Michigan in the WarW.S. George & Company, State Printers, 1882 - 1039 pagini |
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Pagina 49
... fight on the defensive , for thy aggressive power is broken , and you must crumble to pieces until thou art dead - thy rebel spirit crushed to atoms , never to rise again . ' " The operations in the field in Virginia during the year ...
... fight on the defensive , for thy aggressive power is broken , and you must crumble to pieces until thou art dead - thy rebel spirit crushed to atoms , never to rise again . ' " The operations in the field in Virginia during the year ...
Pagina 51
... fight , it must perish utterly . The people of this State , remembering their past sacrifices only as an additional motive to greater exertions in the future , will , I know , enter upon this present duty with the activity and energy ...
... fight , it must perish utterly . The people of this State , remembering their past sacrifices only as an additional motive to greater exertions in the future , will , I know , enter upon this present duty with the activity and energy ...
Pagina 110
... fight , content to suffer , knowing that , instead of being forgotten in a nameless grave on some battle field , a grateful people were erecting monuments to commemorate their heroic deeds . Our Michigan soldiers have covered themselves ...
... fight , content to suffer , knowing that , instead of being forgotten in a nameless grave on some battle field , a grateful people were erecting monuments to commemorate their heroic deeds . Our Michigan soldiers have covered themselves ...
Pagina 172
... fight . The 1st Michigan deserves the credit of advancing farther into the enemy's lines than any other of our troops , as their dead bodies proved after the battle . I only regret that from the fact of my sepa- ration from Arnold's ...
... fight . The 1st Michigan deserves the credit of advancing farther into the enemy's lines than any other of our troops , as their dead bodies proved after the battle . I only regret that from the fact of my sepa- ration from Arnold's ...
Pagina 179
... fighting all day and returning to camp on the 10th . On the 14th it broke camp at Morrisville , and the 19th and 21st ... fight with three field , one staff , sixteen line officers , and one hundred and twenty - five muskets . Our color ...
... fighting all day and returning to camp on the 10th . On the 14th it broke camp at Morrisville , and the 19th and 21st ... fight with three field , one staff , sixteen line officers , and one hundred and twenty - five muskets . Our color ...
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Michigan in the War, Volumele 1-3 Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department Vizualizare completă - 1880 |
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1st brigade 1st Michigan 2d brigade 2d division 2d Michigan 4th Michigan 4th Michigan Cavalry Adjutant advance April arrived artillery attack August battery brave bridge brigade camp Captain captured charge Chattanooga column command of Colonel companies Creek crossed December detachment Detroit dismounted driving duty East Saginaw encamped enemy enemy's engaged enlisted fall back fell field fight fire flag flank force Ford forward front gallant Grand Rapids guard guns headquarters hill horses infantry Ionia Jackson John July June Kalamazoo large number Lieutenant Colonel line of battle loss marched ment Michigan Cavalry Michigan Infantry miles missing morning moved Murfreesboro mustered Nashville night November o'clock October officers Ohio ordered Pennsylvania picket position Potomac prisoners railroad reached rear received regiment remained repulsed retreat river road Second Lieutenant sent September shot skirmishers soldiers soon Station Surgeon Tenn Tennessee Tennessee river took troops Union William woods
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Pagina 139 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to...
Pagina 636 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Pagina 128 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Pagina 95 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Pagina 141 - 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.
Pagina 139 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Pagina 432 - SOLDIER'S DREAM. Our bugles sang truce — for the night-cloud had lowered, And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, The weary to sleep and the wounded to die.
Pagina 149 - Now, therefore, I, JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the Confederate States of America, do...
Pagina 269 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike — till the last armed foe expires ; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sire«, God, and your native land...
Pagina 456 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred...