War Diaries (July 2) (nonfiction)
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Dorr Rebellion
All the military companies came out to receive and escort the Cadets and Sea Fencibles, who came from Woonsocket, and the Carbineers from Pawtucket. This made another day of excitement. Every sheer through which they marched was crowded with people, and carriages, and the ladies at the windows of the houses cast garlands of flowers upon the soldiers. The Cadets carried with them a board on which Tom Hoppin had pictured the figure of “Dorr” and which served them as targets. The resemblance of the portrait astonished everyone. In the rear followed a wagon, conducted by a negro, clothed in a uniform of the Woonsocket Infantry. Attached to the wagon were also five or six poles, covered with the same uniforms, because the Woonsocket Infantry is the company which boasted of being able to alone whip all the Algerines in the state.
—Edward L. Peckham Diary of a Soldier in the Dorr War, May 17 to July 2, 1842 @ Small State Big History
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- Dorr Rebellion @ Wikipedia
