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David Sisson |
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(1854) My gggreat grandfather early wealthy industrialist. |
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Paymaster Henry T. Sisson |
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Portion of a picture taken at Camp Sprague at Washington, DC during the summer of 1861 |
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Colonel Henry T. Sisson |
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This picture was taken during the Spring of 1862, before Major Henry T. Sisson was sent off from Providence Rhode Island to join up with the Third Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery at Port Royal, South Carolina. |
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Colonel Henry T. Sisson |
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Another photo from 1862 |
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Sketch of the Colonel |
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This picture is the frontispiece for the book History oh the Fifth R.I. Heavy Artillery 1861- 5 Written under the supervision of John K. Burlingham, Published by Snow & Farham 1892. |
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Sketch postwar Colonel Sisson |
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I believe this sketch was made sometime in the 1870's possibly during his political career First as a state Assemblyman, then as a State Senator, then as Lieutenant Governor. The Colonel would be involved in the politics of Rhode Island until his death in 1909. |
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Sketch of General Henry T. Sisson |
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Picture found of Henry in his scrapbook with mention of General Sisson, many times I have seen him refered to as General but have never found the source (Possibly General of some Rhode Island State Militia).. If you have answers I'd love to know. |
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Elderly Colonel Sisson |
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Look closely over his right shoulder and you can see his speaking tube (Actually for hearing). The Colonel lost his hearing as a direct result of being a commanding officer of a Heavy Artillery Regiment, he refused to put cotton in his ears. Some believe that he became deaf as a result of the Seige of Washington, North Carolina. The Colonel took and read the soundings of the ship and had to communicate with the pilot during the bombardment, so he was unable to wear cotton, some of his men wrote that they noticed the Colonel's hearing loss immediately after the raising of the seige. |
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Colonel Henry T. Sisson |
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A very thin gaunt Colonel, I have no idea when this photo was taken. |
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Colonel Henry T. Sisson |
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This photo was taken a year before the Colonel's death. The State of Rhode Island Commissioned this picture, when it was ordered that he be put on the New Bern Monument Commission. Possibly one of the last official things Colonel Sisson did for his men of the Fifth Rhode Island. |
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Lemuel Sisson |
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Henry Sisson's Cousin, Lemuel Sisson was for a time superindendant of the Seaconnet farm and also served in the Civil War. |
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Josephine Sisson |
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The Colonel's Wife |
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Colonel's Family |
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Josephine in the back. From left to right: Henry T. Sisson Jr., David Sisson, Nettie W. Sisson, Frank Harris Sisson, Colonel Henry Tillinghast Sisson. |
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Henry T. Sisson Jr. |
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Henry T. Sisson died at a very young age at Stone House of pneumonia. |
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Left:Wilfred S. Drowne Jr. and right, David Sisson |
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This photo was take at the family home Stone Mansion (Stone House) |
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Young Frank Harris Sisson |
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My great grandfather, son of Colonel Henry T. Sisson |
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Frank Harris Sisson Family |
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Frank Harris Sisson (Great grandfather), Mary Cacelia Haberlin Sisson (Frank Sisson's wife and my great grandmother), Robert Harris Sisson (Youngest son) and Henry Tillinghast Sisson (My grandfather). |
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Officers of the First Rhode Island Detached Militia or Regiment |
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Portrait of Colonel Ambrose Burnside and his staff while he commanded the 1st Rhode Island Infantry Regiment in 1861. From left to right are paymaster Lieutenant Henry T. Sisson, Sergeant Major John S. Engs, Major Joseph P. Balch, Colonel John A. Gardner, Burnside, Captain Isaac P. Rodman, chaplain Captain Augustus Woodbury, quartermaster Sergeant Elias M. Jencks, and commissary Captain William Lloyd Owers.
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