Tristam Burges was a prominent man in public affairs in Rhode Island. A member of the State Senate at the outbreak of the Rebellion, he entered with heart and soul into the work of putting Rhode Island troops into the field. A Colonel's commission was given him, by President Lincoln, to enable him to become a volunteer on the staff of General Sprague, and afterward on the staff of General McClellan. After the evacuation of Yorktown [in May 1862], in his zeal to be at the front, he attached himself temporarily to the staff of General Stoneman, and at the battle which followed the retreat of the rebel army fought at Williamsburg, he was so severely wounded that he died afterward, May 23, 1863." (from "Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated" (Lewis Publishing Co., 1888).
Tristam Burges was a prominent man in public affairs in Rhode Island. A member of the State Senate at the outbreak of the Rebellion, he entered with heart and soul into the work of putting Rhode Island troops into the field. A Colonel's commission was given him, by President Lincoln, to enable him to become a volunteer on the staff of General Sprague, and afterward on the staff of General McClellan. After the evacuation of Yorktown [in May 1862], in his zeal to be at the front, he attached himself temporarily to the staff of General Stoneman, and at the battle which followed the retreat of the rebel army fought at Williamsburg, he was so severely wounded that he died afterward, May 23, 1863." (from "Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated" (Lewis Publishing Co., 1888).
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