History of the 13th Infantry Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, During the Great RebellionCase, Lockwood & Company, 1867 - 353 Seiten |
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History of the 13th Infantry Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, during the ... Homer B. Sprague Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2021 |
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1st Lieutenant 2d Lieutenant April April 14 army artillery August Banks batteries battle Bayou Bayou Boeuf Blinn brigade Britain camp Canaan Capt Captain Sprague cavalry Chaplain Charles Colonel Birge command Company Conn Corporal Corps deserted March 17 died disability Feb disability July disability May 20 discharged Aug discharged for disability discharged June 26 Donaldsonville Edward enemy enemy's expiration of term fire front George George W Grover Hartford Haven Henry hundred Irish Bend James John Joseph July 29 killed Lieut Litchfield Louisiana March 20 Middletown miles Montville morning moved night Norwich o'clock officers Orleans pickets Port Hudson prisoners Private promoted Quartermaster re-enlisted as Veteran rear rebel recruit regiment river rolls June 30 Sept Sergeant shot skirmishers soldiers steamer term of service Thibodaux Thirteenth Connecticut Thomas transferred to Veteran troops Veteran Feb War Department Warner Weitzel William wounded writer
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Seite 45 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
Seite 113 - The mists that wrapped the pilgrim's sleep Still brood upon the tide ; And his rocks yet keep their watch by the deep, To stay its waves of pride : But the snow-white sail that he gave to the gale When the heavens looked dark, is gone ; As an angel's wing through an opening cloud Is seen, and then withdrawn.
Seite 153 - No rude alarms of raging foes; No cares to break the long repose; No midnight shade, no clouded sun, But sacred, high, eternal noon.
Seite 32 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals...
Seite 192 - I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI.
Seite 226 - ... towed to sea by tugs. Touching at Fortress Monroe and taking on board rations, they steamed out to sea the same night. The water was rough, but the Illinois came to anchor at evening, January 16, off the Savannah bar. January 17th, they waited all day for a pilot. Wednesday morning, January 18th, they weighed anchor and stood off in the direction of Hilton Head; but soon meeting the steamer on which was General Grover, they returned at his signal to the mouth of the Savannah. January 19th, they...
Seite 212 - ... murderous musketry, threatening to sweep away our centre and render our struggle a defeat almost before it had become a battle. It was the bloodiest, the darkest, the most picturesque, the most dramatic, the only desperate moment of the day. General Emory and General Grover, with every brigade commander and every staff officer present, rode hither and thither through the fire, endeavoring by threats, commands, and entreaties to halt and re-form the panic-stricken stragglers. "' Halt here, men,'...
Seite 211 - Magazine, presents the following picture: " Grover's and Rickett's (First Division, Sixth Corps) commands reached the base from which they had advanced, in a state of confusion which threatened wide-spread disaster. Sixth Corps men and Nineteenth Corps men were crowding together up the line of the Berryville pike, while to the right and left of it the fields were dotted with fugitives, great numbers of them wounded, bursting out of the retiring ranks, and rushing towards the cover of the forest....
Seite 38 - Commission, for the offence of recruiting for the Confederate army within our military lines. The appointed day came. A detachment of the Thirteenth Connecticut was detailed to do the shooting. At early morning the prisoners, with a strong military escort from our regiment, proceeded a couple of miles towards the lake, with a vast concourse of spectators thronging around. Passing out of Canal Street, they halted in an open field on the left. The troops were drawn up on three sides of a square. The...
Seite 179 - Most of the officers joined in the same commands and a universal shout of " Forward ! Forward !" again rose. The two regiments wavered but a moment, and then plunged wildly on towards the enemy. A crooked ravine running diagonally across the field, and filled with interlacing vines, brambles and trees, arrested our disorderly advance and afforded cover. For ten or fifteen minutes the firing continued. The writer being the only mounted officer present, found it expedient to make frequent " changes...