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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 279 (search)
Of course every one can understand how Massachusetts is enabled to send so many men to the Lincolnitish army. The operative population of the State is immense. The stagnation of business and cessation of manufacturing have reduced many thousands of the operative and laboring classes to the verge of starvation. It is these paupers who are so abundantly pensioned off on the Federal Government by State and municipal authorities. The body of the Massachusetts soldiery are the merest hirelings.--Charleston Evening News, May 7. the Richmond Dispatch gives the following description of a company from Western Virginia, called the Grayson Dare-Devils:-- They number one hundred men, all six feet high, and unfailing rifle shots. The company consisted of one hundred and thirty-five, but it is said their commander informed, them that only one hundred would be allowed to come to Richmond; and to decide which of them should enjoy that desired privilege, they fired at a mark running, an
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 286 (search)
Massachusetts was the first to start a regiment for Washington; Massachusetts blood was the first shed in the war; a Massachusetts regiment was the first to reinforce Fort Monroe; the first to open a pathway from Annapolis to Washington; the first to reach the capital; and is the first to invade Virginia! God bless the Commonwshington; Massachusetts blood was the first shed in the war; a Massachusetts regiment was the first to reinforce Fort Monroe; the first to open a pathway from Annapolis to Washington; the first to reach the capital; and is the first to invade Virginia! God bless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts! --Albany Evening Journal, May 7. shington; Massachusetts blood was the first shed in the war; a Massachusetts regiment was the first to reinforce Fort Monroe; the first to open a pathway from Annapolis to Washington; the first to reach the capital; and is the first to invade Virginia! God bless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts! --Albany Evening Journal, May 7.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 311 (search)
regiments in Buckram. --A very funny article appears under this title in the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin. That paper pretends to have heard the news from Massachusetts, but it evidently is still in the dark concerning the achievements of the men of the Bay State in Maryland. We make a choice extract:-- Massachusetts, the Massachusetts, the telegraph so reports, is all alive with the war spirit. Her regiments, according to this authority, are pouring over the North in such vast numbers, as to induce the idea that the descendants of the men who refused to go out of their own State to fight the battles of the Revolution, were really a fighting race. But those who knowll have little to tell of their deeds in the tented field, or the imminent deadly breach. It has been wittily and very truthfully observed, in reference to Massachusetts' share in the Revolution, that she built the Bunker Hill Monument, and went on the Pension List. The history of the coming struggle will not be quite so brill
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 319 (search)
It was, no doubt, the profound policy of Lincoln and his faction to throw the operatives of the North out of employ, to secure the recruits for the army of coercion. Starvation produces a certain sort of valor, and a hungry belly may stimulate patriotism to a kind of courage which, on a good feed, will risk the encounter with a bullet. It appears that the Lincoln recruits from Massachusetts, at .Baltimore, were in large proportion cobblers. The Revolution seems to have affected their craft more than any other, according to some of the accounts; their vocation gave them admirable facilities in the fight, especially in running; they used their footing expeditiously, and took a free flight with their soles (souls)--not one of them apparently being anxious, under the fire of Baltimore brickbats, to see his last.--Charleston Mercury, May 8.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 323 (search)
had only their State color, not having received their national ensign. Immediately, several Massachusetts gentlemen--Hon. G. W. McClelland, A. W. Fletcher, Capt. Perkins, and J. Wesley Jones — beguns on behalf of the committee by Mr. J. W. Jones, substantially as follows: Soldiers of Massachusetts!--a title rendered illustrious in the early struggles for freedom on this continent, and nowt war for the Union, is the proudest title any citizen of the world can bear. Soldiers of Massachusetts! with honor you have borne the beautiful ensign of your native State, even within the confiy, and noble acts. But we come to give expression to the feelings of pride which we feel as Massachusetts men, at the universal praise accorded, by all the citizens of Washington, for your gentlemanint has been made by any citizen of Washington, friend or foe, of any uncivil conduct by any Massachusetts volunteer. Bearing this high reputation, you now advance, not as a conquering army to subju
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 347 (search)
ft to us his fame; From where Ticonderoga Looks out on blue Champlain; From the green shores of Erie, The field of Lundy's Lane; From Bennington and Plattsburg, From Saratoga's plain, From every field of battle Where honored dead remain. Up, Massachusetts! seize the sword That won calm peace and free ; Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem. 'Tis thine, still thine, to lead the way Through blood to Liberty. On Narragansett's busy shores, Remember gallant Greene; And ye, whose fathers oftushing river Whirls down the drifting wood, So, let your armies marching, O'erwhelm the traitorous band, That dared their country's flag to touch With sacrilegious hand. Kentucky! “Why in slumbers Lethagic dost thou lie” ? “Wake, join with” Massachusetts, Thy true and “old ally.” In East and West, in North and South, Let every patriot rise, Till North and South, till East and West, Shall share the glorious prize,-- One country, undivided, Called by one glorious name, One banner floating
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 369 (search)
Historical Parallels.--The first collision of our fathers with the British after the battle of Lexington, and the first decided military success of the war, was the capture of Forts Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and a British armed vessel on Lake Champlain, which was achieved on the 10th of May following by the Vermont hero, Col. Ethan Allen, at the head of a force of Green Mountain Boys. Massachusetts has matched the 19th of April, 1775, with the 19th of April, 1861; so Vermont now matched the 10th of May, 1775, with the 10th of May, 1841, for on that day, Capt. Lyon, a Vermonter, and U. S. commanding officer at St. Louis, surrounds the rebel camp threatening that city, and captures 800 men in arms. Lyon's exploit, like Allen's, was done mostly on his own responsibility, and without direct orders. Allen, when asked by the British commandant at Ticonderoga his authority for demanding its surrender, could only reply, By the authority of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congr
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 443 (search)
The Massachusetts troops at the Relay have some amusing incidents in the daily search of the trains for contraband goods. A young lady, the other day, carried a large lunch basket by her side, covered with sponge cake and sandwiches, but upon lifting it, the basket was found to be very heavy, which was soon accounted for, the concealed contents being a large number of army buttons intended for the rebel troops.--Idem.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 455 (search)
is mind that we could; and so we did. * * * * You may depend upon it, that wherever we are ordered, we shall do our duty, and not make a blot on the records of Massachusetts.--letter from A private of the Sixth Regiment. The cause of Baltimore is the cause of the whole South.--A. H. Stephens. tune--There is rest for the wearone cry we rush to battle-- Freedom, and our Native Land! From the quiet graves of Concord, Still as in our fathers' day, Where her country's need is greatest, Massachusetts leads the way. chorus — To the fray, &c. III. Onward dash the Pine-Tree banner, Where a threatened Senate calls, Ere a foe in Freedom's city Desecrate her sain at Treason's hand! chorus — To the fray, &c. VIII. Forward, then, the Pine-Tree banner! Still as in our fathers' day, Where her country's need is greatest, Massachusetts leads the way! By our brothers' blood still crying From the streets of Baltimore, Let the foe — who struck behind them, Be struck down for evermore. chorus —
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 465 (search)
151. the Massachusetts line. by the author of the New priest. air--Yankee Doodle. I. Still first, as long and long ago, Let Massachusetts muster; Give her the post right next the foe; Be sure that you may trust her. She was the first to give her blood For freedom and for honor; She trod her soil to crimson mud: God's blessing be upon her. II. She never faltered for the right, Nor ever will hereafter; Fling up her name with all your might, Shake roof-tree and shake rafter. But of old deMassachusetts muster; Give her the post right next the foe; Be sure that you may trust her. She was the first to give her blood For freedom and for honor; She trod her soil to crimson mud: God's blessing be upon her. II. She never faltered for the right, Nor ever will hereafter; Fling up her name with all your might, Shake roof-tree and shake rafter. But of old deeds she need not brag, How she broke sword and fetter; Fling out again the old striped flag! She'll do yet more and better. III. In peace her sails fleck all the seas, Her mills shake every river; And where are scenes so fair as these God and her true hands give her? Her claim in war who seeks to rob? All others come in later-- Hers first it is to front the Mob, The Tyrant, and the Traitor. IV. God bless, God bless the glorious State! Let her have way to battle! She'll go where batteries cras
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