Showing posts with label Rhode Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhode Island. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2016

Assistant Surgeon Henry Greene



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Dr. Henry Greene, a native of Rhode Island, immediately after his graduation in 1814, was made
assistant surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Regulars, and saw hard service in Canada, remaining in the army till peace was declared. He came to Albany in 1828, was prominent herein the cholera epidemic, and was one of the first faculty of the Medical College. [Source]



Thursday, March 31, 2016

Surgeon To The 2nd Regiment Riflemen



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In the war of 1812, which was partly at our door, a few of the local physicians were engaged. Most prominently was Dr. Piatt Williams, a graduate of Williams College, and prepared by a long course of professional study. The war broke out soon after he began to practice, and he immediately received from Gov. Tompkins the appointment of surgeon to the Second Regiment of Riflemen. He served through the war on the Niagara frontiers. Two years later, having returned to Albany, he was appointed post surgeon of the cantonment at Greenbush, and retained the position till its abandonment in 1822. [Source]



Monday, October 27, 2014

Newport Men With Perry


A partial list of men from Newport, Rhode Island, who served with Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry:

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Funeral Car Of Commodore Perry



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"It was made to resemble as nearly as possible the boat, or gig, in which the gallant Perry left his sinking ship, during the battle of Erie--painted black and elevated on carriage wheels. On its stern appeared the name of the flag ship "Lawrence," with thirteen stars above it, and standing on a globe at the prow a golden spread eagle. The car was surmounted by a canopy supported by four ornamented pillars, the whole covered with black velvet richly fringed. Twenty-four golden stars around the top of the canopy represented the several States The canopy was ornamented with rich sable plumes."   Newport Mercury Dec 26th 1826

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Commodore Perry's Funeral Car



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In due time the ship "Lexington" was despatched to bring the remains of Oliver Hazard Perry to Newport, and on December 4th, 1826, the re-interment took place in the Common Burial Ground. 

Friday, April 26, 2013

Fort Wolcott



Defenses Of Narraganset Bay, Rhode Island
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"....The work on Goat Island, which had borne so many aliases, finally, in 1798, was re-christened Fort Wolcott to commemorate the revolutionary services of Governor Oliver Wolcott, who had just died December 1, 1797, its former name of Fort Washington having been appropriately transferred to the work on the Potomac River opposite to Mount Vernon... .

"... in 1811, only six months before war was declared against Great Britain, there were but seventeen guns in Fort Adams and thirty-eight in Fort Wolcott, in all fifty-five pieces of ordnance, large and small, to defend Narraganset Bay against the most powerful fleets of the world."

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Perry Assigned To The Lake Erie Fleet



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Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry - About 1815

On February 17 of the following year [1813], Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, who had been stationed at Newport, Rhode Island, in command of a flotilla, was assigned to the command of the fleet intended for service on Lake Erie.


A blog post about Perry and Chauncey here.  Another portrait here.









Monday, October 15, 2012

Rhode Island's Fort Greene

Rhode Island educational circulars: Historical series mentioned Fort Greene (Newport, Rhode Island), that is now Battery Park.  See Battery Park at Wikimapia.


Secretary of War Robert Lincoln concurred with the judgment of the Corps of Engineers that Fort Greene should be turned over to the city of Newport.