(CIVIL WAR RHODE ISLAND) Barry William F Letter to Gov Will

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(CIVIL WAR--RHODE ISLAND.) Barry, William F. Letter to Gov. William Sprague, demanding more recruits. Autograph Letter Signed. 2 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on one leaf; mounted on larger sheet along one edge. Washington, 29 December 1862

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Brig. Gen. Barry writes to the governor of Rhode Island concerning the newly organized Battery H of the First Rhode Island Light Artillery under Jeffrey Hazard, which had been decimated by a large number of desertions. Barry threatens to reduce the battery to four guns and decommission two lieutenants if more recruits are not supplied quickly--"recruits who won't run away as soon as they get their bounties."