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END OF THE WAR. 497 Col. William W. Brown of the First Light Infantry Co., was in command of the force at Greenville consisting of the Bristol Artillery, Lieut. Col. William R. Taylor Providence Marine Artillery, Lieut. Col. G. C. Nightingale First Light Infantry Co., 3d Reg., Lieut. F. Barber Newport Volunteers, Colonel Swan, ist Regt. Middletown Volunteers, Capt. N. Greene Harrington Volunteers, Capt. Emerson Humphrey Jamestown Volunteers, Capt. G. Knowles Total. 184 79 63 76 48 32 15 497 The movement on Acote's Hill, on Tuesday, the utter rout of Dorr and his forces, the return of the victorious militia to Providence, and the return of the Barrington Vol- unteers to their homes on Wednesday, June 29, after a week's campaign, to tell of the " Battle of Acote's Hill," were the final scenes in the first serious attempt to create a constitutional government of the people of Rhode Island. 32