Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers: Embracing a Full History of the Regiment from the Enrolling of the First Volunteer in Buffalo, April 15, 1861, to the Final Mustering Out, May 18, 1863. Including a Copy of Muster Out Rolls of Field and Staff, and Each Company |
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2d Lt 61 Buffalo 61 Elmira Capt 66 Capt action at Bull advance Alberger Antietam April April 23 arms army battery battle battle of Antietam boys brigade Buffalo 66 Bull Run camp Captain cavalry Centreville Charles H cheers Colonel Rogers column command comrades Corp'l corps Cutting Capt disability discharged division Doyle drill Dry Tortugas duty Elliott 66 Elmira 66 enemy enemy's Falmouth fence field fire flag force Fredericksburg front G. M. Baker George George W ground guard halted Henry Henry H hosp hour James John Kalorama knapsacks Lieut Lieutenant McClellan McDowell miles morning move muskets night officers parade passed Patrick picket Potomac Promoted ranks rear rebel river road Sept Sergeant Sergt skirmishers Soger soldier soon tents troops TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT Unxpd tm Upton's Hill Washington William William H woods wounded
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Page 253 - THE flags of war like storm-birds fly, The charging trumpets blow ; Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strives below. And, calm and patient, Nature keeps Her ancient promise well, Though o'er her bloom and greenness sweeps The battle's breath of hell. And still she walks in golden hours Through harvest-happy farms, And still she wears her fruits and flowers Like jewels on her arms. What mean the gladness of the plain, This joy of eve and morn, The mirth that shakes the beard of grain...
Page 253 - Ah ! eyes may well be full of tears, And hearts with hate are hot ; But even-paced come round the years, And Nature changes not. She meets with smiles our bitter grief, With songs our groans of pain ; She mocks with tint of flower and leaf The war-field's crimson stain. Still, in the cannon's pause, we hear Her sweet thanksgiving psalm ; Too near to God for doubt or fear, She shares the eternal calm. She knows the...
Page 233 - Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled...
Page 305 - While he highly appreciates and does not undervalue the charities which have been lavished * on this army, experience has demonstrated the importance of system and impartiality, as well as judgment and economy, in the forwarding and distribution of these supplies.
Page 296 - Let us first turn off to the left of the Hagerstown turnpike ; but we must ride very slowly and carefully, for lying all through this cornfield are the victims of the hardest contest of our division. Can it be that these are the bodies of our late antagonists ? Their faces are so absolutely black that I said to myself at first, this must have been a negro regiment.
Page 213 - The order requiring the troops to subsist upon the country in which their operations were conducted has, with a wilful disregard of its terms, been construed greatly to my discredit, as authorizing, indiscriminate robbery and plunder. Yet the terms of this order are so specific as to the manner and by whom all property or subsistence needed for the use of the army should be seized, and the order is...
Page 184 - McClellan will be furnished with a copy of these instructions, and will be directed to hold himself in readiness to establish communication with your left wing, and...
Page 212 - No. 5 : Hereafter, as far as practicable, the troops of this command will subsist upon the country in which their operations are carried on. In all cases supplies for this purpose will be taken by the...
Page 184 - Shields's division, you will move upon Richmond by the general route of the Richmond and Fredericksburg railroad, co-operating with the forces under General McClellan, now threatening Richmond from the line of the Pamunkey and York rivers. " While seeking to establish as soon as possible a communication between your left wing and the right wing of General McClellan, you will hold yourself always in such...
Page 246 - After a short engagement the enemy retired, so that when our skirmishers occupied the hill he left he was nowhere to be seen. Supposing from the movements of this force that it was some rear guard or cavalry party with artillery sent out to reconnoitre, the march of the division, after caring for the killed and wounded, was resumed, and it turned off to the south of the road to go to Manassas.