Bay State Monthly, Volume 4New England Magazine Company, 1891 |
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... received the news of the disastrous engagement at Ball's Bluff in October . In this , the 20th Mass . lost heavily . Among the killed was young Lieut . William Lowell Putnam of the Law School . His funeral Col. Robert G. Shaw . services ...
... received the news of the disastrous engagement at Ball's Bluff in October . In this , the 20th Mass . lost heavily . Among the killed was young Lieut . William Lowell Putnam of the Law School . His funeral Col. Robert G. Shaw . services ...
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... received the highest honorary gift of the univer- sity ; but its distinguishing feature was the Commemoration Ode recited by James Russell Lowell . For It was about this time tnat the plan was originated , or at least put into prac ...
... received the highest honorary gift of the univer- sity ; but its distinguishing feature was the Commemoration Ode recited by James Russell Lowell . For It was about this time tnat the plan was originated , or at least put into prac ...
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... received the preceding day , from guerrillas , near Kelly's Ford , on the Rappahannock . He was then a captain in the 5th New York Cavalry . Winthrop Perkins Boynton and William Dwight Crane . They had been intimate chums at college ...
... received the preceding day , from guerrillas , near Kelly's Ford , on the Rappahannock . He was then a captain in the 5th New York Cavalry . Winthrop Perkins Boynton and William Dwight Crane . They had been intimate chums at college ...
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... received at Chancellorsville . This was a short time before I left for Virginia , at the end of the summer of 1863 . No mention has been made of what those who were in the Confederate Army or Navy did during those four terrible years ...
... received at Chancellorsville . This was a short time before I left for Virginia , at the end of the summer of 1863 . No mention has been made of what those who were in the Confederate Army or Navy did during those four terrible years ...
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... receiving apparatus , Morse supplied a transmitter shown at the bottom of the illustration . This consisted of a forked lever suspended over a pair of mercury cups , and a " type rule " laid on an endless band which passed around two ...
... receiving apparatus , Morse supplied a transmitter shown at the bottom of the illustration . This consisted of a forked lever suspended over a pair of mercury cups , and a " type rule " laid on an endless band which passed around two ...
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