History of the Ninety-third Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865Swain & Tate Company, printers, 1895 - 639 pàgines |
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2d Corps 2d lieutenant 2d U. S. cavalry 6th Corps 93d New York 93d Regiment absent sick Albany April army artillery bivouac Brandy Station brevet brigade camp Capt captain captured certif Charles Chester colonel command commissioned comrades corporal County Crocker DAVID H desr died duty Edward enemy enemy's enlisted field fight fire Fort Edward front George George W Glens Falls Green county guard guns headquarters Henry hospital Infantry James John July July 18 June 16 June 29 killed in action Lieut line of battle m. o. June March March 15 miles morning moved mustered night North Anna River o'clock P. M. officers ordered picket Plank Road position Potomac prisoners rear rebel Resides river sent Sept sergeant sketch skirmish soldier soon Spottsylvania term of service transferred troops Troy Washington Washington County Wilderness William wounded York Volunteers
Passatges populars
Pàgina 427 - Rapidan, beyond which lay the confederate hosts ready to welcome us "hospitable hands to bloody graves." We had tried their temper on many a well-fought field and knew them to be a brave, skillful and determined foe. The night was mild and the men in good spirits, and soon the woods through which we marched resounded with the melody of ten thousand voices, singing : " John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave, His soul is marching on.
Pàgina 70 - We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is very 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 in battle, while he has taken from us but few stragglers. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer...
Pàgina 65 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Pàgina 370 - The various and excellent endowments of Nature Improved and perfected by an accomplished education formed her for the happiness of her friends, for an ornament of her country. Alas Reader, We can detain nothing, however valued, from unrelenting Death. Beauty, fortune or exalted honour...
Pàgina 423 - ... came expressly for the occasion. The Vice-President and a number of senators were there with their wives, and Governor Curtin and wife acted as a convoy for a bevy of beauties from Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, and New York. Generals Meade, Hancock, Warren, Pleasanton, Kilpatrick, and Gregg were there, and so was one-legged Dahlgren, whose sad fate it was a few days later to be killed in his raid on Richmond. It was a scene of beauty, gallantry, and chivalry, and the dawn paled the thousand...
Pàgina 448 - Brothers, God grant, when this life is o'er, In the life to come that we meet once more ! The dead men lie bathed in the weltering blood, And the living are blent in the slippery flood, And the feet, as they reeling and sliding go, Stumble still on the corses that sleep below. "What! Francis!" "Give Charlotte my last farewell.
Pàgina 360 - Northern soldiers who profess to reverence Washington, forbear to desecrate the home of his first married life, the property of his wife, now owned by her descendants. "A GRANDDAUGHTER OF MRS. WASHINGTON.
Pàgina 434 - Thus ended the strangest and most indescribable battle in history. A battle which no man saw, and in which artillery was useless and hardly used at all. A battle fought in dense woods and tangled brake, where maneuvering was impossible, where the lines of battle were invisible to their commanders, and whose position could only be determined by the rattle and roll and flash of musketry, and where the enemy was also invisible.
Pàgina 15 - President — to call upon the several States, in his discretion, for any number of troops not exceeding in the aggregate the number heretofore authorized, to serve for the term of three years or during the war.
Pàgina 370 - Alas Reader, We can detain nothing, however valued, from unrelenting Death. Beauty, fortune or exalted honour See here a Proof, And be reminded by this awful Tomb; that every worldly comfort fleets away, excepting only, what arises from Imitating the virtues of our friends and the contemplation of their happiness. To which God was pleased to call this Lady On the 13th day of November, 1737, In the 29th year of her age.