A History of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865R. R. Donnelley & sons Company, 1910 - 484 pages |
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A History of the Forty-Fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the ... Eugene Arus Nash No preview available - 2012 |
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1st Lieut 2d Lieut 5th Corps 83d Penn Adjutant Albany Alexandria April army battle of Hanover borne Bull Run camp Capt Captain cavalry Chap Charles command Company Confederate Conner died of disease died of wounds disch Division duty Ellsworth enemy enemy's engaged enlisted field fire Forty-Fourth Fredericksburg front further record Gaines Mills George Gettysburg Groveton guard Hall's Hill halted Hanover C. H. hosp James John John.-A June 24 Laurel Hill line of battle Little Round Top M. O. Aug M. O. July M. O. June M. O. with Co Malvern Hill March miles morning mustered N. Y. V. I. Oct night o'clock P. M. officers paroled picket position Potomac prisoners Rappahannock re-enlisted rear rebel regiment regt Rice river Round Top Second Bull Run Sept Sergeant skirmishers soldier transf troops Washington Wilderness William William.-A York Yorktown
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Page 125 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders.
Page 125 - I much fear that the spirit you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 213 - And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they? We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell! In quiet we had learn'd to dwell — My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what we are: — even I Regain'd my freedom with a sigh.
Page 300 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 125 - General : I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and skilful soldier, which, of course, I like.
Page 139 - My original instructions require me to cover Harper's Ferry and Washington. I have now imposed upon me, in addition, an enemy in my front of more than my number. I beg to be understood, respectfully, but firmly, that I am unable to comply with this condition with the means at my disposal, and earnestly request that I may at once be relieved from the position I occupy.
Page 125 - You are ambitious — which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm; but I think that, during General Burnside's command of the army, you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer.
Page 110 - As an army you have grown up under my care. In you I have never found doubt or coldness. The battles you have fought under my command will proudly live in our nation's history. The glory you have achieved, our mutual perils and fatigues, the graves of our comrades fallen in battle and by disease, the broken forms of those whom wounds and sickness have disabled, — the strongest associations which can exist among men, — unite us still by an indissoluble tie. We shall ever be comrades in supporting...
Page 12 - That any volunteer who may be received into the service of the United States under this act, and who may be wounded or otherwise disabled in the service, shall be entitled to the benefits which have been or may be conferred on persons disabled in the regular service...
Page 190 - SOLDIERS : The moment has arrived when your commanding general feels authorized to address you in terms of congratulation. For eight days and nights, almost without intermission, in rain and sunshine, you have been gallantly fighting a desperate foe, in positions naturally strong, and rendered doubly so by intrenchments; you have compelled him to abandon his fortifications on the Rapidan, to retire and attempt to stop your onward progress, and now he has abandoned the last intrenched position, so...