Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16, 1861, to August 1, 1864Estes and Lauriat, 1894 - 476 頁 |
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1st lieut 2d lieut 39th Inf 39th Mass April ARMY CORPS artillery battle born Boston boys brigade camp capt carpenter cavalry CHARLES clerk Colonel command crossed Culpeper deserted division duty earthworks enemy enemy's farmer Fifth Corps fighting fire Ford Fredericksburg front G. K. WARREN GEORGE GEORGE E Gettysburg guard halted Hartsuff HEADQUARTERS ARMY hill Ireland JAMES James River JOHN July 16 July 28 June killed Major-General Manassas March Marlboro McDowell Meade miles morning move mustered Natick night o'clock officers picket position Potomac priv promoted to corp Rapidan Rappahannock Rappahannock River rear rebel received reënlisted regiment residence Richmond river road Roxbury Second Corps Sept sergt shoemaker skirmishers soldier Spottsylvania Spottsylvania Court House Station Stevensburg taken prisoner tered Thirteenth to-day transferred to 39th troops U.S. Colored Troops wagons Warren Warrenton Washington WILLIAM
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第 90 頁 - I hear constantly of taking strong positions and holding them — of lines of retreat, and of bases of supplies. Let us discard such ideas. The strongest position a soldier should desire to occupy is one from which he can most easily advance against the enemy. Let us study the probable lines of retreat of our opponents, and leave our own to take care of themselves. Let us look before us and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance. Disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
第 51 頁 - I suppose the whole force which has gone forward for you is with you by this time. And if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. By delay the enemy will relatively gain upon you, — that is, he will gain faster by fortifications and reinforcements than you can by reinforcements alone.
第 51 頁 - You will do me the justice to remember, I always insisted that going down the bay in search of a field, instead of fighting at or near Manassas, was only shifting and not surmounting a difficulty ; that we would find the same enemy, and the same or equal intrenchments, at either place.
第 219 頁 - South have long wished to aid you in throwing off this foreign yoke, to enable you again to enjoy the inalienable rights of freemen, and restore independence and sovereignty to your State.
第 218 頁 - Marylander [Taney], to whom in better days no citizen appealed for right in vain, was treated with scorn and contempt ; the government of your chief city has been usurped by armed strangers ; your legislature...
第 145 頁 - ... roads are as good on yours as on his. You know I desired, but did not order, you to cross the Potomac below, instead of above, the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge. My idea was that this would at once menace the enemy's communications, which I would seize if he would permit. If he should move forward I would follow him closely, holding his communications.
第 338 頁 - We have now ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting. The result, to this time, is much in our favor. Our losses have been heavy, as well as those of the enemy. I think the loss of the enemy must be greater. We have taken over five thousand prisoners by battle, while he has taken from us but few, except stragglers. I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT ON THIS LINE IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER.
第 263 頁 - Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
第 90 頁 - I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies — from an army whose business it has been to seek the adversary, and to beat him when found, whose policy has been attack and not defence.
第 51 頁 - The country will not fail to note — is now noting — that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated. " I beg to assure you that I have never written...