Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

¿1.¿How Many?

¿2.¿Methodology

¿3.¿Generals and Staff

¿4.¿First Rhode Island Detached Militia

¿5.¿Second Rhode Island Volunteers

¿6.¿Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery

¿7.¿Fourth Rhode Island Volunteers

¿8.¿Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery

¿9.¿Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers

10.¿Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers

11.¿Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers

12.¿Eleventh Rhode Island Volunteers

13.¿Twelfth Rhode Island Volunteers

14.¿Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery

15.¿Hospital Guards

16.¿First Rhode Island Cavalry

17.¿Second Rhode Island Cavalry

18.¿Third Rhode Island Cavalry

19.¿Seventh Squadron of Cavalry

20.¿Battery A, First Rhode Island Light Artillery

21.¿Battery B, First Rhode Island Light Artillery

22.¿Battery C, First Rhode Island Light Artillery

23.¿Battery D, First Rhode Island Light Artillery

24.¿Battery E, First Rhode Island Light Artillery

25.¿Battery F, First Rhode Island Light Artillery

26.¿Battery G, First Rhode Island Light Artillery

27.¿Battery H, First Rhode Island Light Artillery

28.¿Tenth Rhode Island Battery

29.¿United States Army

30.¿United States Navy

31.¿Regiments of Other States

Appendix: Total Deaths by Regiment

Chapter Notes

Annotated Bibliography

Index

¿ Rhode Island sent 23,236 men to fight in the Civil War. They served in eight infantry regiments, three heavy artillery regiments, three regiments and one battalion of cavalry, a company of hospital guards and 10 batteries of light artillery. Hundreds more served in the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Rhode Islanders participated in nearly every major battle of the war, firing the first volleys at Bull Run, and some of the last at Appomattox.
How many died in the Civil War is a question that has long eluded historians. Drawing on a 20-year study of regimental histories, pension files, letters, diaries, and visits to every cemetery in the state, award-winning Civil War historian Robert Grandchamp documents 2,217 Rhode Islanders who died as a direct result of military service. Each regiment is identified, followed by the name, rank and place of residence for each soldier, the details of their deaths and, where known, their final resting places.

The author of 15 books on American military history, Robert Grandchamp lives in Jericho, Vermont, where he works as an analyst with the government.