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 ^PROCEEDINGS 
 
 DEDICATION 
 
 MONUMENT, 
 
 IN PROVIDENCE, 
 
 TO WHICH IS APPENDED A LIST OF THE DECEASED SOLDIERS AND 
 
 SAILORS WHOSE NAMES ARE SCULPTURED T^POX THE 
 
 MONUMENT. 
 
 PROVIDENCE: 
 
 A. CRAWFORD GREENE, PRINTER TO THE STATE. 
 
 1871. 
 
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PROCEEDINGS 
 
 DEDICATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MONUMENT, 
 
 IN PROVIDENCE, 
 
 TO WHICH IS APPENDED A LIST OF THE DECEASED SOLDIERS A3a> 
 
 SAILORS WHOSE NAMES ARE SCULPTURED UPON THE 
 
 MONUMENT. 
 
 PROVIDENCE: 
 
 A. CRAWFORD GREENE, PRINTER TO THE STATE. 
 1871. 
 

 Ihk of |llj0i>e Iskntr, 
 
 IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1867. 
 
 EESOLUTION PROyiMNG FOR THE ERECTIOI^ OF A MON'U- 
 MEI^T TO THE MEMORY OF THE SOLDIERS AKD SAILORS 
 OF RHODE ISLAKD WHO FELL m THE LATE REBELLION. 
 
 Resolved, That a Committee, consisting of 
 
 His Excellency, A. E. Burnside, 
 William Grosvenor, of Provideoce, 
 RowLAXD Gr. Hazard, of South Kingstown, 
 James De Wolf Perry, of Bristol, 
 William Binney, of Providence, 
 Charles C. Van Zandt, of Newport, 
 George W. Greene, of East Greenwich, 
 John E. Weeden, of Westerly, and 
 John R. Bartlett, Secretary of State, 
 
 he appointed to secure to the State a proper site, to contract for, and superintend 
 the erection of a monument in the city of Providence, to the memory of the 
 officers and men in the army and navy of the United States from the State of 
 Rhode Island, who fell in battle and who died of their wounds, or from eickness, 
 in the late rebellion, in accordance with the design of Mr. Randolph Rogers, of 
 Home, Italy, as recommended by the Committee of the General Assembly at its 
 present session. 
 
 IbQi 
 
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PROCEEDINGS. 
 
 The Greneral Assembly having appointed Saturday^ the 
 16th of September, 1871, as the day on which the Ded- 
 ication of the Sokliers' and Sailors' Monument should take 
 place, the State Committee took every means in their power 
 to provide for the accommodation of the families and rela- 
 tives of the deceased soldiers and sailors to whose memory 
 the Monument had been erected. A platform was raised on 
 three sides of the Monument with seats suj0Gicient to accom- 
 modate about twenty-three hundred persons, including the 
 invited guests. Great pains were taken to furnish tickets 
 through agents appointed for the purpose, to families of 
 deceased soldiers and sailors in all parts of the State, and 
 all who applied received them. 
 
 The annual muster of the Militia was suspended by order 
 of the Governor, and all the uniformed companies in the State 
 were required to appear in Providence on the 16th of Sep- 
 tember, to take part in the proceedings attending the Dedi- 
 cation. 
 
 To provide for the Veterans who had served in the War 
 and the uniformed Militia of the State, the whole of the large 
 square knoAvn as Exchange Place, was enclosed and guarded 
 by a large body of policemen. 
 
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 In addition to the families of the deceased Soldiers and 
 Sailors, the following gentlemen were seated on the platform : 
 
 His Excellency Governor Padelford, the Rhode Island 
 Delegation in Congress, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, 
 Officers of the Army and Navy, the Governors of the New 
 England States, Judges of the Supreme Court and Court of 
 Common Pleas, the Mayors of the Cities of Newport and 
 Providence, Mr. Randolph Rogers, the Sculptor, and Mr. J. 
 G. Battersou, the Architect of the Monument, the State 
 Officers, the Aldermen and Common Council of the City of 
 Newport, the Aldermen and Common Council of the City of 
 Providence, the President and Professors of Brown Univer- 
 sity, the Lieutenant-Governor, and Members of the General 
 Assembly, the State Committee on the Monument, the 
 Presidents of the several Town Councils, and Town Clerks, 
 Avith other invited guests. 
 
 A choir of upwards of three hundred singers under the 
 •direction of Edwin Barker, Esq., had places on rising seats 
 ixbove the platform. 
 
 The Civic Marshals in attendance on the platform and 
 
 around the Monument to receive the Soldiers families and 
 
 other invited guests, were as follows : 
 
 Egbert Grosvenok, Chief Civic Ilarshal. 
 
 Assistants. — Charles P. Eobinson, William G. Nightingale, Lewis T. 
 Poster, E. W. Mason, William L. Beckwith, Howard O. Sturges, C. W.Lijj- 
 pitt, George M. Smith, C. Maurau, Charles Adams, E. P. Mason, J. L. Moss, 
 ■Jr., and Joseph Harris. • 
 
 The Military and Veterans of the War formed on Broad- 
 way in the following order : 
 
 POLICE SKIKMISHEES. 
 
 Platoon of Police under Sergeant Warner. 
 
 Chief Marshal, Maj. Gex. A. E. Burnside, with the following Assist- 
 ant Marshals: Gen. Lewis Eiehraond, Gen. C. H. Tompkins, Gen. James 
 8haw, Jr., Gen. John G. Hazard, Gen. Nathan Gotf, Jr., Gen. Nelson Viall, 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. ' 
 
 Gen. Horatio Eogcrs, Gen. Henry T. Sisson, Gen. "William Ames, Gen. 
 Charles R. Brayton, Gen. George W. Tew, Col. George H. Browne, Col. 
 Jofen T. Pitman, Col. Edwin Metcalf, Col. E. H. Rhodes, Col. Willard 
 'Sayles, Col. R. H. I. Goddard, Col. J. Albert Munroe, Col. S. B. M. Read. 
 
 THE VETERAN DIVISIOiT. 
 Gen". Chakles R. Brayton, commanding the Veterans of the Army 
 and Xavy, with the following aids: Col. E. H. Rhodes, A. A. G. and chief 
 of staff; Major E. C. Pomroy, Assistant Quastcrmaster General; Col. "Wil- 
 liam H. "Walcott, Capt. Johii M. Barker, Major Edwin Stanley, Capt. John 
 E. Burroughs, Capt. George W. "Weeden, Major L. Travers, Capt. William 
 B. Rhodes, Capt. D, H. Finley, Capt. James P. Rhodes, Maj. J. B. Greene, 
 Maj. John E. Bradford, Col. Daniel R. Ballon, Capt. Israel R. Sheldon, Capt. 
 James S. Hudson; W. B. VYestcott, Assistant Inspector General; Col. 
 Edwin Metcalf, Judge Advocate; James B. Buffum. Chaplain. 
 DEPARTMENT OFEICERS. 
 C:ipt. Ira H. Parkis, Sr. Vice Department Commander; Captain George 
 T. Ea.sterbrooks, Jr., Vice Department Commander. 
 
 COUNCIL ADMINISTRATION. 
 Sergeant "Wm. Millen, Major George F. Crowuinshield, Captain James 
 Aborn, Captain Frank II. "Wilkes, P. M. Barber, 2d. 
 
 AIDS. 
 Co], "Wm. H. "Walcott, Capt. John M. Barker, Major Edwin Stanley, Capt 
 John E, Burroughs, Capt'George "W. "Weeden,'Maj. L. Travers, Major "Wm. 
 D. C. Finhiy, Capt. James P. Rhodes, Major J, B. Greene, Major John E. 
 Bradford, Col. Daniel R. Ballon, Capt. Israel R. Sheldon, Capt. James S. 
 Hudson. 
 
 AMERICAN BRASS BiiND. 
 
 D. "W. Reeves, Leader. 30 Pieces. 
 
 POST NO. 1, PROVIDENCE. 
 
 Capt. "Wm. Stone, Commander, Gilbert "Wilson, Senior Vice Commander, 
 
 Capt. Benj. C. Hall, Junior Vice Commander; Capt. C. Henry Barney, Ad. 
 
 .jutant; Capt. "William Frauklaud, Quartermaster; Twelve Companies— 370 
 
 men. Second Rhode Island, and Calitbrnia Colors. 
 
 Gen. William Cogswell, Department Commander, of Massachusetts, with 
 Surgeon Green and Major Sears, of his stall", in Barouche. 
 NEWPORT BRASS BAND. 
 
 Nineteen Pieces. 
 POST NO. 2, NEWPORT. 
 Capt. Geo. C. "Williams, Commander; Samuel Beaumont, Senior Vice 
 Commander; Jas. W. Dennis, Junior Vice Commander; J. McCarty, Ad- 
 
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 jutant ; J. B. Mason, Quartermaster, our companies — SO men, Fourth 
 liliode Island Colors. 
 
 POST KO. 3 CENTRAL FALLS. * 
 
 Maj. Henri Bacon, Commander; S. B. Binney, Senior Vice Commander; 
 J. A. Jones, Junior Vice Commander; Maj. John Aigan, Adjutant; Major 
 G. F. Crowninshield, Quartermaster, three companies — 75 men, Seventh 
 Ehode Island Colors. 
 
 POST 1^0. 4, BEISTOL. 
 
 Frank G. Bourne, Commander; A. A, Munrcie, Senior Vice Commander; 
 E. S. Congdon, Junior Vice Commander; J. T. Phillips, Adjutant; J. C. 
 Witherton, Quartermaster; two companies — 42 men, 2d R. I. Colors. 
 POST KO. 5, ASHAWAY. 
 
 P. M. Barber, Commander; B. D. Tenant, Senior Vice Commander; J. 
 Bellany, Junior Vice Commander; E. G. Crandall, Adjutant; M. S. Rod- 
 man, Quartermaster; three companies — 60 men. Third Rhode Island 
 Heavy Artillery Colors. 
 
 THE FULL WHATCHEER BAND. 
 
 "W. C. Sperry, Leader. 
 POST NO. 6, WESTERLY. 
 George Carmichael, Commander; two companies — 40 men. Fifth Rhode 
 Island Artillery Colors. 
 
 POST NO. 7, EAST GREENWICH. 
 
 G. S. Burton, Commander; R. C. Gardner, Senior Vice Commander; N. 
 W. Taber, Junior Vice Commander; E. B. Taber, Adjutant; W. D. Gard- 
 ner, Quartermaster; two companies — 40 men. First R. I. Infantry Colors. 
 
 POST NO. 8, PHENIX. 
 
 C. P. Williams, Commander; F. W. Lark, Senior Vice Commander; W. 
 Johnson, Junior Vice Commander; W. E. Sweet, Adjutant; R.H. Northup, 
 Quartermaster; five companies — 100 men, Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Ar- 
 tillery Colors. Disabled Veterans in ten barouches. 
 
 POST NO. 9, WOONSOCKET. 
 Major S. H. Brown, Commander; J. H. Richard, Sr. Vice Commander; 
 G. A. Reed, Junior Vice Commander; J. A. Gardner, Adjutant; J. Pick- 
 ford, Quartermaster, three companies — 75 men, Third Ehode Island Ar- 
 tillery Colors. 
 
 BAND 5th U. S, ARTILLERY. 
 Ludwig Frank, Leader, Twenty-Five Pieces. 
 POST NO. 10, PROVIDENCE. 
 H. R. Barker, Commander; C. 11. Williams, Senior Vice Commander; 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. / 
 
 A. H. Spencer, Junior Vice Commander; G. II. Pettis. Adjutant; W. Pal- 
 mer, Quartermaster; twelve companies — 250 men, Fifth and Seventh Rhode 
 Island Infantry and Third Artillery Colors. 
 
 FALL RIVER CORNET BAKD. 
 
 POSTS 11 AXD 12 PROVIDENCE. 
 
 Col. R. H. I. Goddard, Commander; Captain Elisha Dyer, Senior Vice 
 
 Commander; Capt. G. W. Darling, Junior Vice Commander; C. 11. Chase, 
 
 Adjutant ; Lieut. Amos M. Bowen, Quartermaster; ten companies — 200 
 
 men, with colors, 11th and 4"th Rhode Island Infantry. 
 
 POST NO. 13, PROVIDENCE. 
 
 R. F.Nicola, Commander; L. G. Phenix, Senior Vice Commander; C. C. 
 Johnson, Junior Vice Commander; G. N. Black, Adjutant; J. Howland, 
 Quartermaster; two companies — 40 men with colors, 10th and 25th Army 
 Corps and 11th Rhode Island. 
 
 POST NO. 14, NATICK. 
 
 Peter Whalen, Commander; John Wells, Senior Vice Commander; John 
 Devlin, Junior Vice Commander; J. A. C. Patterson, Adjutant; J. N. 
 Downing, Quartermaster; two companies — 40 men, 2d R. I. Infantry Colors. 
 
 POST NO. 15, SLATERSVILLE. 
 
 Nathan Benton, Commander; J. H. Parkis, Senior Vice Commander ; 
 F. Colwell, Junior Vice Commander; A. A. Mowry, Adjutant; Isaac Place, 
 Quartermaster; one company; Revolutionary Colors. 
 POST NO. 16, HOPE VALLEY. 
 
 L. W. A. Cole, Commander; H. R. Gates, Senior Vice Commander; G. 
 N. Nichols, Junior Vice Commander; R. E. Gardner, Adjutant; F. M. 
 Benton, Quartermaster ; one company — 60 men, Post Colors. 
 
 THE MILITIA. 
 
 Majok General Horace Daniels, commanding Rhode Island Militia, 
 with the following statF; Colonel Heber Le Favour, Chief of Stafi"; ^Major 
 R. W. Burlingame, Quarterma,stcr General; Major Ed. A. Greene, Pay- 
 master General; Major Daniel S. Dexter, Commissary General; Major 
 Thomas S. Perry, Surgeon General; Maj. II. A. Goodwin, A. D. C. 
 
 TAUNTON NATIONAL BAND, 
 
 E. D. Ingraham, Leader, Twenty-Four Pieces. 
 
 NEWPORT ARTILLERY. 
 
 In two sections, acting as body guard to His Excellency Governor 
 Padelford. Col. John Hare Powell, Lieut, Col. A. P. Sherman, Maj. T, 
 S. Burdick, Capt. Thomas Nason, Quartermaster George II. Vaughn, Pay- 
 
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 master, W. G. Stevens, Commissary G. A. Simmons, Surgeon N. G. Stanton, 
 Assistant Surgeon J. H. Taylor; 100 men rank and file. 
 
 FIKST SECTION NEWPORT AKTILLERY. 
 
 Composed of two companies commanded as follows: First Company, Lt. 
 Col. A. P, Sherman; 2d company, Capt. T. S. Nason, carriage containing 
 His Excellency Governor Padelford, Adjutant Gen. E. C. Mauran, 
 Commissary Gen. William Gilpin, and Col. W. A. Steadman. 
 
 GOVEENOR'S PERSONAL STAFF. 
 
 Mounted as follows: Col. B. F. Remington, Col. Cliristoplier Rhodes, Col. 
 Daniel T. Lyman, and Col. J. T. Murray. 
 
 GOVERNOR'S GENERAL STAFF. 
 
 Mounted as follows: Quartermaster General Lysander Flagg, Capt. Ed- 
 win A. Browne and Capt. George O. Willard of his statF, Paymaster Gen. 
 J. C. Knight, Assistant Surgeon General A. G. Browning, Judge Advocate 
 General John Turner, and Capt. D, A. Waldron, of Gen. Gilpin's staff. 
 
 SECOND SECTION NEWPORT ARTILLERY. 
 
 In two companies, commanded as follows: Third company, Quartermas- 
 ter G. H, Vaughn; fourth company. Major T. S. Burdick. 
 
 FIRST BRIGADE. 
 
 Brigadier Gen. Arnold. L Burdick commanding, Staflf Brigade Inspector 
 C. L. Devins, Quartermaster, A. C. Landers; Aids, William W. Marvel. 
 
 REDWOOD BAND, 
 
 Of Newport. 24 Pieces, A. W. Haynes, Leader. 
 
 NEWPORT FIRST LIGHT INFANTRY ZOUAVES. 
 
 Col. G. W. Sherman; Lieut. Col., W. Cook Hazard; Capt. James Hogan, 
 Adjutant, F. S. Hazard; Quartermaster, Thomas Chambers; Commissary 
 S. D. Goff; Lieut., Otto Guidice; 75 men— rifles. 
 
 WARREN DRUM BAND. 
 
 Drum Major, W. A. Day; Ten Drums. 
 
 WARREN ARTILLERY. 
 
 Col. John Livesey; Lt. Col. Chas. D. Kelley; Major, J. White; Adjutant, 
 J. Prior; Quartermaster, F. E. Dana; Surgeon, Gilbert Clarke; Paymaster, 
 W. B. Crowell; Capt. J. Makepiece; Lieut., H. Birch; 40 men — rifles. 
 
 AQUIDNECK RIFLES, 
 
 Of Newport. Captain, William K. Delaney; 1st Lieutenant, Michael 
 McConnick; ^d Lieut., Morris Horrigan; ,51 men — muskets. 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. y 
 
 BRISTOL LIGHT INFANTRY. 
 
 Captain D. Fanning; 1st Lieutenant, Thomas Connelly; 2(1 Lieutenant, 
 William Duffee; Gl men — muskets. 
 
 BURNSIDE GUARDS 
 
 Of Newport, Captain, Collins S. Burrell; 1st Lieut., James W. Johnson ; 
 2d Lieut., J. P. Easton; 45 men (colored), muskets. 
 BRISTOL CORNET BAND. 
 A. B. Winch, Leader, 20 Pieces. 
 BRISTOL TRAIN OF ARTILLERY. 
 Col. James B. Burgess; Lt. Col. Edmund Horton; Maj. Alden Fish; 
 Capt. John V. Lewis; Lieut. James Anderson; Quartermaster and Clerk, 
 Frank L. Hoar; 50 men — rifles. 
 
 SECOND BRIGADE. 
 
 Brigadier General "William R. Walker, with the following staff officers: 
 Major S. R. Bucklin, Chief of Staff; Quartermaster, Capt. John W. Tilliug- 
 hast; Paymaster, Capt. G. W. Newell; Commissary, Capt. T. C. LeValley; 
 Surgeon, Stephen F. Fiske; Judge Ad., E. A.Perrin; Aid, Henry C. Pierce. 
 
 GILMORE'S BAND, 
 
 Of Pawtucket, W. E. Gilmore Leader, 30 Pieces. 
 
 First Battalion, Col. E. L. Freeman, commanding. Staff— Major, James 
 M.Davis; Surgeon, A. A. Mann; Quartermaster, Geo. "W. Barry; Quarter- 
 master Sergt. C. F. Crawford. 
 
 UNION GUARDS, CENTRAL FALLS. 
 Captain Robert A. Robertson; Lieutenants David L. Sheldon; Benjamin 
 W. Buffum — 50 muskets. 
 
 PAWTUCKET LIGHT GUARDS. 
 
 Col. Robert McCloy; Lieut. Col. O. H. Perry; Major Geo. A. Mason; 
 Staff — Adjutant, H. C. Brown; Quartermaster, J. A. Brown; Paymaster, 
 James M. Crawford; Commissary, J. E. Dispeau; Surgeon, Freeman Berry, 
 Jr.; Assistant Surgeon, J. J. Sherman; Capt. C. B. Hathaway; Lieutenants 
 P. Tower, Henry Read. 48 muskets. 
 
 DRUM CORPS. 
 SMITHFIELD RIFLES. 
 
 Captain, P. D. Hall; Lieuts. H. E. Dines; William Winterbottom. 
 42 men. Five veteran soldiers accompanied the Rifles. 
 MILFORD BRASS BAND. 
 II. French, Leader, Eighteen Pieces. 
 
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10 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 WOOKSOCKET GUAKDS. 
 
 Col. J. E. Waterhouse; Lieut. Col. K. A. Yaslet; Major J. McClarron; 
 Capt. E. E. Pearce; Lt. A. Young; Staff Adjutant, E. H. Dudley; Quarter- 
 master E. Tlmrber; .Paymaster, C. Darling; Surgeon, Godfrey Miller; 18 
 
 muskets. 
 
 SEC^OND BATTALIOI^. 
 
 Captain, Charles E. Dennis, Commanding. 
 GILMOEE'S BAND BOSTON. 
 M. Arbuckle, Leader, Thirty Pieces. 
 LIGHT INFANTEY DEUM COEPS. 
 Major E. W. Potter, Leader. 
 FIEST LIGHT INFANTEY. 
 Three companies, sixty-five muskets, Capt. Charles E. Dennis command- 
 ing; Lieut. E. B. Bullock commanding Company A., Lieut. J. J. Jeuckes 
 commanding Company B., Lieut. E. F. Annable commanding Company C; 
 Lieut. J.L.Sherman; Staff Quartermaster, F. J.Sheldon; Paj^master, W. 
 H. Teel; Assistant Paymaster, H. L. Parsons; Commissary, H. J. Steere; 
 Inspector, Col. "VV. W. Brown; Chaplain, Eev. S. H. Webb. Guests of the 
 F. L. I. Officers of State Guard, Worcester, Mass. 
 
 INFANTEY CADETS. 
 
 Four companies, eighty-five muskets; Capt. E. W. Bucklin; Lieut. E. 
 W. Allen, commanding Co. A.; Lieut. Arthur Brown, commanding Co. B.; 
 Lieut. Frank Sheldon, Co. C; Lieut. F. S. Arnold, Co. D. 
 SLOCUM LIGHT GUAED. 
 With the Brigade Colors, 28 muskets Major James Smith, commanding; 
 Captain H. M. Howe, Lieut. E. M. Young. ^ 
 
 THIED BATTALION. 
 Col. Henry Allen, commanding. 
 BEOWN'S BEIGADE BAND, Boston. 
 
 H. C. Brown, Leader. 30 pieces. 
 UNITED TEAIN OF AETILLERY. 
 
 Two companies, with Color Guard, 74 muskets, Colonel Henry Allen; 
 Lieutenant Colonel, Augustus Wright; Major, Wm. H. Mason; Capt. George 
 A. Dodge; Staff-Adjutant, T. W. Chace; Quartermaster, E. A. Calder; Pay- 
 master, B. F. Peabodie; Commissary, H. E.Metcalf; Assistant Quartermas- 
 ter, E. H. Eockwell; Assistant, Orray Taft, Jr., Assistant Surgeon, H. C. 
 Spencer. Guests of the United Train of Artillery, — Capt. L. D. Bvilkley; 
 Lieut. Benj. Gurney, Sergeant, John Martine; Private George H. Chatter- 
 ton,— of the "Old Guard,"* New York. 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 11 
 
 rOURTII BATTALION. 
 
 Col. James Morau, Commauding. 
 
 NOETH ATTLEBORO' CORNET RAND. 
 
 H. E. Lincoln, Leader, 25 pieces. 
 
 DRUM CORPS. 
 
 RHODE ISLAND GUARDS. 
 
 Eive companies. Col. James Moran; Adjutant, D. J. Mykins; Major, 
 
 James Larkin; Captain, William II. Grimes; Sergeant, Major Thos. Keeffe. 
 
 Co. A. — Capt. Edward Moran; Lieutenants, J. Robinson, J. H. McGar'an — 
 
 45 muskets. Co. B.*— Captain, Bernard Flynn: Lieutenants, J. CuUen, 
 
 Owen Goodwin,— 40 muskets. Co. C. — Capt. J. J. Moriartj''; Lieutenants, 
 
 John McGraff, John Farrell. 40 muskets. Co. D. — Capt. John Rebens; 
 
 Lieuts. J. E. Kearn, M. F. McCanna. 40 muskets. Co. F. — (formerly 
 
 Lonsdale Infantry,) Capt. John Carrigan; Lieuts. James Slaine, Patrick 
 
 Sullivan, 35 muskets. 
 
 KEARNEY DRUM CORPS. 
 KEARNEY CADETS. 
 Forty five muskets. Capt. M. F. Munuegle; Lieuts. A. P. Lynn, ,J. A. 
 Johnson. StalF-^Quartermaster, William Johnson; Paymaster, P. G. Fox; 
 Commissary, James W. Nolan. 
 
 FIFTH BATTALION. 
 Major Zebedee Rowland, Commanding. 
 
 DRUM CORPS. 
 BURNSIDE NATIONAL GUARDS. 
 Three companies. Col. Z. Howland; Adjutant, George H. Blair; Quar- 
 termaster, E. J. Morris; Surgeon, Jerome Morgan. Co. A. — dipt. J. A. 
 Munroe; Lieuts. W. H. Scott, A. M. Lawrence. 45 muskets. Co. B — Cap- 
 tain L. G. Phenix; Lieuts. Alfred Smith, Thomas Brinu. 50 muskets. Co. 
 C. — Capt. J. xi. Creighton; Lieuts. L. Kennegee, Albro Lyons. ;_50 muskets. 
 FOURTH BRIGADE. 
 Brigadier General James W'aterhouse, Commanding. Stall' Officers — 
 Major Jonathan M. Wheeler, Captain Israel R. Sheldon, Captain Albert 
 C. Dedrick. 
 
 WOONSOCKET CORNET BAND. 
 
 B. W. Nichols, leader, 21 pieces. 
 
 WESTERLY RIFLES. 
 
 Two companies. 98 muskets. Lieut. Col. J. Clarke Barber, Adjutant 
 
 H. Swan, Paymaster S. H. Peabody, Surgeon C. N. Lewis, Asst. Surgeon 
 
 E. H. Knowles, Chaplain S. H. Cross. Co. C. — Capt. Daniel L. Champlin; 
 
 Lieuts. Samuel Blevin, Alfred B. Dyer. Co. B. — Capt. J. C. Babcock; 
 
 Lieutenants George C. Slillman, J. B. Brown. 
 
 KENTISH ARTILLERY, 
 Apponaug. 53 muskets. Col. ^Vm. II. Baker; Lieut. Col. Jason T. 
 
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 Wood; Maj. George Blackraore; Capt. H. J. Wilbur; Staff— Adjutant 
 Heury Matteson; Paymaster J. G. Browning; Quartermaster J. T. Potter; 
 Commissary Jolm Pettis; Past Lieut. Col. S. W. Clarke 
 
 DRUM CORPS. 
 KENTISH GUARDS. 
 East Greenwich. 58 muskets. Col. Lyman Himes, Lieut. Col. Warren 
 D. Gardner, Major S. P. Lowell, Capt. Rowland Fish, Lt. Wni. Daven. 
 MYSTIC UNION BAND. 
 S. Gallup, leader, 19 pieces. 
 WEST GREENWICH CADETS. 
 Sixty muskets. Col. James P. Briggs, Lieut. Col. H. C. Shippoe, Major 
 J. A. Hall, Capt. Stephen Johnson, Lieutenants G. W. Fish, J. A. Shippee, 
 Paymaster Pardon Hopkins. 
 
 WOLFE TONE GUARDS. 
 Eorty-two muskets. Capt. J. Costine, Lieuts. William McPherson, J. 
 Hickey; Adjutant, Garrett Walsh; Paymaster, J. J. Sullivan. 
 ARTILLERY BATTALION. 
 Major Edward G. Mead, commanding. Aids — Col. Elisha Dyer, Jr., and 
 Major W. C. Simmons. 
 
 PROVIDENCE MARINE CORPS OF ARTILLERY. 
 Major G. R. Brown, Capt. W. E. Gushing, Lieut. Stephen Trippe, Lieut. 
 J. M. Hull, Adjutant Robert Grosvenor, Commissary R. H. Deming, Pay- 
 master E. M. Hunt, Orderly G. B. Burlingame. Full battery of six pieces, 
 battery wagon and forge. 
 
 WOONSOCKET LIGHT ARTILLERY. 
 Capt. Henry J. White, 1st Lieut. Chas. M. Arnold, 2d, Lieut. Philo E. 
 Thayer, 3rd Lieut. Elisha Colvin. Full battery of four pieces, 78 men. 
 
 TOWER LIGHT BATTERY". 
 Pawtucket. Lieut. W. W. Dexter, commanding, 1st Lieut. John Allen 
 2d Lieut. Ansel Sweet. Full battery of four pieces, Go men. 
 CAVALRY BATTALION. 
 Col. Frederick Miller, Commander. 
 PROVIDENCE HORSE GUARDS. 
 Lieut. Col. J. Lippitt Snow, commanding; Major Stephen Brownell, Ad- 
 jutant C. F. Taylor, Paymaster C. A. Hubbard, Capt. A. O. Bourne, Capt. 
 C. H. Sprague, Lieut. J. C. King. 50 men. 
 
 PAWTUCKET HORSE GUARDS. , 
 Capt. H. J. Hall, 1st Lieut. H. H. Richardson, 2d Lieut. S. B. Lord. 
 Honorary Staff — Capt. F. M. Bates, Capt. Olnxdiah Brown, Surgeon J. C 
 Budlong, Chaplain S. L. Gracie. 55 men. 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 13 
 
 The line of march was through Broadway, Knight, High, 
 Broad, Dorrance, Westminster, South Main, Transit, Ben- 
 efit, Meeting, North Main, and Steeple Streets, to Exchange 
 Place and the Monument. A perfect ovation greeted the 
 column along the whole distance. Flags and decorations 
 were in abundance, sidewalks, housetops, windows, and 
 every conceivable place that would afford a view of the 
 procession was occupied. Waving handkerchiefs were 
 met at every step, and everything indicated that the dedi- 
 cating services were a willing tribute from a grateful people. 
 There were nearly two thousand Veterans in the ranks. 
 
 The procession reached Exchange Place about one o'clock, 
 when the Newport Artillery, the Governor's Body-Guard, 
 escorted him to the stand near the Monument. The compa- 
 nies of Veterans then formed in a solid body at the lower 
 part of the open space with the Uniformed Militia in a 
 compact form in the rear, the lines extending entirely 
 across Exchange Place. When the word was given, this 
 great body of men, more than four thousand in number, 
 marched in division front up the wide thoroughfiiie towards 
 the monument. The solid host, the many tattered battle flags, 
 the blue uniforms of the Veteran Corps, the brilliant clothes 
 of the citizen soldiers, the gleaming of the muskets and 
 bayonets, and the firm and regular marching to the music of 
 sixteen bands, was a sight never to be forgotten by those 
 who witnessed it. As the column advanced, the spectators 
 on the stand and the immense crowd which filled the side 
 walks and grounds adjacent to the Monument and Railroad 
 Depot, applauded, cheered and waved their handkerchiefs 
 over and over again. 
 
 As soon as General Burnside, Chief Marshal, had massed 
 the Veterans and the Military, he despatched one of his 
 
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 Assistants to the Committee on the platform, to make it 
 known, and took his stand with a large number of officers, 
 including several from other States, upon the buttresses and 
 steps of the Monument. The services now commenced and 
 proceeded as follows: 
 
 Dedication Overture arranged for the occasion, by the 
 American Brass Band. 
 
 Chorus, "God of Israel," by a Choir of three hundred 
 singers, under the direction of Edwin Baker, Esq. 
 
 Introductory remarks by His Excellency Governor 
 Padelford, as follows : 
 
 Tellow Citizens : — The occasion which has called us together this day 
 is the most memorable that has ever occurred in our history. We meet to 
 do honor to the brave men who have given up their lives for their couutrj^, 
 and whose names, on tablets of bronze, are immortalized on the beautiful 
 monument about to be uncovered before you. Like all the works of man, 
 granite and bronze may in time crumble and decay; but the memory of 
 these brave men will not perish. While time lasts, their sacrifices will form 
 a brilliant page in the history of their country, shedding a bright lustre on 
 their native State, forever covering them with imperishable glory and 
 renown. 
 
 Let us be grateful to Divine Providence that so many who Avent forth to 
 <lo battle, were permitted to return, and are present with us on this occasion. 
 Their hearts must be moved with a feeling of just pride, that the memory 
 of their comrades in arms is this day to be consecrated, not only by monu- 
 mental art, but by suitable exercises before this vast assemblage of our 
 fellow citizens from all parts of our beloved State. 
 
 It is a fitting occasion for us all to drink at the fountains of Divine inspi- 
 ration, lessons of wisdom and of patriotism for our future guidance in life. 
 
 It is not becoming for me to speak at this time of^the daring deeds of our 
 soldiers, or of the grand results to humanity and to the world, which the 
 war has effected. This will be done by one who has alike stood by them in 
 battle, and who has administered spiritual comfort to them in the hour of 
 death. 
 
 Let the Monument be uncovered ! 
 
 While the curtain which enveloped the Monument was 
 being slowly withdrawn, a dirge was played by the Band. 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 15 
 
 The solemnity of the spectacle touched the hearts of the 
 spectators and drew tears from hundreds. But when the 
 whole structure appeared with its beautiful bronze statues, 
 cheer upon cheer, loud and long, arose from the vast multi- 
 tude which filled the square. Mr. Rogers, the sculptor and 
 designer of the Monument, being called for, came forward 
 and was presented to the spectators by the Hon. William 
 Grosvenor, one of the State Committee, and loudly cheered. 
 The State Committee, under whose charge the Monument 
 had been executed, were next called for, when they appeared, 
 made their acknowledgment, and were also cheered. 
 
 Prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Thayer, of Newport. 
 
 Chorus, "The Lord is Great," was sung by the Choir. 
 
 The Rev. Augustus Woodbury was then introduced and 
 delivered the Oration. 
 
THE ORATION. 
 
 Fellow - Citizens, Comrades, Friends : There seems 
 scarcely a place for words in the presence of this memorial 
 of immortal deeds. The structure, — the occasion, — speaks. 
 Those mute figures which represent the defenders of the 
 Kepublic by land and sea, are vocal above the power of 
 human speech. That long list of brave men who passed 
 through seas of blood, and at last died that the nation might 
 live, is at once the eulogy and the perpetual record of a vir- 
 tue, which survives death. This vast concourse, gathered 
 from every part of our State, attests the desire of the people 
 to honor the memory of those who fell in their defence. 
 This assembly of comrades, of the same grand army of the 
 living and the dead, speaks of victory won through severest 
 struggles, and peace secured through sanguinary strife. 
 Those tattered flags, rent by the missiles of the foe, and 
 begrimmed by the dust and smoke of battle, add their 
 pathetic story of heroism and sacrifice. The day itself 
 recalls the memories of that great conflict in which our 
 best and bravest fell. How little can be expressed by words 
 that reach only the bodily ear, while these voices are speak- 
 ing to the soul ! At best, it can be but a feeble offering 
 that I bring to the departed, and a simple flower that I cast 
 upon their graves. 
 
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 The erection of this monument has a profoundly important 
 purpose. It is to perpetuate the remembrance of what 
 the men of Rhode Island did and suffered in behalf of the 
 entire country. It is to aid in quickening the sentiment of 
 patriotism in the national heart, and in educating the 
 national character to a complete self-devotion to duty. 
 When visiting Westminster Abbey, and contemplating the 
 monuments of the worthies of English history, with which 
 it is filled, I could not avoid the thought, that these were 
 the teachers of a nation's life, as well as the witnesses to a 
 nation's gratitude. For here the men, women and children of 
 England could come to learn how "the path of duty" be- 
 comes "the way to glory." Here would be aroused the 
 desire to emulate the greatness of which the marble told. 
 We, indeed, have no Westminster Abbey, no venerable tem- 
 ple, beneath whose sacred roof a nation'.s pious and grateful 
 care collects the ashes of her honored dead. But on every 
 village green arises the "Soldiers' Monument," with its tale 
 of a fidelity and courage, which shrank not from every 
 danger, duty, hardship, sacrifice and death. Our memorial 
 edifice is the vast temple built by the Almighty's hand, and 
 domed by the over-arching sky. Here we raise the com- 
 memorative shaft, but more enduring still is the memory of 
 the dead, enshrined, not in "storied urn," but in every loyal 
 breast. I recall the famous words of Pericles in the funeral 
 oration, which he pronounced in the early part of the Pelo- 
 ponnesian war, over the fallen Athenian youth : "Bestow- 
 ing thus their lives upon the public, they have every one 
 acquired a praise that will never decay, a sepulchre that 
 will always be most illustrious — not that in which their 
 bones lie mouldering, but that in which their fame 
 is preserved, to be on every occasion eternally re- 
 
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 mombered, when honor is the eniploy of either word or 
 act. This whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious men ; 
 nor is it the inscription on the columns in their native soil 
 alone that shows their merit, but the memorial of them, 
 better than all inscription, in every foreign nation, reposited 
 more durably in universal remembrance than on their own 
 tomb." 
 
 These memorable names now thus inscribed belong to men 
 of every rank. There is no preeminence in death except 
 w^hen value and virtue give it renown. The name of the pri- 
 vate soldier has a place as lasting, as that of the general of 
 division which heads the roll. Each one who did his work 
 and met his fate, as a brave man should, in the position to 
 which Providence assigned him, equally deserves an honora- 
 able commemoration. Some fell in battle on the land, 
 some found death upon the sea. The first and last struggle 
 of the war demanded each its victim. The life-blood of 
 some was the price of victory. The death of some added 
 to the anguish of defeat. Some died in the hospital, 
 some amid the horrors of the prison, and some were 
 privileged to breathe their last, soothed by the care of 
 friends and kindred. Some were laid away tenderly in the 
 soft bosom of the earth by loving hands, and some sleep in 
 unknown graves. All endured the toil, and fell by the 
 stroke of battle or disease, as Providence ordained. We 
 would here make no distinction. We judge of deeds, not 
 by the position, but by the personal character of him who 
 performs them, and by their own inherent worth. If the 
 quality of work be good, the place of performance is of 
 little account. Honor belongs to true manhood rather than 
 high rank, and lies in the spirit and manner of the doing- 
 more than in the deed. 
 
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 Another fact is here to be observed. Among the Ameri- 
 can soldiers and sailors were men of all degrees of privilege 
 and training. The rich and the poor ; men who were 
 tenderly nurtured and those who were taught in adversity's 
 hard school ; the highly cultured and those of little learn- 
 ing ; men of mark and men of quiet life — of conspicuous 
 fame and of an obscure career ; men of all creeds, of all 
 parties, of all occupations, trades and professions ; of 
 various nativity and different race — all these met and 
 mingled, fused together in the fire of a common patriotism. 
 Remember, that this was not a compulsory, but rather a 
 voluntary service. Remember, that these men were accus- 
 tomed, for the most part, to the comforts of well-ordered 
 homes and peaceful avocations. Yet they freely undertook 
 the performance of the most difficult tasks ; endured the 
 hardships of the march, the voyage, the camp ; faced the 
 dangers of battle on field and flood, with a calm courage or 
 a daring bravery, which commanded the admiration of the 
 veterans of disciplined armies and fleets. These men, in 
 short, adjusted themselves to all the vicissitudes and exi- 
 gencies of the war with a marvellous facility and flexibility 
 of mind. This power of adaptation was as marked in the 
 men of the regular, as in those of the volunteer ser- 
 vice. Ofiicers, whose duties had never exceeded the com- 
 mand of a seaside fort or frontier post, of an exploring 
 party, or a single ship's crew, suddenly found themselves 
 weighted with heavy responsibilities, and entrusted with 
 enterprises of wide importance. Rising by quick promotion, 
 they soon became charged with the leadership of large 
 armies and fleets, and the conduct of a great war, in which 
 the combatants were counted by the hundred thousand. Yet 
 these men, of necessarily small experience, proved them- 
 
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 selves equal to the nation's greatest demands. I speak, of 
 course, in general terms. There was a certain proportion of 
 cowardice, unfaithfulness, incompetence. But this propor- 
 tion was never large, and when known, was condemned and 
 quietly put aside. 
 
 Whence came this remarkable power of adaptation to the 
 needs and duties of a great war ? How did it happen to 
 belong to men whose lives had mostly been spent in peace, 
 and far away from any sound of arms — many of whom had 
 to learn even the details of the manual from the start ? 
 Was it, that the American people were gifted with any 
 special aptitude for a military life ? Was there anything in 
 our common modes of living that indicated the existence of 
 any such capacity as was here displayed ? Mr. Grote, the 
 learned historian of Greece says : "Neither in the life of an 
 individual, nor in that of a people, does the ordinary and 
 every-day movement appear at all worthy of those particu- 
 lar seasons, in which a man is lifted above his own level, 
 and becomes capable of extreme devotion and heroism. Yet 
 such emotions, though their complete predominance is never 
 more than transitory, have their foundations in veins of 
 sentiment, which are not, even at other times, wholly ex- 
 tinct, but count among the manifold forces tending to modify 
 and improve, if they cannot control human nature." It 
 may have been so in our national life. Doubtless, on the 
 surface, there was very little evidence of the great things 
 beneath. Yet the patient and heroic qualities of manhood 
 which the war demanded and developed, and which lifted 
 the nation above its own level, were by no means accidental 
 in their origin or sudden in their growth. They came up 
 from a living root, which ran deep into the soil of the 
 national character. The American citizen has had the 
 
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 schooling of two centuries and a half of conflict with the 
 wilderness, with wild beasts, with savage men and savage 
 principles. Thus has he been trained to a quick adjustment 
 to new circumstances, and strange conditions ; to the ne- 
 cessity of preserving his own personal freedom and life, 
 and the public order ; to the equal necessity of placing the 
 growing commonwealth beyond the reach of danger. 
 " Patriotism is impossible in a republic," said they who 
 did not appreciate the value of this life-long education. 
 " Our republic," we say in reply — and the w^ord comes from 
 lips now silent in the dust ; I read it between the lines of 
 yonder inscription — " Our republic is the great school of 
 patriotism." The American citizen accepts it as a part of 
 his religion, that the duty he owes to the State is next to 
 that he owes to his God ! This sentiment, born within him, 
 grew with his growth, and became the dominant power 
 of his manhood's life. 
 
 At the basis of the American character there were cer- 
 tain principles, which, slowly developing amid the circum- 
 stances of American history, only awaited their occasion — 
 the principle of obedience to the constitutional pact ; a 
 regard for law enacted by the representatives of the people ; 
 submission of private advantage to public authority ; sub- 
 ordination of personal interest to the public good ; reverence 
 for the sacredness of self-government ; and above all, and 
 beneath all, a deep conviction, that the body politic, which 
 grew out of the Declaration of Independence, was not a 
 mere confederacy of communities bound together by local 
 interest, but a nation, entitled to the service of all her 
 citizens to maintain her existence and heighten her glory — 
 a State, whose base was the fundamental law of a written 
 constitution, whose strength was in the loyalty of the 
 
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 people, whose bonds of union were the obligations of patri- 
 otism, and whose increasing welfare was the prime object of 
 political life ! Forty years ago Jackson said : " The Consti- 
 tution of the United States forms a government, not a 
 league. Each state, having expressly parted with so many 
 powers, as to constitute jointly with other states a single 
 nation, cannot, from that period, possess any right to secede, 
 because such secession does not break a league, but destroys 
 the unity of a nation." The rebellion of the Southern 
 States and the confederacy which they formed, violated all 
 these principles, and so the loyal people of the Republic 
 fought down the one, and destroyed the other. 
 
 Other elements were not wanting, — the perception of an 
 ideal republic to be made real in this western world ; the 
 knowledge of an imperative moral law to which states must 
 bow ; faith in the power of religious truth, as prominent in 
 the rudenesses of the pioneer's and the soldier's life, as in the 
 refinements of settled and peaceful communities. The 
 moral and ideal qualities of character, which have been the 
 real substance of our national life from the first, cannot be 
 left out of our estimate of the strength of the American 
 Union. The power of the ideal is always the puzzle of 
 human selfishness. When the South tried to break away 
 from the North, it seemed, to all outward appearance, as 
 though a general disintegration would take place. Our 
 enemies abroad considered it as a foregone conclusion. 
 Disloyal people at home talked of the impossibility of re- 
 storing the Union. Some among ourselves, at times, 
 distrusted our own power. It was because the tenacity and 
 durability of the ideal element of national life were not well 
 understood. There was a certain allegiance to conscience, 
 and a certain faith in truth, justice, righteousness and God, 
 
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 which had underlain all our history and proved the salt of 
 all our life. That power which, step by step, and in the face 
 of dangers, difficulties and distresses, has reclaimed the 
 wilderness, and made it the abode of civilization and freedom, 
 has descended to us by direct inheritance. It came with our 
 fathers across the stormy seas ; it went with them through 
 the perils of our colonial history and the terrible struggle of 
 the Revolution ; it has gone with each successive stage in 
 our national progress to subdue the continent — the ideal, 
 moral, religious power,, which dwelt in the hearts of the 
 people and gave them life ; taught them how to bear 
 adversity cheerfully ; saved them from the enervating in- 
 fluence of prosperous fortunes ; finally welded them together, 
 and made them capable of high and heroic deeds. 
 
 In no contest have ideas fought more conspicuously to 
 those who could see, than in this. On the one side were 
 liberty, human rights, civilization, the consecration of a con- 
 tinent to constitutional freedom. On the other side were 
 slavery, human wrongs, the barbarism which is always in- 
 separable from an irresponsible despotism, the dominion of a 
 continent in the interests of oppression. The stronger and 
 better ideas triumphed, as they always will and always must. 
 In the nature of things, there could be but one result — the 
 reestablishment of the State and its enthronement on a 
 position alike impregnable to foreign and domestic foes. 
 That .which conquered was not altogether the power of 
 superior numbers, but rather the power of superior ideas. 
 Behind that was faith in those ideas and in God, firmly 
 abiding in the popular heart, expressed in the remarkable 
 state papers of the Executive, deeply fixed and faithfully 
 cherished, amid all temporary discouragements and sometimes 
 disheartening defeats. This carried us through the conflict 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 25 
 
 to its victorious end. It destroyed slavery, secession and 
 treason. It made the Union secure. It commanded, as 
 well for the finally successful cause as for the emancipation 
 of the slaves, "the considerate judgment of mankind, and 
 the gracious favor of Almighty God." 
 
 It is not often that a great cause has for its foundation, 
 and for the impulse of its promotion, such depth and power 
 of moral earnestness. It is not surprising that, in an age 
 given over to the pursuit of material ends, the moral power 
 of the loyal states should have been underrated and their 
 purpose misunderstood, both at home and abroad. It was no 
 struggle for empire between rival factions or rival, sections, 
 as some foreigners professed to believe. It was the heart of 
 the nation striving to live and perpetuate its life. Those, 
 Avho sought to destroy the Union, did not know the strength 
 of the sentiment they were trying to uproot. We, who 
 sought to preserve the Republic, held back Avith long forbear- 
 ance from the war for which the South was urgent. We 
 hoped that the strife unto blood might be averted. We re- 
 membered how closely the North and South had stood 
 together in the past, in defence of the commonwealth. We 
 could hardly believe that an American hand would willingly 
 strike the separating blow, which would deprive us of our 
 common heritage and our common hope. So, when the war 
 came, we accepted its prosecution as a duty to be performed 
 with persistence, but not with bitterness or hatred. When 
 the Avar ended, Ave applied ourselves at once to the work of 
 binding up the Avounds, and closing the breaches it had 
 made. We demanded, that its results should be accepted by 
 those Avho provoked it. We still demand it. But, severe as 
 the contest Avas, I doubt if there remains, in the hearts of 
 those Avho conquered, any feeling of personal animosity 
 
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 toward those who failed. When the strife was over all such 
 hostilily was buried out of sight. God grant that for it 
 there may be no resurrection ! 
 
 The moral earnestness which entered into the conflict 
 deepened the sense of personal responsibility. The loyal 
 citizen, educated to a love of free institutions, saw a personal 
 danger in the peril that threatened them. He had come to 
 feel that in them individual freedom had its best guaranty. 
 The free state protects, and is protected by the free man. 
 Each draws life from the other. Neither can exist apart. 
 The preservation of the Republic is the preservation of the 
 citizen. There is no ideal excellence, of which the citizen 
 dreams, that may not belong to the State, of which he is a 
 part. By this intimate interweaving of needs, interests, 
 duties, ambitions, is produced that texture of national life, 
 which is too tenacious to be rent asunder by violence, and 
 too enduring to be worn away by time. American institu- 
 tions have their assurance of stability in the power of 
 individual patriotism. Each citizen can say : "I am the 
 State." Each citizen will swear : "While I live, the State 
 shall have a defence and support." 
 
 In the camp, and under the despotism of martial law, the 
 soldier was still a citizen. He had his own opinions in re- 
 gard to questions of public policy, and could judge intelli- 
 gently of the plans discussed in the cabinet, and the move- 
 ments executed in the field. He voted. He had his 
 daily mail and his daily newspaper. He was. in constant 
 communication with his home, and knew precisely what 
 was uppermost in the public mind. His military life lay 
 upon the broad basis of his intelligent political duty. 
 Martinets, who wished to make the army a machine, old 
 soldiers who were accustomed to the routine of military dis- 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 27 
 
 cipline, shook their heads, doubted, complained, possibly 
 feared, that this sense of citizenship would spoil the soldier. 
 But the army that saved the Kepu' lie was never a machine, 
 but rather a living organism, that moved and acted from the 
 impulse of its own innate vital force. In actual warfare, the 
 most thoughtful and intelligent soldier was the most trust- 
 worthy — the best, foremost, and most steadfast. It seemed 
 difficult for those who stood on an equal footing at home, to 
 recognize and observe the distinctions of rank in the field. 
 But here the good sense of the American character prevented 
 any disturbance of order. Breaches of discipline occurred 
 among the unthinking and reckless, who are always 
 reluctant to submit to authority. But, in general, the citi- 
 zen soldier easily fell into the place in which his particular 
 duty was to be performed. For the time he held in abeyance 
 his democratic prerogatives, and accepted the situation, as it 
 was then proposed to him. He sacrificed his personal inde- 
 pendence to his duty to the imperilled State. 
 
 Thus it happened that the armies in the field were always 
 loyal, both to their immediate commanders and to ^ the 
 general government. The attachoients formed in army life 
 are proverbially strong. A popular commander — as with 
 hooks of steel — binds the hearts of his soldiers closely to 
 himself. It is no slight matter to remove from command a 
 chief, to whom service has become like personal devotion. 
 When the government found it necessary to perform this un- 
 gracious duty, the soldiers readily acquiesced, and bated not 
 a title of their obedience to the new leader. The Army of 
 the Potomac had, from first to last, no less than five differ- 
 ent commanders. In the chief command of our western armies 
 frequent changes took pLice. Yet the allegiance of our citi- 
 zen soldiers was unchanged, though their affections were 
 
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 sometimes sorely tried. Whatever may be said or thought 
 of others, they always stood firm to their duty. In their 
 clear perception of duty they assured themselves that in the 
 business of war, the prime obligation was hearty, unquestion- 
 ing obedience to a superior in rank. When it is remembered 
 — as it always should be remembered — that these were not 
 veterans, accustomed by long service to obey, and knowing 
 no other rule, but citizens, who were wonted to independent 
 thought and action, and had lately been transplanted from 
 the freedom of home-life to the restraints of the camp, the 
 phenomenon was truly wonderful. Germany, in the recent 
 war, has shown something similar, though not altogether 
 like. For her landwehr and landsturm constitute a vast 
 military organization, with stated and regular terms of ser- 
 vice. In no nation of modern times, I can safely say, has 
 such an army of citizen soldiers, with such facility, been 
 raised, organized, trained to war ; taught to turn the hand 
 from plough, anvil, hammer, plane, pen, .pencil, book to mus- 
 ket, bayonet, cannon, cutlass, sword, and found equally 
 efficient in the use of either implement. It is to the exceed- 
 ing honor of the American citizen that he could thus easily 
 assume these new duties, and submit himself to this new 
 control. 
 
 In speaking thus warmly of our volunteer forces, I would, 
 in no way, disparage the services of the regular and navy. 
 Especially would I recognize the importance of a mili- 
 tary and naval education. The country cannot dispense 
 with its national schools at West Point and Annapolis. We 
 must always have, as we shall always need, well-trained of- 
 ficers to organize, to plan, to direct. But after all, the na- 
 tion's chief reliance must be, not upon large standing armies 
 and fleets, but upon her own citizens, loyal, facile, intelli- 
 
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 gent, patriotic, always ready for a self- forgetful, devoted ser- 
 vice. It was gratifying to perceive the general spirit of 
 cordialty with which the regular and volunteer officers, both 
 in army and navy, fraternized with one another. There 
 could be no rivalry, except in striving to prove who could 
 serve the best and sacrifice the most. Side by side on yon- 
 der tablet are the names of Stevens and Rodman — friends, 
 comrades, brothers in arms, officers in the same corps — fit 
 representatives of the regular and vokmteer service. The 
 one was educated at the national military academy. The 
 other came from business life. Is the laurel of the one 
 greener than that of the other? Is the memory of the one 
 dearer than that of the other? Equally brave, equally de- 
 .voted, no jealousy disturbed their friendship in life, or ob- 
 scured their glory in death. The chief question between 
 such men as these, both then and now, is, what service can 
 each best render to the common mother of them all? 
 
 It vv^as also pleasing to observe the confidence which was 
 reposed in our volunteer officers and soldiers by the best gen- 
 erals in the regular army. Grant gave to Butler, and- — no 
 wise discouraged by his failure — to Terry, the opportunity 
 of capturing Fort Fisher, and of winniug the honor of that 
 brilliant exploit. The most effective operation of the war — 
 Sherman's march to the sea — was successfully performed by 
 a force composed ' almost entirely of a volunteer soldiery. 
 For Sherman knew the men he trusted, and trusted them 
 without reserve. So Farragut, with unrivalled bravery and 
 skill, opened the way for the volunteer soldier to occupy 
 New Orleans and Mobile. So Foote, with scarcel}; less 
 gallantry, cleared our western rivers for the victorious pro- 
 gress of our arms by land. The f\iithful servants of the Repub- 
 lic seek only to serve her well. The trained soldier and sailor, 
 
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 the citizen and volunteer, unite in patriotic duty. The 
 country remembers both with eq[ual gratitude, and gives to 
 both, as now and here, an equal and imperishable honor. 
 
 There was a certain poetic and religious element which 
 wound its silver thread through the dark texture of the 
 strife, to enliven and beautify it. It was noticed, both in the 
 active duty of the march and even of the battle, and in the 
 endurance of the hospital, that our soldiers had a great love 
 for flowers, and in many instances a deep religious sentiment. 
 After the battle of the Wilderness, was found upon the bor- 
 der of the field the body of a drummer boy, shot through and 
 through. His hand clasped a bunch of Adolets, which he had 
 plucked after he was struck, and on his face still lingered a 
 smile of delight, as if the sweet familiar fragrance had 
 overcome the pain of dying. Touching picture — but one of 
 m.any ! Almost every knapsack had a place for a copy of the 
 New Testament, with a few dried leaves or flowei^'s pressed 
 within it, bits of poetry, and photographs of friends at 
 home. The rose-bud brightened the dark uniform. The 
 frequent song lightened the toil of the dusty road. In the 
 hospital, what patience, what true and trusting faith soothed 
 the long hours of pain and watching, or prepared the soul to 
 meet the summons of death ! The American soldier had a 
 home behind him, and the sweet influence of that home sent 
 a gleam of glory athwart the gloom of war. Love, hope 
 and religion, that had made home beautiful for remembrance, 
 still followed the young soldier. The father's honest pride, 
 the mother's warm affection, the wife's earnest prayer, the 
 fairmaiden's love and longing — all came to mind and memory, 
 as he stood in the front of the battle, or lay on his cot of 
 suffering, and, while his heart softened into tenderness, it 
 strengthened into heroism. He did the duty and bore the 
 
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 pain the better, because of this blessed recollection and this 
 upward looking faith. As he died, beautiful visions of green 
 fields and spreading tiees and glorious mountain-peaks, the 
 broad prairie, the waving grain, the village home, passed 
 before him. Soft eyes looked into his own from out the 
 gathering darkness, and gentle voices whispered to his 
 heart. No roar of cannon now, no clash of steel, but only 
 the prayers he had learned at his mother's knee, and the 
 memories of tender vow^s ! Was it hard thus to die ? The 
 brave youth only regretted, that he had but one life to give 
 to his country.* 
 
 In judging of the character of our patriotism, we must not 
 forget the influence of this home -life, to which I have just 
 alluded, nor must we pass over in silence the great part, 
 which woman acted in the war. To the lessons of obedi- 
 ence and faithfulness she had taught in earlier years, to the 
 actual labor she performed at home and in the hospital, to 
 the enthusiasm and earnest interest she inspired, to the 
 prayers she uttered, to the s;iintly trust, the sublime pa- 
 tience she exhibited — even unconsciously to herself — we 
 are indebted more than we know. Without the woman's 
 help, man could have done but little. Without the spirit of 
 the woman's bravery, man could have fought his battles with 
 but slight success. There were invisible reenforcements 
 always marching to the field. There were supplies or cour- 
 age and faith always g'oing forward. The homes of the peo- 
 ple were never exhausted, and out of them flowed the never- 
 failing streams which refreshed the nation's life. I re- 
 member now the earnest word of a poor, honest, humble wo- 
 
 *;N'athan Hale, an American officer in the Revolution, was taken b_v tlie 
 British and executed, at New Fork, as a sj)}-, Sept i:2,177(). Ilis last words 
 were : "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." 
 
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 man., which may well illustrate the spirit of our loyal home- 
 life. She lived in some little country townin Massachusetts, 
 and had come down to the hospital at Portsmouth Grove to 
 see her son, who had been treated there, and was about re- 
 turning to the army in the field. I happened to witness 
 their parting as she went on board the boat that was to bring 
 her up to the city. He was a bright, manly-looking youth 
 — a private soldier. She kissed him, took his hand in hers, 
 and said, "John, good bye, I may never see you again; 
 but mind this, John, be sure and do your duty straight up 
 to the handle 1" "I will, mother," said he, in a cheery, 
 yet somewhat tearful way — and so they separated. There 
 was no doubt that he would ! In talking with her while 
 coming up the bay, I found that she belonged to that sturdy 
 yeoman class of our people, from among whom the majority 
 of our rank and file liad been recruited — a thoroughly loyal 
 American woman, who was willing to sacrifice much, and to 
 endure much poverty and hard labor, if necessary. Three of 
 her sons were already in the army, and the strain upon her 
 was somewhat hard. But her brave heart never gave up, as 
 though her owa happiness and life were of little value in the 
 time of the nation's necessity. It is a good illustration 
 of the force that was in reserve, constantly sending forward 
 its supports. The poor woman's phrase might have been 
 more elegantly rendered, but the spirit and sentiment were 
 there. Were they not everywhere, p*ervading the hearts of 
 all our loyal women ? I believe that the force, which these 
 supplied, contributed very largely to the national success. 
 Out of such sweet and tender life came forth an invincible 
 strength ! 
 
 The war came to an end, and the citizen soldiers of the 
 Republic were to return to peaceful pursuits. Many anxious 
 
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 minds, not fully appreciating the capabilities of the Ameri- 
 can character, inquired whether these men had not been 
 unfitted, by their military experience, for the occupations of 
 civil life. The result proved the groundlessness of any fear 
 or doubt of this kind. As the manner in which the people 
 met the emergencies of the war was exceptional, so was the 
 return of the soldiers to their social duties quite beyond the 
 ordinary course. Silently and swiftly were they merged,* 
 with but few exceptions, into the great mass of our popula- 
 tion. The public order felt no shock, the social state no 
 disturbance. Those who had been conspicuous in the public 
 eye, acting the great drama, of which all the world was a 
 spectator, Avere content to retire to the obscurity of private 
 life. No interests suffered. No rights were violated. On 
 the contrary, the public welfare was promoted by the in- 
 crease of productive labor. The country, already recover- 
 ing from the blow she had received, has started forward on 
 a course of prosperity, the end of which is beyond all our 
 dreams of greatness. These men, instead of being demor- 
 alized by the war, seemed to have been touched by the spirit 
 of a new consecration, as though the awful face of Duty 
 had been unveiled before them, and their souls had been 
 thrilled by her never-to-be-forgotten voice. 
 
 To deepen and strengthen the character — that was the re- 
 sult. And with such added strength and depth, the com- 
 munity could gratefully receive into its bosom the returning 
 brave. As they marched back with firm step and bronzed 
 faces, in clothing worn and defaced, bearing high the old 
 flag, whose rags were more glorious than gilded banners, and 
 whose faded inscriptions told of bloody fields, we welcomed 
 them with a joy which was sometimes too deep for words. 
 "VVe looked along their ranks, and saw the vacant places 
 
34 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 which the storm of battle had made. Our eyes were wet 
 with tears that came unbidden. Our heads were bowed in 
 submission to that will which had ordered the event. In our 
 hearts Ave made the vow that they who had fallen should never 
 lack an honorable memorial ; that their wounded and disa- 
 bled comrades should never ask for sympathy and aid in vain ; 
 that their widows and orphans should never know want ; 
 «-that the cause for which they died should never be deserted 
 or betrayed ; and that we ourselves, taking new courage and 
 faith from their example, would make the land we loved 
 more worthy of so loyal a service and so costly asaciifice. 
 That vow is registered in Heaven and on the nation's heart, 
 and by God's help it shall be faithfully kept. 
 
 While paying our honor to the dead, we would not forget 
 the living veterans, who have "no cause to blush that they 
 survive the battle." The nation owes its life to the exer- 
 tions of these men — both the wounded and unscathed — and 
 cannot well discharge the debt. So, to-day, I would plead 
 in their behalf — not for alms, not for the charity that de- 
 prives one of self-respect, not for the gifts which are be- 
 stowed upon the disabled man, who wails forth his melan- 
 choly music from the curbstone of the street, but — for pub- 
 lic employment, that they may, in the spirit of independent 
 citizens, serve the country in peace as they did in war. So 
 I urge, that whenever the country has any work to perform, 
 which they are capable of doing, or any office of honor or 
 emolument which they are fitted to fill, their claims should 
 be remembered first of all. The Republic has not been whol- 
 ly ungrateful in the past to those who have imperilled life 
 and limb for her sake. The future shall show, that the 
 American people have good memory for all faithful and pat- 
 riotic deeds. 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 35 
 
 What novvT has come from all this ? What has the country 
 purchased ^vith all these labors, strifes, sacrifices and griefs ? 
 Out of the terrible contest emerge two great ideas — Nation- 
 ality and Free Citizenship. We are a compacted, united 
 nation, a body politic, vital in every part. No one state has 
 the headship. All are equal. Each is autonomous. But 
 all are joined by an irrefragable bond of union. The Dec- 
 laration of Independence now reaches its logical conclusion. 
 The Constitution novs^ receives its right interpretation. Its 
 magnificent preamble — pregnant with the life of centuries — 
 we can now read, without hesitation and without reserve : 
 "We, the people of these United States, in order to form a 
 more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tran- 
 quility, provide for the common defence, promote the general 
 welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and 
 our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution of 
 the United States of America." We now can compre- 
 hend what it is to be a nation and a power in the earth. 
 The hope of the fathers is nearing its fruition. Their prom- 
 ise and prophecy to mankind is having its fulfilment. 
 
 One result, as encouraging to national virtue, as it is grat- 
 ifying to national pride, is the position our success has giA'^en 
 us among the nations of the world. The Union is now in 
 no danger of being misunderstood. Success clears the eye 
 of many a film, the mind of many a prejudice. If, as Jef- 
 ferson said, the cause of the struggling colonies for indepen- 
 dence was the cause of human nature, we can well say now, 
 that the preservation of the Republic is a gain to human civ- 
 ilization everywhere. In the time of our extremity, foreign 
 powers mistrusted our ability. In the time of our success 
 they are eager to profess their confidence. No more signifi- 
 cant act has been performed within the present century, than 
 
36 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 the recent negotiation with Great Britain of the treaty of 
 Washington. It is, as has been well said, "a new clepart- 
 nre for mankind in the science of international law" and the 
 policy of international intercourse. The United States and 
 England have laid the world under obligations of gratitude, 
 as they have shown, that two great nations with — as some 
 have thought — abundant reasons for war, can find still more 
 abundant reasons for peace, and can submit disputed ques- 
 tions of the highest importance to the tribunal of impartial 
 arbitration. While others have wasted their strength by vin- 
 dictive war, clutching at each other's throat to gratify long- 
 cherished enmity, and. laying up large stores for a future of 
 bitterest revenge, these two have gained the unwonted glo- 
 ry of proving, that national honor can consist with interna- 
 tional amity. Fortunate opportunity for us to be thus in- 
 strumental in promoting the welfare of humanity, and to 
 preach this new gospel of peace in the good old mother- 
 tongue ! But the opportunity came from our success. 
 
 It is not simply as a nation, but it is as a nation of free 
 men, that we stand in our place to-day. How short a time 
 ago it was that the institution of slavery, cruel, aggressive, 
 defiant, ruled the land ! So powerful it seemed, that good 
 men mourned and wise men feared, when they contemplated 
 the future of the Republic. It was so strong in its founda- 
 tions, so well-supported, so fully fortified in public opinion, 
 so confident in itself, that the most clear-sighted could scarce- 
 ly discern a ray of hope for its extinction. The most san- 
 guine of its opponents only ventured to believe, that its fur- 
 ther extension could be stayed. But Divine Providence had 
 decreed better things for us. In the fire of the war the 
 chains of the bondman were melted. Baptized with blood, 
 the slave arose from his degradation a free citizen of the Re- 
 
soldiers' and sailors' :\ionument. 37 
 
 public. It would have staggered credulity to be told, that a 
 result like that could be accomplished in half a century. 
 Behold, it required scarcely two years of strife to speak the 
 word of emancipation, but four years to make the word a 
 fact, and less than a decade to fix it forever in the funda- 
 mental national law ! We fought the battle better than we 
 knew. The irresistible logic of events solved the problem. 
 Led by a power higher than ourselves, we marched on to 
 victories greater than we dreamed. Our eyes were blessed 
 with the vision of a glory which others had long desired to 
 see, but died without the sight. A grand imperial Union 
 arose with its zeal of free citizenship — without distinction 
 race, color, or previous condition of servitude — and took its 
 place unchallenged among the foremost powers of time. The 
 war gave us the opportunity of proving that a free citizen 
 is his country's best defender. Let peace enable us to prove, 
 that freedom of citizenship is the best element of a country's 
 enduring greatness. Let the nations be taught that the 
 American system of government — "of the people, by the 
 people, for the people" — is the most equitable among men ; 
 that that empire is the best and the greatest, which has lib- 
 erty for the corner-stone of its foundations, and equal jus- 
 tice between man and man, for the binding cement of its walls. 
 AVhat mighty results hath God wrought through the instrumen- 
 tality of these humble, faithful men and women ! We have 
 come to our triumph through great tribulation. But what a 
 triumph it is, and what transcendent possibilities for man- 
 kind are within it ! 
 
 It is a grateful thought, to-day, that ' in these events, im- 
 portant to ourselves and to the interests of civilization every- 
 where the State of Rhode Island has borne a conspicuous 
 part. Her troops were among the earliest in the field and 
 
38 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 among the last to leave it, having won a name for good dis- 
 cipline, for bravery, for endurance, for steady faithfulness in. 
 ail positions, seco.id to none. We would also gratefully re- 
 call the honorable services of those Rhode Island men, of dif- 
 ferent rank, — officers, soldiers, sailors — in the regiments of 
 other states, in the regular army, navy and ma.ine corps,, 
 whose gallantry and self devotion reflected glory on their 
 state. All along the line, from the time that Burnside led 
 the First Rhode Island to Washington, and Ives offered him- 
 self and his yacht to the government, to the firing of the 
 last gun of the war, the men of Rhode Island made an illus- 
 trious record for us and foR themselves. They served with 
 Burnside, at Roanoke, Newbern, Fort Macon, South Moun- 
 tain, and Knoxville ; with Sherman, Hunter, Mitchell, and 
 Gilmore at Port Royal, Pulaski, James Island and the siege 
 of Charleston ; with Butler and Banks at New Orleans ; 
 with McClellan at Yorktown, before Richmond and at Antie- 
 tam ; with Meade at Gettysburg ; Avith Thomas at Nash- 
 ville ; with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley ; with Grant 
 at Vicksburg and in the long Virginia campaigns of 1864-G5, 
 which closed the war. Manassas, the Peninsula, Chantilly, 
 Fredericksburg find Chancellorsville witnessed their unavail- 
 ing valor. Their blood mingled with the waters of the Gulf 
 of Mexico. The murderous fires of the Mississippi Passes 
 lighted their path to victory under Farragut. The daring 
 assault of Fort Fisher added to their renown. Goldsborough 
 in Pamlico and Albermarle Sounds ; Dupont at Hilton Head, 
 and Dahlgren in Charleston harbor, saw and commended 
 their bravery. What McDowell said on the eve of the first 
 battle of Bull Run : "I rely on the Rhode Island brigade,'" 
 has been confirmed upon a hundred fields. The State which 
 gave a Greene and a Hopkins to the Revolution, and a Perrj 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. 6[) 
 
 to the war of 1812, has not forgotten her ancient renown^ 
 and now stands among her sisters, wearing the bays which 
 her sons have placed upon her brow. The principles which 
 were the inspiration of her early life, have been the strength 
 of her latter days. It is with a just and reasonable pride, 
 that .every citizen, from the humblest to the highest, can read 
 the story, and feel that he can rightly share her fame. The 
 people of our State, always remembering that they were 
 Americans as well as Rhode Islanders, have given, indeed, a 
 happy illustration of the truth, that Republican institutions, 
 administered by an intelligent and virtuous democracy, can 
 develope a patriotism, glorious in character, splendid in 
 achievement, such as the world has rarely seen. No commu- 
 nity has been more jealous of individual liberty and the rights 
 of the State. No community has been more united in sup- 
 port of every measure adopted for the common defence. No 
 communit}'" has given better and brighter evidence of devo- 
 tion to the common good. The experience through which we 
 passed, was sad, but we have been chastened for our profit. 
 The test was searching, but we triumphantly sustained it. 
 Now we are convinced, that what we have secured is worth 
 all that it has cost. The Union stands, and it stands for 
 liberty ! 
 
 So we feel that these men have not died in vain. As those 
 who have passed through the conflict, would refuse to yield 
 a particle of that dear bought experience, so they who 
 "bowed their noble souls to death," forbid us to believe that 
 they have suffered thus for naught. Could a voice come 
 down from those serene heights where souls of heroes dwell, 
 it would have no doubtful tone, it would speak no hesitating 
 word. "We are content," it would say : "To have died for 
 liberty, to have saved the Republic, by our blood, to have put 
 
40 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 our lives in the breach, and thus to have closed the broken 
 wall, that it might stand forever — this has been our privi- 
 lege. We have given you a country which you will ever be 
 proud to call your own. We have established in the western 
 world an empire where a true freedom mjiy abide in undis- 
 turbed possession, and peace may reign for the lasting wel- 
 fare of mankind. We are content. It is for you to main- 
 tain inviolate the liberties we have won — to preserve the 
 nation we have saved.', 
 
 "Yes, spirits of the heroic dead," we answer, "we here 
 renew our vows. Here we consecrate ourselves afresh to the 
 sustenance of the institutions, which your blood has sealed. 
 Here we solemnly swear to keep unimpaired the inheritance 
 you have bequeathed to us. By all your tears and toils, 
 your pains and deaths, your contests and your triumphs, we 
 pledge ourselves to an equal fidelity and an equal self-devo- 
 tion. The way you have trod shall not be strange to our 
 feet. The sufferings you have endured shall not affright our 
 hearts. Whenever our dear mother shall call her sons to 
 serve her, we will hear your voice, honored and glorified 
 countrymen, cheering us on in the way of duty. Beneath 
 its impulse and influence no path will be too difficult, no 
 task too severe. How can we ever forget, how can we ever 
 fail to imitate, your constancy and valor !" 
 
 Friends : Is there not in all this an exceeding comfort 
 to the heart bereaved ? The providential law demands sac- 
 rifice as the condition of the accomplishment of human good. 
 Human lives must be yielded for the common benefit. Hu- 
 man hearts must be wrung with grief. The way to the king- 
 dom lies through much tribulation. So the all- wise, all- 
 loving God ordains. There can be no palm, no crown, with- 
 out the cross. But we would look beyond the gloom and 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 41 
 
 pain of dying, to the glory and the blessedness which death 
 opens to the spirit. Ah ! those who have died, really live. 
 To-day, always, they must be near. For hearts that love 
 each other can know no separation. 
 
 Comrades : These were your a,ssociates in the ranks of 
 battle and death. By Grod's grace you were spared the 
 stroke that took away their lives. To-day you recall the 
 scenes in which they were your companions. Not to-day 
 alone, but forever you will keep their memory green. 
 Wherever their bodies lie buried, in the soil of the land for 
 which they died, or in the sea which giveth not up its dead, 
 their souls have entered into victorious, peaceful life. For 
 them the din of battle is hushed forever ; for them no toiling 
 marches, no gnawing hunger, no parching thirst, no lin- 
 gering sickness, no corroding pain. "The former things 
 have passed away," and they have entered into rest ! The 
 monument, which a grateful State has erected to their honor, 
 passeth into your care. Around this memorial shaft, the 
 invisible sentinels of your love will keep their constant watch 
 and ward. 
 
 Fellow Citizens : These exercises approach their termi- 
 nation. There is but little more to say, and what we say will 
 soon be forgotten. But the fruits which have grown from 
 what these men — and such as these — have done and suffered, 
 wdll be the blessing of all the future of our republic. Our 
 thoughts and life are already raised to a higher plane by the 
 inspiration of their example. Into the heavy atmosphere of 
 our greed and gain comes this breeze of self-sacrificing valor, 
 and the souls of men are more erect, generous and brave. 
 Into the easy and self-indulgent habits of life comes this 
 spirit of cheerful endurance and self-denial, and the hearts of 
 men are emboldened to refuse the base suggestions of a cow- 
 
42 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 ardly policy, and fearlessly face all evil and shameful things. 
 Into the passions, intrigues, and ambitions of men comes the 
 memory of this heroic story, to tell what liberty demands of 
 her defenders, and with what honor she crowns their deeds. 
 This monument thus teaches the eternal lesson : how to 
 
 LIVE WITHOUT REPROACH, HOW TO DIE WITHOUT FEAR. So, to- 
 day, we dedicate it to the memory of a virtue that was faith- 
 ful unto death ; a valor, that accepted every extremity of 
 danger and sacrifice ; an unselfish patriotism, in man and 
 woman, that thought no offering too great or precious for the 
 country's good ; a loyal self-devotion that blessed humanity 
 far and wide. In lines of beauty, power, and grace has the 
 artist set before us his completed work. Here it will stand 
 through the years to come. The storms will beat upon it. 
 The sunshine will play around it. But neither will the storm 
 obscure, nor the sunshine brighten its glory. The rapid 
 stream of travel and traffic will flow ceaselessly by its side. 
 The generations will come and go. The passing years will 
 bring their occasions of assembly, when the multitudes will 
 gather here to find an inspiration for present duty in the 
 recollections of a heroic past. The tear will start as the 
 survivor of the conflict reads the inscription that speaks of 
 some dear comrade. Mothers and fathers, sisters and wives, 
 will search for the name of son, brother, husband, whom 
 they gave to the country, as though they were shedding their 
 own hearts' blood. Children . will spell out these lines ; 
 young men and maidens will whisper to each other the sad, 
 but glorious tale ; white-haired age, with trembling lip, 
 will repeat it, and grow young again in the remembrance ; 
 and those who have been bereaved by the war will glory in 
 this inheritance of lasting fame. Our own people will be 
 quickened to a grander life, as they contemplate what is here 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 43 
 
 • 
 
 recorded. The visitor from foreign lands will learn from it 
 how American citizens, of every station, can do, and dare, 
 and die, in obedience to the dictates of patriotic duty. Long 
 after you and I have passed from the ranks of the living, 
 and our names have been lostinforgetfulness, will this struc- 
 ture stand, in its simple beauty, its compact material, itsun- 
 decaying granite and bronze, to teach all future generations 
 how Rhode Island brought to the altar of the Republic her 
 dearest sons ! 
 
 Solemnly is our monument dedicated now by us. More 
 solemnly would we, now and always, dedicate ourselves to 
 the brave and generous patriotism, which it commemorates, 
 and which shines out with ever increasing lustre from the 
 names it bears ! 
 
44 DEDICATION, ETC. 
 
 t 
 
 The following Memorial Hymn. was then sung : 
 MEMORIAL HYMN— By the Choir. 
 Written for the occasion by Mrs. Saeah Ellen Whitman. 
 
 Music — "JieWer's American Hymn.'''' 
 
 Raise the proud pillar of granite on high, 
 
 Graced with all honors that love can impart; 
 Lift its fair sculptures against the blue sky, 
 Blazoned and crowned with the trophies of art, — 
 Crowned with the triumphs of genius and art! 
 Long may its white column soar to the sky, 
 Like a lone lily that perfumes the mart, 
 Lifting its coronal beauty on high. 
 
 Sons of Rhode Island, your record shall stand 
 
 Graven on tablets of granite and bronze : 
 Soldiers and sailors beloved of our land. 
 Darlings and heroes, our brothers and sons, — 
 Gray-bearded heroes and beautiful sons ! 
 
 Soldiers and sailors, the flower of our land. 
 Deep, as on tablets of granite and bronze. 
 Graved on our hearts shall your bright record stand. 
 
 Swell the loud psalm, let the war trumpets sound ; 
 
 Fling the old flag to the wild Autumn blast ; 
 High in Valhallah our comrades are crowned. 
 
 There may we meet when life's conflicts are past, — 
 Meet in the great Hall of Heroes at last ! 
 
 High in Valhallah our comrades are crowned, 
 Swell with Hosannas the wild Autumn blast ! 
 Let the full chorus of voices resound I 
 
 At the close of the Hymn, benediction was pronounced by 
 the Rev. Dr. Caswell, President of Brown University ; after 
 which, the Marine Artillery gave the Monument a salute. 
 
N^MES 
 
 OF 
 
 OFFICERS. SOLDIERS AND SEAMEN 
 
 BELONGING TO THE 
 
 §M$ $i Wlmh is.' 
 
 WHETHER SERVING IN RHODE ISLAND REGIMENTS, IN THE REGIMENTS OF 
 OTHER STATES, OR IN THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY DURING TILE 
 
 LATE REBELLION. 
 
 ENGRAVED ON BRONZE TABLETS ON THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUJrENT IN 
 
 PROVIDENCE. 
 
General and Staff Officers. 
 
 Maj.-Gcu. Isaac I. Stevens, Brigadier-Gen. Isaac P. Hodman, Lieutcnanl 
 Kobert H.^ Ives, Jun'r. 
 
 First Regiment iiliode Island Infantr}'. 
 
 2d Lieut. H. A. Proscott. Serg't. Jas. H. Pcfckham, 
 
 Corp. Sam. Foster, 2d. , 
 
 Arnold, John Eice 
 Ackley, Wm. II. 
 Bolton, Thos. 
 Burdick, A. H. 
 Clarke, John A. 
 Comstock, Jessie 
 Dexter, Fred A. 
 Downs, Paul, 
 Dougherty, Jas. 
 Dani'orth, Sam. C. 
 Davis, Henry C. 
 Deblois, S. D. 
 Flagg Geo. W. 
 
 Falvev, John 
 Hawkins, W. D. 
 Harringtoll, Thos. Jr. 
 Harrop, John 
 Knowles, Frank H. 
 : uther, H. H. 
 Melville, Hugh 
 Penno, A. B. 
 Peckham, J. P. 
 Quirk, Mathcw 
 Remington, H. H. 
 Schocher, Herman 
 Tillinghast, H. L. 
 White, A. J. 
 
 2d Itliode Island Infantr}^ 
 
 Col. John S. Slocum, 
 Maj. Sullivan Ballon, 
 Capt. Jos. E. Mclntyre, 
 Capt. J^evi Tower, 
 Capt. S. James Smith, 
 Capt. Edwin K. Sherman, 
 
 Chas. E. Baglcy, 
 E. J. Blake," 
 H. T. Blaaehard, 
 Henry J. Cole, 
 J>. Chamberlain, 
 Jas. H. Ooyle, 
 Henrv A. Greene, 
 Caleb B. Kent, 
 Jas. A. King, 
 
 Wm. P. Bentley, 
 Thos H. Barker, 
 John Burk, 
 T. 0. H. Caqicnter. 
 
 Capt. John P. Shaw, 
 Capt. Chas. "W. Gleason, 
 Capt. Thorndike J. Smith, 
 1st Lieut. Thos. H. Carr, 
 1st Lieut Wm. H. Perry, 
 2nd Lieut. Clarke E. Bates. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 S. E. Moon, 
 Jas. A. Nichols, 
 S. A. Newman, 
 Jas. E. Stanley, 
 Jas. Seamans, 
 Henry L. Tat't, 
 James Taylor, 
 Paul Visser, 
 Wm. C. Webb. 
 Sam. Wight. 
 
 Corjjorals. 
 
 John W. Hunt, 
 Thos. I. Kelley, 
 S. T. Matteson, 
 Jas. Maneell, 
 
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 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 P. Carrol, 
 A. F. Davis, 
 John Ford, 
 Thos. H. 15. Fales, 
 W. B. Gray, 
 
 E. M. Grant, 
 
 F. C. Greene, 
 J. G. Grinael}, 
 J as. T. Glancy, 
 T. A. Goldsmith, 
 Stephen Holland, 
 Chas. A. Ilaile, 
 
 Armstrong, James 
 Allen, Geo. M. 
 Alger, Mathew 
 Arnold, Leander A. 
 Arnold, VVm. A. 
 Aldrich, Wilson 
 At\vood, Geo. B. 
 Brennan, John J. 
 Blair, John 
 Bartlett, Reuben 
 Burns, Wm. B. 
 Braytou, G. J. 
 Barton, Jos. 
 Bailey, John 
 Butler, Jas. D. 
 Cole,t Alfred C. 
 Cooper, Thomas 
 Cob, Isaac K. 
 Card, Peleg W. 
 Calligan, Jas. 
 Davis, Henry M. 
 Dugan, James 
 Dean, John E. 
 Donnovan, John 
 Dagnau, Thos. 
 Dewhurst, J. W. 
 Ehlert, Ludwig 
 Earle, John 
 Fay, Michael 
 Farrell, John 
 Farrell, John 
 Franklin, Aug. B. 
 Fahey, John 
 Greene, WilUam 
 Greene, Daniel 
 Greene, Geo. W. 
 Greene, Richard 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Alex. Mills, 
 jSToah A. Peck, 
 Sam. T. Perry, 
 Joel E. Rice, 
 Geo. H. Reed, 
 F. C. Ronan, 
 Fred. W. Swain, 
 Esek C. Smith, 
 Benj. W. Sherman, 
 Stephen Shaw, 
 Job Tanner, 
 D. E. Valett, 
 Lewis B. Wilson. 
 
 Frivates. 
 
 Graves, Sam. W. 
 Gibson, Daniel 
 Hunter, A. B. 
 Hunt, Joseph 
 Hall, John C. 
 Himes, Albert 
 Hennessey, Thomas. 
 Heavey, Patrick 
 Hunt, Job H. 
 Island, Patrick 
 Jordan, Jas. B. 
 Jacques, Henry L. 
 Johnson, Jas. G. 
 Jordan, WiLiam 
 Law ton, H. C. 
 Lawton, A. W. 
 Lawton, J. F. 
 Littleiicld, Wm. D. 
 Lewis, Jas. E. 
 Luther, Jerry Jr. 
 Landy, John 
 Lewis, Thos. 
 Matteson, H. G. 
 Maisdeu, George 
 Miner, Chris. A. 
 Medbury, Wm. H. 
 McCabe, J. 
 Murphy, P. J. 
 McLane, A. 
 Marland, H. 
 Maxfield, Geo. H. 
 Martin, James 
 Mowrv, Daniel 
 Morse, Ed. T. 
 McCann, Wm. J. 
 Mullen, P. J. 
 Malcolm, Hugh 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. 
 
 49 
 
 McKay, Thomas. 2(1. 
 McElro3% Jolin 
 Mowry, Charles F. 
 McCabe, John 
 Nichols, Wm. H. 
 Nicholson, J. C. 
 Newmau, D. A. 
 Powers, Chas. 
 Phillips, Joseph A. 
 Eeynolds, Wm. E. 
 Rodman, Isaac C. 
 Eecords, Wm. H. 
 Railtou, Wm. 
 Rice, John 
 Raudall, Wm. IL 
 Randal, I. C. 
 Russell, Samuel 
 Spencer, John 
 Shaw, L. R. 
 Smith Geo. H. 
 Stetson, Albert 
 Slocum John H. 
 Simmons, Ed. A. 
 Sweet, Sam. P. Jr. 
 
 Stone, A. H. 
 Sheldon, Walter M. 
 Smith, Anson J. 
 Shane, Robert 
 Strange, H. A. 
 Smith, James 
 Slocum, Henry 
 Sullivan, Timothy 
 Spencer, R. A. 
 Taylor, John II. 
 Tibbits, H. C. 
 Toye, Robert 
 Thurber, D. N 
 Tupper, Charles R. 
 Tucker, Chas. W. 
 Tarbox, Benj. 
 Tourgee, Alonzo 
 Vose, C. F. 
 Vatelacaici, Jos. 
 Warren, W. F. 
 Wilson, John A. 
 Wilcox, Geo. W. 
 Winsor, Pitts S. 
 Wilcox, Caleb 
 Whipple, Ethan Jr. 
 
 3rd E. I. Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Col. Natl W. Brown, 1st Lieut. E. W. Keene, 
 
 1st. Lieut. Fred. Metcalf, 1st Lieut. H. Holbrook, 
 
 1st Lieut. George Carpenter, 2ud Lieut. E. S. Bartholomew, 
 
 2nd Lieut. Walter B. Manton. 
 
 J. J. Carpenter, Jr. 
 
 J. N. Bograan, 
 Wm. Cody, 
 Thos. Miner, 
 
 Arnold, Dan. L. 
 Angell, H. S. 
 Abby, Charles 
 Brown, George 
 Brown, Wm. L. 
 Burdick, F. E. 
 Brayton, Benj. F. 
 Barbour, Jas. D. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 George J. Hill, 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 F. S. Peck, 
 Chas. D. Stalker, 
 Chas. W. Weeden, 
 I. H. Piuckney. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Hughes, Joseph 
 Howe, M. S. 
 Ide, A. D. 
 Jagneth, George W. 
 Jett'erson, George 
 Joslin, Edward 
 Kelly, James 
 Kallaher, P. 
 
 Martin Ileeaey. 
 
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 Privates. 
 
 Burnes, M. 
 Burroughs, William 
 Burk, Patrick 
 Brophy, William 
 Briggs, Daniel B, 
 Bullock, John S. 
 Case Kat. N. 
 Crosby, Daniel 
 Crosby, E. H. 
 Chace, Benjamin 
 Crowley, James 
 Chaffee, W. 
 Conoly, P. 
 Campbell, Thomas: 
 Conboy, Henry 
 Carroll, Henry 
 Carroll, F. 
 Diggle, Daniel 
 Dunn, John 
 Doherty, Thomas- 
 Davis William 
 Dexter, George E. 
 Dunbar, E. 
 Egan, E. 
 Elwell, Xoel 
 Eddy, Warren 
 Fallow, John 
 Farrell, L, 
 Farrer, Wm. 
 Fiske, Emei-y 
 Fish, Joseph H. 
 Greenhalch, Wm. J. 
 Gunter, Daniel 
 Gibbous, M. I. 
 Gorton, John A. 
 Gannon, P. 
 Gilligan, P. H. 
 Golden, Daniel 
 Grimes, John I. 
 Goodwin, George F. 
 Harrington, D. T. 
 Horton, E. E. M. 
 Hyde, John 
 Havens, Jas. D. 
 Harris, James 
 Hickes, Geo. W. 
 Hackett, Edward 
 
 Ketchum, A. S. 
 Luther, Joseph T. 
 Lambe, John 
 Leonard, A. L. 
 Moon, H. N. 
 McQuillin, F. 
 M alone, D. 
 Morgan, Charles 
 McCool, John 
 McKenzie, Alex. E. 
 Mowry, M. B. 
 McGahan, James 
 Monroe, Chas. H. 
 Megan, M. 
 Murray, B. 
 McKenna, John 
 Mace, George W. 
 Nailan, Peter 
 O'Sullivan, James 
 CDonnell, James 
 Prew, M. 
 Potter, LA. 
 Eice, George 
 Eounds, Chas. H. 
 Eiley, Thomas 
 Eyan, Thomas 
 Eyan, James 
 Smith, Geo. W. 
 Smith, L. E. 
 Saunders, A. B. 
 Stewart, John E. 
 Stayles, Benj. L. 
 Sweet, Sam. S. 
 Smith, David 
 Stewart, S. H. 
 Tillinghast, Wm. C, 
 Tanner, Thos. B. 
 Turnbull, Thos. W. 
 Thornton, M. 6. 
 Taft, F. H. 
 Valleley, E. J. 
 Warner, John B, 
 Wright, E. P. 
 Worden, W. H. 
 Warfield, H. H. 
 Wells, B. S. 
 Welsh, Harry 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. 
 
 51 
 
 4th n. I. Intiintiy. 
 
 Lieut. Col. Jos. B. Curtis, 
 Quartermaster Brayton Knight, 
 Capt. Chas. H. Tillinghast, 
 Ass't. Surg. G. J. Siiialley. 
 
 2(1 Lieut. John Iv. Knowlcs, 
 2d ?<ieut. George W. Field, 
 2d Lieut. James T. Farlev- 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 George K. Buffum, 
 George H. Church, Jr. 
 Charles E. Guild, 
 Gustavus B. Gardner, 
 
 Benjamin F. Burdick, 
 Thomas Bloomer, 
 Byron W. Dyer, 
 William S. Denham, 
 James Grinrod, 
 Samuel Harvey, 
 R. Hayden, 
 
 Austin, Jacob 
 Anthony, Wra. J. 
 Abbott, A. J. W. 
 Bumpers, S. 
 Bunn, Daniel, 
 Burns, Timothy 
 Bane, Wm. H. 
 Burdick, S. M. 
 Bliss Samuel D. 
 Boss, Daniel A. 
 Baker, Charles C. 
 Brownell, W. D. 
 Briggs, Charles H. 
 Ballon, George E. 
 Collum, George 
 Card, Jonathan, 
 Cameron, 1). H. 
 Chapman, H. 
 Clark, John T. 
 Crandall, D. 
 Costigan, C 
 Carr, Wm. IL 
 Chase, John W. 
 Curtie, Samuel 
 Chain, iSTathaniel, 
 Durgan, P. 
 Dailey, Daniel 
 Davis, James 
 
 Charles A. Gorton, 
 C. r. Myrick, 
 J. N. Parker, 
 Fred. J. Peabody, 
 Alexander Sanford. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 H. V. Hopkins, 
 John Hayes, 
 T. A. Langworlhy, 
 H. R. Thayer, 
 Thomas B. Tanner, 
 George S. Thomas, 
 W. P. Wilcox. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Donnegan H. 
 Davie, Chas. E. 
 Edgers, E. 
 Fitzgerald J. 
 Frisby, Silas 
 Fish, Henry 
 Gardiner, Wm. H. 
 Gallagher, P. 
 Gavitt, E. D. 
 Gladding, H, F. 
 Hopkins, Allen 
 Ilardman, R. 
 Ilarday, John 
 Healy, Thaddcus, 
 Henry, John 
 Harrington, J. 
 Hopkins, Wm. S. 
 Hopkins, A. B. 
 Horton, J. B. 
 Johnson, Philip 
 Johnson, Elijah 
 Jefferson, James W. 
 Jeneus, Nelson 
 Johnson, J. F. 
 Kenworthy, R. 
 Kelley, George W. 
 Kelley, George A, 
 Kettle, Charles 
 
52 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 Frivates. 
 
 Landers, James H. 
 Lyons, Thomas 
 Lake, Thomas C. 
 Lynch, Edward . 
 Livsey, Theodore 
 McNeal, P. 
 McDonald Edward 
 Myrick, Samuel 
 Moon, Josiah 
 Martin, George 
 McGowan, William 
 McNamee, H. M. 
 Miller, Wm. A. 
 Murphy, John 
 McCabe M. 
 McKee, Andrew 
 Mattison, J. A. 
 Manchester, Thomas 
 McCandles, K. 
 Murphy, C. 
 O'Marra, Thomas 
 Oliver, Joseph 
 Pike, Ephraim 
 Eathbun, L. W. 
 Roe, Jacob 
 Roberts, Henry 
 Ready, John 
 
 Randall, James 
 Reynolds, A. F. 
 Remington, A. J. 
 IShakshalf, George 
 Sheridan, P. 
 Stacey, M. E. 
 Steere, Willard 
 Staples, A. H. 
 Saunders, H. F. 
 Street, Edwin 
 Staftbrd, Wm. E. 
 Simmons, Lloyd 
 Sherman, Edward E. 
 Tew, William 
 Thornton, Augustus 1. 
 Tripp, Alden 
 Tourtelott, Reuben 
 Tyler, Archibald A. 
 Tyler. Edwin 
 Tew, Richard T. 
 Tourjee, J.F. 
 Wood, George M. 
 Williams, R. 
 Walker, James 
 Wiuterbottom, J. 
 Weaver, Benoni 
 Weaver, Alton J. 
 
 5tli R. I. Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Quartermaster M. H. Gladding, 
 Quartermaster Wm. W. Pi-outy, 
 Quartermaster 0. E. Lawton, 
 Capt. James Gregg, 
 Capt. Joseph Mclntyre, 
 
 1st Lieut. Wm. W. Hall, 
 1st Lieut. H. R. Pierce, 
 1st Lieut. Geo. F. Turner, 
 2d Lieut. Charles E. Beers. 
 
 Samuel R. Eddy, 
 Thomas Hanley^ 
 
 E. O. Colvin, 
 Charles H. Eddy, 
 John George, 
 J. M. Gallagher, 
 
 Allen, John M. 
 Bane, Frederick 
 Brady, James 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 M. Kennedy, 
 L. Y. Ludwig, 
 Charles Perrigo. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 S. H. Grimwood, 
 W. W. Paull, 
 M. Riley, 
 Charles A . Slocum. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Boss, Edward F. 
 Brown, John 
 Ballon, Dennis G. 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 
 
 53 
 
 Brown, John 
 Bugbeo, L. W. 
 Barnes Samuel A. 
 Bourne, I. U. 
 Collins, Thomas 
 Copeland, Charles 
 Campbell, D. 
 Chace, Charles F. 
 Clark, Charles C. 
 Callahan, P. 
 Chase, F. R. 
 Cooney, Thomas 
 Delauey, Charles 
 Doyle. James 
 Doolittle, George L. 
 Dean, George B. 
 Devin, Charles 
 Eaton Amos 
 Eddy, James M. 
 Farrell, P. 
 Fee, Arthur 
 Flood, John 
 Frazier, R. 
 Fielding, P. 
 Goudy, John 
 Garvey, William 
 Green, John 
 Gardner, Thadeus 
 Gould, E. A. 
 Greenup, I. W. 
 Haiiipstead, J. 
 Hawkins, D. F. 
 Hornby, John 
 Hopkins, George W. 
 Haskell, A. Jr. 
 Henry, Lewis, 
 Hill, Smith 
 Hanes, Pasco, Jr. 
 Halt, M. 
 Ivars, Daniel 
 Johnson, A. J. 
 Johnson, Charles 
 Keleghan, C. 
 Lee, Cornelius 
 
 Frivates. 
 
 Livuigston, Jolin 
 Lillibiidge,AVm. H. 
 Lewis, Edward, 
 Lawton, Wm. J. 
 Liscomb, B. D. 
 McLaughlin James 
 Montgomery, George 
 Murphy, J. 
 Miller, John 
 Miller, John 
 McElroy P. 
 McDonald, D. 
 N^orris T. 
 O'Leary, P. 
 Peck, James E. 
 Peck Edwin B. 
 Rourke, P. 
 Ryan, Thomas 
 Ryan, John 
 Redding, George 
 Ryan, William 
 Ryan, Patrick 
 Sanders, Charles 
 Seymour H. 
 Sisson, Charles S. 
 Sullivan, Jerry 
 Smith, Samuel 
 Simmons, James 
 Stewart, Charles 
 Shippy, Thomas 
 Sherman, Amos B. 
 Smith, George 
 Schmidt, Louis 
 Thomas, John 
 Tracy, Christopher 
 Vallett, Wm. H. 
 Wickes, Stephen 
 Wicks, Franklin 
 Wallace, William 
 Wilson, Jerry 
 Wilson, B. 
 Wright, Thomas 
 White, Emery 
 Williams, John, 1st. 
 Weed, M. 
 
54 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 Lieut. Col. W. B. Sayles, 
 Lieut. Col. Job Arnold, . 
 Major Jacob Babbitt, 
 Bt." Major P. E. Peckham, 
 Capt. James K. Potter, 
 
 George "W. Congdon, 
 Darius J. Cole, 
 M. Flaherty, 
 Wm. Harrington, 
 John K. Hull, 
 
 P. Bridgehouse, 
 K. B. Briggs, 
 Samuel G. Brown, 
 Samuel O. I'ollett, 
 A. H. Howarth, 
 John E. Hopkins, 
 A. A. Lillibridge, 
 John McDevitt, 
 Joseph A. Marcoux, 
 Isaac Nye, 
 
 Austin, Benj. K. 
 Adams, S. G. 
 Alexander H. 
 Austin, W. G. 
 Albro, Edmund B. 
 Arnold, Benjamin F. 
 Arnold, Reuben 
 Ashworth William 
 I3entley, Wm. 
 Battey, Hiram S. 
 Burdick, Joseph W. 
 Bitgood, Joseph H. 
 Budlong, Benjamin 
 Boyles, Charles 
 Brown, A. G. 
 Brown, J. F. 
 Burdick, W. 0. 
 Bacon James H. 
 Barber, Jesse N. 
 Barber, Israel A. 
 Brayman, Henry 
 Browning, O. N. 
 Ballou, George E. 
 
 7tli K. I. Infantry. 
 
 1st Lieut. A. L. Smith, 
 .Ist Lieut. A. A. Bowles, 
 2d Lieut. C. H. Kellen, 
 Lieut. Samuel Mcllroy. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Charles A. Knowles, 
 H. L. Morse, 
 Joseph S. Sweet, 
 James B. Spencer. 
 D. B. Westcott, 
 William T. Wood. 
 
 Co7'porals. 
 
 Manuel, Open 
 O. Phillips, 
 F. W. Potter, 
 Charles Rhowarts, 
 Samuel E. Rice, 
 D. B Sherman, 
 S. F. Simpson, 
 George H. Smith, 
 L. Whitcomb, 
 O. A. Whitman, 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Burke, John 
 Butman, George 
 Clark, John B. 
 Collins, G. F. 
 Crane, Thomas 
 Caswell, Alfred 
 Cox, William 
 Coman, Wm. A. 
 Colvin, N. D. 
 Cahoone, Sylvester 
 Chater, Joseph 
 Cameron, Uz 
 Champlin, C. E. 
 Clark, J. R. 
 Cornell, Martin 
 Cornell, Ira B. 
 Collins. Wm. 
 Corbin, A. N. 
 Cole, Heur}^ S. 
 Corey Charles K. 
 Clark, Stejjhen A. 
 Dorrance, John 
 Durfee, Gilbert 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. 
 
 55 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Dempster, John 
 Essex. Kichard 
 Eddy, John S. 
 Eerrey, James 
 Erankliii, C. L. 
 Eiudley, Wm. 
 Franklin, J. 
 Farrow, Enos 
 Field, George A. 
 Gardiner, George W. 
 Gorton, Joel B. 
 Greene, Chas. B. 
 Greene, Wm. II. 
 Grant, Ira W. 
 Gallagher, Owen 
 Gilfoil, P. 
 Gardner, Chas. W. 
 Greene, Robert B. 
 Gorton, Eichard, Jr. 
 Gardiner, Chas. W. 
 Gladding, James II. 
 Gardner, F. H. 
 Hughes, James 
 Hadfield, R. 
 Harrah, Oliver O. 
 Holbrook, Joseph H. 
 Hunt, Benj. S. 
 Healey, H. D. 
 Hodsou, James 
 Hall, Wm. A. 
 Hathaway, A. P. 
 Holloway, Thomas T 
 Hopkins, John 
 Hopkins, Asel A. 
 Hopkins, Wm. D. 
 Hopkins, D. A. 
 Johnson, W. II. 
 Kenyon, Thomas R. 
 Kenyon, James G. 
 Kettle, Chas. A. 
 Kenyon, Joseph J. 
 Knight, Alfred S. 
 Keliey, Patrick 
 Kenyon, A. D. 
 Knight, Thomas 
 Kenyon, John C. 
 Kenyon, Thomas G. 
 Kilroy, John 
 Lewis, John D. 
 Lynch, John 
 Leary, Jerry 
 Ledden, Daniel 
 McKeuna, Owen 
 
 Malone, John 
 Maloy, Thomas 
 McCaslin, Thomas 
 Mathcwson, N. W. 
 May, Elisha G. 
 Mancliester, Alex. H. 
 Maxon, Joel C. 
 Manchester, Isaac B. 
 Niles, Nelson 
 O'Neil, James 
 Olney, Zalmon A. 
 Pierce, Christopher R. 
 Pierce, Allen 
 Pelan, Robert T. 
 Philips, E. B. 
 Perkins, P. B. 
 Pate, Wm. 
 Pierce, IL N. 
 Pollock, Wm. J. 
 Place, Arnold J. 
 Peckham, Benjamin 
 Potter, Rosweil II. 
 Rowen, Thomas 
 Eatclilie, R. 
 Robbins, iST. N. 
 Rose, George P. 
 Rose, Robert N. 
 Rathburn, K. 
 Rice, John E. 
 Read, Frank E. 
 Reynolds, E. S. 
 Saunders, I. N. 
 Spencer. Wm. II. 
 Steere. John F. 
 Sweetland, Job R. 
 Steere, Benoni 
 Sisson, Benjamin F. 
 Spencer, John 
 Strait, P. P. 
 Sisson, Randall 
 Smith, R. D. 
 Smith, Daniel 
 Snow, Samuel, Jr. 
 Smith, Thomas E. 
 Simmons, George 
 Turner, Chas. 
 Thomas, George A. 
 Taylor, Edwin 
 Trainor, M. 
 Tourjee, Wm. 
 Tayior, S. J. 
 Ta5lor, James J. 
 Underwood, P. G. 
 
56 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 Worden, Charles H. 
 Whipple, Oluey 
 Willis, Abel, Jr. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Winsor, A, A. 
 Wood, Oliver 
 Whitman, K. A. 
 Wright, H.C, 
 
 9 th E. I. Inliintry. 
 
 Corp. Hollis Tabor, Jr. 
 Privates. 
 Arnold, S. B. Simouds, Joseph E". 
 
 lOtli R. I. lufantrj. 
 
 Privates. 
 AtAvood, Wm. F. Meggett, M. McA. 
 
 lOth R. I. Light Battery. 
 
 Corp. James Flait. 
 
 11th R. I. Infantry 
 Hosp. Steward, I. S. Pervear, Jr. Corp. Isaac H. Pickney. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Atwood, William 
 Bliss, F. M. 
 Clarke, B. W. 
 Carpenter, J. M. 
 Chrystol, Charles P. 
 
 Gould, E. F. 
 Horton, E. 
 Northup, G. 
 Phinuey, John D. 
 Wyman, Wm. J. 
 
 12th R. I. Infantry. 
 
 1st Lieut. E. A. Briggs, 
 
 1st Lieut. Jas. M. Pendleton, 2d, 
 
 1st Lieut. Stephen M. Hopkins 
 Private P. McDermott. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 George W. Arnold, 
 Samuel Babcock, 
 
 A. H. Bennett, 
 
 Austin, George H. 
 Bailey, Thomas W. 
 Brennan, Hugh 
 Ball, WilUam 
 
 J. G. Davis, 
 Isaac Gorham. 
 
 Corporals. 
 L. C. Huntington, 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Lorenzo Stow. 
 
 Bennett, A. J. 
 Burns, Michael 
 Bishop, M. y. B. 
 Bucklin, George 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 
 
 57 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Mitchell, David 
 Miller, Nathan L. 
 McArthur, John 
 Pearce. Henry W. 
 Paine, E. A. J. 
 Kichardson, George E. 
 Eichmond George W. 
 Spink, George T. 
 Smith, Benj. R. 
 Sprague, Civilian 
 Sheldon, John 
 Sahsbury, A. F. 
 Strait, OHver C. 
 Tinkham, Thomas 
 Tew, James 
 Tourjee, George R. 
 Wood, George W. 
 Whiting, Samuel S. 
 Whitman, Hiram 
 Wilbur, Edward J. 
 Wilder, Frank 
 Webb, Charles A. 
 Williams, G. O. 
 
 Hospital Guards. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Carr, Stephen A. Tanner, Charles H. 
 
 Higgins, John Taylor, John 
 
 14tli R, I. Heavy Artillery, (Colored.) 
 
 Buxton, A. A. 
 Caswell, John 
 Conley, Daniel W. 
 Chissold, Stephen 
 Craudall, D. A. 
 Cahoone, Charles H. 
 Connelly, Terry 
 Donsey, John 
 Duffy, John C. 
 Gifford, Russell 
 Grinnell, A. 
 Gorton, Jacob 
 Greene, Clark 
 Humphrey H. N. 
 Jenckes, J. E. 
 Kinnicutt, Geo R. Jr. 
 Keeler, R. N. 
 Lawson, John 
 Lewis, James G. 
 Meyers, Samuel A. 
 Mason, William 
 Mitchell, Jesse D. 
 
 Capt. 
 Capt. 
 
 Henry Simon, 
 A. R. Rawsou, 
 
 A. Atwood, 
 H, F. Davis, 
 H. F. Davis, 
 L. J. Fry, 
 M. Graham, 
 S. R. Jarvis, 
 Willis Jones, 
 
 C. Anderson, 
 J. E. Brown. 
 J. M. J3rown, 
 William Chace, 
 
 1st Lieut. John E. Wardlow, 
 2d Lieut. James P. Brown, 
 2d Lieut. Charles W. Monroe. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Samuel Mason, 
 Wm. II. Mann, 
 Simon Niles, 
 John Pell, 
 Joseph Smith, 
 Isaac Smedus. 
 Josiah Walker. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 J. W. Cartwright, 
 
 A. G. Freeman, 
 
 B. C. Gardner, 
 Wm. L. Humbert. 
 
68 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 L. E. Hicks, 
 A. G. Jackson, 
 I. R. Lowe, 
 
 Allen, R. B. 
 Anson, L. 
 Abbott, Wm. L. 
 Anthuny J. 
 Anthony, L. G. 
 Allen H. 
 Banks, H. 
 Babcock I. 
 Bayard, J. 
 Brister, A. W. 
 Bush, H. 
 Bush, William 
 Butler, John 
 Bell, John 
 Baker, L. 
 Brown, J. "W. 
 Brewster, A. 
 Benson, L. G. M. 
 Boai'dley, James 
 Barrett, A. 
 Betson, William 
 Barrett, H. 
 Brown, George W. 
 Coleman, J. L. 
 Cisco, Charles 
 Charles, John 
 Corson, J. 
 Cheese, 1. S. 
 Carr, S. 
 Clark, J. 
 Clayton, C L. 
 Cambridge, W. H. 
 Carter, W. H. 
 Claxton, R. 
 Cox, E.A 
 Clare, Austin 
 Cummings, F. 
 Ceesar, R. 
 Copeland, A. 
 Cole, P. 
 Carroll, D. 
 Clay, William "■ 
 Cleggett, W. r. 
 Congdon, James 
 Davis, A. 
 Degroot, D. 
 Dubois, II. 
 
 Henry Mason, 
 Charles H. Moore, 
 H. J. Thompson. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Demming, Wm. 
 Dailey, Gus. 
 DeMars, G. 
 Demon, J. 
 Dolphin, James 
 Dusenbur}', L. 
 Derrick, Wm. P. 
 Denny, W. 
 Detew, H. 
 Debois, T, B. 
 Dewitt, Wm. 
 Dorsey, J. H. 
 Everson, P. 
 Edwards, K, 
 Edwards, D. 
 Elkley, A. E. 
 Ellis, Charles H. 
 Eris, T. O. 
 Freeman, Charles 
 Fry, James, 
 Fisher, L. 
 Freeman, A. J. 
 Frazier, J H. 
 Furber, ]N". 
 Fletcher, Samuel 
 Fisher, F. 
 Fletcher, D. R. 
 Fletcher, R. L. 
 Fairfax, T. C. 
 Fletcher, W. 
 Gardner, W. C. 
 Gardner, H. J. 
 Greene, A. 
 Gaines, John 
 Grames, F. C. 
 Geer, H. 
 Gardner, J. C. 
 Giles, James, 
 Grant, William A. 
 Green, George 
 Gibson, E. H. 
 Gordon, John 
 Greene, John 
 Good, H. 
 Greer, R. 
 Griffin. Charles 
 Griffin, H. A. 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 
 
 59 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Gardner, II. F. 
 Huntington, H. 
 Hamblin, J. P. 
 Hector, Wm. H. 
 Hollis, R. 
 Hallam, C. H. 
 Hill, James 
 Holmes, jST. 
 Holmes, Thomas 
 Harris, Wm. IJ. 
 Hicks, J. J. 
 Hogau, F. 
 Hiukman, J. 
 Hagamore, George 
 Harris, C. W. 
 Hopper, B. H. 
 Harway, P. A. 
 Hawes, Alexander 
 Hensoa, Joseph 
 Hicks, P. 
 Hazel, A. 
 Hardy, C. H. 
 Haird, J. 
 Henry, J. 
 Hall, Nat. 
 Henry, James F. 
 Hill, H. C. 
 Honey cutt, G. 
 Hornbeck, T. 
 Howland, George 
 Irons, R. 
 Irving, William 
 Isaac, J. 
 
 Jackson, William H. 
 Johnson, George II. 
 Jackson, D. 
 Jackson, T. 
 Jackson, William 0. 
 Jackson, James M. 
 Jackson, L. 
 Jackson, L. 
 Johnson, E. 
 Jones, A. 
 Jones George W. 
 Jones M. 
 Jackson, E. 
 Jackson, '8. 
 Jackson, Samuel 
 Jackson, Ad. 
 Jones Wm. 
 Jetlerson, S. O. 
 Jones, Ed. James 
 
 Judson. Thomas 
 Johnson, Charles H. 
 Johnson, P. II. 
 Johnson, Joseph W. 
 Johnson, John 
 Jones, James F. 
 King Corn'l. 
 Kellman, James H. 
 King, A. 
 Keller, John 
 Kenney, John 
 Kenney, Wihiam 
 Laws, Leoni 
 Lippitt, George 
 Lunn, Amos A. 
 Leniseu, P. 
 Lambert, A 
 Lee, John 
 Lewis, Jesse 
 Lucas, James 
 Labiel, Wm. H. 
 Lee. John W. 
 Lonks, J. A. 
 Lee, Henry 
 Miltiei", Solomon 
 Martin, Thomas 
 Merrick, John 
 Moody, Joseph 
 Mason, Isaac 
 Moore, Charles C. 
 McClow, James 
 Mix, Collins 
 McCarty, II. 
 Mason, Samuel 
 Mann, Stephen 
 Mills, Wm. W. 
 Miller, Benjamin 
 Morton, W. 
 McGill, William 
 Morrison, William A. 
 Moore, George 
 Myers, A. 0. 
 Nosa, J. 
 Niles, E.F. 
 Norris, George 
 JSTite, Joseph T. 
 Newcomb, Wm. W. 
 Nelson, Charles C. 2d, 
 Outland, M. 
 ProtUt, C. M. 
 Potter, F. A. 
 Pierce, G. W. 
 
60 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 Paine, Y. 
 Powers, J. 
 Page, P. 
 Palmer, O. 
 Peters, J. W. 
 Peterson, W. 
 Peters, C. H. 
 Paine, A. 
 Poole P. 
 
 Beynolds, Edward 
 Eooms, J. 
 Rhodes, J. 
 Ricks, H. 
 Ricks. S. I, 
 Reed,' C. P. 
 Randall, 11. 
 Randall R. 
 Reynolds, A. 
 Robblns, William 
 Readuig, S. 
 Redder, J. W. 
 Rich, John 
 Randle, J. B. 
 Roberts, C. A. 
 Scott, N. 
 
 Stephens, Thomas 
 Smith, J. M. 
 Smith, B. P. 
 Sullivan, J, 
 Smothers, P. 
 
 Saunders, J. 
 
 Smith, James 
 
 Smith D. 
 
 Steward, E. A. 
 
 Staunton, W. J, 
 
 Sills, E. H. 
 
 Scott, J. W. 
 
 Smith E. 
 
 Stevenson, R. M. 
 
 Scudder, Wm. G. 
 
 Simms, J. W. 
 
 Sanford, James 
 
 Seaton, George 
 
 Smith, J. 
 
 Smith, A. E. 
 
 Seman, E. 
 
 Simons, J. 
 
 Simons, Wm. H. 
 
 Somerset, L,. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Smith, L. H. 
 Saunders, A. 
 Tembroke, S. 
 Telegrove, J. 
 Tuttle, S. 
 Townsend, D. 
 Tossett, C. J. 
 Thom, P. 
 Townsend, J. 
 Thomas, John 
 Tierce, S. A. 
 Thomas, James 
 Talbot, P. W. 
 Thomas, Judson 
 Terrell, R. 
 Valentine, J. S. 
 Weeden. Charles 
 Warmsley, James 
 Warmslev, D. 
 Williams" E. 
 Wallace, George 
 Williams, H. 
 WilUams, R. 
 Wilson, S. H. 
 Williams, M. 
 Wilson, A. D. 
 Woods, Samuel 
 
 Williams, A. 
 Weddinston, J. H. 
 
 Welden, Stephen 
 
 West, Wm. H. 
 
 Woolsey, A. 
 
 Watts, George E. 
 
 Williamson, T. 
 
 West Job 
 
 Wycoit; T. A. 
 
 Walker, James 
 
 Warren, John 
 
 White W. 
 
 White, A. T. 
 
 Washington, George 
 
 Washington, Wm. 
 
 Wheatley, Joshua 
 
 Winn, A. 
 
 Williams, Edward 
 
 Wells, R. 
 
 Watkins, S. L. 
 
 Whitfield, J. H. 
 
 Young, Samuel 
 Youter, James R. 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 
 
 61 
 
 1st E. I. Light Artilleiy. 
 
 Bt. Capt. Charles V. Scott, 
 let. Lieut. Peter Hunt, 
 
 2(1 Lieut. 
 
 2(1 Lieut. Benjamin Kelley, 
 2d Lieut. Joseph S. Milne", 
 Francis A. Smith. 
 
 Charles H. Adams, 
 George P. Carpenter, 
 Benjamin H. Draper, 
 John T. Greene, 
 Aug. S. Hanna, 
 Charles H. Kimball, 
 
 H. H. Ballon, 
 James A. Cole, 
 H. E. Chase, 
 William A. Dickcrson, 
 George A. Eldred, 
 William Hamilton, 
 Otis r. Hicks, 
 Wm. Jones, 
 K T. Morse, Jr. 
 
 Austin, George K. 
 Arnold, H. N. 
 Bosworth, Joseph T. 
 Bubb, Frederick M. 
 Bourn, William E, 
 Brown, F. A. 
 Burton, H. W. 
 Burton, Joseph C. 
 Burt, Everett B. 
 Brannan, John 
 Beard, William 
 Kailey, Wm. IL 
 Benway, Thomas 
 Bartlett, John E, 
 Baxter, H. II. 
 Braman, James H. 
 Bowen, George W. 
 Booth, James 
 Chatfee, George W. 
 Church, N. L. 
 Clark, Charles 
 Ciesar, Daniel 
 Carroll, Edward 
 Colhns, William 
 Colvin, John 
 Colwcll, A. N. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Jacob F. Kent, 
 F. S. Moies, 
 A. A. Phillips, 
 George A. Perry, 
 Charlee M. Read, 
 Albert Straight, 
 E. G. Sullivan. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 J B. Mathewson, 
 Benjamin F. Martindale, 
 !.. C. Olney, 
 Earnest Simpson, 
 William M. Tanner, 
 William B. Thompson, 
 A, H. Trescott, 
 A. A. Walker, 
 George H. Watson. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Conner, James 
 Conneng, John 
 Cotley. M. 
 Carrigan, P. 
 Carter, Thomas 
 Dennis, William 
 Donnohoe, H. 
 Doran, Hugh 
 Davis, William M. 
 Dailey, David 
 Davis, James C. 
 Douglas, J. W, 
 Eastei'brooks, S. 
 Flynn, M. 
 Fox, Samuel W. 
 French, Joseph S. 
 Fisk, George W. 
 Fiske, Chai-Ies D. 
 Fenncr, George D. 
 Gladding, O. D. 
 Gardner, Alfred 
 Greene, C. II. U. 
 Green, John 
 Glynn, John 
 Galloughly, J. 
 Galvin, Edward 
 
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 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 Greene, L. A. 
 Gavitt. James L. 
 Goft, A. B. 
 Garduer, Charles G. 
 Golf, Thomas J. 
 Hazletou, Edgar 
 Heudrick, A. E. 
 Hunt, C. F. 
 Holden, George W. 
 Hewett, Henry 
 Ham, George W. 
 Harvey M. 
 Karrop, Joseph 
 Higgins, George 
 Hazard, Job 
 Healey, Wm. B. 
 Hall, Heury 
 Horton, A. C. 
 Horton, H. R. 
 Horton, James H. 
 Johnson, J. H. 
 King, David B. 
 King, William H. 
 Ken3'on, W. W. 
 Lawrence, J. H. 
 Lanuegan, P. 
 Luther, Joseph 
 Lampnear, Thomas F. 
 La Fount, Louis 
 Levins, M. M. 
 Larkins,E.E. 
 Lewis, W. H. 
 Lannehan P. 
 Marcy, A. W. 
 Moran, John 
 Moftett, Thomas 
 Montgomery, F. E. 
 Mullen, F. 
 MeNeigh, H. 
 McGovern, John 
 Moore, Charles 
 Morris, M. M. 
 Mason, Wm. 
 McCaiferey, Edward 
 Medbury, L. A. 
 Matteson, E. A. 
 MoComb, John 
 McCabe, P. 
 Mars, T. F. 
 McManus, C 
 Manter,Wm. 6. 
 Nason, Henry 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Norris, B. J. 
 jSTesbitt, Wm. 
 Nye, J. E. 
 O'Brien, P. 
 O'Rourke, John 
 Peckham. Wm. S. 
 Pickett, Erastus 
 Pratt, James F. 
 Potter, Elisha 
 Pomeroy, E. 
 Phillips, John 
 Eeyuolds, John T. 
 Ryan Daniel 
 Rose, Richard 
 Rathbone, J. L. 
 Siocum, M. F. 
 Stone, Edwin 
 Salisbury, Wm. 
 Swain, K. C 
 Seamans, E. W. 
 Sanford,H D. 
 Swan, John J. E. 
 Slaver, John 
 Sayles, C A. 
 Sullivan, C. 
 Sutcliffe, R. 
 Stanley, Milton 
 Sulpaugh, J. H, 
 Stephens, G. W. 
 Shiny, H. 
 Trescott, J. F. Jr. 
 Terry, David, 
 Thursbj'^, S. 
 Thayer, B. D. 
 Testen, H. E. 
 Travers, A. F. 
 Traft; John 
 Tnrner, Andrew 
 Tracey, George E. 
 Tracey, Charles 
 Vose, W. L. 
 Yaslett, Charles 
 Worsley, Hiram B. 
 Wilcox, H. B. 
 Winsor, W. W. 
 Ward, Joseph, L. 
 Webb, Edward J. 
 Watson, C H. 
 Whitman, Benjamin 
 Wilbor, W. B. 
 Williams, J. L. 
 Young, E. S. 
 Zimala, John 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. 
 
 G3 
 
 1st R. I. Cavalry, 
 
 Capt. Wm. P. Ainsworth, 
 2d Lieut. JosgidIi A. Chcdel, Jr. 
 2d Lieut. James P. Taylor, 
 2d Lieut. Charles A. Saw}- cr, 
 
 John A, Austin, 
 John S. Brown, 
 R. Barrows, 
 
 Thomas Burton, 
 Geoi-ge W. Gorton, 
 E. P. Gardner, 
 J. C. Kiernan, 
 
 Allen, Henry A. 
 Angell, Jesse W. 
 Allen, CJharles IsT. 
 Bates, E. B. 
 Burke, James 
 Bowditch, Isaac 
 Brown, William 
 Bidmcad. William J. 
 Burke, James 
 Conlin, John 
 Carjjenter, P, 
 Collins, James H. 
 Durden Robert 
 Foster, Horatio 
 Freelove, H. B. 
 Foster, Jacob B. 
 Graves, Charles A. 
 Gardner, Joseph W. 
 Greene, Henry 
 Greene, A. C. 
 Gould, Charles E. 
 Hunt, Caleb W. 
 Hall, T. A. G. 
 Healy, Alouzo 
 Hill, Ambrose B. 
 Henry, Thomas 
 Haramell, John 
 Hughes, P. 
 Hook, A. Von 
 Hiscox, Benjamin 
 Haine, Charles H. 
 Ide, S. R. 
 Kenyon, John 
 Keuyon, Charles 
 
 Lieut. L. D. Grove, 
 
 2d Lieut. H. L. Nicolai, 
 
 2d Lieut. George T. Slocum, 
 
 Q. M. Serg't. George W. Harris. 
 
 Sergeaiits. 
 
 Charles B. Delanah, 
 J. Fitzgerald, 
 George P. Streeter. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 Allen R. Paine, 
 J. R. Peterson, 
 George T. Reynolds, 
 Joseph W. Vincent. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Kiernan, John 
 King, R. E. 
 Kettle, James 
 Laveran, P. 
 Leach, L. D. 
 Mulvey, John 
 Miner, Stephen 
 McGrath, P. 1st 
 MiUington, J. W. 
 Northup, E. 
 Pette, David 
 Peck, J. F. 
 Potter, Gerge D, 
 Rawclifte, J. W. 
 Rathbone, Jeremiah 
 Reynolds, Owen 
 Rounds, P. J. 
 Read, Asa K. 
 Smith, P. B. 
 Salisbury, S. 
 Sweet, M. W. 
 Shord, Joseph 
 Smyth, C3'rus 
 Sutton, E. B. 
 Sheridan, John 
 Spink, D. C. 
 Travers, Frank 
 Thompson, L. 
 Winsor, f?ohn 
 Wilcox, George S. 
 Wilcox, Samuel 
 West, Hiram 
 West, George W. 
 York, Isaac F. 
 
64 
 
 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 2d R. I. Cavalry. 
 
 Qr. Mast. Serg't. Clias. H. Keuuou, Serg't. F. C. Ewins. 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Allen, H. F. 
 Beese, William M. 
 Erowu, Charles 
 Davis, William 
 Ewiu, Thomas 
 Eaton, Charles 
 Gibson, George F. 
 Hillman, D. 
 
 Little, S. B. 
 Lemann, R. 
 Meagann, E. 
 Neagal, James 
 Saltonstall, R. 
 Sherman, C. 
 Smith, Charles 
 Smith, R. F. 
 Wright, M, 
 
 3rd R, I. Cavalry. 
 
 Capt. Henry C. Fitts, Lieut. James A. Wade, 
 
 1st. Lieut. Albert Clapp, 1st. Lieut. Wm, E. Peck, 
 
 1st Lieut. William A. Teft, 2d Lieut. C. D. Hammett, 
 
 Serg't. Mf\j. P. M. Sullivan. 
 
 William A. Fiske, 
 Mattias Gannon, 
 W. E. Goodenough, 
 J. H. Hawkins, 
 H. S. Keith, 
 James McCormack, 
 
 William Burnet, 
 Philip Cain, 
 I. A. Cleveland, 
 James L. Douglass, 
 S. W. Elhs, 
 Peter Gilroy, 
 Edward Logue, 
 S. Loeffler, 
 
 Angell, S. A. 
 Alexander, S. A. 
 Barton, Lewis 
 Baggs, N". D. 
 Brown, P. B. 
 Burrows, Simeon A. 
 Bowen, Frank 
 Brown, William A. 
 Bleavins, William A. 
 
 Sergeants. 
 
 Aug. Mowry, 
 John McCarthy, 
 John K. Parker, 
 William Swan, 
 H. A. Sunderland, 
 John Sullivan, 
 Ezra A. Tennant. 
 
 Corporals. 
 
 L. T. Moffit, 
 
 Charles Murray, 
 T. M. Magee, 
 Amos Perry, 
 E . J. Sweetland, 
 Charles H. Symonds, 
 Nathaniel Spinney, 
 William H. Wilcox, 
 William H. Walker. • 
 
 Privates. 
 
 Benford, Augustus 
 Benedict, -Joseph B. 
 Rrown, C. M. 
 Barnes, N. K. 
 Brenno, Alexander 
 Brown, Henry 
 Connelly, John 
 Carolin, Thomas 
 Commerford, P. 
 
soldiers' and sailors' monument. 
 
 65 
 
 Clarke, J. U. 
 Cleverly, E. 
 Cleverly, J. M. Jr. 
 Cooke, Joseph 
 Chaffee, Wm. H. 
 Carr, Isaac 
 Coyne, Patrick 
 Cammel, Frederick 
 Devlin, John 
 Dolaa, Patrick 
 Dodge, John T. 
 Drown, W. A. 
 Devine, B. 
 Dumply L. 
 Dismore, T. 
 Demers, R. 
 Early, M. 
 Felix, George 
 Forrester, Thomas 
 Fly, Peter 
 Fox, William 
 Fisher, Augustus 
 Grey, Thomas 
 Galligan, B. 
 Greenmau, W. B. 
 Gould, Daniel E. 
 Greene, Wm. B. 
 Horau, John 
 Holmes, T. H. 
 Hoar, I. n. 
 Hart, Patrick 
 Hewitt, George 
 Higgins, M. 
 Haney, E. 
 Hanson, Hans 
 Hill, Edwin 
 Horton, B. S. 
 Hall, Dudley D. 
 Ingraham, D. 
 Johnson, James K. 
 Johnson, W. H. 
 Kibby, E. 
 Kitridge M. 
 Llufrio, AV. B. 
 Larkin, James 
 Leavitt, Charles 
 Ijund, Morrill 
 Loclfel, Augustus 
 Lamb, George E. 
 Letheran, A. 
 McElroy, John 
 
 Privates . 
 
 Matteson, George H. 
 Matteson, D. E\ 
 McCouUers, Charles 
 McLaughlin, Thomas 
 Mallon,'B. 
 Mattison, P. 
 McMinncmee, M. 
 McMannus, James 
 Millard, B. F. 
 McGovern, John 
 McKeuna, Charles 
 Mooney, Thomas 
 O'Sullivan, P. 
 Olds, Wm. K. 
 Pollard, John 
 Peck, Geo. W. 
 Pike, Heni'y 
 Pierson, D. B. 
 Powers, George A. 
 Pettis, George A. 
 Parkes. William 
 Rice, S. A. 
 Eead, A. S. 
 Eoberts, W. H. 
 Ee3-nolds, P. 
 Eyan, Thomas 
 Eichmond. A. C. 
 Santor F. ' 
 Smith, Thomas 
 Scannell, M. 
 Steele, Wm. 
 Smith, Francis 
 Sheldon, C. B. 
 Smith, Franklin 
 Slater, A. H. 
 Schroeer, H. 
 Siostien, T. V. 
 Sherman, C. E. 
 Stone, John H. 
 Stanley, A. 
 Teacher A. 
 Tatro, Isaac 
 Taylor, H. D. 
 Thayer E. 
 Von Stein, Tino 
 Weigel, Christopher 
 Williams, William C. 
 Whipple, P. 
 Warburton, James 
 Waters, J. F. 
 Warhens, E. 
 Witherell, B. O. 
 
G6 DEDICATION OF THE 
 
 U. S. Regular Army. 
 
 Capt Jabez B. Blanclin^ .21st Veteran Eeserve Corps. 
 
 Lieut. J. Autoine Duvillard 12th U.S. Infantry. 
 
 Brevet Maj. Wm. B. Occleston 15th " '' 
 
 Lieut. John E. Moies 10th U. S. Cord Inf. 
 
 Lieut. Frederick C, Ogden 1st U. S. Cavalry. 
 
 O. M. Searle 5th " " 
 
 Samuel R. Bell 15th " " 
 
 Dennis "Wallace 5th U. S. Infantry. 
 
 George Watson 11th " " 
 
 F. M. Padelford 12th " " 
 
 John Charuley 14th " " 
 
 R. Swindles 14th " " 
 
 Thomas Diamond 14th " " 
 
 Christopher C. Brown , 15th " " 
 
 Ransom L. Smith 17th " " 
 
 A. W. Beverley U. S. Signal Corps. 
 
 J. E. Elliott 
 
 Gustavus H. Field " " 
 
 C. M. Latham " " 
 
 S. M. Johnson " " 
 
 William H. Seaver Veteran Res. Corps. 
 
 Regiments of other States. 
 
 Col. Sylvester G. Hill 35th Iowa. 
 
 Adjt. George F. Hodges 18th Mass. 
 
 Capt. Wm. T. Hodges 4th Mass. Cav. 
 
 Capt. F. B. Ferris 12th 111. 
 
 Capt. I. D. Kenyon 21st Conn. 
 
 Capt. Howard Greene <, 24th Wis. 
 
 Lieut. S. H. Southwick 24th Ind. 
 
 William Clegg 24th Ind. 
 
 H. H. Wiidman 16th 111. Cav. 
 
 S. D. Wales Sergt. 5th N. Y. Cav. 
 
 J. M. Parker Sergt. 1st Regt. 
 
 E. J. Warren Sergt. 176th N. Y. 
 
 W. II. Kiles 54th Mass. 
 
 A. F. Waite , 15th Mass. 
 
 Corp. F. S. Grey 58th Mass. 
 
 Peter McDermott 58th Mass. 
 
 J. B. Randall 2d Mass. Cav. 
 
 George P. Read 2d Mass. 
 
 Richard D. Clarke 2d Mass H. A. 
 
 J. B. Jenckes 12th Mass 
 
 Benjamin J. Eddy 22d Mass. 
 
 D. k. Chaffee 2d Mass. Cav. 
 
 A. S. Angell — Mass Regt. 
 
 William Gunn 5th Conn. 
 
 William Hough , 5th " 
 
 George Lane 6th ', 
 
 William P. Clarke 8th " 
 
 A. H. Greene 10th " 
 
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT. 
 
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 T. W. Grace 2nth Conn. 
 
 Thomas S. Whiteliouse ir)th N. Y. 
 
 J. Crocker Whiteliouse 1 Tjth " 
 
 Charles K. Burnett 21st " 
 
 Geoi'ge H. Paine ()4th " 
 
 George Wheeler (list " 
 
 J. A. Cleveland I44th " 
 
 B. J. Kilton r)8th 111. 
 
 A. E. Barber 59th 111. 
 
 M. M. Sayles 8Gth 111. 
 
 E. W. Butts 5th 111. Cav. 
 
 Thomas A. Moore 19th 111. Regt. 
 
 John D. Weld — 111. Re'gt. 
 
 George H. Arnold 115tli ill. 
 
 Samuel A. Eldredgc 3d Minn. 
 
 C. H. Fessenden . .". 49th Miss. 
 
 E. G. Eibley 3d Cal. 
 
 E . Kibbe 3d Cal. 
 
 Navj. 
 
 Capt. Amasa Paine, John E. Bannon, 
 
 Commander II. S. ifewcomb, William A. Burlingame, 
 
 Lieut. Com. Thomas P. Ives, William A. Boss, 
 
 Lieut. Robert Rhodes, James W. Bullock, 
 
 Ass't Paymaster James H. Earle, Edgar Drowne, 
 Act'g. 3d Asst. Eng'r. Berna Cook, ISTat. C. Greene, 
 
 Ensign Frank G. Adams, E. W. Goff, 
 
 Act'g. Ensign F. E. Davis, AVilliam II. Horton, 
 
 Act'g. Mast'er Robert L. Kell}% P. H. Hamill, 
 
 Master's Mate George W. Cole, Peter Mallahan, 
 
 Gunner, John Myrick, L. E. Rose, 
 
 Joel B. Blaisdell, R. Sherman, 
 
 E. H. Peck. 
 
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