History of the One Hundred and Fortieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers: By Professor Robert Laird Stewart ... Pub. by Authority of the Regimental AssociationFranklin bindery, 1912 - 504 頁 |
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Adjutant advance April army artillery assault battery battle of Chancellorsville Beaver Brigade camp Camp Curtin Captain Captain Pipes cavalry Chancellorsville charge Cold Harbor Colonel command Company G Company May 31 comrades Confederate County Creek Culp's Hill died Discharged on surgeon's Division duty enemy fire flag flank Fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers Fortieth Regiment Fraser front George Gettysburg July ground guns Hancock Henry honor Hundred and Fortieth infantry James John Joseph June 17 Killed at Gettysburg Little Round Top loss March ment miles morning muster night o'clock officers orders June Petersburg Po River position Potomac prisoners Promoted from Corporal Promoted to Corporal rear Regiment river road Robert Samuel Second Corps Second Lieutenant Sept Sergeant Shallenberger skirmish line soldiers Spottsylvania Court House surgeon's certificate Thomas Transferred troops Union Union Army Washington Washington County William Wounded at Gettysburg Wounded at Spottsylvania wounds received
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第 252 頁 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am Loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
第 93 頁 - Ah ! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave — Gushed, warm with hope and valor yet, Upon the soil they fought to save. Now all is calm and fresh and still, Alone the chirp of flitting bird, And talk of children on the hill, And bell of wandering kine, are heard.
第 89 頁 - ... invasion. Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved, and let each man determine to do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest. It is with just diffidence that I relieve in the command of this army an eminent and accomplished soldier, whose name must ever appear conspicuous in the history of its achievements ; but I rely upon the hearty support of my companions...
第 89 頁 - By direction of the President of the United States, I hereby assume command of the Army of the Potomac. As a soldier, in obeying; this order — an order totally unexpected and unsolicited — I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion.
第 216 頁 - At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained. Indeed, the advantages other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side.
第 217 頁 - God of our fathers ! this banner must shine Where battle is hottest, in warfare divine ! The cannon has thundered, the bugle has blown — We fear not the summons — we fight not alone...
第 271 頁 - ... and stood, who held the hope Of nations on that slippery slope, Amid the cheers of Christendom! God lives! He forged the iron will, That clutched and held that trembling hill! God lives and reigns! He built and lent The heights for Freedom's battlement, Where floats her flag in triumph still! Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns! Love rules. Her gentler purpose runs. A mighty mother turns in tears, The pages of her battle years, Lamenting all her fallen sons!
第 288 頁 - Oh make Thou us, through centuries long, In peace secure, in justice strong ; Around our gift of freedom draw The safeguards of thy righteous law : And, cast in some diviner mould, Let the new cycle shame the old...
第 93 頁 - Ah ! never shall the land forget $ How gushed the life-blood of her brave — Gushed, warm with hope and courage yet, Upon the soil they fought to save.
第 155 頁 - AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps...