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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 33 1 Browse Search
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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
ey, where Baldy Smith had his skirmish. Hamilton Kuhn did get a commission from the Governor of gentlemen as any brigadier in the field. Both Kuhn and Watmough are particularly clever fellows, ain one place and at one time numerous friends. Kuhn and myself left camp about 5 o'clock, getting iof camp, I mounted my horse and in company with Kuhn rode into town. After getting off the mud, we I had long been contemplating. In the evening, Kuhn went to see some Boston friends, and I passed tme. Soon after I rode up, Miss King recognized Kuhn, who was with me, and sent Captain Wister, First boat for Old Point, and from thence home. Kuhn, I fear, is killed. Willie Watmough Lieuteneman. I have felt his loss even more than poor Kuhn's, because, in his case, I was directly instrumdea of the great danger attending his mission. Kuhn, you know, was not with me when he fell, and I l very sad when I think of young Dehon and Hamilton Kuhn, both so full of life and promising so muc[6 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix E (search)
ision, one of the noblest souls among men, one of the most accomplished officers of this army—Major-General John F. Reynolds, I cannot receive this sword without thinking of that officer, and the heroic manner in which he met his fate in front at Gettysburg. There I lost, not only a lieutenant most important to me in his services, but a friend and brother. When I think, too, of others fallen—of McNeill and Taylor, of the Rifles; of Simmons, of the Fifth; of DeHone of Massachusetts; of young Kuhn, who came from Philadelphia and assisted me so efficiently, and many more who are gone, I am saddened by the recollection. It is more oppressive to go over the names of those who have been sacrificed. I wish I could mention the names of all the soldiers, but it would be a long, long list, that would include the names of all those from the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps who are now resting in honorable graves or crippled and mutilated in the service of their country. I thank you, Sir, for the k