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The state of Rhode Island during the American Civil War remained loyal to the Union, as did the other states of New England. Rhode Island furnished 25,236 fighting men to the Union Army, of which 1,685 died[1] The state used its industrial capacity to supply the Union Army with the materials needed to win the war. Rhode Island's continued growth and modernization led to the creation of an urban mass transit system and improved health and sanitation programs.[citation needed]

## Rhode Island during the war

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Fort Adams

Fort Adams near Newport was used temporarily as the United States Naval Academy. In May 1861, the Academy was moved to Newport from Annapolis, Maryland due to concerns about the political sympathies of the Marylanders, many of whom were suspected of supporting the Confederate States of America. In September, the Academy moved to the Atlantic House hotel in Newport and remained there for the rest of the war.[2]

In 1862, Fort Adams became the headquarters and recruit depot for the 15th U.S. Infantry Regiment.[2] The USS Rhode Island was a side-wheel steamer commissioned in 1861 for the Union Navy, and it intercepted blockade runners in the West Indies and was a part of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.[3]

## Notable leaders from Rhode Island

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### Politics

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Senator Henry B. Anthony was born in Coventry, Rhode Island. He was a powerful newspaper owner and staunch advocate of the policies of President Lincoln during the Civil War. Rhode Island Senator Samuel G. Arnold of Providence was also a Republican; he served in the Union Army until 1862, when he was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Simmons.[citation needed]

Rhode Island Governor William Sprague IV accompanied troops in the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, but he declined a commission as a brigadier general and remained in office. In 1862, he attended the War Governors' Conference in Altoona, Pennsylvania which backed Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Union war effort. He was not re-elected as governor, but he was elected as a Senator to replace Arnold; he took office in 1863 and served into Reconstruction. William C. Cozzens became Governor in 1863; he was succeeded by James Y. Smith who led Rhode Island during the last two years of the war.[4]

* Senator Henry B. Anthony

* Governor William Sprague IV

* Senator Samuel G. Arnold

### Military

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Ambrose Burnside was an arms manufacturer, politician, and general in the Rhode Island state militia and was an influential army officer. He rose to command of the Army of the Potomac before his disastrous defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862. He later commanded the Department of the Ohio as well as the IX Corps. His field duty ended during the siege of Petersburg with the Battle of the Crater, another fiasco for which he took the blame[5]

Major General Silas Casey of East Greenwich, Rhode Island led a division in the Army of the Potomac during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign that suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Seven Pines facing George Pickett's brigade. He wrote the three-volume System of Infantry Tactics published in August 1862, and Infantry Tactics for Colored Troops published in March 1863. These manuals were used by both sides during the Civil War.[6][7]

Isaac P. Rodman commanded the 3rd Division of the IX Corps during the Maryland Campaign. He led the efforts to take Turner's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain in September 1862. A few days later, he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.[8] Brigadier General Richard Arnold was the son of Rhode Island Governor Lemuel Arnold and the Chief of Artillery for the Army of the Gulf. His guns helped force the surrender of Mobile, Alabama and Port Hudson, Louisiana.[9][10]

Zenas Bliss of Johnston, Rhode Island led an infantry brigade in the IX Corps during the siege of Petersburg. After the war, he received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Fredericksburg.[11] George S. Greene of Apponaug, Rhode Island spearheaded the defense of the Union right flank at Culp's Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863. At the very end of the war, he was in command of the 3rd Brigade in Absalom Baird's 3rd Division, XIV Corps, and participated in the capture of Raleigh, North Carolina and the pursuit of General Joseph E. Johnston's army until its surrender.[12]

Brigadier General Thomas W. Sherman of Newport, Rhode Island commanded the defenses of New Orleans, Louisiana before taking command of a division in Major General Nathaniel P. Banks's army, which he led into action at the siege of Port Hudson. He lost a leg during this combat and was consigned to desk duty for the rest of the war.[13][14] Frank Wheaton of Providence led a brigade and then a division in the Army of the Potomac, seeing action in the Overland Campaign and the siege of Petersburg. His men were hurried by train to Washington, D.C. in time to help repel Jubal Early's raid on the capital in the summer of 1864.[14][15]

William Rogers Taylor was Fleet Captain of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1863. He participated in attacks on the Confederate fortifications protecting Charleston, South Carolina. He then commanded the steam sloop Juniata during 1864-65 and took part in the operations that led to the capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.[16]

* Ambrose Burnside

* Major General Silas Casey

* Isaac P. Rodman

* Zenas Bliss

* Thomas W. Sherman

* William Rogers Taylor

## See also

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* American Civil War portal
* Rhode Island portal

* List of Rhode Island Civil War units
* History of Rhode Island
* Category:People of Rhode Island in the American Civil War
* US Naval Academy in the Civil War

## References

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### Citations

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1. ^ Dyer, Frederick Henry (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (PDF). Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co. pp. 11–12\. OCLC 1403309. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
2. ^ a b "Fort Adams and The Fort Adams Trust – America's largest, most sophisticated, most complex coastal fortification". Fort Adams and The Fort Adams Trust. April 30, 2025. Retrieved May 12, 2025.
3. ^ Mooney, James L.; United States Naval History Division; Naval Historical Center (U.S.) (1959). Dictionary of American naval fighting ships. Washington: Navy Dept., Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division. pp. 90–91\. OCLC 559710252. Retrieved May 12, 2025.
4. ^ Sobel, Robert (1978). Raimo, John (ed.). Rhode Island - Wyoming. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978. Vol. 4\. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 1334–1785\. ISBN 978-0-930466-04-6. OCLC 256274973.
5. ^ Eicher, David J.; McPherson, James M. & McPherson, James Alan (2001). The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (PDF) (1st ed.). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. pp. 155–156\. ISBN 978-0-7432-1846-7. LCCN 2001034153. OCLC 231931020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
6. ^ Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1887). Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 1\. New York: D. Appleton and Company. pp. 550–551\. LCCN 06043076. OCLC 659515318. Retrieved May 11, 2025.
7. ^ "Casey's Infantry Tactics (1862) -Civil War Infantry Tactics". usregulars.com. August 7, 2008. Archived from the original on September 15, 2008. Retrieved May 12, 2025.
8. ^ Warner, Ezra J. (1964). Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. [Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 409–410\. ISBN 978-0-8071-5615-5. OCLC 868219378. Retrieved May 12, 2025. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
9. ^ Dunkelman, Mark H. (May 21, 2002). "Rhode Island Civil War Generals". members.aol.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2003. Retrieved May 12, 2025.
10. ^ Warner, Ezra J. (1964). Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. [Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 10–11\. ISBN 978-0-8071-5615-5. OCLC 868219378. Retrieved May 12, 2025. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
11. ^ Bliss, Zenas Randall (2007). Thomas T. Smith; et al. (eds.). The Reminiscences of Major General Zenas R. Bliss, 1854-1876: from the Texas frontier to the Civil War and back again. Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 978-0-87611-226-7.
12. ^ Motts, Wayne E. (2018). "To Gain a Second Star: The Forgotten George S. Greene". Gettysburg Magazine. 1 (3): 63–75\. ISSN 2377-0783.
13. ^ Warner, Ezra J. (1964). Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. [Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 440–441\. ISBN 978-0-8071-5615-5. OCLC 868219378. Retrieved May 12, 2025. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
14. ^ a b Eicher, John H.; Eicher, David J.; Simon, John Y. (2001). Civil War High Commands. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1. OCLC 45917117.
15. ^ Warner, Ezra J. (1964). Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. [Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 553–554\. ISBN 978-0-8071-5615-5. OCLC 868219378. Retrieved May 12, 2025. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
16. ^ "Taylor I (Destroyer No. 94)". NHHC. February 11, 1901. Retrieved May 12, 2025.

### Sources

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* Bliss, Zenas Randall (2007). Thomas T. Smith; et al. (eds.). The Reminiscences of Major General Zenas R. Bliss, 1854-1876: from the Texas frontier to the Civil War and back again. Texas State Historical Association. ISBN 978-0-87611-226-7.
* Chenery, William H. (1898). The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored,) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865 (pdf) (1st ed.). Providence, RI: Snow & Farnham. p. 343\. LCCN 02001868. OCLC 3521555. Retrieved May 11, 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* Dyer, Frederick Henry (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (PDF). Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co. pp. 11–12, 16, 33, 39, 45, 228, 1627–1636\. OCLC 1403309. Retrieved August 8, 2015. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* Eicher, John H.; Eicher, David J.; Simon, John Y. (2001). Civil War High Commands. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1. OCLC 45917117.
* Eicher, David J.; McPherson, James M. & McPherson, James Alan (2001). The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (PDF) (1st ed.). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. p. 990\. ISBN 978-0-7432-1846-7. LCCN 2001034153. OCLC 231931020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
* Federal Publishing Company (1908). Military Affairs and Regimental Histories of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, And Delaware (PDF). The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861–65 – Records of the Regiments in the Union army – Cyclopedia of battles – Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. Vol. I. Madison, WI: Federal Publishing Company. pp. 231–257\. OCLC 694018100. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* Frederic, Denison (1876). Sabres and Spurs: The First Regiment Rhode Island Cavalry in the Civil War, 1861-1865 :its origin, marches, scouts, skirmishes, raids, battles, sufferings, victories, and appropriate official papers, with the roll of honor and roll of the regiment : illustrated with portraits of cavalry generals and a map of the regiment's war-path (pdf). Central Falls, RI: First Rhode Island Cavalry Veteran Association. p. 600\. OCLC 1157190603. Retrieved May 11, 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* Grandchamp, Robert (2012). Rhode Island and the Civil War: Voices from the Ocean State. Charleston, SC: History Press. p. 155\. ISBN 978-1-60949-761-3. LCCN 2012027088. OCLC 798058231.
* Grzyb, Frank L. (2013). Hidden History of Rhode Island and the Civil War (1st ed.). Charleston, SC: The History Press. p. 219\. ISBN 978-1-62584-707-2. LCCN 2013032983. OCLC 942750323.
* Grzyb, Frank L. (2012). Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital: Life and Death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862-1865 (1st ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 196\. ISBN 978-0-7864-6861-4. LCCN 2012014923. OCLC 757461960.
* Hopkins, William P.; Peck, George B. (1903). The Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War, 1862-1865. Providence, R.I., Boston, Mass.: Snow & Farnham, Printers; Hub Engraving Co., Engravers. LCCN 03004990. OCLC 3521622.
* Marvel, William (1991). Burnside. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-1983-8. OCLC 23179669.
* Miller, Richard F., ed. (2013). A reference guide for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont in the Civil War. States at War. Vol. I. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-61168-377-6. OCLC 862938868.
* Mooney, James L.; United States Naval History Division; Naval Historical Center (U.S.) (1959). Dictionary of American naval fighting ships. Washington: Navy Dept., Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division. pp. 90–91\. OCLC 559710252. Retrieved May 12, 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* Rhodes, Elisha Hunt; Rhodes, Robert Hunt (1985). All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elijah Hunt Rhodes (pdf) (1991 Orion ed.). New York, NY: Orion Books. p. 255\. ISBN 978-0-517-58427-9. LCCN 91006519. OCLC 23049113. Retrieved May 11, 2025.
* Sobel, Robert (1978). Raimo, John (ed.). Rhode Island - Wyoming. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978. Vol. 4\. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 1334–1785\. ISBN 978-0-930466-04-6. OCLC 256274973.
* Spicer, William A. (1892). History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 (pdf). Providence: Snow & Franham, printers. p. 415\. LCCN 02016024. OCLC 612701412. Retrieved May 11, 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* Warner, Ezra J. (1964). Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. [Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 409–410\. ISBN 978-0-8071-5615-5. OCLC 868219378. Retrieved May 12, 2025. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
* Williams, Frank J. (2013). Conley, Patrick T. (ed.). The Rhode Island Home Front in the Civil War Era (1st ed.). Nashua, NH: Taos Press. p. 182\. ISBN 978-0-9880376-2-5. OCLC 871202841.
* Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1887). Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. 1\. New York: D. Appleton and Company. pp. 550–551\. LCCN 06043076. OCLC 659515318. Retrieved May 11, 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
* "Fort Adams and The Fort Adams Trust – America's largest, most sophisticated, most complex coastal fortification". Fort Adams and The Fort Adams Trust. April 30, 2025. Retrieved May 12, 2025.
* "Casey's Infantry Tactics (1862) -Civil War Infantry Tactics". usregulars.com. August 7, 2008. Archived from the original on September 15, 2008. Retrieved May 12, 2025.
* Dunkelman, Mark H. (May 21, 2002). "Rhode Island Civil War Generals". members.aol.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2003. Retrieved May 12, 2025.
* Motts, Wayne E. (2018). "To Gain a Second Star: The Forgotten George S. Greene". Gettysburg Magazine. 1 (3): 63–75\. ISSN 2377-0783.
* "Taylor I (Destroyer No. 94)". NHHC. February 11, 1901. Retrieved May 12, 2025.

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