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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 16: the Army of the Potomac before Richmond. (search)
ed; and at the small house, not far off, where Major Myer had his signal-station during the battle, we were furnished with rich buttermilk by a fat old colored woman, who said she was skeered a‘ most to death by the roar of the storm of battle. After sketching the charming view southward from the grove in front of the mansion, we proceeded to explore the battle-ground on which the hottest of the fight occurred. The theater of that conflict was on the farms of Cornelius Crew, Dr. Turner, John W. West, E. H. Poindexter, James W. Binford, and L. H. Kemp. Crew's, near which the artillery of Porter and Couch was planted, had been a fine mansion, with pleasant grounds around it; but both mansion and grounds told the sad story of the desolation which had been brought to all that region by the scourge of war. Only two very aged women inhabited the shattered building, the garden was a waste, the shade-trees had disappeared, and only a single field was in preparation for culture. Late in the
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 7 (search)
69 (left town). Dr. R. L. Hodgdon, 1868-71. John Field, 1868-70. Henry J. Wells, 1868-72. Josiah Crosby, 1868-76. Henry Swan, 1869-79—term expires 1881. Samuel G. Damon, 1869 A lady was chosen for two years, in 1869, but declined.-70. Ira O. Carter, 1870-73. Moses Hunt, 1870-71. Charles E. Goodwin, 1870-79—term expires 1880. Charles H. Crane, 1871 (declined and excused). John T. Trowbridge, 1871-77. Charles Schwamb, 1871-74. Rev. William H. Ryder, 1872 (resigned). Rev. J. M. Finotti, 1873-76 (left town). Rev. Amos Harris, 1874-76 (left town). John H. Hardy, 1874-76. Alfred Hobbs, 1874-78. Rev. George W. Cutter, 1876-76. John W. West, 1876-77. William H. Allen, 1876-79—term expires 1882. John P. Wyman, 1876-79. John S. Crosby, 1876-79—term expires 1882. F. V. B. Kern, 1876-79—term expires 1880. Daniel F. Jones, 1877-79—term expires 1881. Rev. Matthew Harkins, 1878-79—term expires 1881. Marcus Morton, 1879—ter