Horatio Rogers epub Record of the Rhode Island Excursion to Gettysburg, October 11-16, 1886, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Di: ISLAND KXCLUSION TO (n.lTYS lU KC i. The pei-fions named in tlie resolution were appointed comniittt cs ly their respective Associations at the reunions held in tinsuuinn-ic f18S), to procui-c suitable memorials and cause tlu in to l)e erected on the hattlefield of Gettysburg, and bel oi-e tluend of June, 1880, all the memorials had been placed in jiosition ready for dedication. That of the Second Rhode Island Volunteers cost one thousand dollars, the Association having added five hundi cd dollars to the amount appropriated by the State, while the three batteries limited tlie cost of their memorials to the amount of the State approjiriation. I hose of the Second Rhode Island Volunteers and Uatteries A and E, were designed and constructed by the Smith (J rauite Comjiany of Westerly, but that of Battery Bwas tlie woikmanship of John Flaherty of Niantic. The memorial of the Second Khode Island Volunteers is eight feet six inches high, and consists of a square monument of Westt-rly granite, simjile in form, with sharj), well-defined outlines, supporting a bronze grouj of military devices. The ground base is four and a half feet square and eighteen inches high, with a i-ough quarried surface, while all the other sui-- faces are fine hammered. The second base, which is three feet ten inches square and one foot eight inches high, has a deep wash or sloping surface from its upper edge or junction with the die or jirincipal stone. In bold relief on the front of this base is the Sixth Cor)s badge and this sunken inscription, .I idy i! and o, 18(J3. Jiu jiiain massive die, which is two feet ten inches square and three feet eight inches high, is oidy relieved on its front liy a circular suidcen disk coutainimr the carved ami pnlislied arms of the State of Rhode I sland, aliove whieli arc the words ilnd R. 1. ohinleers, and beldw, Sec nd IJ rigade, Third Division, Si(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)