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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 33 (search)
A correspondent writing from near Yorktown, Va., April twenty-ninth, says:
The best work of the morning was reducing to a state of permanent inutility in this mundane sphere a negro rifleman, who, through his skill as a marksman, has done more injury to our men than a dozen of his white compeers, in the attempted labor of reducing the complement of our sharp-shooters.
Our men have known him a long time, have kept an eye on him, have lain in wait for him. His habit has been to perch himself in a big tree, and, keeping himself hid behind the body, annoy our men by firing upon them.
He climbed the tree this morning in advance of the others coming out, smuggled himself in his position, and was anticipating his usual day of quietude.
Our men might have killed him as he came out, but avoided shooting, so as not to alarm the others.
His tree was about twenty rods from one of our pits.
When our men fired on the advancing rebel pickets, he, of course, saw the fix he was in — that h
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 43 (search)
Yorktown, Va., April 30.--On Sunday evening, a few hours after sunset, while we were sitting in our tent, in company with several other specials, one of our number, laying his hand upon our knee, suddenly said to us: Hark!
What is that?
In a second all had ceased talking, and every ear endeavored to catch the sound which had attracted the attention of his comrade.
There was a silence for a moment, and then there was wafted across the air the music of that glorious anthem, Old hundred, in
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 46 (search)
May 2.--The Sixth Maine regiment, now before Yorktown, contains among its members a great grandson of Gen. Lincoln, who received Lord Cornwallis' sword at Yorktown, in 1781.
He is the son of Theodore Lincoln, Esq., of Dennysville, a young man of fine education, and who left home, where he had every comfort, to volunteer as a private.--Cincinnati Times, May 2.
May 2.--The Sixth Maine regiment, now before Yorktown, contains among its members a great grandson of Gen. Lincoln, who received Lord Cornwallis' sword at Yorktown, in 1781.
He is the son of Theodore Lincoln, Esq., of Dennysville, a young man of fine education, and who left home, where he had every comfort, to volunteer as a private.--Cincinnati Times, May 2.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 54 (search)
The bodies of the three men of the Chelsea company of the First Massachusetts regiment, who fell in the assault near Yorktown, Virginia, on Saturday, April twenty-sixth, were buried in a vault prepared by their comrades on Monday, twenty-eighth ultimo.
It is described as being located on the slope of a hill, and beautifully shaded by huge oaks, with an undergrowth of laurel.
Rev. Warren H. Cudworth of Boston, Chaplain of the regiment, made an impressive address to the men of the First, stating that the deceased fell on the same ground on which their forefathers, under Washington, almost a century ago, fought and fell in defence of the same glorious cause of constitutional liberty and the perpetuation of the free Republic of the United States.
At one point in the address, sound of cannon-shot came from the rebel intrenchments.
There, exclaimed the Chaplain, there are the same defiant tones which have been belched forth from the halls of Congress for a generation past, only the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 57 (search)
Capturing A gun.--There is an old chap in the Berdan Sharp-shooters, near Yorktown, known as old Seth.
He is quite a character, and is a crack shot--one of the best in the regiment.
His instrument, as he terms it, is one of the heaviest telescopic rifles.
The other night at roll-call, old Seth was non est. This was somewhat unusual, as the old chap was always up to time.
A sergeant went out to hunt him up, he being somewhat fearful that the old man had been hit. After perambulating around in the advance of the picket line, he heard a low holloo.
Who's there?
inquired the sergeant.
It's me, responded Seth, and I've captured a secesh gun.
Bring it in, said the sergeant.
Can't do it, exclaimed Seth.
It soon became apparent to the sergeant that old Seth had the exact range of one of the enemy's heaviest guns, and they could not load it for fear of being picked off by him. Again the old man shouted: Fetch me a couple of haversacks full of grub, as this is my gun, and the cus
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 69 (search)
Washington, April 12.--Our Navy Department has no reliable facts about rebel works on the Mississippi, except as we get at them, and it seems that the best knowledge we have of their disposition about Yorktown, is derived from a balloon reconnoissance.
On the contrary, the enemy have full information long beforehand of our intended operations; therefore, there must be traitors somewhere in the War Department or its bureaus, or in the army staff.
It is pretty clear that, with all our money, we have had no good system of espionage.--Philadelphia Press, April 12.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), Traitorous and incendiary Legends. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 100 (search)
Incidents at Yorktown.--A Yorktown letter to the Providence Press says that the rebels have negroes impressed into their service.
Two black fellows of herculean frame were shot dead by the Union pickets.
They were armed and equipped as the law directs, and had a couple of splendid Enfield rifles, with a finer finish than any of our arms.
A rebel sergeant, belonging to the Eleventh Virginia, was captured.
He was a handsome, athletic, and very intelligent fellow, who undertook to fight against great odds.
How he strayed from his companions, I am at a loss to say. Somebody said, when the prisoner was inclined to be saucy: Hang him up to a tree.
The rebel gazed on him with a defiant scowl, saying, It would take a. better man than you to do it. I am a gentleman, I am, said he, and then his eyes were blindfolded, and he was led to the General's headquarters.
No information could be gained from him, and he was sent to Fortress Monroe.
I have to record that the Seventh Maine had on
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), The pleasures of Picketing. (search)
The pleasures of Picketing.
A correspondent of the Fall River (Mass.) News, writing from in front of Yorktown, Va., says:
One of the pleasant incidents of warfare, which every one has not the pleasure of witnessing, the members of company A participated in yesterday.
We were detailed to do picket-duty on the outposts.
We started with a company of the New-York Eighty-sixth, at two o'clock Thursday afternoon. When we arrived at our post, I concluded that we had got into a hornet's nest,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), Who raised the flag at Yorktown ? (search)
Who raised the flag at Yorktown?
To the Twenty-second Massachusetts regiment, Col. Gove, and to the Twenty-second alone, belongs the glory of first planting the American flag on the works at Yorktown; of the truth of the statement there is aYorktown; of the truth of the statement there is and can be no question.
The following brief account can be relied upon:
The day before the evacuation, Saturday, May third, the Twenty-second regiment received orders to march to a position within one thousand yards of the enemy's work.
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