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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Views of Medford. (search)
hool for his willingness to write their names in school books in German text and on writing-book covers with the spread eagle and scroll flourishes they delighted in.. Among the school teachers who are held in loving remembrance today was Miss Ann Foster (afterward Mrs. Thomas Pratt). She was a real kindergarten mother, and fostered a brood of infants in the meeting-house vestry. A high, broad shelf ran across the west side of the room, where the tired youngsters had refreshing naps. A fliw time bridges over the passing years! I, at four years, seemed an infant to the big girls, and they like women to me, and yet today they are my associates and friends, with no disparity of ages. I remember later on how pleased I was to have Miss Foster tell me to take my first finished bit of sewing and show it to the older pupils and hear them say it was done very neatly. . . . Dr. Samuel Gregg then lived in the brick block, corner Salem street and Riverside avenue, over what is now Mr.
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
de was assisted in this affair by the Fifth regiment of colored troops, a part of the First brigade, under Major Terry, who lost one hundred and forty-three men and five officers in the charge. The next rebel works, about three miles further on, were found unoccupied. About a mile from these was encountered the outer range of fortifications of Richmond, running from Chaffin's Bluff, opposite Fort Darling, around the city to the northward. About two o'clock the Second brigade of General Foster's division, of the Tenth corps, and the Fifth United States colored regiment, were sent forward to develop the strength of this line of works, and at the same time to draw the enemy to one point on our left. This having been accomplished, a grand advance was made by portions of the two corps, mostly by a flank movement from our right upon the enemy, concentrated on our left; and the line was carried with the capture of sixteen guns and about a hundred prisoners. Among these was the rebe