Massachusetts in the Rebellion: A Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth, and the Services of the Leading Statesmen, the Military, the Colleges, and the People, in the Civil War of 1861-65Walker, Fuller and Company, 1866 - 688 páginas |
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... thousand souls had arrived in Massachusetts . Since then , it is supposed more have gone hence to England than have come thence hither . Massachusetts Bay , New Hampshire , Connecticut , and Rhode Island , probably contain five hundred ...
... thousand souls had arrived in Massachusetts . Since then , it is supposed more have gone hence to England than have come thence hither . Massachusetts Bay , New Hampshire , Connecticut , and Rhode Island , probably contain five hundred ...
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... thousand troops in the Revolu- tionary army , whose entire number was forty thousand . She furnished more troops for the war than all the colonies south of Pennsylvania , three times as many as New York , and nearly the same excess over ...
... thousand troops in the Revolu- tionary army , whose entire number was forty thousand . She furnished more troops for the war than all the colonies south of Pennsylvania , three times as many as New York , and nearly the same excess over ...
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... thousand new troops to the field . His messages and addresses on special occasions , such as on the departure or return of regiments , the presentation of flags , and on other public occasions , are models of their kind ; and many of ...
... thousand new troops to the field . His messages and addresses on special occasions , such as on the departure or return of regiments , the presentation of flags , and on other public occasions , are models of their kind ; and many of ...
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... thousand men , fitted and furnished to be mobilized in a week , should constitute an active militia ? . . . The ultimate extinction of human slavery is inevitable . That this war , which is the revolt of slavery ( checkmated by an ...
... thousand men , fitted and furnished to be mobilized in a week , should constitute an active militia ? . . . The ultimate extinction of human slavery is inevitable . That this war , which is the revolt of slavery ( checkmated by an ...
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... thousand signatures to petitions against the admission of Texas as a slave State ; and , with the poet Whittier , was appointed a committee to carry the petitions to Washington . In 1846 , Mr. Wilson was again a mem- ber of the House of ...
... thousand signatures to petitions against the admission of Texas as a slave State ; and , with the poet Whittier , was appointed a committee to carry the petitions to Washington . In 1846 , Mr. Wilson was again a mem- ber of the House of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
advance Andrew April arms army arrived artillery Assistant Surgeon Chaplain attack Baltimore Baton Rouge battalion Boston brevet brigade camp Capt captured cavalry charge colonel command commenced Commonwealth companies Congress Corps crossed defence division duty eight embarked encamped enemy enemy's engaged expedition Faneuil Hall fell field fire force Fort Moultrie Fort Sumter Fortress Monroe front Government Hinks honor hundred infantry James River July June killed Lieut Lieut.-Col Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel Major Light Battery line of battle Lowell Major-Gen marched Massachusetts Volunteers ment miles militia morning moved mustered Newbern night o'clock officers ordered Orleans patriotic Petersburg picket picket-duty Port Hudson position Potomac Railroad Rappahannock reached Readville rebel Rebellion received recruited regi regiment regiment remained returned River Roanoke Island Second Senate sent Sept skirmishers slavery soldiers Station steamer term of service thousand tion took troops Union United-States Warrenton Washington wounded
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Página 488 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye...
Página 482 - O bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime. Loud and long, that all may hear, Ring for every listening ear Of Eternity and Time ! Let us kneel : God's own voice is in that peal, And this spot is holy ground. Lord, forgive us ! What are we, That our eyes this glory see...
Página 487 - Lord, how beautiful was thy day ! Every waft of the air Was a whisper of prayer, Or a dirge for the dead. Ho ! brave hearts that went down in the seas ! Ye are at peace in the troubled stream. Ho ! brave land ! with hearts like these, Thy flag, that is rent in twain, Shall be one again, And without a seam ! SNOW-FLAKES.
Página 415 - ... 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...
Página 9 - I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villany on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
Página 483 - Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than He has done? When was ever His right hand Over any time or land Stretched as now beneath the sun? How they pale, Ancient myth and song and tale, In this wonder of our days, When the cruel rod of war Blossoms white with righteous law. And the wrath of man is praise!
Página 34 - Join all, and try the omnipotence of Jove: Let down our golden everlasting chain,. Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main: Strive all, of mortal, and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth. Ye strive in vain! If I but stretch this hand, I heave the gods, the ocean, and the land; I fix the chain to great Olympus' height, And the vast world hangs trembling in my sight!
Página 484 - Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun, We can never forget that our hearts have been one, Our foreheads both sprinkled in Liberty's name, From the fountain of blood with the finger of flame! You were always too ready to fire at a touch; But we said: "She is hasty, she does not mean much.
Página 482 - Let us kneel: God's own voice is in that peal, And this spot is holy ground. Lord, forgive us! What are we. That our eyes this glory see, That our ears have heard the sound...
Página 36 - For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people ; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.