The History of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865Snow & Farnham, printers, 1904 - 408 sider |
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advance Antietam army arrived artillery attack Barlow Battery B Aug Battery G battle of Antietam battle of Gettysburg Birney's brevet bridge brigade broke camp Bull Run Captain captured cavalry Cold Harbor Colonel command Confederate Creek crossed Discharged for disability drill enemy enemy's Enrolled Aug entrenchments Fifth Corps fighting fire five o'clock flank force Fredericksburg front Gettysburg guns Hancock Harper's Ferry heavy Hill horses hundred infantry John July killed Lee's Lieut limber line of battle marched miles morning move night officers passed picket Po River Poolesville position Potomac prisoners promoted railroad re-enforced Reams's Station rear rebels regiment reported river Second Corps Second Division second lieutenant Second Rhode Island Seminary Ridge sent sergeant Sergt shell shot Sixth Corps skirmish soldiers soon Station Sumner tery Third Corps Third Division tion took transferred to Battery troops Warrenton weather William woods wounded York
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Side 117 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Side 50 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Side 117 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. And if I could do it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Side 117 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
Side 52 - 11 brush the leaves away ; And gray old men will point the spot Beneath the pine-tree shade, As children ask with streaming eyes Where Old John Brown is laid." On the same day, from his place of exile in Guernsey, Victor Hugo thus addressed the American republic : — " At the thought of the United States of America, a majestic form rises in the mind, — Washington. In this country of Washington what is now taking place! There are slaves in the South; and this most monstrous of inconsistencies offends...
Side 50 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.
Side 50 - Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea.
Side 320 - Warren seems reluctant to assault. I have ordered him at all hazards to do so, and if his attack should be repulsed to draw in his right and send his troops as fast as possible to Hancock and Wright. Tell Hancock to hold on.
Side 54 - He added, as a personal reason for this choice, that his relations with Captain Avis, his jailer, were such that he should hold it a breach of trust to be rescued. There is an example even higher than that of Socrates, which history will not fail to hold up, — that Person of whom his slayers said: " He saved others; himself he cannot save.
Side 199 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.