The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 |
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The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion Abner Ralph Small No preview available - 2018 |
The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion Major a. R. Small No preview available - 2018 |
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21 Portland 62 Disc 62 Discharged 62 Killed 62 Missing 62 Pris 62 Prom 62 Promoted Corporal 62 Promoted Sergeant 62 Transferred 62 Wounded Dec 63 Conscript 63 Drafted 64 Disease 64 National 64 Substitute Adjutant army August 14th Bangor battle of Gettysburgh Belfast Benjamin F bivouacked brigade Castine Charles H Colonel Tilden Com'dg command commissioned first lieutenant Company H Corps Daniel Davis division Dixfield duty enemy enlisted Farnham Frank front Gardiner George W half-past HDQ'RS Henry Hiram hundred James John Joseph July 28 July 31 June 15 June 5th Lewiston lieutenant Company Major Leavitt miles o'clock A.M. officers order June picket Portland Priv Private rear rebel Samuel second lieutenant Second Maine Battery Sept Sergt Single Mustered Sixteenth Maine Regiment Sixteenth Regiment Skowhegan Thomas Trans U.
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Page 157 - When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business : but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
Page 157 - And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? Let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.
Page 128 - In relinquishing command, I take occasion to express the pride and pleasure I have experienced in my connection with you, and my profound regret at our separation. Identified by its services with the history of the war, the First Corps gave at Gettysburg a crowning proof of valor and endurance in saving from the grasp of the enemy the strong position upon which the battle was fought. The terrible losses suffered by the corps in that conflict attest its supreme devotion to the country.
Page 47 - The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him south. Your army must move now, while the roads are good.
Page 26 - I am clear that one of two courses should be adopted: First, to concentrate all our available forces to open communications with Pope; Second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe.
Page 154 - There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.
Page 20 - ... flannel and sole leather and sometimes twenty rounds of ammunition extra. Mixed in with these regulation essentials, like beatitudes, are photographs, cards, huswife, Testament, pens, ink, paper, and oftentimes stolen truck enough to load a mule. All this is crowned with a double wool blanket and half a shelter tent rolled in a rubber blanket. One shoulder and the hips support the "commissary department...
Page 176 - The disabling of General Robinson at this juncture was a severe blow to the division^ and certainly influenced the fortunes of the day. The want of our commanding officer prevented that concert of action which alone could have overcome the enemy in front."* But above the loss of General Robinson, the * Co«lt«r'
Page 201 - ... thought he would take a look after that " thin skirmish line," and he found it. The heavy storm and dense darkness of the night enabled him to get through the line. He did not get through any too quick, for two shots were fired at him while between the Confederate skirmish line and his own. He finally came upon the pickets of his own brigade — a piece of good fortune pleasingly agreeable, and quite as remarkable as agreeable.
Page 214 - ... Grant, as in embarrassment, and whispered in his rival's ear that his men hadn't had anything but parched corn to eat in several days. It was like one brother confiding in another. Grant turned to his staff officers : "You go to the Twenty-fourth, you to the Fiftieth," and so on, naming his various corps, "and ask every man who has three rations to turn over two of them. Go to the commissaries, go to the quartermasters. General Lee's army is on the point of starvation.