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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
Mass.Mass.Aug. 25, 1864.Actg. Master's Mate.Rhode Island; Miantono.West India.--- Bradbury, George Mass.Mass.Jan. 12, 1864.Actg. Master's Mate.Rhode Island.North Atlantic.Nov. 6, 1865.Hon. dischargedny,--Mass.Aug. 2, 1862.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.Rhode Island.Special Service.July 13, 1863.Appointment rass.Mass.Aug. 13, 1864.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.Rhode Island.North Atlantic.Nov. 1,‘65.Hon. discharged.Aic. East Gulf.--- May 1, 1862.Actg. Master.Rhode Island; Shamrock.North Atlantic. May 30, 1865.Actass.Mass.Aug. 17, 1864.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.Rhode Island.North Atlantic.Aug. 19, 1866.Hon. dischargeAug. 23, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Midnight; Rhode Island; Ohio.W. Gulf; North Atlantic; Recg. Ship.ass.Mass.Sept. 22, 1864.Actg. Master's Mate.Rhode Island; Palos.North Atlantic.Dec. 20, 1864.ResigneEnsign. Whitmore, John, Died on U. S. S. Rhode Island.Mass.Mass.Mass.Apr. 5, 1862.Actg. Master.m,Mass.Mass.Mass.Mar. 28, 1862.Actg. Master.Rhode Island; Circassian. Saranac.Supply Steamer. Paci[14 more...]
shing with the enemy's gunboats and repulsing many attempts to land till Apr. 7, 1862. On expedition to Fort Pillow, Apr., 1862. Major, 8th U. S. Infantry, Apr. 25, 1862. In the Mississippi campaign, Apr. to Aug., 1862; being engaged in the advance upon, and siege of Corinth, Apr. 22 to May 30; including action, May 28, 1862, and pursuit of rebel army under Beauregard, to Boonville, Miss., June 1-11, 1862. Died near Corinth, Miss., Aug. 9, 1862. Potter, Carroll Hagadorn. Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Massachusetts. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1855, to Jan. 15, 1857. Captain, Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Oct. 21, 1861; accepted, Oct. 23, 1861. Served on the staff of General Jameson in the Peninsular campaign. Chief of staff to Generals Robinson, Stoneman, Heintzelman and others. Major, Assistant Adj. General, Feb. 25, 1865; accepted, Mar. 28, 1865. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Colonel, 6th U. S. Volunteer Infantry,
, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, Apr. 21, 1864. Mustered out, June 24, 1865. Almy, Allen. Born in Rhode Island. Private, Corporal and Sergeant, 23d Mass. Infantry, Sept. 18, 1861, to Mar. 15, 1864. Second Lieutenant, 58th Mass. Volunteers, Nov. 16, 1861. Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers, July 30, 1864. Mustered out, Nov. 22, 1865. Died at Jamaica, R. I., Feb. 23, 1894. Hildreth, Joseph S. Born in Massachusetts. Major, Surgeon, U. S. Volunteers, Feb. 9. 1863. Brevet Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, Feb. 29, 1864. Mustered out, June 6, 1865. Wheaton, Charles. Born in Rhode Island. First Lieutenant, 2d Mass. Infantry, May 28, 1861, to July 26, 1862. Captain, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volun. Colonel, 16th Mass. Infantry, July 13, 1861. See Massachusetts Field Officers. Young, William field. Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Massachusetts. Captain, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, Feb. 27, 1863. Resigned, Dec.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
al committee, to cut and superintend the manufacture of hospital clothing and bedding; and a finance committee, for the collection of funds. Connecticut and Rhode Island in a very short time drew out from the New England society, as it was more convenient for them to send their supplies to the New York branch for shipment to thtures and influential people to take measures for the relief of these wretched classes. Her exertions resulted in the establishment of State insane asylums in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana and North Carolina. Only once during her long life did she turn aside from her chosen work. The war cnder the title Hospital Sketches. Another well-known author, Mrs. Helen Hunt (H. H.), a native of Amherst, Mass., performed similar service in a hospital in Rhode Island. Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy of Chelsea, Mass., was another of the heroic women who gave themselves to hospital work. Bereft by death of her husband and a son a
62, p. 2, cols. 3-5. — – Letter from, at Pensacola, with account of destruction of a privateer by the U. S. steamer Rhode Island. Boston Evening Journal, Sept. 30, 1861, p. 2, col. 3. Blockade-runner. Narrative of a. Capt. J. Wilkinson, notcial cor. Boston Evening Journal, May 22, 1862, p. 2, cols. 3-5. — – – – News to May 9, from U. S. despatch steamer Rhode Island. Boston Evening Journal, May 21, 1862, p. 4, col. 7. — – – – Southern report of his measures. Boston Evening JourPensacola, Fla. Letter from blockading squadron at, with account of destruction of a privateer by the U. S. steamer Rhode Island. Boston Evening Journal, Sept. 30, 1861, p. 2, col. 3. Pensacola, U. S. steamer, passes in safety the rebel batter15, p. 233. Rhind, Com. A. C. The last of the Fort Fisher powder boat. United Service Mag., vol. 1, p. 227. Rhode Island, U. S. steamer. Letter from blockading squadron at Pensacola, Fla., with account of destruction of a priv