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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
. I remember Lieutenant Wilson G. Lamb, with one of the companies of the Seventeenth, as displaying coolness and conspicuous bravery. Indeed, the entire command at the burning bridge was efficient and brave. Our campaign in the barren turpentine peninsula was very uncomfortable. Food was scarce, and we all got smutted by lightwood fires. In fighting Terry's troops we encountered the first enemy armed with repeating rifles, one of his regiments (I believe the Tenth Connecticut) having Spencer seven-shooters. Soon after reaching Goldsboro we moved to Kinston, and General Bragg was reinforced by troops from Hood's army, now commanded by General D. H. Hill. The enemy came out from Newbern under General Cox, and Bragg advanced to meet him at or near Wise's Fork. Hoke's Division was put in motion in the night, Kirkland's Brigade this time leading, and by a long detour through woods and swamps, completely turned the enemy's right and advanced upon his rear. About noon on the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Colonel Mosby Indicts Custer for the hanging. (search)
been to Blazer, who commanded a picked corps that was specially detailed to look after us. In his report, Blazer speaks of capturing some of my men; he never mentions hanging any. Those he captured were certainly not hung, for I saw them when they came home after the close of the war. The following dispatches record the rise and fall of Blazer: Charlestown, August 20, 1864. Sheridan to Augur, Washington: I have 100 men who will take the contract to clean out Mosby's gang. I want 100 Spencer rifles for them. Send them to me if they can be found in Washington. P. H. Sheridan, Major-General Commanding. (Indorsement): Approved: By order of the Secretary of War. C. A. Dana, Asst. Secretary. Harper's Ferry, November 19, 1864. Stevenson to Sheridan. Two of Captain Blazer's men came in this morning—Privates Harris and Johnson. They report that Mosby with 300 men attacked Blazer near Kabletown yesterday about 11 o'clock. They say that the entire command, with the exceptio
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.41 (search)
ield, I will quote from Annals of the War, an account by Major Nettleton, of the Second Ohio cavalry: The divisions of Merritt and Custer, aggregating nearly 8,000 of the finest mounted troops in the world, were on the right of the infantry. . . . It was no longer a matter of indifference where cavalry was placed. For the first time during the war the Federal cavalry was really raised to the dignity of a third arm of the service and given its full share in the hard fighting. With their Spencer repeating carbines, their experience in transferring themselves into foot soldiers, Sheridan's mounted force was at once the eye and the right arm of his fighting column. . . . Custer, advance to the centre, was the laconic command from General Wright. And as the sun was rising four thousand troopers, with accompanying batteries, marched into the fight. Both Custer and Merritt were marched from Sheridan's right and interposed across the advance of Early's right. Says General Merritt's
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Roster of the Battalion of the Georgia Military Institute Cadets (search)
ington, Ga. Died at Marietta, 1889. *Robertson, ——, Meriwether county, Ga. Died since the war. Rodgers, Robert L, Washington county, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. *Sanders, O. A., (Cube,) Covington, Ga. Died in Atlanta, 1883. Sharp, Shropshire, Andrew J., Coweta county, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. Shoemake, W. W., Troupe county, Ga. Died 1865. Smart,——, Camden county, Ga. Smith, Richard R., Washington county, Tennille, Ga. Smith, Thomas N., Washington county, Tennille, Ga. (Brothers.) Spencer, Samuel, Columbus, Ga., now President Southern Railway Company, and lives in New York City. Staten,——. Stevens, N. C. (Dick,) Ellaville, Ga. Now doctor at Ama, Louisiana. Stevenson, V. K., Nashville, Tenn. New York. Stotesbury, —— Tenant, Marietta, Ga. Thomas, Isaac, Forsyth, Ga. Traylor, R. B., Harris county, Ga. Chipley, Ga. Ulmer——, Vance,——. *Villard, W. D., South Carolina. Died in Atlanta, Ga., 1897. Walton, Taylor, Lumpkin, Ga., Texas.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.1 (search)
ers. And I said then and have ever since said in speaking of our guards—the Twenty-fifth Alabama Infantry—that I never met the same number of men together who came much nearer to my standard of what I call gentlemen. They were respectful, humane, and soldierly. We were organized into squads of ninety, and I soon discovered that the young sergeant in charge of our squad was a fine young fellow. I shall refer to him more explicitly farther on. I have read Richardson, Kellogg, Urban, Spencer and Grisby, on Andersonville, the most of it recently, and I was and am surprised at the free-lance recklessness of description. Let us first discuss the topographical selection of the Andersonville site for a prison camp. I realize that this phase of the question has been reverted to and minutely described every five or six years, since Richardson first gave his views to the public, early in the autumn of 1865. The selection of the site was excellent. I do not propose to dilate on th
River, 1. Shawshine (Billerica), 53. Sheafe, Edward, Jr., 43. Shepherd, Rev., Thomas, 73. Shirley, Governor, 31. Simson, Joseph, 11, 12, 65. Skelton, —, 29. Skinner, John, 16, 17. Smith, —, 18. Smith, Betsey, 37. Smith, John, 60. Somerville Historical Society, Meetings of, 72. Somerville Hospital, 70. Somerville National Bank, 70. Somerville Past and Present, 59. Southey, Robert, 63. Sowhegum Farm, 14. Sparohauke, Nathaniel, 79. Sparks Street, Cambridge, 51. Spencer (family), 43. Spot Pond, 11. Sprague, John, 12. Spring Lane, Boston, 30. Standish, Miles, 60. State Board of Education, 63. Stearns, Sarah, 82. Stearns, William, 24. Stevens, John, 14. Stickney (family), 42. Stimson, Andrew, Jr., 12. Stimson, Joseph, 12. Stimpson, Rev., Joseph, 65. Stoddard Locks, 2. Stone, Daniel, 78. Stone, David, 77, 78, 85. Stone, Deacon, 76, 79, 84, 86. Stone, Elizabeth, 78. Stone, Gregory, Children of, 78. Stone, Gregory, Deacon, 76, 79.
ames Bruce of Woburn]. James Bruce of Wob. m. Betty Harrington 15 June, 1797.—Lexington Records. Buckman and Bucknam, Spencer, of Medford, and Mary Frost of Camb. m. 9 Nov. 1794. Mary (widow), was adm. to the ch. 5 July, 1812. Spencer's son, dSpencer's son, d. 10 Aug. 1802, a. 2; and Ruthy, Louisa, and John Harris, chil. of Spencer, were bap. 26 July, 1812. Mary, an adult, set. 16, prob. his dau., o. c. and was bap. 5 Sept. 1813; perhaps the Mary who m. John Crosby, 13 Apr. 1817. Ruth m. Ezra Avery, 7Spencer, were bap. 26 July, 1812. Mary, an adult, set. 16, prob. his dau., o. c. and was bap. 5 Sept. 1813; perhaps the Mary who m. John Crosby, 13 Apr. 1817. Ruth m. Ezra Avery, 7 Feb. 1828. Louisa m. Elias Avery, 1 Jan. 1828. Lydia, another dau., m. Jonas Cutter, Jr., 5 Sept. 1824—Cutter (par. 56). 2. Sarah, m. Isaac Cutter, 23 July, 1783—Cutter (par. 49)— dau. of Moses. Moses Bucknam with wife and children, Leonard, Spencer, Nancy and Fanny, from Malden, April, 1786; in census 1789.—Wyman's Charlestown, 148. Jesse m. Frances Prentiss, 24 May, 1827, had Theodore Gray, bap. 27 July, 1828; a son, d. 2 Sept. 1837, a. 2 days; and Frances Maria, d. 24 Jan. 1847,
army, or fatal contests with one another. Of the soldiers from the other colonies, the New Hampshire regiments only had as yet been placed under the command of Ward. The arrival of Greene quieted a rising spirit of discontent, which had threatened to break up the detachment from Rhode Island; but some of their captains and many subalterns continued to neglect their duty, from fear of offending the soldiers, from indolence, or from obstinacy. Of the men of Connecticut, a part were with Spencer at Roxbury; several hundred at Cambridge with Putnam, the second brigadier; who was distinguished for bold advice, alertness, and popular favor; and was seen constantly on horseback or on foot, working with his men or encouraging them. The age and infirmities of Ward combined to increase the caution which the state of the camp made imperative. He was unwilling to hazard defeat, and inclined to await the solution of events from the nego- Chap. XXXVIII.} 1775. June. tiations of the con
ssfully emerged. His elementary education was in the public schools of his native town; but the perils of war suspending school operations, he entered the office of Isaiah Thomas, proprietor of the famous Spy. His passion for books and strong love of literature were manifested during his employment on the press by his devotion of leisure hours to the acquisition of the elementary branches of English and the rudiments of Latin. In 1778 he was put under the charge of the Rev. Joseph Pope of Spencer, but a year later found him with his father in the Continental army, being then only twelve years old, and too young to perform a soldier's duty. On his return he was in the office of Benjamin Lincoln, and was later placed under the tuition of Samuel Dexter, who prepared him for admission to Harvard University, which he entered in 1782, graduating with high honors in the class of 1786. He entered at once upon the study of the law in the office of Levi Lincoln, Esq., and was admitted to th
Gas leakage. --In a report of the New River Water Company, Professor Spencer, in speaking of the corrosion of iron mains and the effect of gas leakage, states that it is computed that there are 4,000 miles of gas mains laid under the roadways of London, from which 600,000,000 feet of gas are annually absorbed into the earth, the far larger proportion of which could be saved by improved condults. As a matter of economy, its results would pay a dividend of five per cent. on the gross capital of the London companies. It is a question for photographers, how far the extraordinary excess of carbureted hydrogen, with its other impurities, contaminating their waters at times, may account for exceptional and unexplainable phenomena and puzzling failure.