A related group comprising three pre-printed rank appointments, a leather bound company day book, plus a superb original pencil sketch of Fort DeRussy, where the 10th Rhode Island was stationed in 1862, by Company D drummer Herman Buttendorf. All contained in an old envelope with a penciled description of the contents along with the name Emily J. Starkey, presumably A. Thomas’ wife. The first document, dated May 26, 1862, appoints Starkey as First Sergeant in the 10th Rhode Island Volunteers. The appointment is signed by Colonel Zenas Bliss who later won the Medal of Honor. The next two appointments, dated June and July 1863, relate to Starkey’s subsequent service in the 4th Regiment, Rhode Island Militia as Sergeant Major and then Adjutant. The Adjutant’s appointment bears an impressed red paper state seal and is signed by war Governor James Y. Smith. The daybook is an inked roster of all Company D members, some names appended with the word DEAD, others with the cryptic letter a notated in an undefined pattern. Other than Company D/10th Regiment/R.I. Volunteers inked on the leather cover, the small book is devoid of text. Thomas Starkey enlisted in the three-month regiment on May 26, 1862 as first sergeant and was mustered out on September 1. Post-war, he was a member of the E.P. Carpenter GAR Post #91 in Foxborough, Massachusetts and died in December 1908. The 10th Rhode Island served in the Washington Defenses with its companies split up and assigned to garrison the chain of forts defending the Capitol. The regiment saw no combat and sustained three deaths due to disease. Condition: Except for fold lines in the appointments, all of the ephemera rates VG.
A related group comprising three pre-printed rank appointments, a leather bound company day book, plus a superb original pencil sketch of Fort DeRussy, where the 10th Rhode Island was stationed in 1862, by Company D drummer Herman Buttendorf. All contained in an old envelope with a penciled description of the contents along with the name Emily J. Starkey, presumably A. Thomas’ wife. The first document, dated May 26, 1862, appoints Starkey as First Sergeant in the 10th Rhode Island Volunteers. The appointment is signed by Colonel Zenas Bliss who later won the Medal of Honor. The next two appointments, dated June and July 1863, relate to Starkey’s subsequent service in the 4th Regiment, Rhode Island Militia as Sergeant Major and then Adjutant. The Adjutant’s appointment bears an impressed red paper state seal and is signed by war Governor James Y. Smith. The daybook is an inked roster of all Company D members, some names appended with the word DEAD, others with the cryptic letter a notated in an undefined pattern. Other than Company D/10th Regiment/R.I. Volunteers inked on the leather cover, the small book is devoid of text. Thomas Starkey enlisted in the three-month regiment on May 26, 1862 as first sergeant and was mustered out on September 1. Post-war, he was a member of the E.P. Carpenter GAR Post #91 in Foxborough, Massachusetts and died in December 1908. The 10th Rhode Island served in the Washington Defenses with its companies split up and assigned to garrison the chain of forts defending the Capitol. The regiment saw no combat and sustained three deaths due to disease. Condition: Except for fold lines in the appointments, all of the ephemera rates VG.
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