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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Grand shoddy wedding in Washington — Jenkins's description of the affair. (search)
f Secretary Chase, between the hours of half-past 8 and twelve o'clock. The representatives of the newspaper press, with one or two exceptions, and these personal friends of the Senator and Secretary Chase, were, on this occasion, non recipients of cards of invitation. The reputation of ex-Governor Sprague, not alone as Executive officer of the State of "Little Rhody" and as a statesman, but as a brave and gallant soldier, is world-wide. The part he took in defence of the Capital in July, 1861, at the first battle of Bull Run, is known to all our readers.--At this battle he personally commanded a Rhode Island brigade, and behaved with great gallantry. Subsequent to this he was conspicuous as an officer upon Gen. McClellan's staff during the Peninsula campaign. Besides these personal acts of merit in the field, Senator Spragne has on numerous occasions bequested a false proportion of his immense wealth to the organizing, equipping, and supporting the soldiers from his own State