Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864Estes and Lauriat, 1893 - 476 pagina's |
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... Being in a ship is being in a jail , with the chance of being drowned . " Hence the appropriateness of transferring our substitutes . On the 19th of April an order was received from General Robin- son that " Particular attention will be ...
... Being in a ship is being in a jail , with the chance of being drowned . " Hence the appropriateness of transferring our substitutes . On the 19th of April an order was received from General Robin- son that " Particular attention will be ...
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Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts ... Charles E. Davis Volledige weergave - 1893 |
Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts ... Charles E. Davis Volledige weergave - 1893 |
Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts ... Charles E. Davis Volledige weergave - 1894 |
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advance afternoon Antietam April ARMY CORPS Army of Virginia arrived artillery attack batteries battle battle of Antietam born Boston boys bridge brigade camp cavalry clerk Colonel command crossed Culpeper deserted division drill duty earthworks enemy enemy's fighting fire force Ford Fredericksburg front Front Royal G. K. WARREN Gettysburg guard guns halted Harper's Ferry Hartsuff HEADQUARTERS ARMY hill Hooker July 16 July 28 June Keedysville killed lieut Lieutenant Major-General Manassas Mass Massachusetts McClellan McDowell Meade miles morning move movement mustered night o'clock officers picket position Potomac priv railroad rain Rapidan Rappahannock Rappahannock River rations rear rebel received regiment residence Richmond Ricketts river road Saturday sent Sept sergt Sharpsburg shoemaker soldier soon Station Sunday tents tered Third Corps Thirteenth Thoroughfare Gap Thursday to-day town transferred troops Virginia wagons Warren Warrenton Washington WILLIAM woods wounded
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Pagina 193 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Pagina 51 - And once more let me tell you, it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow. I am powerless to help this. You will do me the justice to remember I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting, and not surmounting, a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place. The country will not fail to note, is now noting, that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched...
Pagina 340 - We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT ON THIS LINE IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER.
Pagina 51 - As to General Wool's command, I understand it is doing for you precisely •what a like number of your own would have to do if that command was away.
Pagina 145 - In coming to us, he tenders us an advantage which we should not waive. We should not so operate as to merely drive him away. As we must beat him somewhere, or fail fmally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away.
Pagina 145 - House, which is just about twice as far as you would have to do from Harper's Ferry. He is certainly not more than half as well provided with wagons as you are. I certainly should be pleased for you to have the advantage of the railroad from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, but it wastes all the remainder of autumn to give it to you, and in fact ignores the question of time, which cannot and must not be ignored.
Pagina 219 - South have long wished to aid you in throwing off this foreign yoke, to enable you again to enjoy the inalienable rights of freemen, and restore independence and sovereignty to your State.
Pagina 50 - Banks's corps, once designed for Manassas Junction, was diverted and tied up on the line of Winchester and Strasburg, and could not leave it without again exposing the upper Potomac and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. This presented, or would present when McDowell and Sumner should be gone, a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the commanders of army corps, be left entirely secure,...
Pagina 145 - ... roads are as good on yours as on his. 'You know I desired, but did not order, you to cross the Potomac below, instead of above, the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. My idea was that this would at once menace the enemy's communications, which I would seize if he would permit. If he should move forward I would follow him closely, holding his communications.
Pagina 263 - Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.