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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Introduction (search)
till his junior year that his intellectual ambitions were aroused, and in his senior year his true abilities asserted themselves. For in that year he received the highest marks in the class, and graduated fourth. After leaving college, he turned his attention to Natural History, and worked under Louis Agassiz. Devoting himself to the study of Ophiurans while maintaining a broad interest in the outside world, Lyman became the authority of his day on that group. In 1858 he married Elizabeth Russell, daughter of George R. Russell, an East India merchant of Boston. Lyman took his bride home to his Brookline house, where they lived some two years, before starting to travel in Europe. There a daughter was born, and there they remained until she was old enough to be brought safely home. In the winter of 1856, the year after he graduated, Lyman was sent by Agassiz on a scientific pilgrimage to Florida waters. In Key West he ran across Captain George Gordon Meade of the Engineers,
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), IV. Cold Harbor (search)
Crittenden's lines, seeing Weld on the way. . . . May 27, 1864 Last night Russell's trusty division of the 6th Corps set out on a very long march, as our advanclose to the works, and there entrenched themselves. At six we got notice that Russell's division could not carry the line in their front. Ricketts, however, on the What regiment is that? Fifth Massachusetts cavalry, said the darkie. Is Colonel Russell there? No, sa-ar. He's in der hospital. He was wounded yesterday! I feommanders say they do as well as they can, etc. Well, Ricketts ran one way and Russell another; and then the 2d Corps--how did that run? and were the skirmishers soere not, they were moving along our rear. What do you mean by that? There is Russell, and there is Ricketts, and here is Wheaton; now of course that's your front. Russell isn't in such a position, sir, nor Wheaton either. They face so (dabs with a pencil), so that is our rear and can't be anything else. Whereupon the good c
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 8 (search)
hells over the woods, but the players were too interested to leave off. At last one cute Yankee, who, despite his cuteness, had been entirely cleaned out, wandered off and found an empty shell, which he carefully filled with damp gunpowder, adding a paper fuse. Approaching the group that seemed to have most money on the board, he lighted the innocent combustible, screamed Look out! and threw it into the midst of them, following up himself, to secure the greenbacks left by the fugitives. Russell said when the recruits first come down they get into all sorts of snarls. As, for example, two of them found what they call one er dese ere mortisses, by which they would say mortar shell. Hullo, dar's er mortiss: s'pose dat ar'll ‘splode? ‘Splode! ‘corse it'll ‘splode. No, it wun't; how's gwine to ‘splode, when's been shot out uv er cannon? Bet yer five dollars'll ‘splode. Bet yer it wun't! The next thing the Colonel knew was a tremendous report, and two or three bits of iron f
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
Linear house, 220. Locke, Frederick Thomas, remark of, 47. Long's Bridge, 156, 157. Longstreet, James, 94, 95, 122, 126. Loring, Charles Greely, 200, 211, 239, 246. Ludlow, Benjamin Chambers, 54, 56. Lunn, —, 276, 277. Lyman, Elizabeth (Russell), III, 3. Lyman, Mary (Henderson), II. Lyman, Richard, i. Lyman, Theodore (1st), i. Lyman, Theodore (1792-1849), II. Lyman, Theodore (1833-1897), account of, i; joins Meade's staff 1; with Pleasonton, 14; goes to Washington, 36; a7, 183, 193, 202, 204, 210, 232, 244, 249, 277, 304, 306, 309, 315, 336; first meeting, 6; on the English, 268; major, 290. Roumania, 307. Rowley, William Reuben, 84, 164. Rush's Lancers, 130. Russell, David Allen, 128, 144, 177. Russell, Elizabeth, III. Russell, George Robert, III. Russell, Henry Sturgis, 161, 164, 165, 269. Russians on horse, 61. Sailor's Run, 351. Salient, taking of the, 110; map, 113. Sanders, William Wilkins, 163, 177, 199. Sanford, Charles W., 25