Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864Estes and Lauriat, 1893 - 476 pages |
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... and speeches , a drill on Boston Common by one of the artillery companies , and at noon by the firing of one hundred guns in honor of the day . While the people were thus actively engaged in celebrating the xii ORGANIZATION .
... and speeches , a drill on Boston Common by one of the artillery companies , and at noon by the firing of one hundred guns in honor of the day . While the people were thus actively engaged in celebrating the xii ORGANIZATION .
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... artillery . " In order to carry out so extensive a system of pickets it was nec- essary to make large and frequent details of men from each com- pany , the particular dates of which are omitted , and only the larger ones mentioned . Nov ...
... artillery . " In order to carry out so extensive a system of pickets it was nec- essary to make large and frequent details of men from each com- pany , the particular dates of which are omitted , and only the larger ones mentioned . Nov ...
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... artillery , crossed the river and followed us to Martinsburg . While marching in Maryland we felt secure from rebel interference when falling out , overcome with fatigue or the heat of the sun , but now we were likely at any moment to ...
... artillery , crossed the river and followed us to Martinsburg . While marching in Maryland we felt secure from rebel interference when falling out , overcome with fatigue or the heat of the sun , but now we were likely at any moment to ...
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... Artillery of New Orleans , whose huts , by the way , we occupied later on at Centreville . When the band ceased playing a voice exclaimed , " Let's hear a woman's voice ! " And Miss Jennie Cary , standing in the tent door , sang " My ...
... Artillery of New Orleans , whose huts , by the way , we occupied later on at Centreville . When the band ceased playing a voice exclaimed , " Let's hear a woman's voice ! " And Miss Jennie Cary , standing in the tent door , sang " My ...
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... artillery . " Well- informed as he was about our movements , he omitted to mention the articles left behind by the rank and file before we left Martins- burg , though we still had three days ' rations , forty rounds of ammuni- tion ...
... artillery . " Well- informed as he was about our movements , he omitted to mention the articles left behind by the rank and file before we left Martins- burg , though we still had three days ' rations , forty rounds of ammuni- tion ...
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1st lieut 2d lieut 39th Mass Antietam April ARMY CORPS Army of Virginia arrived artillery battle battle of Antietam born Boston boys brigade camp capt carpenter cavalry CHARLES clerk Colonel command crossed Culpeper Darnestown deserted division duty earthworks enemy enemy's farmer Fifth Corps fighting fire Ford Fredericksburg front Front Royal G. K. WARREN GEORGE Gettysburg guard halted Hartsuff HEADQUARTERS ARMY hill JOHN July 16 July 28 June killed Lieutenant Major-General Manassas Marlboro Massachusetts McClellan McDowell Meade miles morning move movement mustered night o'clock officers picket position Potomac priv promoted rain Rapidan Rappahannock rear rebel received reënlisted regiment residence Richmond river road sent Sept sergt shoemaker skirmishers soldiers soon Station tents tered Thirteenth to-day town transferred to 39th troops U.S. Colored Troops wagons Warren Warrenton Washington WILLIAM Williamsport wounded
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Page 51 - I suppose the whole force which has gone forward for you is with you by this time. And if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you, — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 210 - In one word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.
Page 144 - As I understand, you telegraphed General Halleck that you cannot subsist your army at Winchester unless the railroad from Harper's Ferry to that point be put in working order. But the enemy does now subsist his army at Winchester, at a distance nearly twice as great from railroad transportation as you would have to do without the railroad last named.
Page 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.
Page 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,...
Page 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.
Page 71 - You are instructed, laying aside for the present the movement on Richmond, to put 20,000 men in motion at once for the Shenandoah, moving on the line or in advance of the line of the Manassas Gap Railroad.
Page 51 - The country will not fail to note, is now noting, that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as, in my most anxious judgment, I consistently can. But you must act.