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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 2 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 64 (search)
orm for the charge, and while they were forming he slid his men and prisoners between two divisions of the rebel cavalry and rejoined his regiment. Two things probably saved the Major. He lost his hat and took a secesh cap from a prisoner. He looked like a reb. When he returned through the two divisions of rebel cavalry he had so many prisoners and so few men that they doubtless mistook him and his party for their own men moving out to reconnoitre. This may sound extravagant, but I have the word of the prisoners he brought in (fourteen) and of his own men for its fidelity, and the ambulance he captured, with General Stuart's trunk, papers, letters, and plans, are at headquarters. The battle soon became a fight for Beverly Ford. We drove the enemy back, secured the ford, and recrossed about sundown. We accomplished our great design, that is, found out that the enemy was there. Our regiment has suffered severely, but I cannot yet give you the particulars. Devenport.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 6: ecclesiastical history. (search)
r his marriage from this text: Cant. i. 5: I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem. Mr. Turell lost the children he had by his first wife. His second wife was Miss Lucy Dudley, by whom he had no children; and his third wife was Mrs. Devenport. He died childless. On the occasion of his publishment to Mrs. Devenport, Sept. 28, 1735, he preached from Cant. III. 3: Saw ye him (her) whom my soul loveth? On the Sabbath after his marriage, he preached from Cant. v. 16: He (she) is aMrs. Devenport, Sept. 28, 1735, he preached from Cant. III. 3: Saw ye him (her) whom my soul loveth? On the Sabbath after his marriage, he preached from Cant. v. 16: He (she) is altogether lovely. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. Mr. Turell was not more fond of good company, good wine, and good dinners, than most people of his day; and to them it did not seem strange that he should preach from Cant. v. 1: Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. Among the preachers of that time, there was some rivalship of ingenuity in extracting godly morals and even Christian doctrines from Solomon's epithalamium. It is true that