History of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, 1862-1863 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afternoon arms army artillery August Banks Baton Rouge battery battle beautiful Benjamin F boat boys Brigade drill buried Camp Parapet Captain Johnson Carrollton Charles Cogswell Colonel Kingman command Company D Company H comrades Concord corporal died disease duty enemy enemy's fell fever field Fifteenth New Hampshire fire flag front George George W ground guard guns headquarters hospital Hundred and Twenty-eighth James John John Hodgman July June 14 killed Lieutenant Durgin Lieutenant Perkins Lieutenant Pickering Lieutenant-colonel Major Aldrich March miles morning National Military Cemetery night Northwood November 12 o'clock officers ordered Orleans pany passed picket pleasant Port Hudson ravine rebel received returned rifle pits river Sanborn Sanbornton Schalter house second lieutenant sent sergeant Sergt severely wounded sharpshooters shell Sherman shot shower sick siege Sixth Michigan soldiers Springfield Landing steamer surgeon third sergeant to-day Trickey Twenty-sixth Connecticut William woods Zouaves
Popular passages
Page 3 - 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.
Page 558 - I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this date stating that you are willing to surrender the garrison under your command to the forces under my command, and that you will appoint a commission of three officers to meet a similar commission appointed by me, at nine o'clock this morning, for the purpose of agreeing upon and drawing up the terms of surrender.
Page 3 - Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead ! Dear as the blood ye gave, No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Page 556 - GENERAL: Having received information from your troops that Vicksburg has been surrendered, I make this communication to ask you to give me the official assurance whether this is true or not; and if true, I ask for a cessation of hostilities with a view to the consideration of terms for surrendering this position.
Page 558 - Richard B. Irwin, as the officers to meet the commission appointed by you. " They will meet your officers, at the hour designated, at a point where the flag of truce was received this morning. I will direct that active hostilities shall entirely cease On my part, until further notice, for the purpose stated.
Page 3 - No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind; No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind...
Page 489 - We are at all points upon the threshold of his fortifications. One more advance, and they are ours. For the last duty that victory imposes, the commanding general summons the bold men of the corps to the organization of a storming column of 1,000 men, to vindicate the flag of the Union, and the memory of its defenders who have fallen.
Page 558 - I ask for a cessation of hostilities. Will you please designate a point, outside of my breastworks, where the meeting shall be held for this purpose ? I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, FRANK GARDNER, Commanding Confederate States Forces.
Page 489 - We are, at all points, upon the threshold of his fortifications. One more advance and they are ours. For the last duty that victory imposes, the commanding general summons the bold men of the corps to the organization of a storming column of one thousand men to vindicate the flag of the Union and the memory of its defenders who have fallen.
Page 542 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.