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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 18 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 18 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 15 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 14 4 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 14 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 14 2 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 11 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
John G. B. Adams, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 6 0 Browse Search
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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 2: off to the front. (search)
. They felt jolly and were bound to make the most of the picnic. Awkward, helpless in all these small prosaic arts by which the veteran ekes out the scant comforts of a soldier's life, like all new regiments, the men of the Nineteenth were well fitted to excite a smile as they trod the streets on their way to the sacred soil. From the Common they marched, at 7.30 P. M., to the Old Colony depot, accompanied by the band of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment, taking the train and the Fall River Line boat for New York. As the steamer rounded into the North River on the morning of August 29, it was hailed with cheers, the waving of flags and firing of guns. As it approached a United States warship, the drums were heard to beat to quarters, and, as the steamer passed abreast of her, the sailors manned the yards, swinging their caps and gave three cheers and a tiger. They then disappeared as suddenly as they had sprung up, the event making a very pleasing impression upon the spe