The Fifty-seventh Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion: Army of the Potomac |
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1st Lieutenant 2d Lieutenant 57th Mass 59th June absent sick address unknown army artillery assault attack Bartlett Battery Boston brave brigade Burnside Capt Captain captured charge Charles Colonel colors command Company comrades Confederate crater death reported died of wounds disability division duty enemy enemy's enlisted expiration of service Federal Fifth Corps Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts fire Fitchburg flank Fort Stedman front gallant George Henry honor Infantry intrenchments James John June 17 later information Lieut March 12 move mustered April mustered April 21 mustered Dec mustered Feb mustered Jan mustered March mustered March 12 Ninth Corps officers order War Dept Petersburg picket position Potomac pres prisoners rear recent address record and address regiment residence reunion Second Corps Sept Sergeant service July 30 Sixth Corps soldier Spottsylvania Court House Springfield Stedman trans trenches troops vice July 30 William Worcester wounds received
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Page 379 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung ; By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.
Page 193 - States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service against the Confederate States, or who shall voluntarily aid negroes or mulattoes in any military enterprise, attack, or conflict in such service, shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death, or be otherwise punished at the discretion of the Court.
Page 191 - ... doomed to extermination, while at the same time they are encouraged to a general assassination of their masters by the insidious recommendation 'to abstain from violence unless in necessary self-defence...
Page 193 - That every white person, being a commissioned officer, or acting as such, who, during the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service against the Confederate States...
Page 385 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death And Love can never lose its own...
Page 406 - Infantry and was mustered out of the service at the close of the war as captain of Company K.
Page 172 - Artillery. 9. Corps commanders will report to the Commanding General when their preparations are complete, and will advise him of every step in the progress of the operation and of everything important that occurs. 10. Promptitude, rapidity of execution, and cordial co-operation are essential to success, and the Commanding General is confident that this indication of his expectations will insure the hearty efforts of the commanders and troops.
Page 193 - States, on the persons or property of the citizens of the Confederate States, or of those under the protection or in the land or naval service of the Confederate States, or of any State of the Confederacy, the President of the Confederate States is hereby authorized to cause full and...
Page 199 - Your committee cannot, from all the testimony, avoid the conclusion that the first and great cause of disaster was the change made on the afternoon preceding the attack, in the arrangement of General Burnside to place the division of colored troops in the advance.
Page 80 - AM to-morrow. 1 will send one or two staff officers over to-night to stay with Burnside, and impress him with the importance of a prompt and vigorous attack.