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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 9: (search)
love, and spiritualism; most decidedly are unreal in all things, save what pertains to the almighty dollar; but in that they are enthusiastic cheats, and worship the golden calf with more devotion than the Jews. Their theatres everywhere, as well as Baltimore, are the public expounders of prejudice and bad taste. Until of late all battle-pieces had for subject the wars with Great Britain, and we know that one Yankee was always considered equal to a dozen Britishers, and on the stage, like Samson, they slew their thousands with loud applause, and ended with a large expenditure of blue fire, a waving of banners, and the stereotyped finale of Hail Columbia or Yankee Doodle. This theatrical taste was well developed at Manassas. Orators first addressed the troops, music took up the theme, and with waving. banners they marched to battle and, with few exceptions, bolted at the first fire. There was plenty of shouting, indeed, when out of danger; but though their best regiments cheered
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Union and Confederate navies. (search)
ally brilliant conception of Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr., a civil engineer who, as has been already said, had called attention, some years before the war, to the renewed importance of the ram as a naval weapon. Having been vested with rank and authority by the War Department, Colonel Ellet, who was no less ready in execution than brilliant in conception, bought nine river-boats, which he strengthened and altered into rams on a plan of his own. They were called the Queen of the West, Monarch, Samson, Lioness, Switzerland, Lancaster, Mingo, T. D. Horner, and Dick Fulton. Though they were hastily and imperfectly prepared, yet under the leadership of Ellet and other members of his remarkable family, who shared with him a native military instinct that was little short of genius, and a superb courage Monitor Weehawken in a storm. that bordered upon recklessness, they performed services that gave them a place apart in the history of the river operations. [See page 453.] In its personnel,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 11: operations in Southern Tennessee and Northern Mississippi and Alabama. (search)
hose ram fleet was in advance of the now pursuing flotilla, raised the flag over that stronghold likewise. June 5. The same evening the flotilla of gun-boats Benton, Captain Phelps; Carondelet, Captain Walke; St. Louis, Lieutenant-commanding McGonigle; Louisville, Captain Dove; Cairo, Lieutenant Bryant. anchored at about a mile and a half above Memphis, and the ram fleet These consisted of the Monarch Queen of the West, Lioness, Switzerland, Mingo, Lancaster No. 3, Fulton, Hornet, and Samson, all under the general command of Colonel Ellet. a little farther up the river. The Confederate fleet, It consisted of the General Van Dorn (Hollins's flagship), General Price, General Bragg, General Lovell, Little Rebel, Jeff. Thompson, Sumter, and General Beauregard. now commanded by Commodore Montgomery, in place of Hollins, was then lying on the Arkansas shore, opposite Memphis, with steam up, and ready for action. At dawn on the morning of the 6th, June. the National vessels, wi
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
, and with ample provisions and other supplies, they were now borne swiftly, on more than a hundred transports, upon the rapid current of the rising Mississippi, and were before Vicksburg at the beginning of February. Grant himself arrived at Young's Point on the 2d, Feb., 1863. and assumed command in person. Already the work on the canal (which was only a mile in length) had been vigorously prosecuted by the soldiers with their picks and shovels, and by the powerful The Samson. dredge Samson, with its immense and nevertiring iron scoop. The earth was cast up on the western side of the canal, on which the troops were encamped, to form a levee for protection against overflow in that direction. Day after day the great ditch grew deeper and longer, and day after day the waters of the Mississippi arose higher and higher, until their surface was full eight feet above the bottom of the canal. The river threatened a destructive overflow, and its menaces were met by piling up a great
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My third trip. (search)
wed from a conservative position, more faithfully and graphically than any poetry that I have ever read, express the feelings of a man of compassionate and impulsive nature, when witnessing such wicked and revolting commercial transactions as the public auction of immortal human beings: A curse on Virginia. Curses on you, foul Virginia, Stony-hearted whore! May the plagues that swept o'er Egypt-- Seven--and seventy more, Desolate your homes and hearths, Devastate your fields, Send ten deaths for every pang-birth Womb of wife or creature yields: May fever gaunt, Protracted want, Hurl your sons beneath the sod, Send your bondmen back to God! From your own cup, Soon may you sup, The bitter draught you give to others-- Your negro sons and negro brothers! Soon may they rise, As did your sires, And light up fires, Which not by Wise, Nor any despot shall be quenched; Not till Black Samson, dumb and bound, Shall raze each slave-pen to the ground, Till States with slavers' blood are drenched.
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 8 (search)
oor shut. They were put in a log cabin to sleep, and H----secretly opened the door at night; whereupon it came to rain and blow, and the Bulls awaked in the morning to behold their shoes and stockings sailing about the room! Really, General Hunt, to whom these creatures are usually billetted, ought to get board free from his many former guests for the rest of his life. In the evening we had a charge on the enemy under a new form, or rather a very old one, for it was after the fashion of Samson's foxes. A number of beef cattle, in a pen near Yellow Tavern, were seized, in the night, with one of those panics for which oxen are noted, and to which the name stampede was originally applied. They burst out of the enclosure and a body of them, forty strong, went, at full gallop, up the Halifax road, towards Petersburg! What our pickets did does not appear; one thing they did not do — stop the fugitive beef. On they went in wild career through the dark, with no little clatter, we may
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 39 (search)
Doc. 38.-Thirty-First regiment N. Y. S. V. The following is a list of the officers: Field.--Colonel, Calvin C. Pratt; Lieutenant-Colonel, William H. Brown; Major, Addison Dougherty. Commissioned Staff.--Adjutant, Frank Jones; Quartermaster, Baron Samson; Surgeon, Dr. Frank H. Hamilton; Assistant Surgeon, Dr. Lucien Damainville; Chaplain, Rev. Samuel W. Waldron, Jr. Non-Commissioned Staff.--Sergeant-Major, Edward Frossard; Quartermaster--Sergeant, Lemuel Pitman, Jr. Line.--Co. A--J. A. Hassler, Captain; Peter J. Stuyvesant, First Lieutenant; Robert R. Daniels, Ensign. Co. B-L. C. Newman, Captain; Daniel E. Smith, First Lieutenant; Eugene Trossard, Ensign. Co. C--(The Polish Legion)--Alexander Raszewski, Captain; Lewis Domanski, First Lieutenant; Vincens Kochanowski, Ensign. Co. D--M. O. McGarry, Captain; James H. Bradley, First Lieutenant; Rannie L. Knight, Ensign. Co. E--August Help, Captain; Charles E. Klein, First Lieutenant; Henry Shickard, Ensign. Co. F--Henr
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 269 (search)
e very wave, ye seem to think, Will chill them where they stand. Yes, call them rebels! 'tis a name Which speaks of other days, Of gallant deeds, and gallant men, And wins them to their ways. Fair was the edifice they raised, Uplifting to the skies; A mighty Samson 'neath its dome In grand quiescence lies. Dare not to touch his noble limb, With thong or chain to bind, Lest ruin crush both you and him;-- This Samson is not blind! Natchitoches, May, 1861. --N. O. Picayune Supplement, May 26. e very wave, ye seem to think, Will chill them where they stand. Yes, call them rebels! 'tis a name Which speaks of other days, Of gallant deeds, and gallant men, And wins them to their ways. Fair was the edifice they raised, Uplifting to the skies; A mighty Samson 'neath its dome In grand quiescence lies. Dare not to touch his noble limb, With thong or chain to bind, Lest ruin crush both you and him;-- This Samson is not blind! Natchitoches, May, 1861. --N. O. Picayune Supplement, May 26.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 37 (search)
; But, fed by this first yielding, bolder and bolder grown, Shameless before the nations now, it reared its bloody throne. The time draws nigh for whittling! “Pride goes before destruction,” the wise man said of old; “Whom the gods seek to ruin they first make mad;” and bold In the frenzy of its madness, this Wrong forgot its place, Came out with noise of gongs to fright our Yankee whittling race. God gave this chance for whittling. And now, my trusty Saxons, who come from near and far, Remember who your fathers were, and set your teeth for war; “Sword of the Lord and Gideon!” be still your battlecry, And strike as Samson struck of old, smite Slavery hip and thigh. Now is your time for whittling. And when this life shall rest again from all this noise and strife, And Peace her olive-branch shall wave o'er this broad realm of life, Fair as the sun, our nation before the world shall stand, Freedom on all her banners, freedom throughout the land. Oh I these grand rewards of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 63 (search)
ny.Regiment.Seat of Injury.Nature of Injury.Date of Death. 1.Ragan, Patrick,Private,G,17th Ohio,Face,Gunshot.  2.Ferret, Henry N.,Musician,1st Brig.,Band,Chest,Gunshot.  3.Forbes, John,Private,K,31st Ohio,Chest,Gunshot.Nov. 26, 1864. 4.Deshlie, Frederick,1st Serg't.,B,31st Ohio,Abdomen,Gunshot.Nov. 23, 1864. 5.Hobbart, R.,Private,G,38th Ohio,Chest,Gunshot.  6.Cuneg, Aburd,Private,I,92d Ohio,Face,Gunshot.  7.Bagsen, George,Private,K,2d Minn.,Chest,Concussion from Shell,Dec. 9, 1864. 8.Samson, Hulse,Private,H,2d Minn.,Hand,Gunshot.  9.Lamar, Charles,Private,H,89th Ohio,Chest,Gunshot.  In closing this report, I have again to commend to the notice of my superior commanders the ability and meritorious services of Colonel George P. Este, Fourteenth Ohio; Colonel Morton C. Hunter, Eighty-second Indiana; and Colonel N. Gleason, Eighty-seventh Indiana, who commanded my three brigades, and to ask for their promotions, at least by brevet, to the rank of Brigadier-General. I have <
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