A Memorial of the Great Rebellion: Being a History of the Fourteenth Regiment New-Hampshire Volunteers, Covering Its Three Years of Service, with Original Sketches of Army Life. 1862-1865Rand, Avery,, 1882 - 443 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
18 Farmer 21 Farmer army battalion battle Berryville boys brigade C. D. Wright camp campaign Capt captain cavalry Cedar Creek Charles Charlestown Chesterfield colonel command Company F Concord Corporal Cozzens detachment division dress-parade drill Dublin duty Early enemy enlisted Farmer 11 Farmer Aug Farmer Married fighting fire Fisher's Hill Fourteenth Regiment front George George W guard Gunshot Halltown Harper's Ferry Harrisonburg Henry Henry H Hinsdale hundred infantry Jaffrey James John July June Keene Laborer Libby Prison Lieut Mechanic miles military morning moved mustered never night Nineteenth Corps o'clock occupied officers Opequan pike Poolesville Potomac prisoners rear Rebel recruits Sandwich Savannah Seabrook Sept Sergeant Sergt Shenandoah Sheridan Shoemaker Sixth Corps soldier squad Swanzey Table teenth tents tion town troops Typhoid-fever Union Union army Valley veteran volunteer Walpole Washington Westmoreland William Winchester wounded
Popular passages
Page 308 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Page 311 - Bring the good old bugle, boys ! we'll sing another song — Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along, Sing it as we used to sing it fifty thousand strong, While we were marching through Georgia. Chorus — " ' Hurrah ! Hurrah ! we bring the Jubilee ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! the flag that makes you free !' So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea, While we were marching through Georgia.
Page 311 - Many are the hearts that are weary tonight, Wishing for the war to cease; Many are the hearts looking for the right To see the dawn of peace. Tenting tonight, tenting tonight, Tenting on the old camp ground.
Page 300 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 155 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Page 203 - The events of the last month had satisfied me that the commander opposed to me was without enterprise, and possessed an excessive caution which amounted to timidity. If it was his policy to produce the impression that his force was too weak to fight me, he did not succeed, but if it was to convince me that he was not an energetic commander, his strategy was a complete success, and subsequent events have not changed_my opinion.
Page 292 - This was the case of a glorious victory given up by my own troops after they had won it, and it is to be accounted for, on the ground of the partial demoralization caused by the plunder of the enemy's camps, and from the fact that the men undertook to judge for themselves when it was proper to retire.
Page 311 - So within the prison cell We are waiting for the day That shall come to open wide the iron door, And the hollow eye grows bright, And the poor heart almost gay, As we think of seeing home and friends once more.
Page 312 - round the flag, boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle-cry of freedom.
Page 297 - SHERIDAN: With great pleasure I tender to you and your brave army the thanks of the nation, and my own personal admiration and gratitude, for the month's operations in the Shenandoah Valley; and especially for the splendid work of October 19, 1864.