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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

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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