Image ID: AMIJ

Brady’s Incidents of the War. (Camp Sprague) 1st R. I. Regt. [Brady Co. cabinet card]

MOLLUS Collection says: Gen. Ambrose Burnside as Col. of the 1st R. I. Regt. (his first command) with officers of that regiment and others. Photographed at combined camp of First R. I., “Camp Sprague,” and Second R. I., “Camp Chase,’ near Washington, D. C., 1861, when Capt. I. P. Rodman was Officer of the Day. The original owned by Wm. P. Hopkins. Capt. Issac P. Rodman was afterwards Col. 4th R. I. V.; Brig. Gen., April 28, 1862; mortally wounded at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862; and died Sept. 29, 1862. The First R. I. Regiment alone furnished from it private soldiers no less than two hundred and twenty officers of all grades in the Army, from Second Lieut. to Brig. Gen., and twelve officers for the Navy. What Regiment can furnish a parallel?

University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Officers of lst Rhode Island Volunteers, Camp Sprague, 1861. [Ambrose Everett Burnside with eight officers posed in front of building, with sign reading “Col. Burnside welcome home.” Identified as May 1861 in UMBC Civil War Exhibition, attributed to Alexander Gardner, and Camp Sprague identified as located in Washington, D.C.]