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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
wards changed to the First Heavy Artillery]. The other companies of this command are near, at Forts Albany and Hamilton; the main body being at Fort Albany, the headquarters of Colonel Green. HereFort Albany, the headquarters of Colonel Green. Here he spent an hour, and then rode on to visit the Ninth, Eighteenth, and Twenty-second Regiments, and the Third and Fourth Batteries in General Porter's division. The roads were shocking. He stopped many pleasant hours with this regiment. On my return, Colonel Cass accompanied me as far as Fort Albany. On our way, we called on Major-General Porter, and arranged with him about receiving our Silonel. After warming ourselves and drying our clothes, we started across the country towards Fort Albany, passing through several camps; among them, that of the Nineteenth Indiana, commanded by an old veteran friend of mine, Colonel Meredith. At Fort Albany, we parted with Colonel Cass; he returning to his regiment, and we to Washington, and reached our hotel about six o'clock. We never sa
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
lf to the work of visiting the hospitals Thanksgiving dinner in the Hospital she removes to Fort Albany and takes charge as Matron of the regimental Hospital pleasant experiences reading to the sove) under the command of Colonel William B. Green, of Boston, and was immediately ordered to Fort Albany, which was then an outpost of defense guarding the Long Bridge over the Potomac, near Washingies she desired for her useful and engrossing work. In March, 1862, Mrs. Barker removed to Fort Albany, and systematically commenced the work which had first induced her to leave her home. This w all the little luxuries and delicacies demanded by special cases. While the regiment held Fort Albany, and others of the forts forming the defenses of Washington, the officers' quarters were alwae could serve in the hospitals more effectually by living in Washington, than by remaining at Fort Albany. She therefore offered her services to the Sanitary Commission without other compensation th
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Letter to the Tribune. (search)
ers may make me do that and many other things I never thought of. You know, by experience, that the American press, in general, neither tries nor means to speak truth about Abolitionists of any type. I have never discouraged enlistments. In the Union army are my kindred and some of my dearest friends. Others rest in fresh and honorable graves. No one of these ever heard a word from me to discourage his enlisting. I had the honor, last March, to address the Fourteenth Massachusetts at Fort Albany, and, this very week, the Thirty-third Massachusetts at Camp Cameron. No man in either regiment heard anything from my lips to discourage his whole-souled service of the Union. Allow me to state my own position. From 1843 to 1861, I was a Disunionist, and sought to break this Union, convinced that disunion was the only righteous path, and the best one for the white man and the black. I sought disunion, not through conspiracy and violence, but by means which the Constitution itself w
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Chapter 5: (search)
a few minutes later crossed the field to the Leesburg pike, through our last winter's camp. We noticed a tiny Union flag flying from a pole nailed to John Going's gable. As it was alleged that John had said he would rot in Fort Ellsworth before he would raise the Union colors, and as John was not at home, it would seem that some one had kindly planted the flag for him. We crossed Cameron Run, and marched across the country at though making for Arlington Heights; but when in sight of Fort Albany we moved east, along the line of the Alexandria and Loudon Railroad, struck the Washington road, and crossed Long Bridge into the capital. We moved through the city of magnificent distances, over Georgetown Heights to Tennallytown. How many times and on how many different errands, did we, during our career as an element either of the Army of the Potomac or of the Army of the Shenandoah, pass through or rest at this little village? The turnpike gate on the west side is one of the land
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1841. (search)
uty was done with his accustomed thoroughness, as his letters show. Fort Albany, Va., August 19, 1861. Here we are at last, within four miles of the Rebel guard,— not a specially agreeable interposition to a man of my ultraism. Fort Albany, September 14. This stationary life in camp, without any security that ebels, rather than die of mildew in these wretched fens near the Potomac. Fort Albany, October 3. Your pleasant picture of placid, rural Concord takes me mild service at first, and then was converted into heavy artillery, and kept at Fort Albany, with always a hope of being ordered into active service. The climate was frdered away by the surgeons. The following letters tell the story:— Fort Albany, October 22, 1861. I am sick to-day. Have had to detail a lieutenant tard, with or without our guns, I should be very glad to go, sick or well. Fort Albany, (toujours,) October 31, 1861. I have checked my hemorrhage, in spite o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1858. (search)
of time, he finally received a commission as Assistant Surgeon in the Fourteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, commanded by Colonel W. B. Greene, then stationed at Fort Albany; and in February, 1862, he joined the regiment. As month after month rolled by, and while other regiments passed to the front, the Fourteenth still remained he knew he would give his parents, would willingly have taken any position which would bring him into more active service. The dull routine of his duties at Fort Albany was, however, unexpectedly interrupted in August, 1862, by an order sent to Colonel Greene to join the Army of the Potomac, and advance towards the enemy. Dr. riting home, said that Colonel Greene had given him a very handsome letter of recommendation. After an absence of about three weeks, the regiment returned to Fort Albany, much to the disappointment of Dr. Mason, which disappointment was enhanced by the resignation of Colonel Greene, which took place shortly afterwards. Early in
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909, Company E, 39th Massachusetts Infantry, in the Civil War.—(Iv.) (search)
ficers and men of the Regiment, who had been in the hands of the enemy since August, returned from the paroled camp. Major F. R. Kinsley was of this number, and the command of the Regiment now devolved upon him. May 1. We broke camp once more and began the march to Washington; passed through Petersburg May 3; through Richmond May 6; over the memorable Fredericksburg battleground May 9; crossed the Rappahannock for the tenth and last time; and halted Friday, May 12, at Arlington, near Fort Albany, and very near the first camp ground of the Regiment in Virginia. May 23. The Regiment took part in the grand review of the army in Washington, returning to camp in the afternoon. June 2. The mustering out of the Regiment began, and Sunday, June 4, we broke camp and reported in Washington for transportation to Massachusetts. The journey home was made quickly, with but few halts: one at the well-known Cooper Shop, which never allowed a soldier to pass through Philadelphia hungry;
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), F (search)
0, 161, 16:3, 256, 262, 273 seq., 278 seq., 280, 282; VII., 145, 242; VIII., 206, 275, 290; IX., 247; X., 21,48,249,278. Forrest, W. H., VII., 145. Forrest, Tenn., I., 356, 358. Forrest, , C. S. S., I., 356. Forster, W., VIII., 360. Forsyth, G. W, IV., 310. Forsyth, J., IV., 260, 261. Forsyth, J. W., X., 233. Forsyth, Mo., I., 350. Forsythe, T. W., VIII., 39. Fort Abercrombie, Minn., VIII., 79. Fort Adams, Miss., VI., 149. Fort Albany, Va., V., 94. Fort Anderson, Ky., II., 350. Fort Anderson, N. C., III., 342. Fort Barker, Ala., II., 167. Fort Barrancas, Fla.: I., 4, 86; II., 351; VIII., 157. Fort Beauregard, S. C.: VI., 58, 148, 270, 310. Fort Bennett, Va., V., 95. Fort Blakely, Ala.: III., 344; VI., 260; captured, IX., 247. Fort Bowyer, Ala., VI., 244. Fort Brady, Va., III., 323; V., 305. Fort Butler, La., II., 331, 340. Fort Carroll, Giesboro, D. C.
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Maryland. (search)
tain such a supposition. However this may be, McClellan's only thought, on once more meeting his soldiers, was to secure them as quickly as possible the means of regaining their strength and their courage. He brought back each corps into the old position it had occupied during the long winter of 1861-1862. Porter and Siegel took up their quarters at Hall's Hill, McDowell at Upton's Hill, Franklin and Heintzelman near Alexandria, Couch in the vicinity of the Chain Bridge and Sumner at Fort Albany. If so many brave men had not failed to appear at roll call, one might have believed that the painful campaign which had taken the army under the very walls of Richmond was but a dream. In fact, everything had to be commenced anew; and, what was still more deplorable, this bitter experience would teach the Washington authorities nothing. The Confederate reports place the losses sustained by Lee's army, from the 23d of August to September 2d, at the following figures: Longstreet's cor
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
8. morasses of the north-west, the homes of the Sioux and Miamis, the recesses of every forest where there was an Indian with skins to sell. God alone could have saved Canada this year, wrote Denonville, in 1688. But for the missions at the west, Illinois would have been abandoned, the fort at Mackinaw lost, and a general rising of the natives would have completed the ruin of New France. Personal enterprise took the direction of the fur- 1689 trade: Port Nelson, in Hudson's Bay, and Fort Albany, were originally possessed by the French. The attention of the court of France was directed to the fisheries; and Acadia had been represented by De Meules as the most important settlement of France. To protect it, the Jesuits Vincent and James Bigot collected a village of Abenakis on the Penobscot; and a flourishing town now marks the spot where the baron de St. Castin, a veteran officer of the regiment of Carignan, established a trading fort. Would France, it was said, strengthen its
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