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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 191 (search)
r commands. The very hill reeled beneath us like a drunken man. As I darted through the men fell on both sides of me. The Fifty-second New-York volunteers, a conscript regiment, chanced from our position to be in front. They wavered, and were falling back on the old regiments, when Colonel Frank, who commanded the Third brigade, rode in their front and rallied them, crying: Stand boys! Follow me. Behind them was the Second brigade--or Irish brigade--who coolly stood to their guns. Colonel Myles, too, rallied the lines. In a moment the panic subsided, and the men stood colly in their lines, though the shot and shell of the enemy were knocking them over pretty fast. The lines now fell back behind the crest of the hill, and Rickett's battery, having taken position, returned the enemy's killing compliments with interest, shelling the woods and ravine in which they were concealed. All this time the rebels were shouting their demoniacal yell all round, and the sharp metallic s
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 11 (search)
Major T. L., Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, to be Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from Sept. 26, 1865. G. O. 148, Oct. 14, 1865. G. O. 65, June 22, 1867. — Brevet Lieut. Colonel T. L., Major, Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, to be Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for meritorious services during the war, to date from Sept. 27, 1865. G. O 148, Oct. 14, 1865. G. O. 65, June 22, 1867. Moylan, Captain Myles, of the 4th Mass. Cavalry, to be Major, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and distinguished services in the campaign of Virginia, to date from Apr. 9, 1865. Mutell, Charles W., late Lieutenant of the 55th Mass. Volunteers, to be Captain, U. S. Volunteers, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from Mar. 13, 1865. G. O. 84, Oct. 14, 1868. Muzzey, Captain L. W., Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, to be Major, U. S. Volunteers,
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Matthew Cradock. (search)
1. Josiah Dawston, or Duston, was in Reading in 1647, where he died January 16, 1671-2. His widow, a woman of eighty in 1692, was arrested that year for witchcraft, as was her daughter, Mary Colson. The former was accused of witchcraft practised in Malden, but the jury found her not guilty. Robert Gorges had leased or granted to John Oldham and John Dorrell all the lands within Mattachusetts Bay betweene Charles River and Abousett (Saugus) River, Contained in lengt by a streight lyne 5 Myles up the said Charles, etc. This grant covered all the lands of Mystic Side and was held valid by Oldham in 1629. Cradock suggested his claim might be prevented by causing some to take possession of the chiefe pt thereof. His advice seems to have been followed by Cradock's possession of part the land in dispute. June 2, 1641, Mr. Thomas Mayhewe and Mr. Joseph Cooke are appointed to set out the five hundred acres of Mr. Oldham for Mr. Cradock near Mount Feake (in Waltham). March 18, 1
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], Honors conferred. (search)
Honors conferred. --The Pope has conferred decorations on twenty-six members of the Irish Brigade, viz: Major Myles O Reilly, five captains, one lieutenant, six sub-lieutenants, one adjutant, four sergeants, two corporals, and six privates.