History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery: Organized October 3, 1861, Mustered Out June 12, 1865 |
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... Cavalry Review , 568 ; Grand Re- view , 569 ; Invalid Corps , 576 ; In Line of Battle , 582 ; Recrossed the River , 583 ; Report of Captain Phillips , 586 ; Reduced to Four Guns , 595 ; Drew another Section , 598 . CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH ...
... Cavalry Review , 568 ; Grand Re- view , 569 ; Invalid Corps , 576 ; In Line of Battle , 582 ; Recrossed the River , 583 ; Report of Captain Phillips , 586 ; Reduced to Four Guns , 595 ; Drew another Section , 598 . CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH ...
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... Cavalry ; 2d , Artillery ; 3d , Infantry . The Cavalry formed on Park Street mall of the Common , right resting near Park Street gate , the Artillery on the Tremont Street mall , right resting near Park Street gate FIFTH MASS . BATTERY .
... Cavalry ; 2d , Artillery ; 3d , Infantry . The Cavalry formed on Park Street mall of the Common , right resting near Park Street gate , the Artillery on the Tremont Street mall , right resting near Park Street gate FIFTH MASS . BATTERY .
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... cavalry shall be limited to one hundred privates and a saddler and a farrier : companies of artillery to forty - eight cannoneers , twenty - four drivers , and a saddler and a farrier : the cadet companies of the first and second ...
... cavalry shall be limited to one hundred privates and a saddler and a farrier : companies of artillery to forty - eight cannoneers , twenty - four drivers , and a saddler and a farrier : the cadet companies of the first and second ...
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... cavalry , or the staff , which no amount of capacity , gallantry , or good conduct , could secure him in his own arm . The result is that , with a few marked exceptions , in which officers were willing to sacrifice their personal ...
... cavalry , or the staff , which no amount of capacity , gallantry , or good conduct , could secure him in his own arm . The result is that , with a few marked exceptions , in which officers were willing to sacrifice their personal ...
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... cavalry , and after the review on the South side of the Potomac it was telegraphed August 25 , 1861 , all over the country : - " Gen . McClellan declares perfect satisfaction with his army , and his army , the greatest ever seen on this ...
... cavalry , and after the review on the South side of the Potomac it was telegraphed August 25 , 1861 , all over the country : - " Gen . McClellan declares perfect satisfaction with his army , and his army , the greatest ever seen on this ...
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5th Mass Adjutant afternoon Appleton April arrived Art'y artillery Battery Bedford Boston bridge Brigade caissons camp Captain Martin Captain Phillips cavalry Centreville Chase's Diary City Point Colonel command commenced Corporal Creek crossed detached Division drill Dyer's Notes enemy enemy's Falmouth field Fifth Corps Fifth Mass fight fire Fitz John Porter flag flank Ford Fredericksburg front Gaines Mills Gettysburg Griffin ground guard guns Harrison's Landing Head Quarters hill hitched horses hour infantry James River Jan'y John July June killed LETTER OF LIEUT limber line of battle Little Round Top marched Massachusetts McClellan miles morning move Nathan Appleton o'clock officers ordered passed pickets piece Porter position Potomac railroad rain Rappahannock Rappahannock River rear rebels Rebs regiment Richmond river road Scott sent Serg't shell shot Sixth Corps soon Sunday tent tery Third Mass took troops wagons Warrenton Washington woods wounded yards Yorktown
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Page 138 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 381 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 144 - I will bear true faith and allegiance to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever ; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the Rules and Articles of War.
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Page 487 - ... of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the Army and Navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer, nor the cause the" defend be imperilled, by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High. "At this time of public distress" — adopting the words of Washington in 1776 — "men may find enough to do in the service of God and their country without abandoning themselves...
Page 646 - THE SOLDIER'S DREAM. Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die.
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Page 486 - The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline...