Someone spotted this and sent it to me so I thought I'd share. Kathy Baker Subject: 7th RI Regiment: Isaac BLANCHARD, Jr. > >from >The Seventh Regiment of RI Volunteers in the Civil War, 1862 - 1865 >by William P. Hopkins >Snow & Farmham Printers, Providence, RI 1903 > >Personal Sketches, p. 377: > >"ISAAC BLANCHARD, JR. >Corporal Isaac Blanchard, Jr., youngest among the four daughters and two sons of Isaac and Isabella Aldrich Blanchard, was born at Slatersville, July 1, 1830. He married Eunice, daughter of Daniel and Emeline Arnold Hill, Oct. 12, 1853. They have five children, Charles DeForest, Randall A., Ruth E., Flora V., and Nelly G. When in front of Petersburg, Sergeant Colvin, of the pioneer corps, was granted a furlough because of ill-health. Corporal Blanchard was placed in charge thereof and retained and, at the head of the regimental pioneers, made himself and the force in his charge decidedly useful both in camp and field. Since then he has been engaged in the ice business. His home is at Wakefield, R.I. He is a member of Hope Lodge, A. F. and A. M., at Wakefield; also of Gibson Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Peacedale, R.I." > >