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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Introduction (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), I. First months (search)
I. First months
Theodore Lyman reached Boston early in June 1863, hoping to obtain a Staff appointment.
His first weeks were spent in settling his little family in Brookline, adjusting his private affairs, and sorting the collections of his beloved Ophiurans that had accumulated during his absence in Louis Agassiz's newly built museum.
Many of Lyman's friends thought that his desire to join the army was quixotic and unnecessary.
Meanwhile Lee's advanced guard had crossed the upper Potomac, and Hooker had moved on Centreville from Falmouth.
There will be stirring times ahead, writes Lyman in his journal.
Every one takes the matter with great calmness; we are too dead!
Soon came Gettysburg; and shortly afterward Mrs. Lyman's cousin, Robert Shaw, fell at the head of his negro regiment in the assault of Fort Wagner.
Again Lyman writes: Bob was a shining example of great development of character under pressing circumstances.
In peace times he would have lived and died a quie
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), IV . Cold Harbor (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
Index
Abbot, Henry Livermore, 76, 318, 332; death, 95, 97.
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., 104.
Agassiz, Louis, III.
Aide-de-camp, qualities of, 121.
Aiken house, 219, 220.
Alden, Algernon Sidney, 257, 289.
Alexandria, Va., 4.
Anderson, —, 265.
Anderson house, 115, 128.
Annoy, use of word, 247.
Appleton, Nathan, 72, 127, 169.
Appomattox campaign, 803; High Bridge, 352.
Armistice, 154, 170, 201.
Armstrong house, 114.
Army, on the march, 29, 55; reinforcing, 31, 177; intercourse with enemy, 106, 153, 181; formation of, 263.
Assaults, effect of too many, 148n.
Atlanta, capture of, 228.
Atlanta, iron-clad, 161, 163.
Avery, Martin P., 171.
Ayres, Romeyn Beck, 234, 236, 242, 331.
Babcock, Orville Elias, 161, 314.
Bache, —, 204.
Badajos, English at, 207.
Badeau, Adam, 314.
Baldwin, Briscoe G., 125.
Barlow, Francis Channing, 109, 117, 135,157, 215, 216; described, 107, 158, 189; at Cold Harbor, 144; at Petersburg, 186.
Barnard, Daniel P., 34