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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary of Elijah Hunt Rhodes. (Orion Books, 1985), a famous diary of a Rhode Island soldier; Spicer, William Arnold. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 (Providence: Snow and Farnham, 1892). Williams, Frank J. and Patrick ...
The following people lived in Rhode Island prior to Colonial settlement: [1] Wampanoag people lived throughout Plymouth Colony and around Mount Hope Bay in Bristol, Rhode Island. Massasoit, tribal leader, met the Pilgrims at Plymouth; Wamsutta, son of Massasoit, renamed Alexander; became tribal leader upon father's death but died shortly after
The fifty or so years following the Civil War were a time of prosperity and affluence that author William G. McLoughlin called "Rhode Island's halcyon era". [28] Rhode Island was a center of the Gilded Age and provided a home (or summer home) to many of the country's most prominent robber barons . [ 28 ]
Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]
Units and formations of the Union army from Rhode Island (28 P) Pages in category "Rhode Island in the American Civil War" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Slavery was a divisive issue in the United States. It was a major issue during the writing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, the subject of political crises in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 and was the primary cause of the American Civil War in 1861. Just before the Civil War, there were 19 free states and 15 slave ...
During King Philip's War (1675–1676), Colonist and Indian fighting regularly violated Rhode Island's neutrality. The war's largest battle occurred in Rhode Island on December 19, 1675 when a force of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Plymouth militia under General Josiah Winslow invaded and destroyed the fortified Narragansett village in the ...
Rhode Island portal; The Experiment, a horse powered boat first tested here. National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island; National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Rhode Island; The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a 1927 story by H. P. Lovecraft, partially set in the village