The Story of the Forty-eighth: A Record of the Campaigns of the Forty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry During the Four Eventful Years of Its Service in the War for the Preservation of the Union[Forty-eighth] Regimental Association, 1908 - 471 pages |
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1st Lieut 2nd Lieut 48th Regiment 61 Sept 64 Mustered 6th Corporal 9th Corps Antietam April 2nd artillery assault battery battle brigade Bull Run buried Burnside camp Captain captured Charles Chas Colonel command Company F comrades crater Daniel David died Discharged June division end of term enemy enemy's fire Fredericksburg front George guns Hatteras Henry Henry Pleasants Jacob James James Nagle John Joseph July 17th June 7th killed Knoxville Lieutenant March Missing in action morning muster out roll Mustered out July Mustered out Sept Nagle night officers Patrick Pennsylvania Petersburg picket Pleasants Pottsville prisoners Promoted to corporal rebel river Samuel Schuylkill County Sergeant Sergt sick at muster siege of Knoxville Sigfried soldiers Spottsylvania Court House Substitute Surgeon's Certificate Thomas Thos troops Veteran veteran reserve corps William Wounded Aug Wounded June Wounded Sept wounds received
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Page 111 - Burnside's command of the Army, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now...
Page 111 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you, I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while such a spirit prevails in it. And now beware of rashness; beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Page 364 - 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 377 - Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day — Under the blossoms, the blue; Under the garlands, the gray. No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead ! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day — Love and tears for the blue; Tears and love for the gray.
Page 111 - I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders.
Page 247 - It was a magnificent spectacle, and as the mass of earth went up into the air, carrying with it men, guns, carriages and timbers, and spread out like an immense cloud as it reached its altitude, so close were the Union lines that the mass appeared as if it would descend immediately upon the troops waiting to make the charge. This caused them to break and scatter to the rear, and about ten minutes were consumed in reforming for the attack.
Page 364 - We're tenting to-night on the old camp ground; Give us a song to cheer Our weary hearts, a song of home, And friends we love so dear.
Page 364 - Many are the hearts that are weary to-night, Wishing for the war to cease, Many are the hearts looking for the right, To see the dawn of peace. Dying to-night, dying to-night, Dying on the old camp ground.
Page 259 - I do not know the position of Grant's army and cannot strip the north bank of troops." June i7th, 12 M. " Until I can get more definite information of Grant's movements I do not think it prudent to draw more troops to this side of the river.
Page 364 - We are tired of war on the old camp ground, many are dead and gone, Of the brave and true who've left their homes, others been wounded long.