In 1861, as a private, he was among the first to enlist in the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, being formed by Col. He spent a short time working in a counting-room in Providence until the outbreak of the Civil War.
At age 14 he went to school at a business academy in Providence until his father was reported lost at sea commanding the schooner Worcester. Rhodes, was born in Pawtuxet Rhode Island on March 21, 1842. Volunteers would be Commanded by young Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who four years later would be aged well beyond his years by the stress and riggors of the Civil War, would bring the regiment home to a great victory celebration and the love and admiration of all Rhode Islanders.Įlisha Hunt Rhodes, son of Elisha H. In emergincy repspnse to President Abraham Lincoln's call for 75,000 three month volunteers to put down large scale acts of treason and insurrection due to armed and open rebellion of the southern states against the United States, Rhode Island Governor William Sprague issued a second order for the imediate muster of the Second Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, to join the Rhode Island Brigade under Burnside in Washington as a 3 year enlisted unit of Rhode Island Volunteers.
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