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United States Regiments & Batteries > Rhode Island > 9th Rhode Island Infantry Regiment

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The 9th Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 4 men to disease during the Civil War.

1862
May 26	Organized at Providence under the command of Major John Talbot Pitman, former Captain of Company G in the First Rhode Island Detached Militia Regiment. Organization of the Regiment Company A – Captain Robert McCloy Company B – Captain Henry Card Company C – Captain John A. Bowen Company D – Captain John McKinlay Company E – Captain Isaac Place Company F – Captain John Taylor Company G – Captain Charles Watson Company H – Captain Henry Jenks Company I – Captain Samuel Pierce Company K -Captain James Holden Company L – Captain John H. Powell
May 27 and 29	Moved to Washington, D.C.. by detachments and assigned to Sturgis’ Brigade of the Military District of Washington
June	Duty at Camp Frieze, Tennallytown
June 2	Second Lieutenant Henry Brown of Company A was promoted to Adjutant.
June 9	Major John Pitman was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, Captain John H. Powell of Company L was promoted to Major, and Benjamin Slocum was promoted to Captain of Company L.
July 1	Moved to Fairfax Seminary, Va.
July 3	Lieutenant Colonel John Pitman was promoted to Colonel. Major John Powell was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and Regimental quartermaster George L. Cooke was promoted to Major.
August	Garrison duty in the Defences of Washington: Company A at Fort Greble Company B at Fort Meigs Company C at Fort Ricketts Company D at Fort Snyder Companies E & K at Fort Baker Company F at Fort Carroll Company G at Fort Dupont Company H at Fort Wagner Company I at Fort Stanton Company L at Fort Davis
September 2	The 9th Rhode Island mustered out