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Col. Alfred N. Duffie, 1st Rhode Island Cavalry, Bull Run, Virginia, July 1862. When the American Civil War broke out, Duffié enlisted in the Union Army. He first joined the 2nd New York Cavalry Regiment (also known as the Harris Light Cavalry), on August 9, 1861, [4] and was soon promoted to the rank of captain.
Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Rhode Island (2 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Rhode Island" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
William Cole Cozzens – Mayor of Newport and Governor of Rhode Island, 1863; Henry Y. Cranston – United States Representative from Rhode Island and commander of the Artillery Company of Newport; Robert B. Cranston – United States Representative from Rhode Island; George T. Downing (1819–1903) – abolitionist, entrepreneur, restaurateur [6]
Tanya Donelly, musician; vocalist for Rhode Island–based bands Belly and Throwing Muses; guitarist for the band The Breeders; Charlie Fern, White House speechwriter, journalist; Van Johnson, actor, known best for "all-American" roles in MGM films during World War II; Lawson Little, 1940 U.S. Open golf champion; Lillian Richter, lithographer
Jabez Bowen, federalist supporter, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court [25] John Brown, co-founder of Brown University, U.S. Representative [26] John Chafee, Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Navy, and United States Senator [27] Zechariah Chafee, lawyer, academic and civil libertarian [28]
Patrick T. Conley and Manuel Gorriaran, Eminent Rhode Islanders: Biographical Profiles of the Inductees to the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, 1965-2000 (Providence: [The Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in conjunction with the Rhode Island Publications Society, 2001]). Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's Founders: From Settlement to Statehood.
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2022. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. March 2022 1 Brahim Boutaleb, 84, Moroccan academic and ...
Remarkable Women of Rhode Island. American Heritage. Charleston, SC: The History Press. ISBN 978-1-62619-537-0. Van Broekhoven, Deborah B. van (2002). Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-363-6.