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 pages |
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... the fathers spared All else is overtopping . East , West , South , North , It curses the earth : All justice dies , And fraud and lies Live only in its shadow . What gives the wheat - field blades of steel ? What points the rebel cannon ...
... the fathers spared All else is overtopping . East , West , South , North , It curses the earth : All justice dies , And fraud and lies Live only in its shadow . What gives the wheat - field blades of steel ? What points the rebel cannon ...
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advance Antietam April army arrived artillery Assistant Surgeon Baltimore Baton Rouge battalion battery Boston brave Brevet Brig.-Gen brigade Bull Run camp Capt Captain cavalry Chancellorsville Chaplain Charles Church Cold Harbor Colonel command Commonwealth companies Corps Creek crossed died of disease died of wounds division duty encamped enemy enemy's engaged expedition Faneuil Hall fell field fire flag force Fort Stedman Fort Wagner Fortress Monroe Fredericksburg front George George W Gettysburg Hill honor hundred Infantry James July June Lieut Lieut.-Col Lieutenant-Colonel Lowell Major Major-Gen Malvern Hill marched Massachusetts Volunteer ment miles morning mustered Newbern night o'clock officers ordered patriotism Petersburg picket Port Hudson position Potomac Rappahannock reached Readville rebel Rebellion regi regiment remained returned River Roanoke Island Second Lieutenant sent Sept skirmishers soldiers Spottsylvania Station thousand tion took troops Union United-States Washington Weldon Railroad Wilderness William wounds received
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Page 616 - 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...
Page 617 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 610 - 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...
Page 12 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page 543 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 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...
Page 614 - Down upon us heavily runs, Silent and sullen, the floating fort; Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns, And leaps the terrible death, With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our heavier hail From each iron scale Of the monster's hide. "Strike your flag!" the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. "Never!
Page 13 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Page 611 - In the circuit of the sun Shall the sound thereof go forth. It shall bid the sad rejoice, It shall give the dumb a voice, It shall belt with joy the earth...
Page 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.
Page 137 - I appreciate your kind attention to our wounded and our dead, and trust that at the earliest moment the remains of our fallen will return to us. I am overwhelmed with surprise that a peaceful march of American citizens over the highway to the defence of our common capital, should be deemed aggressive to Baltimoreans. Through New York the march was triumphant.