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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Reminiscences of service with the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, and a memorial of Col. George H. Browne, by Pardon E. Tillinghast This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Reminiscences of service with the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers, and a memorial of Col. George H. Browne Author: Pardon E. Tillinghast Release Date: September 13, 2010 [EBook #33718] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REMINISCENCES OF SERVICE *** Produced by Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF EVENTS IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, BEING PAPERS READ BEFORE THE RHODE ISLAND SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. THIRD SERIES - NO. 15. PROVIDENCE: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 1885. PROVIDENCE PRESS COMPANY, PRINTERS. REMINISCENCES OF SERVICE WITH THE TWELFTH RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS, AND A MEMORIAL OF COL. GEORGE H. BROWNE. BY PARDON E. TILLINGHAST, [Late Quartermaster Sergeant of the Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers.] PROVIDENCE: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 1885. [Edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies.] REMINISCENCES OF SERVICE WITH THE TWELFTH RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS. The months of July, August, September and October of 1862, were stirring times in Rhode Island,--and in fact throughout the entire North. The vigorous onward movement of our army towards Richmond, which had been long and frequently promised, was still deferred. The decisive victory won by the Union forces over Lee's army at Malvern Hills at great cost, which, in the judgment of every officer in the Army of the Potomac save one, and he the chief, should have been immediately followed by a determined advance towards the rebel stronghold, which was only about a day's march distant, was supplemented by the now somewhat stereotyped order to "fall back," thus presenting the not altogether inspiring military spectacle of a victorious army running away from its defe
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