 |
The
Second Rhode Island Infantry Regiment was a infantry regiment composed of volunteers from the state of Rhode
Island that served with the Union Army in the American Civil War.
The regiment
was organized in June 1861 in Providence. The regiment was initially assigned to the IV Corps of the Army of Northeastern
Virginia (later became the Army of the Potomac) and saw its first combat action at the First Battle of Bull Run on Matthew's
Hill near Massassas, Virginia. The IV Corps later became the 6th Corps of the Army of the Shenandoah, and the 2nd Rhode Island
participated in several fights in the Shenandoah Valley. The regiment was mustered out of service at Hall's Hill, Virginia,
on July 13, 1865.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Elisha
Hunt Rhodes
(March 21, 1842 – January 14, 1917) served in the Union Army of the Potomac during
the American Civil War Rhodes was born in
Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, to Elisha H. and Eliza A. Rhodes. He had one sister and two brothers. At age 19, enlisted in the war
with his mother's permission. During the Civil War, he advanced from private in Company D of the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer
Infantry to colonel of the regiment. He retired from the service as a brigadier general. Elisha Hunt Rhodes is most remembered
for the journal he kept during the war.
|
|
