History of the 13th Infantry Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, During the Great RebellionCase, Lockwood & Company, 1867 - 353 Seiten |
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1ST LIEUTENANT 2d Lieutenant April April 14 army artillery August Banks battalion batteries battle Bayou Bayou Boeuf Blinn brigade Britain Butler camp Canaan Captain Sprague cavalry Chaplain Charles Colonel Birge command Conn deserted March 17 died disability Feb disability July disability May 20 discharged Aug discharged for disability discharged June 26 Donaldsonville Edward enemy enemy's fight fire front George Grover Hartford Haven Henry Holcomb hundred infantry Irish Bend James John Joseph June 26 killed Lieut Litchfield Louisiana March 20 ment Middletown miles Montville morning moved negro night Norwich o'clock officers orders Orleans pickets Port Hudson Private promoted re-enlisted as Veteran rear rebel recruit regi regiment river road rolls June 30 sent Sept Sergeant shot skirmishers soldiers steamer term of service Thibodaux Thirteenth Connecticut Thomas transferred to Veteran troops Veteran Feb Veteran Reserve Corps Warner Weitzel William woods wounded writer
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Seite 65 - 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 133 - 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gave to the gale When the heavens looked dark, is gone ; As an angel's wing through an opening cloud Is seen, and then withdrawn.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 246 - ... 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 landed at last in the evening, two lighters having taken them up to the city. January 20, they went in a rain storm to the Central Railroad Depot, which they occupied a week. January 26, they moved...
Seite 173 - 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 232 - ... 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 231 - Rickett's 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 toward the cover of the forest. Some regiments disappeared for a time as organizations.
Seite 58 - 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 92 - Stripes through the half-deserted streets, keeping step to the music of our re-enspirited and splendid band. No welcome greeted us from the white race. They closed their doors and window-shutters, or scowled with eyes askance from verandas and balconies. The negroes from far and near swarmed to us. " Every soldier had a negro, and every negro a mule. Many of the blacks also brought with them horses, wagons, house-furniture, provisions, bundles of clothing, bedding, with their wives and infants, till...
Seite 77 - Halt!" said the sentry; and the Superintendent gave up the pursuit in despair.' '• The instructions which Bromley gave to Corporal Strange, a member of his staff, as he termed him, were quite significant. ' Strange, we're going on an expedition. I want my staff to be on the lookout for turkeys, geese, pigs, and sheep. Don't be the aggressor in any contest. Stand strictly on the defensive ; but? if you're attacked by any of these animals, show fight, and dorft forget to bring off the enemy's dead"...
Seite 87 - ... in sky-blue overcoat, smoking a cigar, looking like a common soldier and keeping amusingly cool while so many officers and soldiers were bowing and dodging at every sound of an iron projectile. We were a little more than a quarter of a mile from the rebel line, and had not yet fired a bullet, when the enemy's infantry opened upon us with a rattle like the discharge of an endless string* of fire-crackers. The invisible messengers came humming and singing in our ears, and striking a man here and...