Record of Proceedings at the Annual Re-unionKennebec Journal Print, 1876 |
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... rank and file - was to be able to repel a charge of cavalry . I simply put myself on my infantry tactics - what little was taught me - and endeavor to repel as far as possible this attack of the First Maine Cavalry , and if I am not ...
... rank and file - was to be able to repel a charge of cavalry . I simply put myself on my infantry tactics - what little was taught me - and endeavor to repel as far as possible this attack of the First Maine Cavalry , and if I am not ...
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... rank , yet removed from the ordinary duties of a private . Attached to every regiment in the service were a few men known as Bummers , borne on the lists as privates , whose service was secret and hazardous . Their detail was never made ...
... rank , yet removed from the ordinary duties of a private . Attached to every regiment in the service were a few men known as Bummers , borne on the lists as privates , whose service was secret and hazardous . Their detail was never made ...
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... dimmed and red with blood , as you fell like a tornado upon the routed foe , crushing his broken ranks in one disastrous overthrow and ruin ! I recall the majestic onset of our resistless squadrons , First Maine Cavalry . 11.
... dimmed and red with blood , as you fell like a tornado upon the routed foe , crushing his broken ranks in one disastrous overthrow and ruin ! I recall the majestic onset of our resistless squadrons , First Maine Cavalry . 11.
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... ranks of vanquished foes , that fled before our steel , — The weary march to Gettysburg , its nights and days of toil- Our hearts grew lighter as we trod once more a free State's soil . At last the hard won fight was o'er , we passed on ...
... ranks of vanquished foes , that fled before our steel , — The weary march to Gettysburg , its nights and days of toil- Our hearts grew lighter as we trod once more a free State's soil . At last the hard won fight was o'er , we passed on ...
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... ranks and among your officers there were some whom I had known from boy- hood . I see upon the wall the name of Colonel Boothby , an old friend and schoolmate , whom I last met near Culpepper , Virginia , a short time before his death ...
... ranks and among your officers there were some whom I had known from boy- hood . I see upon the wall the name of Colonel Boothby , an old friend and schoolmate , whom I last met near Culpepper , Virginia , a short time before his death ...
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Aldie Annual Reunion applause Appomattox Court House arms artillery Augusta Bangor battle Biddeford Boothby boys Brandy Station brave brigade called camp Capt carbines charge Charles H cheers citizens Colonel command Company G comrades dear Douty duty enemy feel fell field fight fire flag forget fought friends front gallant glorious Grand Army greetings Hall heart heroic hill honor horse infantry J. P. CILLEY ladies Lewiston Lieut Lincolnville live look Maine Cavalry Association Major MYRICK meet memories Middleburg morning names nation never night noble officers old First Maine patriotic peace picket Pittsfield pleasure Portland President proud ranks rear rebel regiment regular toast remember responded road Rockland sabre Searsmont Second Cavalry Division Sergeant Sergt Skowhegan Smith soldier Thomaston to-day to-night Tobie Union Upperville Vassalboro victory Warrenton words wounded
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Seite 29 - Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices In their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Seite 9 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Seite 69 - For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Seite 7 - And He, at last, After the weary strife — After the restless fever we call life — After the dreariness, the aching pain, The wayward struggles which have proved in vain, After our toils are past — Will give us rest at last.
Seite 72 - It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land, but something in that Declaration giving liberty not alone to the people of this country but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men and that all should have an equal chance.
Seite 6 - Though oft we faint and falter on the way, Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day, Yet when the clouds are gone We know He leads us on.
Seite 17 - ... battery guns at its foot. Back up a long rise of ground, covered with woods at the top — and the curtain of cavalry covering the last scene of the rebellion was rolled fully up and back, and before the astonished vision of the rebel force stood Griffin with the Fifth, and Ord with the Twenty-fourth Corps. A colored division of the latter stepped into the place of our regiment. All night long had they marched, but how refreshing the sight of their black countenances at this time. At the spectacle...
Seite 6 - He leads us on. He leads us on Through all the unquiet years ; Past all our dreamland hopes, and doubts, and fears He guides our steps. Through all the tangled maze Of sin, of sorrow, and o'erclouded days We know His will is done ; And still He leads us on.
Seite 8 - Corps, pass by its left, and passing near to, or through Dinwiddie, reach the right and rear of the enemy as soon as you can. It is not the intention to attack the enemy in his intrenched position, but to force him out, if possible. Should he...