The "Ulster Guard" (20th N. Y. State Militia) and the War of the Rebellion: Embracing a History of the Early Organization of the Regiments Its Three Months Service...complete Roster, Etc ...its Reorganization and Subsequent Services... Together with a Brief Treatise Upon the Origin and Growth of Secession,; the Militis System, and the Dependence of the Federal Government Upon it in the Beginning of the War; with a Critical History of the First Batle of Bull Run; Campaign of Gen. Pope; McClellan's Maryland Campaign; Battle of Frederickburg: Hooker's Chancellorsville Campaign: Gettysburg Campaign; and a Glance at the Campaign from the Rapidan to Appomattaz Court HouseB. H. Tyrrel, printer, 1879 - 619 páginas |
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... arrive at just conclusions . While the criticisms I have felt constrained to pass upon some of the leaders of the Union Army may be distasteful to many of my readers , yet they will find it difficult to deny their justice , in view of ...
... arrive at just conclusions . While the criticisms I have felt constrained to pass upon some of the leaders of the Union Army may be distasteful to many of my readers , yet they will find it difficult to deny their justice , in view of ...
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... Arrival of Mr. Reynolds - Sleepy Sen- tinels - Invoice of Clothing - Impedimentia - Lieutenant - Colonel Schoonmaker resigns - An Election - Deaths - Funeral in a Thun- der Storm - Efforts to get the Regiment sent to the Front - Or ...
... Arrival of Mr. Reynolds - Sleepy Sen- tinels - Invoice of Clothing - Impedimentia - Lieutenant - Colonel Schoonmaker resigns - An Election - Deaths - Funeral in a Thun- der Storm - Efforts to get the Regiment sent to the Front - Or ...
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... Arrival of a fresh Brigade of Johnston's Army - General Keyes - McDowell's Opportunity Gone - Tactics and Strategy - Porter and Sherman - The Retreat -What caused Confusion - Disorder not general - Any Troops would have been demoralized ...
... Arrival of a fresh Brigade of Johnston's Army - General Keyes - McDowell's Opportunity Gone - Tactics and Strategy - Porter and Sherman - The Retreat -What caused Confusion - Disorder not general - Any Troops would have been demoralized ...
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... Arrival of General Meade - Posting the Army- Newton assigned to First Corps - Roads and Topography - Third Corps swings out of Line - Brings on a Battle - Break through Sickles ' Left - Push for Round Top - What Warren did - Terrible ...
... Arrival of General Meade - Posting the Army- Newton assigned to First Corps - Roads and Topography - Third Corps swings out of Line - Brings on a Battle - Break through Sickles ' Left - Push for Round Top - What Warren did - Terrible ...
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... arrival in the waters of Hampton Roads of the little Monitor and the gallant Worden , it is doubtful whether we could have held Fortress Monroe against the as- saults of this almost impervious engine of destruction . These untoward ...
... arrival in the waters of Hampton Roads of the little Monitor and the gallant Worden , it is doubtful whether we could have held Fortress Monroe against the as- saults of this almost impervious engine of destruction . These untoward ...
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1st Lieut 2d Lieut 61 Kingston advance Antietam Aquia Creek arms army artillery attack battery bivouacked brigade Bull Run Burnside camp Captain captured cavalry Cemetery Hill Centreville Chambersburg Chancellorsville City Point Colonel Gates Colonel Pratt column command Company Confederate Court House crossed Distance marched division duty enemy enemy's eral Federal field fight fire flank force Ford Fredericksburg front George W Government ground guns Halleck Hardenburgh Harper's Ferry headquarters Hill Hooker hundred infantry Jackson King's division Lee's Lieutenant line of battle Manassas McClellan McDowell McDowell's ment miles militia morning moved movement night o'clock officers picket Pope position Potomac Private August 30 Private Gettysburg railroad Rappahannock re-enforcements rear rebel regiment retreat Reynolds Richmond ridge river road Saugerties Seminary Ridge Sept September 17 Sergeant Sharpsburg side skirmishers soldiers tion troops turnpike Twentieth Ulster County Ulster Guard Union Union army Warrenton Washington woods wounded
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Página 22 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 163 - Far away in the cot on the mountain. His musket falls slack; his face, dark and grim, Grows gentle with memories tender, As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep, For their mother — may Heaven defend her!
Página 498 - April 7, 1865. GENERAL RE LEE, Commander CSA GENERAL : The result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of further resistance on the part of the army of Northern Virginia in this struggle. I feel that it is so, and regard it as my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking of you the surrender of that portion of the Confederate States army known as the army of Northern Virginia.
Página 499 - I received at a late hour your note of today. In mine of yesterday, I did not intend to propose the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, but to ask the terms of your proposition.
Página 5 - African slavery as it exists among us, the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this as the 'rock upon which the old union would split.
Página 6 - ... African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.
Página 6 - In the conflict, thus far, success has been on our side, complete throughout the length and breadth of the Confederate States. It is upon this, as I have stated, our social fabric is firmly planted ; and I cannot permit myself to doubt the ultimate success of a full recognition of this principle throughout the civilized and enlightened world.
Página 22 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Página 292 - General Stuart will detach a squadron of cavalry to accompany the commands of Generals Longstreet, Jackson and McLaws, and, with the main body of the cavalry, will cover the route of the army, and bring up all stragglers that may have been left behind. " The commands of Generals Jackson, McLaws and Walker, after accomplishing the objects for which they have been detached, will join the main body of the army at Boonsboro
Página 163 - ... vows Were pledged to be ever unbroken. ^Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, He dashes off tears that are welling, And gathers his gun closer up to its place As if to keep down the heart-swelling. He...