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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 21 (search)
nd of Woolford's cavalry, declares that he will never believe another rebel, will take no more prisoners, and intends to fight against treason in this war and the next, and the one after that indefinitely. He rallied his boys, made a speech to them, and upon their return to the field nearly monopolized the fighting. Twenty-five men of the First Kentucky were killed and wounded. Among the number are Captain G. W. Drye, wounded; Lieutenant Phil. Roberts, wounded; Captain Kelly, killed; Lieutenant Cann, missing; Lieutenant Peyton, missing. Of the Forty-fifth Ohio, ninety-one were killed, wounded, and missing, among whom are Captain Jennings, wounded; Captain Ayler, wounded; Lieutenant Macbeth, wounded; Lieutenant Wiltshire, wounded; Lieutenant Mears, wounded. The conduct of the rebels was barbarous in the extreme. All prisoners, dead, and wounded were stripped. Four dead bodies of the Forty-fifth were found quite naked. One wounded officer, while unconscious, was aroused by eff
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., Historical Society Reaches Majority in its New home. (search)
s important to our old city. Dr. Green is the author of the able paper, Early Physicians of Medford, and also substantially interested in the new home of this Society. Attention was called to the portraits of the late Miss Zipporah Sawyer and her brother, Rufus Sawyer, recently come into possession of the Society according to her wish. A letter from the attorneys of her estate was read by Judge Wait, presenting to the Society a bill of 1794 in the handwriting of Paul Revere of One Silver Cann £ 8.3:2 to one——Whitman. This was Dr. Whitman of Bolton, Mass., with whom Miss Sawyer's father studied medicine and of whom he received his certificate as Doctor of Medicine and Surgery. Evidently Dr. Sawyer recognized the interest that in after years would be taken in the autographs of the patriot Revere. The old paper, yellow with age, will be preserved in the Society's archives. Another item of interest was several old coal bills of Pyam Cushing, Entrance to wharf on Ship street, near
The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mr. Lincoln's last speech. (search)
turies before Roger Bacon lived, and they knew not what to make of it, although they were continually straining their invention to fashion irresistible artillery. They remind us of those Egyptian explorers who were trying for years to find the site of Lake MŒris, and knew not that they were standing on the very ground which it covered, until Lepsius came, and everything became apparent at a glance. Two hundred and seventeen years before the birth of Christ, the year before the battle of Cannæ, and the very year of the battle of Thrasymene, Hero of Alexandria, astonished the Court of the Ptolemaic, by exhibiting light balls dancing in a jet of steam. He did more. He invented an apparatus, consisting of a small sphere, which was moved on pivots by the action of steam generated in a heated boiler! Here was a locomotive! A very primitive sort of locomotive, it must be owned, but to all intents and purposes a loco-motive! --This Hero wrote among other things, a book on pneumatics,
The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
the Po, and defeated the Romans on the Trebia. The next year, he passed the Apennines, and destroyed the Roman army of Flaminius at Thrasymene. Then, for the first time, he communicated with Carthage by the Adriatic. In 216, he was attacked, at CannŒ, on the Adriatic, in the kingdom of Naples, by two consular armies combined, and numbering in all eighty-seven thousand men. He killed 70,000 of them on the spot, and took 14,000 prisoners, although his own force did not exceed 50,000 men. Rome wit up only when he was recalled to defend the capital of his country. His expedition was infinitely more hazardous than the expedition to Russia. Had he been beaten at the Trebia, with his back to the Alps, twelve hundred miles from Spain, or had he been beaten at Thrasymene, in the midst of the Roman Colonies, or at Cannæ, three hundred miles from, Cis-Alpine Gaul, with all the country ready to rise on his rear, what would not such military critics as condemn Napoleon have said of Hannibal?
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further Northern news. (search)
an essential service to mankind. In this sense Dr. Vinton is the greatest benefactor of whom humanity can boast. He has overthrown every military reputation that ever existed, in a single lecture. He shows that when Hannibal piled the field of Cannæ with the bodies of 80,000 Romans he was ignominiously defeated. He shows that Pompey, and not Cæsar, was victorious at Pharsalia. He shows that the Russians and Austrians conquered at Austerlitz, and that Wellington was beaten at Waterloo. We . They can never be made, we very much apprehend, to believe that flight means victory, or that pursuit means defeat. In spite of his unanswerable logic, they will obstinately persist in believing that the Roman Republic was nearly overthrown at Cannæ, and that the French Empire was prostrated at Waterloo. As the Yankees wish to possess our country, and as they certainly will not get it by running, we see not what besides glory they are to derive from this new definition of victory. The stoi
The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from Hen. Wm. C. Rives. (search)
Xerxes, when confronted, in many a field made classic and holy ground by their discomfiture, with the proud spirit of freedom and the noble self-devotion of the small but undaunted commonwealths of Greece? If ever a people had apparent cause for despondency, it was the people of Rome when Hannibal with his Carthaginian hosts, after three successive victories on the Ticmo, the Brescia, and Thrasymene, in his triumphal march towards the Capital, almost annihilated the Roman army in a fourth at Cannæ, leaving more than forty thousand Roman citizens dead upon the field, including one of the Consuls in command, many Sena- ton, Ex-Consuls, Pretors, Œdiles and others of the highest rank and consideration. But, amid the consternation of so terrible a calamity, the spirit of the Republic never blanched. When the surviving Consul, whose rashness even had been the cause of the disaster, approached the city with the wreck of his army, the Senate and all ranks of the people, we are told by one
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The currency question. (search)
to his hands.--Partly by force, partly by bribery, he makes himself master of nearly all the great towns and municipalities lying to the east and southeast of Rome, until he works his way deep into the kingdom of Naples. The unheard of victory of Cannæ, in which out of a Roman army of 87,000 men all were killed or taken prisoners but 3,000, was fought on the Ofanto, in sight of the Adriatic, and about two hundred miles in a southeastern direction from Rome. All the country between that point and the Po, with the exception before stated, was held by his troops, or those of his allies, and the victory of Cannæ laid the rest of Italy, down to the very toe of the boot, at his mercy. Rome was like a beleaguered city. On the north, on the east, and on the south, all around her, her territory was held and her resources appropriated. Yet she never thought of giving in. So far from it when the Carthaginian actually besieged the city, the land on which his army was encamped was sold at publ
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Struck by lightning. (search)
twenty-two. He completed his first war in Spain before the age of forty. He conquered all Gaul and twice passed over to Britain before the age of forty-five. At fifty-two he had won the field of Pharsalla, and died at fifty-six, "the victor of five hundred battles, and the conqueror of a thousand cites. " Hannibal commenced his military career at twenty-two, and was made Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian army at twenty-six. He was victorious in Spain and France, and won the battle of Cannæ before the age of thirty-one. Scipio Africanus (the elder) distinguished himself in battle at the age of sixteen. At twenty-nine he won the great battle of Zama. Scipio Africanus (the younger) had conquered the Carthaginian armies and completed the destination Gen of Carthage at thirty-six. Gorgonian succeeded to his father's domain at the age of thirteen, and almost immediately raised an army of thirty thousand men, with which he achieved a great victory. He soon acquired a military re
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
c endurance yet stands unrivalled! " The invasion of Hannibal reduced Rome to straits similar to those which form our present crisis. The campaigns of 218, 217, and 216, with the defeats on the Trebia, the Lake Trasimene, and the crushing blow at Cannæ, where her legions were all but annihilated, the defection of all Southern Italy, and the dread of " Hannibal ante portas" had reduced her to the last extremities. In that terrible battle forty thousand Romans (at the lowest calculation) had faloan saved the State; and it was even more valuable in the spirit which it called forth than for the actual relief which it afforded to the treasury." "When C. Terentius Varra had, by his impudence and bad generalship, lost the fatal battle of Cannæ and brought the Republic to the verge of ruin, after he had delivered the fugitives he had rallied at Venusia and Casilinum into the hands of his successor, himself set out to Rome to make a personal report of his conduct. With what feelings he
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
n will and indomitable energy, but, above all, as we have endeavored to explain, of firm and unyielding faith. Never give up, never say die, hold on to the last, and when the weak-kneed begin to shiver and totter, then take a new and a stronger resolution than ever, never to think of submitting. The old Roman story of Varro and the Greek has been often told, but it deserves to be repeated here for the sake of the lesson it inculcates.--That officer, flying from the unparalleled slaughter of Cannæ, where he had left the bodies of seventy thousand Romans slain through his own rashness, was nevertheless met by the Senate in a body, dressed in their senatorial robes; and it was made known that he was thus honored, because, even in that crisis, "he did not despair of the Republic." That sagacious body of politicians, long inured to political exigencies of the most dangerous description, knew well enough the value of faith in such a crisis as that which presented itself. They knew that it