CHAPTER X.

Settlement of New Orleans - General Jackson's Defence of the
Place in 1815 - Occupation by the Federal Forces in 1862
Under General Butler - He is Succeeded by General Banks -
Resumé of Affairs in the Department of the Gulf — Situation
of New Orleans - Notable Buildings-St. Charles Hotel-
The French Quarter.

CHAPTER XI.

Location of the Several Battalions of the Regiment in August,
1864-Affairs in the Third Battalion - Picket Duty on the
New Orleans and Jackson Railroad - Company Funds of the
Battalion Battalion Council of Administration Appropriates
Four Hundred Dollars for the Purpose of Organizing a Band -
The Band a Success - Letter of a Correspondent from Fort
Banks to the "Providence Evening Bulletin," Giving a Descrip-
tion of the Fort and Adjacent Country and Affairs at the Post
-Strength of the Regiment Dec. 31, 1864 Parade of the
Third Battalion in New Orleans.

CHAPTER XII.

Description of the Mississippi River - Floods and Crevasses
Captain Addeman's Account of His Journey Through a Por-
tion of Louisiana which had been Devastated by Flooding
Waters.

CHAPTER XIII.

Officers' Recitations at Plaquemine-Issuing of Rations to Destitute Persons by the United States Government Schools Organized for the Enlisted Men.

CHAPTER XIV.

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Major Comstock Assumes Command of the Third BattalionMajor Fitzwater Transferred to the First Battalion - That Battalion Ordered to Brashear City - Great Rejoicing Over Lee's Surrender at Appomattox — The Confederate Forces Under Gen. Kirby Smith West of the Mississippi Still Keep Up a Show of Resistance - News of the Assassination of President Lincoln Expressions of Sorrow - Escape of the Rebel Ram "Webb" from Red River - Passes by All Our Forces on the Mississippi Until Disabled a Few Miles Above Fort St. Philip, When She Was Deserted and Blown Up.

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THE

FOURTEENTH REGIMENT

Rhode Island Heavy Artillery

(COLORED,)

IN THE WAR TO PRESERVE THE UNION,

1861-1865.

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BY

WILLIAM H. CHENERY,

Late First Lieutenant, Company F, Second Battalion.

ROVIDENCE:

SNOW & FARNHAM, Printers and Publishers.

POCOLLEGE

Datab

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Gift of The Deventieth Regiment

PREFACE

A

MEETING of the Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Veteran Association was held March 29, 1898, at which time a committee was appointed, consisting of Gen. Nelson Viall, Maj. Richard G. Shaw, Capt. Joshua M. Addeman, and Lieuts. Lester S. Hill and Zephaniah Brown, to make arrangements with Snow & Farnham for publishing the history of the regiment, and also to petition the General Assembly for an appropriation to assist in defraying the expenses of the same. In compliance with the action of the Association the Committee presented their petition to the General Assembly, and a resolution was passed by that body authorizing the State to appropriate $600 for the purchase of two hundred copies of the history.

Having been appointed to compile the history, I have endeavored to faithfully record the services of our regiment. It formed a part of the Union forces that guarded and protected the Mississippi River, and it received the commendations of its commanding officers, one of whom, Maj.-Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, a native of Rhode Island, and a distinguished officer of the regular army, pronounced the Fourteenth "a noble regiment."

My thanks are due to the Committee and all others who have aided me in the preparation of this work, and especially to Capt. Joshua M. Addeman, who has kindly revised the proof sheets and allowed me to quote freely from his Personal Reminiscences of Two Years with the Colored Troops. That the history may be acceptable to my comrades and the public is my earnest desire.

W. H. C.