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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 20: (search)
Herron's force approaching the field of battle. A regiment of cavalry was ordered to remain with one battery of light field pieces, and to commence shelling the enemy in front at daylight. The next morning, the command struck the Fayetteville and Cane Hill road, and surprised the advance-guard of Herron's force, capturing two hundred prisoners. This success appears to have confused Gen. Hindman, and, instead of attacking Herron immediately and with vigour, he divided his force, sending Parsons' brigade in the direction of Cane Hill, as if expecting an attack from Blunt. Meanwhile, Blunt, anticipating a flank movement, had fallen back, and Hindman made a new disposition of his forces. But valuable time had been lost, and the attack was not made on Herron's force until half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon. In our line of battle, the Arkansas troops were on the right flank, the First Missouri brigade forming the centre, the Second Missouri brigade the left, and the Texan troops
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 23: (search)
red with water. For the expedition Gen. Holmes had Price's Division of infantry, consisting of Parsons' Missouri Brigade numbering 1,000, and McRay's Arkansas Brigade of 400; Fagan's Brigade of Arkaight. About day-break the first gun fired was by the battalion of sharpshooters belonging to Parsons' brigade, who encountered an outpost of the enemy. Price moved in column of division, the 9th ter success. Gen. Holmes, seeing the failures of Fagan and Marmaduke, ordered two regiments of Parsons' brigade to attack the southern fort in the rear. The movement was attempted; but under the fio was his favourite, to plant his colours on the fort he was attacking. While thus standing, Gen. Parsons, who was sheltering himself in the fort, bawled out: Come down, General! you will be hit. Don't you hear the shot whistling around you? I have the advantage of you, Gen. Parsons, I am deaf, and cannot hear them. Another incident of the battle should be recorded as a just tribute to the
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 30: (search)
with his command now augmented to fifteen thousand, had reached within two miles of Mansfield, and had halted, determined to have an affair with the enemy. The Arkansas and Missouri infantry organized into two divisions, the Missourians under Gen. Parsons and the Arkansians under Gen. Tappan, and both under Gen. Churchill, were at Keachi, a village twenty miles from Mansfield. Churchill was under orders to march his command until he formed a junction with Taylor. Accordingly, his command, on der. About two hundred of the Missouri brigade were taken prisoners. A confusion and panic ensued, which it soon became impossible to arrest. The retreat on the part of Churchill's corps was converted into a rout, with no enemy pursuing. Gen. Parsons passed the fugitive troops on a fleet horse, shouting: The enemy are on you; meet me at Mansfield. Some of the officers led the men in their flight. One officer came galloping by the Field Infirmary, crying out: Get away from here; the enemy
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 6 (search)
hank Daniel Webster for saving his Union, call Mayor Bigelow an honorable man and Mayor, and acknowledge Francis Tukey as Chief Justice of the Commonwealth. I prefer hunger and the woods to the hopeless task of maintaining the sincerity of Daniel Webster, or bending under the chain of Francis Tukey. [Tremendous cheering.] Sir, I have something to say of this old Commonwealth. I went up one day into the Senate-chamber of Massachusetts, in which the Otises, the Quincys, and the Adamses, Parsons and Sedgwick, Sewall and Strong, have sat and spoke in times gone by,--in which the noblest legislation in the world, on many great points of human concern, has made her the noblest State in the world,--the good old Commonwealth of Massachusetts,--and I stood there to see this impudent City Marshal tell the Senate of Massachusetts that he knew he was trampling on the laws of the Commonwealth, and that he intended to do so, as Mayors told him to! And there was not spirit enough in the Free
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 9 (search)
fully aware of its importance. We know as well as our fellow-citizens the unspeakable value of a high-minded, enlightened, humane, independent, and just judge; one whom neither fear, favor, affection, nor hope of reward can turn from his course. It is because we are so fully impressed with this, that we appear before you Taking our history as a whole, we are proud of the Bench of Massachusetts. You have given no higher title than that of a Massachusetts Judge to Sewall, to Sedgwick, to Parsons. Take it away, then, from one who volunteers, hastens, to execute a statute which the law as well as the humanity of the nineteenth century regards as infamous and an outrage. We come before you, not to attack the Bench, but to strengthen it, by securing it the only support it can have under a government like ours,--the confidence of the people. You cannot legislate judges into the confidence of the people. You cannot preach them into it; confidence must be earned. To make the name of
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
ts of London, would not have tried a man who could not stand on his feet. There is no such record in the blackest roll of tyranny. If Jeffries could speak, he would thank God that at last his name might be taken down from the gibbet of History, since the Virginia bench has made his worst act white, set against the blackness of this modern infamy. [Applause.] And yet the New York press daily prints the accounts of the trial. Trial! In the names of Holt and Somers, of Hale and Erskine, of Parsons, Marshall, and Jay, I protest against the name. Trial for life, in Anglo-Saxon dialect, has a proud, historic meaning. It includes indictment by impartial peers; a copy of such indictment and a list of witnesses furnished the prisoner, with ample time to scrutinize both; liberty to choose, and time to get counsel; a sound body and a sound mind to arrange one's defence; I need not add, a judge and jury impartial as the lot of humanity will admit; honored bulwarks and safeguards, each one t
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Parish list (search)
h A.54 Myrtle Street Moore, Mrs. Frank 81 Boston Street Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. F. E.21 Brook Street Munroe, James 70 Myrtle Street Munroe, Miss Alice 70 Myrtle Street Munroe, Miss Carrie 70 Myrtle Street Munroe, Miss91 Washington Street Neal, George5 Walnut Street Nickerson, John F.25 Flint Street Niles, Mr. and Mrs. L. V.Wellesley Farms, Mass. North, Mrs. Blanche8 Munroe Street Norton, Miss C. G.30 Dartmouth Street Owler, Ed., Jr. 30 Browning Road Parker, Miss24 Gilman Street Parsons, Miss M. E.253 Medford Street Peake, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.7 Grant Street Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. A. H.151 Perkins Street Perry, Miss M. A.16 Pleasant Avenue Phillips, Miss Dr. E. M.19 Highland Avenue Pingree, Mr. and Mrs. F. L.4 Benedict Street Pingree, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.4 Benedict Street Pinney, Mr. and Mrs. George H.21 Morton Street Pitman, Mrs. Kate42 Benton Road Pitman, Mr. and Mrs. George W.42 Benton Road Pitman, Miss42 Benton Road Poor, Miss Emily30 Mt. Pleasant Street Powers,
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 8 (search)
ut Sedgwick threw forward Brooks' division, supporting it with Newton's division on the right, and, advancing, gained the crest after a sharp conflict. Sedgwick's Report. This was a momentary triumph, for he was soon pushed slowly back through the woods. The falling back was covered, and the advance of the enemy checked by the excellent firing of the batteries under Colonel Tompkins. The advance of the enemy was checked by the splendid firing of our batteries-Williston's, Rigby's, and Parsons'.—Sedgwick's Report. The Confederate General McLaws testifies to the excellence of the artillery service: The batteries of the enemy were admirably served, and played over the whole ground.—Report of the Battle of Chancellorsville, p. 30. Sedgwick, in fact, was checked. His loss was severe, and with that suffered in carrying the heights of Fredericksburg, brought the total up to five thousand men. My strength yesterday was twenty-two thousand men; I do not know my losses, but they were l
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1855. (search)
ler's office. For the greater part of the time, until 1861 he resided in Cambridge, where he was Librarian of the Law School, and worked on the law books of Professor Parsons. He made the Index to Parsons's Maritime Law, and had a very important share in preparing Parsons's Notes and Bills, rendering valuable service in the compoParsons's Maritime Law, and had a very important share in preparing Parsons's Notes and Bills, rendering valuable service in the composition of that work. He was exhaustive in his research, and, perhaps, unsurpassed in the school for thorough work. On April 20, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Charlestown City Guards, Captain Boyd, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Militia, commanded by Colonel Samuel C. Lawrence, and the next morning left Boston for WashingtoParsons's Notes and Bills, rendering valuable service in the composition of that work. He was exhaustive in his research, and, perhaps, unsurpassed in the school for thorough work. On April 20, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Charlestown City Guards, Captain Boyd, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Militia, commanded by Colonel Samuel C. Lawrence, and the next morning left Boston for Washington. On May 8th he was commissioned Regimental Paymaster, with the rank of First Lieutenant, which office was abolished in the service after the return of the three months men. He entered Alexandria, Virginia, with the Fifth, at the time when Colonel Ellsworth was killed. After the battle of Bull Run, he carried Colonel Lawrence, w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
n., I. 68, 69;. Paine, Elijah, II. 382. Paine, Fanny C., II. 453. Paine, H. W., II. 445. Paine, R. T., II. 453. Paine, Sumnbr, Lieut., Memoir, II. 453-465. Palfrey, F. W., Col., I. 406, 420;, 423, 424. Park, R., Rev., I 226. Parker, A. C., Lieut., Memoir, II. 294-303. Parker, F. E., I. 255; II. 199. Parker, S. P., Rev., I. 167; II. 105. Parker, Theodore, Rev., I. 314, 353;. Parker, W., II. 294. Parkis, Ira, II. 426. Parkman, Francis, Rev., I. 42. Parsons, Theophilus, Prof., I. 327. Partridge, Capt., II. 294. Patrick, Martha, II. 238. Patten, Colcord, I. 415. Patten, H. L., Maj., Memoir, I. 415-433. Also, L 395, 399, 406. Patten, Maria F., I. 415. Patterson, F. E., Brig.-Gen., II. 83, 251;. Patterson, George, Rev., I. 147, 148;. 159. Peabody, A. P., Rev. Dr., II 319, 389. Peabody, Elizabeth P., I. 179. Peabody, Everett, Col., Memoir, I. 150-166. Also, I. 406. Peabody, Frank, I. 165. Peabody, Howard, I. 1
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