3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery

Civil War Union Army Officer. He served in the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 3rd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, which was designated the 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery later in the war....

W. VARNEY, of section 20, Warner Township, Clark County, was born in Somerset County, Maine, June 23, 1836, the son of Levi and Harriet (Steward) Varney. The former died when Hiram was six years old, a...

Tillinghast Sisson (August 20, 1831 – October 19, 1910) was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island from 1875 to 1877 serving under Governor Hen...

R. Brayton (August 16, 1840 – September 23, 1910) was a prominent Republican politician and lobbyist in Rhode Island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The New York Times called him the "Blind ...