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Samuel James Smith KIA at Bull Run, this CDV has some green paper on the
back from a prior mounting and only a portion of the back mark is visible. This
unit was made famous by the letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes in Ken Burns Civil
War documentary. $195.00
Form more on Smith read the listing under Levi Tower
http://cmdrmierka.tripod.com/1stRIcartesDeVisite.html
Residence Woonsocket RI; a 25 year-old Apothecary.
Enlisted on 6/6/1861 as a Captain.
On 6/6/1861 he was commissioned into "I" Co. RI 2nd Infantry
He was Killed on 7/21/1861 at Bull Run, VA
Other Information:
born 2/14/1836 in Seekonk, MA
(Father: Samuel Smith. Married Harriet B. Mason in
Dec. 1856)
Rhode Island
Second Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers.
(Three years)
Under general orders from the War Department, General
Meade directed, March 7, 1865, the names of the following
battles in which the Regiment had borne a meritorious part, to
be inscribed upon its colors, viz:
First Bull Run, Salem Heights, Petersburg,
Yorktown, Gettysburg, Fort Stevens,
Williamsburg, Rappahannock Station, Opequan,
Malvern Hill, Wilderness, Hatcher's Run,
Antietam, Spottsylvania, Sailors' Creek,
Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, Appomattox.
Marye's Heights.
back from a prior mounting and only a portion of the back mark is visible. This
unit was made famous by the letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes in Ken Burns Civil
War documentary. $195.00
Form more on Smith read the listing under Levi Tower
http://cmdrmierka.tripod.com/1stRIcartesDeVisite.html
Residence Woonsocket RI; a 25 year-old Apothecary.
Enlisted on 6/6/1861 as a Captain.
On 6/6/1861 he was commissioned into "I" Co. RI 2nd Infantry
He was Killed on 7/21/1861 at Bull Run, VA
Other Information:
born 2/14/1836 in Seekonk, MA
(Father: Samuel Smith. Married Harriet B. Mason in
Dec. 1856)
Rhode Island
Second Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers.
(Three years)
Under general orders from the War Department, General
Meade directed, March 7, 1865, the names of the following
battles in which the Regiment had borne a meritorious part, to
be inscribed upon its colors, viz:
First Bull Run, Salem Heights, Petersburg,
Yorktown, Gettysburg, Fort Stevens,
Williamsburg, Rappahannock Station, Opequan,
Malvern Hill, Wilderness, Hatcher's Run,
Antietam, Spottsylvania, Sailors' Creek,
Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, Appomattox.
Marye's Heights.
