10 years ago
“I’m a Good Old Rebel:” Ocean State Confederates
From 1861 to 1865, nearly 24,000 men served in the Union Army in Rhode Island units during the Civil War, or were credited to Rhode Island; approximately 2,000 of these …
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“I have never heard of him since” – The Case of Scituate’s James A. Matteson
In the early morning hours of October 19, 1864 along the banks of Cedar Creek, just south of Middletown, Virginia, a large Confederate army under the command of General Jubal …
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“Died in the Service of his Country:” A New Look at Rhode Island Civil War Death Records
Civil War historians have long been citing that 620,000 American soldiers, North and South, died in the Civil War. In 2012, however, Dr. David Hacker of Binghamton University, using the …
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The Larchmont Disaster Off Block Island, Rhode Island’s Titanic
The Larchmont Disaster, by Joseph and Janice Soares (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014, $19.99)
It has been called the Titanic of Rhode Island, a little remembered disaster that claimed …
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11 years ago
Top 10 Early Rhode Island History Books
Rhode Island history books have surrounded me for as long as I can remember. Growing up in Warwick, I remember reading battered copies of such classics as Trumpets in Jericho, …
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