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 CHAPTER XXXI BARRINGTON IN THE CIVIL WAR Magnitude of "The Great Rebellion" — Rhode Island Patriotism — First Men from Barrington — Prominent Men Who Stood bj the Boys at the Front — Barrington Women — Henry Staples's Services — Town Legislation — Bounties, Aid, etc. — Services of Barrington Soldiers in the War — The Roll of Honor of 1S61-5. THE " Great Rebellion" of the Southern States against the United States Government opened by the bom- bardment of Fort Sumpter, Charleston, S. C, April 12, 1861, and closed with the surrender of Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate army to Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox C. H., Virginia, on the 9th of April, 1865. During this most remarkable war of ancient or mod- ern times, the loyal states furnished 2,778,204 men for the army and navy. Of this great army, 360,000 officers and men died of disease, of wounds, or in battle. The Confederate states furnished, by estimate, 1,000,000 men, and their actual losses, it is assumed, were equal to those in the Union armies. President Lincoln's first call for 75,000 volunteers made April 15, 1861, was responded to promptly by Gov. William Sprague and the people of Rhode Island, and on the 20th of April, Col. Ambrose E. Burnside left Providence for Washington in command of the first detachment of the First Regiment of R. L D. M., to be followed on the 24th of April by the second detachment, in command of Lieut. Col. Joseph S. Pitman. On the 17th of April, Albert W. Bul- lock, a Barrington boy, in business in Providence, was enrolled in Co. D, of the First Regiment, R. I. D. M., and so far as the Adjutant-General's report shows, was the only Barrington soldier in the battle of Bull Run, fought on the