Name Prefix: Maj.
at the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned as major of the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment and was killed in the first
battle of Bull Run.
Sullivan Ballou's Civil War letter to his wife Sarah Shumway was made famous by Ken Burn's "The Civil War" series on PBS.
http://www.sullivanballou.com/sullivanballou/default.cfm
BURIED: Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island
SOURCE: Steve Shumway -shumways@@petershumway.org
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