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Title: History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861

Author: Charles H. Clarke

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Language: English

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HISTORY
OF
COMPANY F, 1st REGIMENT,
R. I. VOLUNTEERS,
During the Spring and Summer of 1861.

BY CHARLES H. CLARKE,
A MEMBER OF THE COMPANY.

NEWPORT, R. I.: B. W. PEARCE, PRINTER.
1891.

INTRODUCTION.

In the following pages I have endeavored to present a correct
description of the service performed by Company F, 1st Regiment R. I.
Volunteers, during the spring and summer of 1861. While many of my
comrades who served in that company may differ with me in some of the
statements I have made, still I think that all will agree that what I
have presented is as correct an account as can be had at this late
period of that service. Thirty years is a long time for men to
remember the particulars of any event, unless some memoranda of the
same is at hand. During that service I endeavored to keep as correct
as possible a daily journal of events, and from that journal I have
prepared this brief history of the company, and I trust that my
comrades who may read this will excuse any inaccuracies that in their
opinion may appear; for it is my desire to place before you a correct
history of Company F, the first company of volunteers that left
Newport on the 17th of April, 1861, for the defence of the Stars and
Stripes in the great war of the rebellion.

CHARLES H. CLARKE.

HISTORY OF COMPANY F.

CHAPTER I.

CALL TO ARMS.

Early in the month of April, 1861, several of the Southern States
having withdrawn from the Union, forts, arsenals and navy yards
within the limits of those States were