![]() ![]() On June 5, 1861, Elisha and two of his friends enlisted as privates. In response to President Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the insurrection of the southern states against the United States, Rhode Island Governor William Sprague issued an order for the immediate muster of the Second Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, to join the Rhode Island Brigade already under General Burnside’s command in Washington. Young Elisha became the sole support of his mother and siblings, taking a job as a clerk in the office of Frederick Miller, a supplier to New England’s numerous mills, until the outbreak of the Civil War. ![]() After attending the local grammar school, at 14 he entered Potter & Hammond’s Commercial Colleger in Providence until his father was reported lost at sea commanding the schooner Worcester on a trip to the Bahamas in early December, 1858. ![]() He grew up in the Baptist church and was a life-long member in that denomination. Elisha Hunt Rhodes was the eldest son of Elisha H. ![]()
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