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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
le northward with its words of fire; Glory and praise to God another State is free! 1847. Yorktown. Dr. Thacher, surgeon in Scammel's regiment, in his description of the siege of Yorktown, sYorktown, says: The labor on the Virginia plantations is performed altogether by a species of the human race cruelly wrested from their native country, and doomed to perpetual bondage, while their masters are maights of man. Such is the inconsistency of human nature. Eighteen hundred slaves were found at Yorktown, after its surrender, and restored to their masters. Well was it said by Dr. Barnes, in his late work on Slavery: No slave was any nearer his freedom after the surrender of Yorktown than when Patrick Henry first taught the notes of liberty to echo among the hills and vales of Virginia. from YYorktown's ruins, ranked and still, Two lines stretch far o'er vale and hill: Who curbs his steed at head of one? Hark! the low murmur: Washington! Who bends his keen, approving glance, Where down the
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Appendix (search)
mpshire. At Washington. To my Friend on the Death of his Sister. Gone. The Shoemakers. The Fishermen. The Lumbermen. 1846The Ship-Builders. The Pine-Tree. Lines from a Letter to a Young Clerical Friend. To Ronge. Forgiveness. The Branded Hand. The Reformer. To a Southern Statesman. Daniel Neall. A Letter supposed to be written by the Chairman of the Central Clique at Concord, N. H. The Freed Islands. 1847The Lost Statesman. The Angels of Buena Vista. Barclay of Ury. Yorktown. To Delaware. Song of Slaves in the Desert. The Huskers. The Drovers. Daniel Wheeler. My Soul and I. To my Sister. The Wife of Manoah to her Husband. The Angel of Patience. What the Voice said. A Dream of Summer. My Thanks. Randolph of Roanoke. Proem. 1848The Slaves of Martinique. The Curse of the Charter Breakers. The Wish of To-Day. Paean. The Poor Voter on Election Day. The Crisis. The Reward. The Holy Land. Worship. The Peace Convention at Brussels. 1849Cal
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of first lines (search)
Dome, II. 91. From gold to gray, III. 353. From pain and peril, by land and main, IV. 290. From purest wells of English undefiled, IV. 302. From the green Amesbury hill which bears the name, i. 391. From the heart of Waumbek Methna, from the lake that never fall, i. 154. From the hills of home forth looking, far beneath the tent-like span, i. 166. From these wild rocks I look to-day, IV. 180. From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine, IV. 166. From Yorktown's ruins, ranked and still, III. 128. Gallery of sacred pictures manifold, II. 327. Get ye up from the wrath of God's terrible day, II. 191. Gift from the cold and silent past, i. 37. God bless New Hampshire! from her granite peaks, III. 101. God bless ye, brothers! in the fight, III. 280. God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above, II. 309. God's love and peace be with thee, where, IV. 70. Gone before us, O our brother, IV. 14. Gone, gone,—sold and
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Index of Titles (search)
n, The, IV. 286. Voyage of the Jettie, II. 170. Waiting, The, II. 132. Watchers, The, III. 223. Wedding Veil, The, IV. 331. Welcome to Lowell, A, IV. 152. Well of Loch Maree, The, i. 124. What of the Day, III. 191. What State Street said to South Carolina, IV. 399. What the Birds said, III. 248. What the Traveller said at Sunset, II. 334. What the Voice said, II. 213. Wheeler, Daniel, IV. 48. Wife of Manoah to her Husband, The, II. 217. Wilson, IV. 149. Wind of March, The, IV. 31L Winter Roses, IV. 219. Wishing Bridge, The, II 398. Wish of To-Day, The, III. 233. Witch of Wenham, The, i. 360. Within the Gate, IV. 143. Woman, A, II. 294. Wood Giant, The, II. 91. Word, The, II. 326. Word for the Hour, A, III 218. Wordsworth, IV. 66. World's Convention, The, III. 72. Worship, II. 227. Worship of Nature, The, IV. 282. Wreck of Rivermouth, The, IV. 235. Yankee Girl, The, III. 30. Yorktown, III. 128.
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
un by the enemy, and in a great measure plundered and destroyed, and now call for our pity and help. But what now particularly calls for our religious praise to God, our helper, is the Capture of Cornwallis, and his whole army of 10,000 men [at Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781]. Americans are above trampling on those whom God has cast down. This British officer, though dignified by many pompous titles, by his cruelties has degraded himself below a savage, and even the beasts that perish. Before I cl1, 557, &c. Francis—was Colonel Ebenezer Francis, killed at Hubbardton, July 7, 1777; a native of Medford, and well known to Mr. Cooke's parishioners; for sketch, see Brooks's Hist. Medford, 194-6. Scammel—was mortally wounded and taken before Yorktown, and died Oct. 6, 1781. Lee, Memoirs of the War, says, This was the severest blow experienced by the allied army throughout the siege; not an officer in our army surpassed in personal worth and professional ability this experienced soldier. Sc
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the American army. (search)
was demonstrated when the arrival of Rochambeau furnished them the opportunity to undertake that splendid and decisive campaign which transferred the war from the borders of the Hudson into Virginia, and ended it by one blow in the trenches of Yorktown. The late events which have steeped the United States in blood impart a peculiar interest to the study of the war of American independence. The theatre is the same, the character of the country has changed but little since then, and on both soldiers of General Jackson did at a later period, in 1815, at New Orleans, and as, upon a wider field of action, the army of the Potomac did at Gettysburg. They were indefatigable workers: with pick and axe in hand, at the sieges of Boston and Yorktown, like those volunteers who, in the course of four years, covered America with fortifications and trenches, but, at the same time, easily disconcerted when they felt or fancied themselves surprised by a flank movement, as at Brandywine and German
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
in extending their lines in that direction. The only point which it would have been of advantage to them to possess was Yorktown, a small place, celebrated for its siege and the capitulation of the British army under Cornwallis, for it commanded theatened; and Butler took upon himself the responsibility of ordering Magruder to be attacked in his positions in front of Yorktown, concerning the strength of which he had very vague information. After having prepared the plan of this operation, he rposition in front of Big Bethel, on the borders of a marshy stream. The bridge over which the road from Fort Monroe to Yorktown crossed this stream was defended, in the rear of the obstacle, by two small earthworks, upon which were mounted a few firsue them, and, having no great confidence in his own troops, determined, notwithstanding his success, to fall back upon Yorktown. Similar engagements, with as little loss of life, served everywhere as a prelude to the bloody war that was to follo
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
emy, the latter honored the balloons with numerous cannon-shots, especially during the siege of Yorktown, but they never succeeded in hitting them; and the greatest danger that ever threatened the aer it could communicate the most valuable information concerning the enemy's works. Thus, before Yorktown, Mr. Lowe, the operator, who carried an electric apparatus in the car and communicated by meansly felt in its effects on the system of rifling, which was very defective; thus at the siege of Yorktown a hundred-pounder Parrott gun, which had attracted attention by the irregularity of its fire, wnity. Its excellent qualities were demonstrated from the beginning of the war, at the siege of Yorktown, where an old cast-iron sixty-four pounder rifled, and placed in barbette upon one of the bastithe fire of the enemy have ample opportunities to judge of the precision of his aim. As soon as Yorktown was evacuated the besiegers went to look at the cannon whose power they had tested, but which h
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
ibutaries; during this march a river very difficult of access, called the Dragon Swamp, must be crossed; it was also necessary to find a new revictualling point on York River, and this estuary was closed to navigation by the famous stronghold of Yorktown, which could not be taken except by investing it on the side of Fort Monroe. Consequently, whatever was done, the possession of Yorktown, which commanded both York River and the peninsula—called by pre-eminence the Peninsula of Virginia—was essYorktown, which commanded both York River and the peninsula—called by pre-eminence the Peninsula of Virginia—was essential in any campaign undertaken by resting on the Chesapeake. From that moment the most rational course was to begin by laying siege to that place. Such were the various combinations which offered themselves to the choice of General McClellan in the month of February. It will be seen in the following chapter how his plans were frustrated by the vacillations of the executive power. But while he was waiting for the opportune moment to take the field, he had prepared an expedition which
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—Richmond. (search)
er, forming a strait commanded by the guns of Yorktown, and batteries erected opposite, at Gloucesteposition, sent him a formal order to evacuate Yorktown and to abandon the entire peninsula. But Magr line. A general cannonade was opened, from Yorktown to Lee's Mills, so as not to draw the enemy'seans of a regular siege. The surroundings of Yorktown alone afforded means of approach well adaptedemployed the Confederate prisoners in ridding Yorktown of these dangerous snares. When the Federawhole column. Longstreet, after evacuating Yorktown during the night of the 3d-4th of May, proceecounted for. Two days after the evacuation of Yorktown, on the evening of the battle of Williamsburginia, as York River had been by the cannon of Yorktown, was opened by the destruction of that ship, ot the man to neglect such an opportunity. Yorktown had just been evacuated. All the Confederateirty-eight. The garrisons of Fort Monroe and Yorktown should be deducted from the first figure. Su[36 more...]
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