hooker, who recommended him for promotion, and 
 June 23d he was appointed Brigadier-General, and 
 the story of his connection with the regiment here 
 end3 with his farewell address : 
 
 Washingtoh-, D. C, July 18, 1863. 
 To the Officers and Men of the First Rhode Island Cavalry : 
 
 In bidding farewell to my old regiment I do so with senti- 
 ments of unfeigned pain and grief at being obliged to sever a 
 connection wMoh has been at once my pride and honor to have 
 held from its commencement to this moment, bearing, as it 
 does, no personal unkindness to forgive, no private grief to be 
 assuaged, on my part, and may I be allowed the pleasurable 
 hope of the same immimity from yourselves. 
 
 I leave you, satisfied of your high resolve to be worthy of 
 the reputation you have earned upon many a hard fought field. 
 Bat remember that in the great school of war every man is 
 weighed and tested by the touchstone of daily truth, and is 
 valued at what he is actually worth. Success reflects not back- 
 wards to the individual only so far as he has positively contrib- 
 uted to that success. As the aggregation of goodness in a 
 community depends upon the individual virtues of its mem- 
 bers, so the efEectiveness of any military organization depends 
 upon the individual performance of its duties. 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORF. 25 
 
 Heroic courage, based upon pure motives, becomes in devo- 
 tion to country sublime. Let yours not fall short of this high 
 standard. The proud consciousness that he has not only done 
 his duty, but has done it cheerfully, with willing heart and 
 hand, is to the soldier a full recompense for all the sacri- 
 fices, hardships and privations he has borne in the defense 
 of his country's flag, her institutions and her laws, and , 
 be assured that the solace of life shall be in saying, " I, too, 
 was a faithful defender of my country's integrity during the 
 most infamous rebellion that ever blotted the fair page of a 
 nation's history. 
 
 I bid you an affectionate farewell, 
 
 A. N. DuPFi^, Brigadier-General. 
 
 The record of Duffi^'s military service as Briga- 
 dier-General is taken from Memoirs of Rhode 
 Island Officers by John Kussell Bartlett, for many 
 years Secretary of State of the State of Rhode 
 Island. 
 
 General Duffie was ordered to report to Brigadier- 
 General Kelley, then commanding the Department 
 of West Virginia, and on the 7th of September, 
 1863, was ordered to proceed to Charleston, West 
 Va., to organize a cavalry force of three thousand 
 men consisting of the Second Virginia, Third Vir- 
 ginia and Thirty-Fourth Ohio Cavalry, and in two 
 
 3A 
 
26 DurriE and the 
 
 months he succeeded in making this brigade one of 
 the best cavalry commands in the service. 
 
 In November he was put in command of a force 
 of two thousand cavahy and one thousand infantry 
 and ordered to capture Lewisburg, a town one hun- 
 dred and twenty miles from his base of supplies, 
 which he did, defeating the Confederate General 
 EwelJ, and capturing artillery, wagons and war ma- 
 terial. After pursuing the enem}^ to Union, Gen- 
 eral Duffie returned to Charleston and the enemy 
 having again occupied Lewisburg, General Duffi^ 
 once more forced the rebels to retreat from the town 
 and then joined Brigadier-General Averill in his raid 
 to Salem. 
 
 In April, 1864, General Duffie was ordered to re- 
 port to General Averill and received high praise for 
 gallant and effective service in the battles of Saltz- 
 ville and Wyethville. 
 
 In May he was ordered to report to Major-General 
 Hunter, and soon after was ordered to turn his cav- 
 alry command over to General Averill and to assume 
 command of the First Cavalry Division of West 
 Virginia, composed of the first New York Veteran, 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 27 
 
 the First New York Lincoln, the Fifteenth and 
 Twenty-first New York, the Twelfth and Twentieth 
 Pennsylvania Cavalry. He took command of this 
 cavalry division at Staunton, Va., and was frequently 
 engaged with the enemy while under command of 
 Major-General Hunter in his advance upon Lynch- 
 burg, capturing several wagon trains, a large num- 
 ber of horses and one hundred prisoners. During 
 the retreat from Lynchburg General DufEe was for 
 ten or twelve days in command of the rear guard, 
 and repulsing the vigorous attacks of the pursuing 
 enemy brought the large wagon train of the army 
 safely into Charleston, West Va. 
 
 From Charleston General Duffie was orderpd to 
 march to Maryland and join the forces operating 
 against General Early, then making the raid that 
 ended in front of the fortifications at Washington. 
 Duffi^ found one of Early's trains near the Potomac 
 and captured two hundred men and three hundred 
 wagons loaded with part of the plunder gathered by 
 the raiding enemy. After General Sheridan took 
 command of our forces in the Valley DuflB6 was 
 kept in active service with his division. 
 
28 DXIFFIE AND THE 
 
 General Sheridan appreciated Duffie's remarkable 
 ability in organizing, drilling and preparing recruits 
 for effective service and sent him to Cumberland, 
 Md., to organize a division of cavalry, which duty 
 having been soon and well performed, he was ordered 
 to Hagerstown to organize another cavalry force. 
 October 21, 1864, Duffie found it necessary to visit 
 his commanding officer for instructions, and, escorted 
 by a squadron of the First New York Cavalry, he 
 went to the headquai'ters of General Sheridan near 
 Fisher's Hill. On his return, four days' later, Gen- 
 eral Duffie was furnished an escort at Winchester 
 and took with him, in ambulances, some officers who 
 had been wounded in the battle of Cedar Creek 
 October 19th, but becoming impatient at the slow 
 progress required for the comfort of the wounded, 
 he pushed on at greater speed in a private wagon, 
 followed by a detail of only ten men. About five 
 miles from "Winchester, Moseby, the rebel guerrilla, 
 was lying in wait with three hundred men, watchin"' 
 for an opportunity to capture an expected wagon 
 train, and this force opened fire on the approaching 
 wagon, killing the driver and the horses and severely 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMOET. 29 
 
 ■wounding Captain Stevens, General Duffle's provost 
 marshal, and the General found himself for the first 
 time a prisoner. 
 
 General Duffle arrived in Eichmond early in No- 
 bember and was confined in Libby, where I was also 
 at that time a prisoner ; but as an unhealed wound 
 had sent me to the hospital I did not have the pleas- 
 ure of meeting my old commander. Duffl6 had a 
 little trouble with Dick Turner, the turnkey, and 
 was confined in a cell for two days, but his life in 
 Richmond was short, as he was soon sent with other 
 officers to Danville, Va., where he suffered hunger, 
 cold and the nameless evils of a prisoner's life in the 
 Confederacy. Duffie could not endure such trouble 
 with patience and he led the prisoners in a desperate 
 effort to effect their release by seizing the guards, 
 hoping to secure the stacked arms and capture the 
 town. Two of the guards were disarmed but an 
 alarm was given before the guns could be reached, 
 and a storm of bullets was poured into the prison 
 which killed several brave men and put an end to 
 all hope of escape. 
 
 On the 22d of February, 1865, Duffie was paroled 
 and ordered to Cincinnati, where on the 20th of 
 
30 DurriE and the 
 
 March he was declared exchanged. On the 1st of 
 April he was ordered to report to'Major-Geueral 
 Pope, in the military department of Missouri, and 
 was sent to Fort Gibson to organize a force of six 
 thousand cavalry under Major-General Blunt for an 
 expedition to Texas. On the 25th of May, while 
 Duffie was on his way to Texas, General Kirby Smith 
 surrendered his army and the cavalry was ordered 
 back, and on the 5th of June were mustered out of 
 the service at Lawrence, Kansas. General Dufl56 
 was ordered to the city of New York to wait for or- 
 ders ; and on the 24th of August, 1865, by a general 
 order from the War Department, was, with eighty- 
 six other major-generals and brigadier-generals, hon- 
 orably must^ed out of service. 
 
 Duffie was married August 19, 1860, to Mary A. 
 Pelton, daughter of Daniel Peltou, of West New 
 Brighton, Staten Island, New York, and when peace 
 came and his services as a soldier were no lonser 
 required, his fortune was ample for his wants and a 
 happy and honorable life was apparently before him 
 in his adopted country. His health, never firm after 
 his European battles, had been further impaired by 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 31 
 
 his soldier life in our service and especially by his 
 experience as a prisoner of war. He suffered greatly 
 from asthma, and in the hope of benefit from a more 
 favorable climate, he finally applied for a position as 
 consul, and, in May, 1869, was appointed to that post 
 at Cadiz, Spain. After leaving his home at Staten 
 Island his health greatly improved, but even the cli- 
 mate of Spain could not heal , it could only retard 
 the progress of disease. 
 
 In the summer of 1877, while on a brief visit to 
 this country, he came to Providence without writing 
 to any of his old friends here of his intention. He 
 tried to find some of those he had known, but those 
 he sought were dead or out of town, and as he turned 
 from a house on Benefit street, where not even a ser- 
 vant remained to answer his summons, he was indeed 
 feeling like a stranger in a strange land, when sud- 
 denly a carriage stopped and Sergeant David S. Eay, 
 of his old regiment, greeted him with a warmth that 
 convinced him of a cordial welcome, and he was soon 
 surrounded with a host of friends. His recognition 
 by an old soldier who had not seen him for thirteen 
 years warmed the General's heart. With what en- 
 
32 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 thusiasm he described it. " He stops his carriage ; 
 he jumps out ; he runs to meet me ; he tells me 
 everything." He was pressed to tarry a few days ; 
 at least, until his old veterans could be notified and 
 rally around him, but he could stay only a day. So 
 with Major Farrington, Captains Baker and Bliss, 
 he went down to the Squantum grounds, and as, un- 
 fortunately, it was not a club day, tried for the first 
 time a clam-bake at Silver Spring. He enjoyed it 
 hugely, said it was worth coming here from Spain, 
 and he would come again next year. At the close 
 of the day he sat, with Major Farrington, Captains 
 Baker and Bliss, at the table of his old chaplain, 
 Eev. Frederic Denison, who remarked that he alone 
 of the five present had escaped a wound in the War 
 of the Rebellion. We could keep him no longer, 
 though reluctant to part, so escorting him to the 
 New York boat, we saw him for the last time as, 
 standing on the deck of the departing steamer, he 
 waved his old comrades a soldier's farewell. 
 
 After his return to Cadiz he went, under medical 
 advice, to Canterets in the Pyrenees, to dri-nk the 
 waters of that place as a remedy for asthma, but the 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 33 
 
 disease developed into consumption, and, after fif- 
 teen months of suffering, he died November 8, 1880, 
 having given the United States over eleven years of 
 faithful service as Consul. 
 
 At the annual reunions of his old regiment many a 
 reminiscence is heard of the commander, now lost to 
 mortal sight, and some of them are deemed worthy 
 of preservation here as characteristic of the man. 
 
 General Duffie was constantly trying to extend his 
 knowledge of the English language, and as con- 
 stantly amusing his officers with his struggles. In 
 autumn of 1862 the regiment received a number of 
 recruits called by the old soldiers " thousand dollar 
 men," in allusion to their bounty money. The war 
 demonstrated the curious fact that the more you paid 
 for a man the less he was worth, and these new re- 
 cruits, as they became short of money to spend at 
 the sutler's, commenced to improve the night by 
 stealing from the old soldiers their revolvers, which 
 they sold to the privates in some of the new regi- 
 ments of infantry camped near us. The Colonel 
 learnejl of this, and the chaplain being absent at the 
 time, determined to attend to the matter himself. 
 
34 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 and on Sunday night, at the close of dress parade, 
 thus addressed the regiment : " One man, he go steal 
 his comrade's pistol ; he go sell it to one infantry 
 man ; he think nobody see him ; God see him ; God 
 go give to him hell." Nobody laughed then, but 
 after dress parade was dismissed the Colonel was 
 very much astonished by the roaring laughter 
 throughout the,earnp. He was not aware that he 
 had said anything to call forth such hilarious con- 
 duct. One day, while riding with another officer, 
 he said to him, "See them goose," and was respect- 
 fully informed that the proper phrase was " those 
 geese." " Ah ! " he said, " geese, geese. I get him 
 right next time." Shortly after he had some trouble 
 in instructing the Fourth New York Cavalry, whose 
 gallant Colonel, Di Cesnola, was afflicted with offi- 
 cers, many of whom could speak almost anything 
 except English, and who persisted in repeating in 
 different languages the Colonel's orders, instead of 
 giving the proper orders in accordance with their 
 rank. In describing it Duffie said : " The Colonel, 
 the Fourth New York, he give an order ; all the 
 officer, they stick up their head ; they holler like one 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 35 
 
 geese." When informed that he was again wrong 
 on the goose he exclaimed, "My goodness, what a 
 language ! " 
 
 Although the Colonel did not always use such lan- 
 guage as would have met the approval of the pro- 
 fessors on College Hill, he had no trouble in making 
 himself fully understood, nor did he fail to enforce 
 his ideas with apt illustrations. At a meeting of 
 officers in his tent he was urging upon them earnest 
 application to perfect themselves in all their duties 
 as soldiers, saying, " You can all do something when 
 you wish to do it. You all know Captain Bliss ; he 
 is not quick. He get a leave of absence to go home 
 to Rhode Island. My goodness ! He is off like a 
 shot." 
 
 Duffie's son, Daniel Pelton Duffie, born March 17, 
 1862, married Adele Prudence Miner, October 30, 
 1888, and they, with the widow, joined the First 
 Rhode Island Cavalry Veteran Association in the 
 dedication of the monument, of which a full ac- 
 count will be found in the Appendix to this paper. 
 Another son, Auguste Duffi^, born August 13, 1866, 
 died September 5, 1866. 
 
36 DUFFIE AND HIS MONUMENT. 
 
 In December, 1880, Duffie's body was brought 
 across the stormy Atlantic, and each year, upon his 
 grave at Staten Island, the soldiers on Memorial 
 Day place the flowers of spring and the flag he 
 served so well. Let us hope that until time shall be 
 no more the veterans and their descendants will an- 
 nually place similar tributes of affectionate remem- 
 brance upon the stone in the North Burial Ground 
 which, upon "Wednesday, July 10, 1889, his surviv- 
 ing comrades dedicated to the memory of Duffi6. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Wednesday, July 10, 1889, the First Rhode 
 Island Cavalry Veteran Association assembled in the 
 City of Providence to unveil and dedicate at the 
 North Burial Ground the memorial to Gen. Alfred 
 Napoleon Duffie. 
 
 The line of march was formed on South "Water 
 Street about 9 o'clock a. m., and was as follows : 
 
 Detachment of Police. 
 National Band, T. W. Hedley, leader; 31 pieces. 
 Slocum Post Drum Corps. 
 Slocum Post, Gr. A. E., J. H. Khodes, Senior Vice Commander; 
 Gorham Dennis, Acting Senior Vice Commander; Elisha 
 Disley, Junior Vice Commander; Officer of the Day Witter, 
 Surgeon Graves, Commander Potter, Chaplain Crocker, and 
 52 comrades. 
 First Rhode Island Veteran Association, Marshal David S. Eay; 
 Aids, Martin C. Cary, Caleb Hobart, Thomas A. Richards, 
 Alonzo J. Babcock, and J. E. Bennett, 72 veterans. 
 4A 
 
38 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 La Gauloise Soci^te, Georges Lair, Marshal, with tri-color; 14 
 memhers. 
 
 Grand Army Republic Officers of the Department of Rhode 
 Island, Department Commander Benjamin F. Davis, Assist- 
 ant Adjutant-General George M. Turner, Inspector Carlos 
 Hart, Chief of Staff Theodore A. Perry, and 25 staff 
 officers. 
 
 Sons of Veterans, Department of Rhode Island, Col. Theodore 
 A. Barton, commanding; Lieut. Col. G. F. Martin, Maj. E. 
 O. Riggs, Adjutant "W. P. Hawkes, Sergt. James Dufiy, 
 Chaplain Joseph E. Mason, Quartermaster F. B. Wilson, 
 Judge Advocate Cyrus KT. Van Slyck, Mustering Officer S. 
 M. Billington, Inspector F. C. Monroe, Senior Aide-de- 
 Camp C. E. Monroe, Quartermaster-Sergeant William H. 
 Church, Sergeant Major C. E. Lindsey. 
 
 Carriages containing Governor Ladd, Mayor Barker, Mrs. Duffle, 
 widow of the memorialized General, with his son and son's 
 wife; Gen. Horatio Rogers, Col. Edwin Metcalf, Col. Isaac 
 M. Potter, Secretary of State Cross, Lieut.-Col. Philip S. 
 Chase, Rev. E. O. Bartlett, Department Chaplain 6. A. R., 
 Capt. George N. Bliss, Col. C. N. Manchester, Chaplain. 
 Frederic Denison, Commander S. C. Willis, William A. 
 Harris, Lieut. C. G. A. Peterson, Mr. E. M. Wilson, City 
 Clerk H. V. A. Joslin, Quartermaster H. S. Olney, Capt. 
 George H. Pettis, Messrs. G. W. Hill and^;Walter Ballou, 
 Surgeon Budlong, and Colonels W. T. Nicholson, Jr., and 
 R. S. Washburn of the Governor's staff; Adjutant-General 
 Dyer and Stillman White. 
 
 Members of the First Massachusetts Cavalry Veteran Associa- 
 tion. 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 39 
 
 The route of march was directly across Market 
 Square aud,up North Main Street to Branch Avenue 
 junction and the burial ground. Having entered the 
 limits of the cemetery, the line marched about the 
 spot where the memorial was located until they 
 were upon three sides of it. Advancing in regular 
 lines, the comrades and friends then drew nearer the 
 memorial, and finally, with the advance of the peo- 
 ple upon the fourth side, there was a hollow square. 
 The memorial, covered with the American flag, and 
 with a French flag waving over it upon the right and 
 the American upon the left, was in the centre. Its 
 location upon the burial ground is upon the same lot 
 with the French memorial. 
 
 Col. Charles N. Manchester, Officer of the Day, 
 spoke as follows : 
 
 CoMKADEs: We are assembled to-day for the purpose of 
 bringing to completion our long-cberished object to erect and 
 dedicate in this city a suitable memorial to our late loved com- 
 mander. 
 
 An appropriate order of exercises having been arranged by 
 your committee, it is not expected that T will detain you vfith 
 any extended remarks of my own. 
 
 The unveiling of the cenotaph by two veteran comrades of 
 i;he Association will be followed by the ceremonies indicated in 
 the programme. 
 
40 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 Two veterans of the cavalry unveiled the ceno- 
 taph, Welcome A. Johnson and John R. Arnold. 
 The removal of the flag brought to view a granite 
 tablet of about the same size as the French memo- 
 rial. Upon the upturned face was the inscription : 
 
 In Memoriam. 
 
 GEN. ALFRED N. DUPFIE. 
 
 Born in Paris, May 1, 1835. 
 
 Lieutenant of the French Army, 
 
 Colonel of 1st Rhode Island Cavalry, 
 
 And General of the United States Army, 
 
 1861-1865, 
 
 This tribute 
 
 Erected by the 1st R. L Cavalry 
 
 Veteran Association. 
 
 The head of the tablet had upon the exterior the 
 coat-of-arms of the First Rhode Island Cavalry Vet- 
 eran Association. The other side bears the'arms of" 
 the French Republic and the insignia of the Legion 
 of Honor. The French memorial erected in 1881 
 has not the same French arms cut upon it, but the 
 arms of France when the nation was a monarchy. 
 The tablet was designed by the Smith Granite Com- 
 pany, of Westerly, and it is a handsome piece of 
 
MONUMENT. TO HIS MEMORY. 41 
 
 workmanship as well as a tasteful work of art. It 
 was decorated for the dedication by Mr. J. Hurry 
 Welch. 
 
 Mrs. Duffi6 was standing at the left of the memo- 
 rial during the exercises, with the other members of 
 the family by her side. 
 
 Members of La Gauloise sang the Marseillaise 
 Hymn. This was perhaps the tenderest tribute of 
 the occasion, and the members of the society sung 
 with deep feeling. Lieutenant Martin L. Gary led 
 with the Lord's Prayer next, and Sergeant ^V'illiam 
 Gardiner read the statement of the Association. This 
 was as follows : 
 
 STATEMENT OF SECRETARY GARDINER. 
 
 Mb. CHAiRiiAisr, CoiiEADES AjfD Fbiesds: At the annual 
 summer reunion of the veterans of the First Khode Island Cav- 
 alry at Oakland Beach, K. I., July 14, 1881, the announcement 
 was made of the death of our beloved commander and com- 
 rade, General Duffld. 
 
 The following record and resolutions in reference to his death 
 were unanimously adopted, viz.: 
 
 Having received intelligence in reference to our former be- 
 loved commander. Col. Alfred N. DufB.^, afterwards an honored 
 Brigadier-General of Cavalry, and finally for ten years a faith- 
 ful United States Consul at Cadiz, Spain, that after a protracted 
 
42 DUFFIB AND THE 
 
 struggle with consumption he died as a patriot and Christian: 
 at his consular post, November 8, 1880, at the age of forty-five, 
 and that his embalmed body has been returned to his adopted 
 country for burial, we desire to bear this additional record : 
 
 That in his voluntary coming from the regular army of his 
 native land, with the scars and insignia of heroism upon him, 
 to lend the value of his large soldierly attainments and the 
 ability of his tried sword to our country in the dark hour of 
 our conflict with treason and rebellion, we gratefully recognize 
 the famed chivalry of France, the kindred spirit of Lafayette, 
 and a touching exhibition of the brotherhood of mankind, and 
 hence hold him in emphatic honor as a man and in the fond- 
 est remembrance as a compatriot and comrade-in-arms. 
 
 That in him we found a military scholar, a brave soldier, au 
 accomplished cavalier, a gallant officer, a polite gentleman, an 
 aifable associate, an affectionate friend, a Christian adviser, 
 and a valiant defender of our nation. 
 
 That to his eminent tact, devotion and bravery, our regiment 
 in the field was largely indebted for its training, daring, 
 efficiency, reputation, and success. 
 
 That his death has brought a deep personal sorrow to the 
 members of his old command — a real patriot grief to Ehode 
 Island — that was proud to own him as an adopted son — an 
 acknowledged loss to the public service of our country. 
 
 That, with the tears of soldiers who fought by his side, we 
 now star his name in the history of our regiment on the roll of 
 our Veteran Association, and in the State that was honored by 
 his valor. 
 
 That we specially and tenderly sympathize with his bereaved 
 family and kindred, in their sore and irreparable loss. 
 
 That this expression of our soldierly regard and fraternal 
 love for him, and our appreciation of his National services, be 
 placed upon the records of our Association, and a copy of the 
 same, signed by our President and Secretary, be forwarded to 
 his afflicted family. 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 43 
 
 At the annual summer reunion, August 18, 1886, at Oakland 
 Beach, R. I., the Association, upon motion of Comrade Lieut. 
 Charles G-. A. Peterson, by unanimous vote decided-to erect a 
 suitable monument to perpetuate the memory of their late 
 former commander, and the following resolution was adopted, 
 viz.: 
 
 That the Executive Committee petition the City Council of 
 the City of Providence, E. I., for a location in the North Burial 
 Ground of that city, upon which our Association shall erect a 
 monument or fitting testimonial to the memory of G-en. Alfred 
 Napoleon Duffi^. 
 
 In accordance with this action of the Association, the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee petitioned the City Council of 1887, and 
 were given the ground^upon which the memorial rests that we 
 are now assembled to dedicate. 
 
 The Executive Committee appointed Comrades Chaplain 
 Frederic Denison, Lieut. Charles G. A. Peterson, and Sergt. 
 William Gardiner as'a Memorial Committee, with authority to 
 procure a design for the memoi-ial, collect contributions (not to 
 exceed f 1,000), and contract for whatever might be necessary to 
 insure a speedy completion of the work. Two designs were 
 presented (suggested by the Memorial Committee), by the 
 Smith Granite Company, of Westerly, R. I., and the one rep- 
 resented by this monument was adopted by the unanimous 
 consent of both the "Executive" and "Memorial" Commit-- 
 tees. 
 
 March 23, 1889, a sufficient amount having been contributed 
 to pay for the monument, the contract was made with the 
 Smith Granite Company, of Westerly, E. I. This is, -in brief, a 
 
44 DUFFIK AND THE 
 
 statement of the origin and progress of tlie movement that has 
 successfully culminated in the erection of this memorial trib- 
 ute to our much loved commander. 
 
 The Association gratefully acknowledges its indebtedness to 
 the General Assembly of Ehode Island, the City Council of the 
 City of Providence, and to a number of public-spirited and 
 patriotic citizens for the liberal donations that have assisted so 
 materially in making a success of the monument movement. 
 
 EEV. FKEDEEIO DENISON'S OBATION. 
 
 Rev. Frederic Denison then delivered the oration, 
 as follows : 
 
 Me. Chairman, Comeades and Friends : Our hearts have 
 drawn us here to-day to perform a patriotic and sacred duty — 
 to dedicate, on this historic and holy ground, this tasteful me- 
 morial; a tribute to one whom we loved — one with whom, mid 
 the flames of a gigantic war, we bore our starry flag and served 
 our perilled country. 
 
 Gen. Alfred Napoleon Duffle was of worthy patrician blood, 
 son of Count Jean A. Duffle ; was born May l,d835, in Paris, 
 France; was educated in the School of St. B arbo , in the Military 
 Academy of Versailles, and in the National Military College of 
 St. Cyr; was trained in infantry, cavalry and staff duties; was 
 graduated as a Lieutenant of Cavalry in the Hussars d'Afrique 
 in the Regular Army of France; served in Algiers, in Senegal, 
 in the Crimea, and Austrian wars, receiving eight wounds in 
 action, winning four imperial decorations of the Legion of 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMOKY. 45 
 
 Honor — the French, English, Turkish and Sardinian crosses, 
 the latter bestowed as he lay wounded direct from the hands of 
 the Emperor. 
 
 While suffering from his wound received in the battle of Sol- 
 ferino, he had leave of absence, in 1859, to visit America for re- 
 cuperation. He was at once enamored of our country and the 
 genius of our Government, finding here what best answered his 
 higher ideals of a nation. 
 
 When the slaveholders' rebellion broke on our land, he, in 
 chivalrous love for our republic and people, quickly transferred 
 his citizenship to our shoi-es, and thi-ew himself enthusiastically 
 into our conflict for the defe.nse of the banner of the free; be- 
 coming successively Captain of New Jersey Cavalry, Major of 
 New York Cavalry, Colonel of Rhode Island Cavalry, and Brig- 
 adier-Greneral of Cavalry; gallantly serving in Maryland, Vir- 
 ginia, West Virginia, the Department of the West, and in 
 Texas, meanwhile, for a season, suffering the horrors of Libby 
 and Danville rebel prisons. But the full portraiture of his 
 worthy life we leave to the appreciative cavalier hand of Capt. 
 George N. Bliss, to whom, for a future day, that tender service 
 has been assigned. 
 
 Gratefully and affectionately we recall our devoted com- 
 mander; of light, manly frame, a superior horseman, nervous 
 and lithe in action, a polite scholar, with lai-ge, keen eye, of 
 quick, commanding voice, of free, social disposition, a thorough 
 tactician and disciplinarian, brave as steel and gallant as a 
 knight; a votary of freedom and a devotee to our flag; unques- 
 tionably the best instructed and most experienced cavalry 
 officer then in our country. 
 
46 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 He imparted to us knowledge, skill, confidence, enthusiasm, 
 and Ms own magnetic spirit, making us one of the most daring 
 and efficient cavalry regiments in the Union Army; winning 
 for us, even, a national reputation. He gloried in the cavalry 
 arm. He was master of sabres and spurs. His pride was in 
 battalions of horse. He felt the iusiiiration of bugles that 
 summoned to the front, and his metal was revealed beneath our 
 guidons on the lines of battle. 
 
 Under his cool, yet dashing leadership, we had, in less than a 
 year, nineteen great and small encounters with the foe ; among 
 them the brilliant stroke at Kelley's Ford, rolling back the 
 flower of the Rebel cavalry. No wonder the Confederates 
 learned to dread what they styled "the little Frenchman and 
 his Ehode Island regiment." 
 
 The secret and charm of his command with us was in his 
 thorough soldierly accomplishments and his deep personal love 
 for us. We emphasize his love. We remember on the morning 
 of the second Bull Kun battle, how, with the tears streaming 
 down his face, he exclaimed, " O, what can I do for my poor 
 starving boys ? We have been fighting two days with nothing 
 to eat; and now we must fight to-day." Tes, his was a large, 
 warm, sympathetic, generous, overflowing heart for the right, 
 the noble, the brave, with a corresponding detestation of mean- 
 ness, cowardice and disloyalty. 
 
 He came not to our country as an adventurer, seeking fame 
 and honor. He aimed not, as some erroneously conjectured, to 
 here win military laurels that he might return and display 
 them in his native land. No, no ; he was providentially given 
 to us, and became in heart one of us, drawing his sabre as a 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 47 
 
 true brother, to share the dangers and destinies of our Ee- 
 public. 
 
 As his deeds fully proved, he came to live and die under our 
 standard. His supreme ambition was to act vrhat soldier part 
 he might in the greatest military drama of the ages, to advance 
 the liberties and interests of men. Foreseeing our election of 
 God to hold the van of iree nations, he became a devoted 
 American, laying all his rare gifts and attainments with heroic 
 ardor upon our national altar; and no truer spirit fought under 
 our republican aegis. Of the Roman Catholic faith by profes- 
 sion, his bosom was as broad as the family of man, abhorring 
 slavery and caste, and his aspiration was to know and do the 
 will of God in the emancipation of our race. Herein he was 
 one of the noblest of knights. His ideal was "the common- 
 wealth of man" and " the federation of the world." 
 
 Our highest military officers of all arms, as they knew him, 
 comprehended him only to appreciate and applaud him. The 
 Legislature of Rhode Island, in 1864, by resolution, thanked 
 him "for distinguished bravery, loyalty, and fidelity." The 
 Federal Government, through General Grant, recognized his 
 talents, character, and heroism, bestowing on him a consular- 
 ship that he nobly honored till the day of his death. 
 
 With throbbing breast our country gives to bronze, to granite, 
 to illuminated historic pages, and to the pulsing hearts of her 
 citizens, the names and deeds of her heroic defenders and pat- 
 riot martyrs, counting these her greatest and most enduring 
 treasures — ^herrollof honor and of fame. And bright and last- 
 ing on Rhode Island's escutcheon, with Greene, Whipple, 
 Olney, Pen-y, Rodman, Slocum, Burnside, she will engrave the 
 
48 DurriE and the 
 
 name of her most accomplished and intrepid cavalry officer, 
 Duffle. 
 
 Most fitly and tenderly we, his comrades-in-arms, who knew 
 the temper of his soul and of his sabre, here, on the old Cam- 
 pus Martins of Providence, erect to his memory this beautiful 
 and enduring cenotaph; by the side of the lily-crowned memo- 
 rial of near a hundred French soldiers, who died as the allies 
 of our Kevolutionary fathers; both works being tributes of 
 chivalry, self-sacrifice, love of liberty and international fellow- 
 ship ; here to teach to all coming generations the high and holy 
 lesson of devotion to the world's welfare; to show that the 
 true glory of man is in serving mankind — ^in counting millions 
 greater than a unit. 
 
 Rhode Island may well prize, as she will, this new historic 
 jewel which her gallant cavaliers now reverently lay upon her 
 bosom. Such memorials of patriotism are inspiring, uplifting 
 object-lessons for all time, far outweighing silver and gold. 
 And not until gratitude ceases to be a grace and our birthright 
 of freedom shall be forgotten, will the city of Providence fail 
 to cherish this memorial of self-denial, virtue, and valor. 
 
 Thus the scarred cavalry veterans, survivors of fifty-six bat- 
 tle strokes with ou.r enemy, here reveal again their patriotic 
 hearts, and here lend their brave hands in this work of art to 
 adorn and dignify our State and our nation. With justice and 
 with pride we give our loved leader and his worthy work to the 
 judgment and keeping of history. As the faithful officer of 
 our nation he fell at his post of duty at the age of forty-five, in 
 the meridian of life, his body worn out in the cause of free- 
 dom and humanity. Bidden by our full hearts, we enroll him 
 in our American Legion of Honor, and hang his portrait in the 
 gallery of our historical Valhalla. 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 49 
 
 And while we here recall aud honor him in this memorial 
 service, genei'ously aided, as we are, by war veterans of Slocum 
 Post, No. 10, and Sons of Veterans of the Department of Rhode 
 Island, Grand Army of the Republic, by La Soci6td Francais, 
 of Providence, and by city. State, and national officers, we all 
 are especially thankful to welcome in our ceremonies his widow 
 and his son, whom may God bless and ever graciously protect 
 and guide and prosper in the land their loved one and ours 
 fought to defend and to save. 
 
 He, shrined in bosoms and in stone, 
 
 Of knightly soul and hero hands ; 
 Who bound our country to his own 
 
 By deeds more worth than golden bands. 
 
 True cavalier, revealed by scars 
 From old-world fields of patriot strife; 
 
 He wed the tri-flag with the stars 
 And battled for our country's life. 
 
 So toiled to make his fellows blest 
 And wrought what heaven delights to crown; 
 
 As. oak that grasps the mountain crest 
 And shakes the centuries' fruitage down. 
 
 Our rescued laud may ne'er forget 
 This son of France our braves among; 
 
 With Rochambeau and Lafayette 
 Shall be the name of Duffi^ sung. 
 
 Faint meed can our weak words afford, 
 
 Or all our phrase of eulogy. 
 He carved his record with his sword; 
 
 He fought to set two nations free. 
 
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50 . DXIFFIE AND THE 
 
 An original hymn by Kev. Mr. Denison was 
 sung at the close of this address to the tune of 
 "America." 
 
 ADDRESS BY ME. GEORGES LAIR. 
 
 Mr. Georges Lair, of the Society La Gauloise, 
 then spoke as follows : 
 
 Me. Chaikman and Veterans of the Fiest Rhode IslanD' 
 Cavalry : I feel it is my duty to thank you in the name of the 
 Trench society, " La Gauloise," for the honor that you have 
 done to us to invite "La Gauloise" to the dedication of the 
 monument erected to the memory of General Duffle ; but I will 
 have to be excused on account of my poor English of making 
 any extended remarks, and will only say a few words. 
 
 In the name of the members of "La Gauloise" I wish to ex- 
 press how deep, and at the same time comforting, feelings this 
 ceremony brings to us, who, so far from our country, have the 
 satisfaction to witness such a touching scene. 
 
 It is a glory for a country to honor those men who have taken 
 up arms for its defence, and it is an honor for the First Rhode 
 Island Cavalry Veteran Association not to have forgotten their 
 comrades who fought with them in many battles. 
 
 Now, I will add but one thing; it is that if ever (that which 
 I do not hope) circumstances should call again the American 
 army into the battle-field, my fellow-countrymen and myself 
 would hurry to acknowledge the generous hospitality that we 
 enjoy in your free country, in following the example of our 
 countryman. General Duffle, and defending the welfare of our 
 adopted country with all the means in our favor. 
 
MONUMKNT TO HIS MEMORY. 51 
 
 This was followed by the giving of the memorial 
 to the city by Lieut. Samuel C. Willis, Jr., who 
 spoke as follows : 
 
 PRESENTATION BY LIEUT. 8. 0. WILLIS, JR. 
 
 Mr. Pkesident, Comrades of the Veteran Association, 
 AND Friends: Our regiment was a thousand strong, composed 
 of Rhode Island and New Hampshire men. It was ofiS.cered by 
 New England freemen, who, like the troops they commanded, 
 had been reared to lives of peace, industry and usefulness, and 
 were as true to their citizenship as patriots and brave as the de- 
 fenders of Thermopylse or the Athenians who went down to 
 war with the Persians on the plains of Marathon. 
 
 On the farm, in the factory, in institutions of learning, and 
 in the arts and sciences they had wrought well; but in the art 
 of war all were as skilless as unpractical childhood. 
 
 In the war for independence Washington found a friend, pat- 
 riot and soldier in the gallant Lafayette. In the great war for 
 the perpetuation of free government and equal rights for all 
 we found a friend, a patriot, and a skilful master of the art of 
 war in the gallant young Duffle, who came to our command 
 fresh from the armies of France. 
 
 One correction I wished to make in regard to General Duffi^'s 
 name. His name was Alfred Napoleon Duffle, and not Alfred 
 Nattie Dufa^, as we have always supposed. 
 
 My comrades, you know the rest. I need not picture to you 
 the inflexible drill, the rigid discipline, the march, the bivouac, 
 the long campaign, the retreats, the onslaughts, the victory. 
 
52 DTIFFIE AND THE 
 
 We are here to-day to talk neither of theory nor theorist, but 
 to honor and to perpetuate the memory of the brave officer, 
 his captains and his men for noble deeds achieved and heroic 
 duty done. 
 
 Our esteemed commander, General Duffie, and his loved and 
 trusted lieutenant, Col. John L. Thompson, and the immortal 
 Ainsw^orth, and Gove, and Nicolai, and Easterbrook, and Che- 
 dell, and a hundred others of our command are mustered in 
 the Elysian field beyond the stars. They offered their lives in 
 their country's defence, and now rest from their labors, their 
 final life-work done. 
 
 "On fame's eternal camping ground 
 Their silent tents are spread. 
 But glory guards with solemn round 
 The bivouac of the dead." 
 
 Their record is made, their fame secure. To their honor^ 
 and in their memory, we, their surviving comrades, come to- 
 day to dedicate this monument. And now, Mr. Mayor, repre- 
 senting, as you do, the loyal people of the great city of Provi- 
 dence, into your keeping we give this cenotaph. Ti'ue to your 
 past history, you will protect and defend it, and we know that 
 your people will cherish, and that they will teach their chil- 
 dren to cherish the principles for which these heroes died, and 
 doing this, the future of your State will be as hei'oic and as 
 glorious as its past, and greater blessing than this no State 
 need ask. In this presence, then, and in the memory of our 
 distinguished dead, we present to your city this memorial. 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORT. 53 
 
 MAYOR barker's ACCEPTANCE. 
 
 The memorial was received by Mayor Henry R. 
 Barker, with the following short address : 
 
 Lieutenant Willis, Mr. Chaismast, and Comrades : I 
 count it a privilege and a pleasure to be the recipient for the 
 city of this tribute to the memory of a true hero. 
 
 lu doing honor to Gen. Alfred N. Duffle, you, his old soldiers 
 and comrades, have done honor to yourselves and to posterity. 
 The pleasant memories which are awakened in your hearts by 
 this testimonial to bravery and patriotism will dispel the 
 thoughts of sadness at the loss of comrades on the battle-field 
 and in the camp, which will forever burn within the breasts of 
 tried and true soldiers. 
 
 He, whose deeds you this day commemorate, was a true sol- 
 dier. Imbued with principles which prompted his forefathers 
 to render aid to a country struggling for freedom, he reckoned 
 the sacrifice of his life no greater than theirs, and to emulate 
 the deeds of Lafayette, Eochambeau, and De Grasse, and, like 
 them, to maintain and perpetuate those principles in a country 
 which the recorS of the past had taught him to love and re- 
 spect, was the incentive which prompted him to join with you 
 in the contest for freedom. 
 
 The gratitude which our people owe to him has oft found 
 expression in words, and the record of his patriotism is in- 
 scribed upon the battle-flags that waved o'er many a tri- 
 umphant field. But this cenotaph to his memory, simple, 
 chaste and unostentatious, surrounded by the resting places of 
 many whose life blood was given for their country, will draw 
 
54 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 the attention of friend and stranger, and will bear witness to 
 the esteem of loving comrades and the gratitude they bore to 
 one who, as their leader, beckoned them on to victory in a 
 noble cause. 
 
 Side by side in this historic ground, stand the memorials of 
 the heroes of '76 and the martyrs of '61, and what more appro- 
 priate place than this to erect a testimonial to your beloved 
 commander ? 
 
 There stands the monument with appropriate inscription ex- 
 pressing the gratitude our people bore to our allies from his 
 native country in the struggle for independence, while on yon- 
 der hillside rises the emblem of war which marks the resting 
 place of martyrs for the cause of freedom in '61, and in which 
 cause he won renown. 
 
 Here for ages to come your tribute to his memory will re- 
 main near the hallowed resting place of the heroes of his na- 
 tive country. 
 
 On behalf of the city I receive this memorial erected by a 
 loving command to their gallant and heroic commander. It 
 will ever have faithful and perpetual care by the city, and be 
 recognized by our people as a tribute from patriots to patriot- 
 ism. 
 
 The floral decoration of the cenotaph next took 
 place. At a sign the veterans followed one another 
 in line to it, and each one placed a boutonni^re 
 which he had been wearing upon the face of the 
 tablet. They were led by Lieut. C. G. A. Peterson, 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORr. 55 
 
 and the flowers were so placed that a cross was 
 formed. In this way the cenotaph was left, and a 
 benediction by Rev. E. O. Bartlett, with taps 
 sounded by the buglers, closed the programme. 
 
 THE CAVALEY EEUNION. 
 
 As soon as the exercises were over at the Burial 
 Ground the line was ordered to march back to the 
 entrance of the ground and take cars for the centre 
 of the city. The annual reunion of the Cavr,i''y 
 Veteran Association was to take place at Silver 
 Spring. The Sons of Veterans, the Grand Army 
 officers, and a few members of Slocum Post went 
 with the Cavalry. Mrs. Duffie and young Mr. 
 Duffie and wife also went. His Honor Mayor 
 Barker went down by railroad a little later. The 
 reunion brought a party of nearly three hundred to 
 Silver Spring, when the day became liveliest. 
 
 The dinner Mr. Bliss served was excellent, and 
 was a well-cooked shore dinner, from the time of 
 the appearance of the chowder up to the appearance 
 of the watermelon. It was ready as soon as the 
 
56 DUITIE AND THE 
 
 company arrived, and the majority ate at once. 
 The regular camp-fire followed, the veterans gather- 
 ing in the dance hall. Mrs. Duffie and young Mr. 
 Duffie and his wife were present. 
 
 The following officers of the Veteran Association 
 were elected for the year : President, Theodore A. 
 Perry ; First Vice-President, J. A. Babcock ; Sec- 
 ond Vice-President, Emmons D. Guild ; Secretary, 
 "William Gardiner ; Treasurer, Major G. N. Bliss ; 
 Surgeon, Dr. Albert Utter; Bugler, George Eich- 
 ards ; Executive Committee, Lieut. David S. Ray. 
 Welcome Johnson, William Spink, Lieut. C. G. A, 
 Peterson ; General Committee, Sergt. William Gar- 
 diner. 
 
 The treasury was reported in a comfortable condi- 
 tion, and several other reports containing favorable 
 information were received. The widow of General 
 Duffie contributed the sum of $30 to the treasury. 
 She had before offered to give the Association some 
 sign of her feeling towards it, but the Association 
 had refused it. This time her request was made 
 with so much earnestness that the members were in- 
 duced to accept the gift. 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 57 
 
 The following were reported as the deaths recorded 
 since last year, and the date of the decease is given : 
 Messrs. Newton Eeynolds, 1872 ; Albert Joslin, un- 
 known date ; Chauncey L. Salisbury, April 1, 1889 ; 
 Noah Ashworth, April 13, 1889 ; Ephraim H. 
 Jenks, June 17, 1889 ; Henry A. "VVhitaker, un- 
 known date. 
 
 Speeches were made by Col. C. N. Manchester, 
 Capt. T. "W. Manchester, Col. Theodore A. Barton, 
 Duty Johnson, Jr., Chaplain Denison, President 
 Theodore A. Perry, and Mr. Daniel P. Duffi^, the 
 son of General Duffi4. He spoke as follows : 
 
 Gbntlejibn and Comrades op My Dear Father : I thank 
 you in his name for this beautiful and enduring memorial to 
 his memory. I know he would ask no greater reward for his 
 services than to be remembered by the country and regiment 
 he loved so well. I thank you for my mother and myself, and 
 pray that we may all meet again at many moi-e happy reunions, 
 and that at the final it will be as soldiers of the cross. 
 
 To Slocum Post for acting as escort, to La Gau- 
 loise Society, the Rhode Island Department, G. A. 
 R., and to the Sons of Veterans votes of thanks 
 were extended for their interest in the day and kind- 
 ness in taking part in the celebration. 
 
58 DUFFIE AND THE 
 
 After the business meeting the veterans passed 
 the time in bowling, talking over old times, in sing- 
 ing and smoking. The National Band was ready to 
 supply music at any time, and between 4 and 5 
 o'clock quite an elaborate concert was given. The 
 5 o'clock boat brought nearly all the company to the 
 city. 
 
 GENERAL DUFFIE S SISTER. 
 
 Secretary William Gardiner, of the First Ehode 
 Island Cavalry Veteran Association, has received the 
 following communication from the sister of General 
 Duffie, to whose memory the Association has erected 
 a cenotaph in the North Burial Ground, conveying 
 her regrets by reason of her inability to be present 
 at the ceremonies, and her grateful appreciation of 
 the respect shown to her beloved brother and the 
 members of the family : 
 
 KuE St. Dominiqtje, I 
 Paeis, Feance, July 2, 1889. j 
 Mormeur William Gardiner, Secretary Cavalry Association, 
 Providence, B. I., 77. 8. A.: 
 
 Deab Sie: I have just received the invitation to be present 
 at the dedication of the monument which the veterans of the 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMOBT. 5& 
 
 army have done the honor to erect to the memory of General 
 Duffi^. 
 
 Allow, me, sir, to express to you, in the name of my family 
 and for myself, all the sentiments of gratitude and of profound 
 recognition which we feel concerning the touching souvenir 
 which you and the soldiers who have served under the orders 
 of my brother desire to preserve of him. 
 
 I regret not to be able to join his numerous friends the 10th 
 of July, but my thoughts will accompany them. Please, sir, to 
 be our interpreter to all the comrades of our regretted brother, 
 and to express to them all our thanks for the touching souvenir 
 which they erected to their General, and for the polite atten- 
 tion shown his family. Accept the assurance of our profound 
 sentiments of appreciation. 
 
 C. Maillez, nie Darrrf., 
 
 In April, 1890, the First Rhode Island Cavalrjr 
 Veteran Association received as a gift from Mrs. 
 Mary A. Duffie a silk United States flag of regula- 
 tion size, six by six and a half feet, with a beautiful 
 gold-colored fringe, cords, tassels and gold stars. 
 The staff is surmounted with a gilt eagle and fur- 
 nished with a shoulder belt and socket. There was; 
 also a water-proof case and box to protect them- 
 when not in use. Mrs. Dufl56 and her "son, Daniel 
 
60 DUITIE AND THE 
 
 P., are honorary members of the Association, and 
 this beautiful and appropriate present will at every 
 reunion recall tender memories of the days when 
 Duffi^ was at the head of the regiment. 
 
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 CONTEIBUTIONS TO DtrFFIE MONUMENT FUND.' 
 
 John Eothwell $5 00 
 
 Edward B. Myers 1 50 
 
 George N. Bliss 10 00 
 
 J. W. Dewey 2 00 
 
 F. H. Sprague 5 00 
 
 H. Duxbury 2 00 
 
 C. K. Salisbui-y 2 00 
 
 Edwin Carter 1 00 
 
 Edwin M. Wilson 2 00 
 
 Fannie Rutherford, for John Rutherford, 
 
 deceased 1 00 
 
 E. H. Gavitt 1 00 
 
 E. J. Lillibridge 2 00 
 
 B. H. Sti-aight 1 00 
 
 A. La Eoy Bigelow 1 00 
 
 Napoleon Servatius 1 00 
 
 Jasper Spencer 1 00 
 
 Martin L. Gary 5 00 
 
 O. N. Carpenter 1 00 
 
 J. A. Fuller 50 
 
 Lieut. S. C. Willis 5 00 
 
 Lyman Aylesworth 5 00 
 
 First E. L Cavalry Veteran Association. .' . 50 00 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 61 
 
 Aug. 16. Harrison T. Nichols $ 50 
 
 " " E. R. Soliouler 10 00 
 
 " David S. Ray 10 00 
 
 " C. H. Batcheller 2 00 
 
 " " Horatio Rogers 100 
 
 " " Richard Waterman 10 00 
 
 " 17. Charles O. Grreene 2 00 
 
 " William H. Palmer 5 00 
 
 " 18. Patrick Parker 100 
 
 " " F.P.Stone 10 00 
 
 25. D. F. Longstreet 5 00 
 
 " " Henry J. Steere 25 00 
 
 " " George F. W. Myers 100 
 
 Thomas W. Manchester 5 00 
 
 Maj. B. B. Nelson , . . 2 00 
 
 Gen. John L. Thompson 25 00 
 
 Morris Crane 1 00 
 
 C. W. Brown 2 00 
 
 Theodore A. Perry 2 00 
 
 George M. Turner 5 00 
 
 Capt. B. H. Rogers 10 00 
 
 Bucklin Post, No. 20, G. A. R 8 36 
 
 E. Henry Jenks 2 00 
 
 John A. Medhery 2 00 
 
 James Grimley 5 00 
 
 Henry T. Beckwith 10 00 
 
 Willard H. Bates 5 00 
 
 B. O. Springer 1 00 
 
 Leverett C. Stevens 2 00 
 
 F. C. Sayles 25 00 
 
 William P. Lovett 5 00 
 
 " S.C.Willis 5 00 
 
 " George N. Bliss 5 00 
 
 " J. R. Arnold 5 00 
 
 " William R. Spink 2 00 
 
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 Aug. 9. William A. Herrick $1 00 
 
 " " James H. Parrell 100 
 
 " Reynolds Lillibridge 5 00 
 
 " " Warren Butman 100 
 
 " " Widow of John Rutherford 3 00 
 
 Lieut. Philip Jones 2 00 
 
 W. A. Johnson 2 00 
 
 B. G. Church 50 
 
 William Gardiner 5 00 
 
 D. Eussell Brown 10 00 
 
 Oliver Johnson 2 00 
 
 William H. Tallman 5 00 
 
 William H. Lawton j. 1 00 
 
 T. A. Barton ..'.: 1 00 
 
 Charles N". Manchester, .^i,. 10 00 
 
 William R. Spink 5 60 
 
 " State of Rhode Island 300 00 
 
 19. Caleb Hobart 5 00 
 
 " Thomas W. Manchester 25 00 
 
 20. W. J. Fortier 2 00 
 
 " James H. Luther 100 
 
 " Capt. C. H. Thayer 5 00 
 
 21. James A. Jennings 1 00 
 
 23. William F. Sayles 100 00 
 
 26. John Brown 1 00 
 
 " William Walsh 1 00 
 
 " C. E. Longley lo 00 
 
 " William E. Meyer 20 00 
 
 " J. Harry Welch 10 00 
 
 " A. G. Lorimer 1 00 
 
 ' ' John E. Bennett 5 00 
 
 " Henry R. Barker 5 Qo 
 
 29. John McWilliams 5 00 
 
 " William Walsh 2 00 
 
 30. Alfred H. Littlefield lo 00 
 
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY. 63 
 
 April 6. Patrick Parker $1 00 
 
 " " John Brown 1 00 
 
 " 9. Amasa L. Mathewson 100 
 
 " A.G.Sheldon 100 
 
 " 10. James Parrell 1 00 
 
 " " Amos Gould 2 00 
 
 " " Walter S. Ballon 5 00 
 
 " 11. Alfred A. Reed 10 00 
 
 15. William C. Stewart 50 
 
 16. Col. William Goddard 10 00 
 
 19. Jeffrey Hazard 100 
 
 20. Cash, per P. Denison 2 00 
 
 " 25. Henry Howard 1 00 
 
 May 4. William Nightingale 5 00 
 
 " " Samuel Bartlett 100 
 
 " " Hiram Taylor 5 00 
 
 " 6. Thomas Durfee 5 00 
 
 7. Phllo G. White 1 00 
 
 " William G. Baker 100 
 
 " Olney Arnold 5 00 
 
 ■' " Pirst Massachusetts Cavalry Association. . 25 00 
 
 8. James Coats 25 00 
 
 11. William Pord 100 
 
 " Henry S. Olney 100 
 
 " Willis C. Capron 5 00 
 
 " .J.B.Johnson 5 00 
 
 31. George H. Copeland 100 
 
 " " Thomas J. Tasker 2 00 
 
 July 2. E. L. Freeman & Son 3 00 
 
 " 6. Henry Howard 5 00 
 
 " Alvin S. Eaton 2 00 
 
 8. Henry J. Steere 10 00 
 
 ^' 9. Warren Plympton 6 00 
 
 " 11. Collected on horse cars 6 10 
 
 " Pliny May 2 00 
 
 " " Napoleon Servatius 4 00 
 
64 DTTFFIE AND HIS MONUMENT. 
 
 July 11. JohnKelley $2 00 
 
 " Calvin Claflin 4 00 
 
 " " William A. Harris 5 00 
 
 " 13. Contribution of comrades 36 35 
 
 15. C. G. A. Peterson 10 00 
 
 1890. 
 July 1. Interest on deposits in Industrial Trust 
 
 Company 16 65 
 
 Total receipts $1,120 96 
 
 PAYMENTS FROM DUTPIE MONUMENT FUND. 
 
 1887. 
 
 Aug. 17. Bill J. A. & K. A. Reid, printing $39 00 
 
 1889. 
 
 April 10. " E. L. Freeman & Son, stationery. . 5 00 
 
 July 2. " " " " printing, etc. .. . 14 62 
 
 " 12. " Smith Granite Company 775 00 
 
 " " " B.H. Gladding & Co., pins.... 113 
 
 " " K. I. Printing Co., printing badges... 17 00 
 
 13. " G. H. Copeland & Co., backs 40 00 
 
 " " " Franklin Brothers, carriages 4 00 
 
 " " " Narragansett Hotel, for Mrs. Duffl6 
 
 and family 34 50 
 
 " " " Union Railroad Company 27 00 
 
 " 15. " T. W. Hedley, leader National Band.. 84 00 
 
 " 17. " William E. Chappell, flowers 12 50 
 
 " 22. " Theodore F. Chase, photographs 9 80 
 
 Oct. 8. " " " " .... 2 00 
 
 " " " Wm. Gardiner, postage on photographs 57 
 1890. 
 
 July 1. Amount available for printing pamphlets. 54 84 
 
 Total payments $1,120 96 
 
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