Born in Philadelphia, April 4, 1845. He was sent to the Military Academy, at Portsmouth, Virginia, when but fifteen years of age. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Union Army, despite his youthful age. He took part in a number of engagements with the enemy, but at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862, he was mortally wounded, yet even in his agonies this young hero "waved his cap and urged his comrades on to victory." He died January 6, 1863. Of this gallant boy the lad's commander wrote to his mother that "his bravery and heroism were remarkable for one so young."
Was noted for his bravery; served throughout the Civil War; he was also engaged in the war with the Sioux Indians in 1876, and was one of those in the command of General Custer on that fatal day in June; in which the entire command was surrounded by the Indians, every man being slaughtered.
RHODE ISLAND.
| Name. | Rank. | Company. | Regiment. |
| Froinsohn, Samuel | 2nd Infantry | ||
| Harris, Benjamin | 10th Infantry | ||
| Phillips, Joseph S. | 2nd Infantry | ||
| On staff of Commander General Sexton, | |||
| of the Grand Army of the Republic. | |||
| Siegel, M. | I | 3d Infantry |