A Memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward
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Excerpt from A Memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward: First Rhode Island Regiment, Army of the American Revolution; With a Geneology of the Ward Family This sketch was prepared for the July number of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, from family letters and other manuscripts in the possession of the author. The various journals of the expedition to Quebec have also been consulted. It is to be regretted that Lieut.-Col. Ward´s private journal of the expedition is no longer in existence. The Life of Major-General Nathanael Greene, by George W. Greene; Washington´s Letters (edited by Jared Sparks); and the "Order Book" kept by Col. Christopher Greene´s Acting Adjutant-General, embodying Gen. Sullivan´s orders, etc., have also been carefully consulted. The Genealogy of the Ward Family has been prepared with great care from the family records, with the assistance of a paper jointly compiled from the same sources by Henry T. Drowne, and the author, and with the valuable aid of John R. Bartlett´s Rhode Island Colonial Records. Governor Samuel Ward´s life has been written by William Gammell, and will be found in the ninth volume of Sparks´ Library of American Biography. It will be seen that an untimely death alone prevented his becoming one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and thereby reaping the fruit of his great labors in the Continental Congress. Lieut.-Col. Ward´s life has also been written by Professor Gammell as a closing portion of the biography just alluded to. William G. Goddard has described him in his biographical notices of graduates of Brown University: he has also been honorably mentioned by the Rev. Edwin M. Stone, in the sixth volume of the Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society. On the 15th of August, 1775, Governor Ward wrote from Westerly, R. I., to his son at Cambridge: "It gives me inexpressible pleasure to find General Washington so universally acceptable to all the troops. I was sure, from the intimate acquaintance I had with him, his appointment would certainly be attended with the most happy consequences." Professor A. P.Peabody, D.D., in his recent Centennial Oration at Cambridge, Massachusetts, states that "only in the Rhode Island Regiments, under General Greene, did he [Washington] discover aught of military order, system, discipline and subordination." Lieut.-Col. Ward, then Captain, was an intimate friend of General Greene; and the wise counsels of his father. Governor Ward, and his influence in the Assembly of Rhode Island, not only brought about (Greene´s first appointment as Brigadier-General, but materially aided in putting the troops in the most effective condition. A manuscript Journal of the Count de Rochambeau in America, belonging to Mr. C. Fiske Harris of Providence, R. I., also praises the Rhode Island Regiments as being the best troops the writer had seen in this country. The engraving of Lieut.-Col. Ward is taken from a beautiful miniature by Miss Anne Hall, - one of her numerous and remarkable works, - now in the author´s possession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such his
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