History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade, Known as the Detroit and Wayne County Regiment ...Winn & Hammond, 1891 - 483 páginas |
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History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade, Known as the ... Orson Blair Curtis Visualização integral - 1891 |
History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade, Known as the ... Orson Blair Curtis Visualização integral - 1891 |
History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade: Known as the ... Orson Blair Curtis Visualização de excertos - 1987 |
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Andersonville Andrew April army August Battery battles of Fredericksburg Belle Plain Bethesda Church bivouacked Brownstown Camp Butler Campaign of Maneuvers Captain captured Chancellorsville Charles Colonel Morrow command Company comrades Confederate Culp's Hill Dabney's Mill Dearborn Detroit Division Edward enemy enemy's Enlisted Farmer field Fifth Corps fight fire Fitzhugh Crossing flag flank Ford front George George W Hatcher's Run Henry honor Ireland Iron Brigade James John Joseph July 26 June killed Laborer Laurel Hill Livonia Locust Grove Meherrin River miles morning moved Mud March Nankin night North Anna o'clock officers picket Plymouth Port Royal Potomac prisoner at Gettysburg rank Rappahannock recruits Redford regiment river Royal and Westmoreland Sept Sergeant Sergt Seventh Wisconsin Siege of Petersburg Sixth Wisconsin skirmishers soldiers South Spottsylvania Sunday Thomas troops Twenty-fourth Michigan Union Wayne Weldon Railroad Westmoreland Expeditions woods wounded at Gettysburg wounded at Laurel York
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Página 428 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are met on a great battle-field of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Página 307 - A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that" I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support ; and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may receive that Divine assistance, without which I cannot succeed, but with...
Página 312 - SOLDIERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES, — By your patriotic devotion to your country in the hour of danger and alarm, your magnificent fighting, bravery, and endurance, you have maintained the supremacy of the Union and the Constitution...
Página 155 - 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.
Página 110 - 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.
Página 155 - ... 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 in arms to assist me in the discharge...
Página 313 - To achieve these glorious triumphs, and secure to yourselves, your fellow-countrymen, and posterity, the blessings of free institutions, tens of thousands of your gallant comrades have fallen, and sealed the priceless legacy with their blood. The graves of these, a grateful nation bedews with tears, honors their memories, and will ever cherish and support their stricken families.
Página 80 - 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 the Constitution of our Country, and the nationality of its people.
Página 307 - A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the days of Washington. He never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sustained him, and...
Página 154 - The sorrow of parting with the comrades of so many battles is relieved by the conviction that the courage and devotion of this army will never cease nor fail ; that it will yield to my successor, as it has to me, a willing and hearty support. With the earnest prayer that the triumph of its arms may bring successes worthy of it and the nation, I bid it farewell.