Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.— CONTINUED. *Hundred-days' men. tOne year's term. JReenlisted. §Three-months 1 service. ,• Rhode Island. — The Rhode Island troops became prominent by reason of the fine regiment of light artillery furnished by that State. The light batteries of this command were remarkable for their efficiency, and the con spicuous part assigned them in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac. As a whole they were unsurpassed, and they made a record which reflected credit on their State. A comparison of their losses in action with those of other batteries tells plainly the story of the dangers which they braved. The ist Infantry was a three-months regiment which was actively engaged at First Bull Run. The 6th and 8th Infantry failed to com plete their organizations. The ist Cavalry contained a battalion of four companies from New Hampshire, which was detached January 7, 1864, and placed in the ist New Hampshire Cavalry. The 2d Rhode Island Cavalry was organized with eight companies only, and in July, 1863, they were consolidated into a battalion of four com panies, and transferred to the ist Louisiana (Union) Cavalry. The men objected to this transfer, and would not leave camp for their new quarters until surrounded by the Louisiana Cavalry, and forced to go. Two men who were conspicuously reluctant were led out by their new comrades and shot in front of the regiment, without a trial. After serving over a year in the Louisiana regimen., the battalion was re-transferred to the jd Rhode Island Cavalry. _14778
