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Patapsco river (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
too much overcome with liquor and sleep to take part in the engagement, I maintained a strict neutrality, keeping ingloriously silent even when some besotted blue-coat would move up menacingly towards me and dare me to chirp for Jeff. Davis. Nor need I say how rejoiced I was when the morning came, and being abandoned now by all hope of return to the South, I was ordered to Fort McHenry, and the life enacted of which some account will be given in the following pages. On an arm of the Patapsco river, some two miles below the city of Baltimore, and guarding the entrance to its harbor, stands this old fortress, in existence as early certainly as 1794, bearing, in honor of one of the heroes of the first revolution, the name of Fort McHenry. Its chief claim to historic interest lies in the conspicuous part which it bore in the defence of Baltimore during its memorable siege by the British in the autumn of the year 1814. Ross, the British General, having completed his work of vandali
Old Point (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
hand, to whom I was ministering, and at whose urgent solicitation I had voluntarily remained within the enemy's lines. I was sent, as already narrated, to the headquarters of General Schenck, and by him ordered to prison quarters at Fort McHenry, and although, through the influence of prominent citizens of Baltimore, General Schenck was induced to issue an order for my return to the South on the day following my incarceration, and I was actually taken on board the flag of truce boat to Old Point, yet orders were received at Fortress Monroe to return me to prison, and after a fortnight's confinement in Fort Norfolk I was returned to Fort McHenry, and kept there as a prisoner until, through the unwearied intercession of Colonel Ould, our humane and courteous Agent of Exchange, a cartel was arranged by which we could be exchanged. Without stopping, however, to inquire into the hows and where-fores of this vexed question, suffice it to say that at the time to which I refer about a
Point Lookout, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
nd noble-hearted as himself, should, under a like stigma of rebellion, waste away their lives in dreary casements and under galling fetters of imprisonment. All this, however, is merely by way of introduction to the old fortress, of whose hospitalities I was permitted, during the summer of 1863, to partake. At the time of my first introduction, it was used principally as a place of rendezvous for detachments of Confederate prisoners on their way to permanent places of imprisonment at Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, Johnson's Island, &c. Prisoners brought in from the lines of the Army of the Potomac in small detachments were here assorted and sent away, the officers to Johnson's Island and Fort Delaware, the privates to Point Look-out, &c.--detachments being often held for a week or two until suitable arrangements could be made for them at some of the more populous, if not more popular places of resort. Now it chanced that after the battle of Gettysburg a number of surgeons and
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
863, when it became apparent that the army of General Lee was in quiet and undisturbed retreat from its position before Gettysburg, I found myself in the midst of three or four hundred men of the brigade in which I served, who were too severely woundColonel of the regiment in which I served, Colonel Hugh R. Miller, was lying mortally wounded at a private residence in Gettysburg, and had expressed a desire to see me. I reached his bedside just in time to receive his dying expression of his faith embalmer were secured, and the body skilfully embalmed and inclosed in a metallic case. The Commandant of the Post at Gettysburg, whose name I do not recall, but who was a true gentleman as well as true soldier, on application being made to him to captured in the afternoon of a beautiful Sabbath day, the 5th of July, 1863, in a hospital tent, on the battlefield of Gettysburg, in the midst of a religious service, surrounded by the wounded on every hand, to whom I was ministering, and at whose
Fort Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
mitted, during the summer of 1863, to partake. At the time of my first introduction, it was used principally as a place of rendezvous for detachments of Confederate prisoners on their way to permanent places of imprisonment at Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, Johnson's Island, &c. Prisoners brought in from the lines of the Army of the Potomac in small detachments were here assorted and sent away, the officers to Johnson's Island and Fort Delaware, the privates to Point Look-out, &c.--detachmenFort Delaware, the privates to Point Look-out, &c.--detachments being often held for a week or two until suitable arrangements could be made for them at some of the more populous, if not more popular places of resort. Now it chanced that after the battle of Gettysburg a number of surgeons and chaplains found their way along with other prisoners to this point d'appui, having either been detailed for hospital service and left behind on the retreat from Pennsylvania, or having voluntarily remained with the wounded and dying of their commands. If any o
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
General gave up in despair, withdrew his forces, and left the fort and the city to the peaceful possession of their heroic and gallant defenders. On one of the British transports lying just outside of the harbor was Francis Key, a patriot of Maryland, held as a State prisoner because of his loyalty to the American cause. Confined between decks, where he could hear the din of the conflict, but could learn nothing of the results, he spent the long night in anxious thought of the banner which hat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. He little thought that the day would come when that same banner — the emblem to him of freedom from oppression — would still wave over Fort McHenry, and beneath its folds, patriots of Maryland, as pure and noble-hearted as himself, should, under a like stigma of rebellion, waste away their lives in dreary casements and under galling fetters of imprisonment. All this, however, is merely by way of introduction to the old fortress, of
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
he officers to Johnson's Island and Fort Delaware, the privates to Point Look-out, &c.--detachments being often held for a week or two until suitable arrangements could be made for them at some of the more populous, if not more popular places of resort. Now it chanced that after the battle of Gettysburg a number of surgeons and chaplains found their way along with other prisoners to this point d'appui, having either been detailed for hospital service and left behind on the retreat from Pennsylvania, or having voluntarily remained with the wounded and dying of their commands. If any one should ask me how it came that surgeons and chaplains were held as prisoners of war by the Federal Government, I can only answer that I do not know. In all civilized warfare surgeons and chaplains being considered as non-combatants and their mission being regarded as one of mercy, are not reckoned as prisoners of war, but, when captured, are released upon their own parole and sent into the lines o
Johnson's Island (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
he summer of 1863, to partake. At the time of my first introduction, it was used principally as a place of rendezvous for detachments of Confederate prisoners on their way to permanent places of imprisonment at Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, Johnson's Island, &c. Prisoners brought in from the lines of the Army of the Potomac in small detachments were here assorted and sent away, the officers to Johnson's Island and Fort Delaware, the privates to Point Look-out, &c.--detachments being often heJohnson's Island and Fort Delaware, the privates to Point Look-out, &c.--detachments being often held for a week or two until suitable arrangements could be made for them at some of the more populous, if not more popular places of resort. Now it chanced that after the battle of Gettysburg a number of surgeons and chaplains found their way along with other prisoners to this point d'appui, having either been detailed for hospital service and left behind on the retreat from Pennsylvania, or having voluntarily remained with the wounded and dying of their commands. If any one should ask me h
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
to further this end. For he not only sent the remains to Baltimore in charge of one of the members of his staff, but he alloscort with a letter to General Schenck, the Commandant at Baltimore, requesting that we should be permitted to accompany the scene on the arrival at General Schenck's headquarters in Baltimore was one that beggars description. The polite and gentlemthere were among the prisoners one or two stout, stalwart Baltimore roughs, Irishmen, whose sympathies were with the South, am of the Patapsco river, some two miles below the city of Baltimore, and guarding the entrance to its harbor, stands this olds in the conspicuous part which it bore in the defence of Baltimore during its memorable siege by the British in the autumn oered the Patapsco, with the design of seizing the city of Baltimore and wintering there. The whole issue of the campaign, an although, through the influence of prominent citizens of Baltimore, General Schenck was induced to issue an order for my ret
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.16
hose urgent solicitation I had voluntarily remained within the enemy's lines. I was sent, as already narrated, to the headquarters of General Schenck, and by him ordered to prison quarters at Fort McHenry, and although, through the influence of prominent citizens of Baltimore, General Schenck was induced to issue an order for my return to the South on the day following my incarceration, and I was actually taken on board the flag of truce boat to Old Point, yet orders were received at Fortress Monroe to return me to prison, and after a fortnight's confinement in Fort Norfolk I was returned to Fort McHenry, and kept there as a prisoner until, through the unwearied intercession of Colonel Ould, our humane and courteous Agent of Exchange, a cartel was arranged by which we could be exchanged. Without stopping, however, to inquire into the hows and where-fores of this vexed question, suffice it to say that at the time to which I refer about a hundred surgeons, with some thirteen or fo
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