First Regiment Rhode Island boards Ship Bienville headed for Washington DC.
"I presume you have ere this received news of our safe arrival in New York and our embarkment on board this ship. We got under way about 4 P.M. day before yesterday, and are at this time about 117 miles from Annapolis where we shall disembark."
Ship Bienville, Sat., 1.30 A.M. April 27, 1861. Henry Tillinghast Sisson.
Rhode Island Artillery boards ship Bienville. April 25, 1861.