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John G. B. Adams, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Chapter 4: our first campaign.--battle of Fair Oaks. (search)
was knee deep; we could not go out of line as the ground was full of torpedoes, yet, in all our misery, Company A started one of our old camp songs, which was taken up by other companies in the regiment, then by other regiments in the brigade, and soon the entire army was singing. This continued nearly all night. The next day we took steamers, and at night arrived at West Point. We remained on board until morning, then landed, and finding our forces engaged we were ordered to support Captain Porter, 1st Massachusetts battery. At West Point we saw a feature that we never saw before, or at any other time during the war. It was a human telegraph. A line of men was deployed some twenty feet apart, and extended from the line of battle to headquarters. The men at the front would start the message, and it would be repeated by each turning the head to the rear as he spoke. One message I remember,--Send a man to take Daniel Webster's place. We supposed Daniel had been shot, but if a m
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
efence of the Atlantic, and will pay further large appropriations now required. But we ask, in justice, that the Northern frontier should be secured. He then read a memorial of ex-President Fillmore and others, showing the exposed condition of Lake Erie, and showed that the lakes by the Canadian canals were accessible to British gunboats, and the lake cities and commerce were exposed to destruction. This canal will enable us to place our gunboats on the lakes. He read a letter from Admiral Porter, showing that we had now afloat more than fifty gunboats which could pass from the ocean to the lakes by this canal. He then presented the importance—fiscal, commercial, and agricultural—of the interests thus seeking protection. Fifty-eight million bushels of breadstuffs were shipped from Chicago alone during the past year. The commerce of the lakes was at least four hundred millions per annum. Corn, since cotton had committed felo de se, was now king, and kept the peace between
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., XLVII. (search)
efence of the Atlantic, and will pay further large appropriations now required. But we ask, in justice, that the Northern frontier should be secured. He then read a memorial of ex-President Fillmore and others, showing the exposed condition of Lake Erie, and showed that the lakes by the Canadian canals were accessible to British gunboats, and the lake cities and commerce were exposed to destruction. This canal will enable us to place our gunboats on the lakes. He read a letter from Admiral Porter, showing that we had now afloat more than fifty gunboats which could pass from the ocean to the lakes by this canal. He then presented the importance—fiscal, commercial, and agricultural—of the interests thus seeking protection. Fifty-eight million bushels of breadstuffs were shipped from Chicago alone during the past year. The commerce of the lakes was at least four hundred millions per annum. Corn, since cotton had committed felo de se, was now king, and kept the peace between
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eleventh: his death, and public honors to his memory. (search)
hamber and the porches were heavily draped. The great building, like the multitude it contained, was in mourning. Long before the hour for the services in the Senate drew near, the galleries were crowded, and nearly all the Senators were promptly in their places. The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, the President and all the Cabinet, were successively announced, and each were received by the whole body present standing. General Sherman and many other officers of the army, Admiral Porter, with a number of his associates, and the authorities of the district were present. The legations sent a large representation, and the diplomatic gallery was filled with the wives and families of the Cabinet and the legations. At precisely 12.20 the pall-bearers appeared at the door with the coffin. The great company, so fully representing the nation, rose and stood in profound silence as the coffin, covered with flowers, but open and so exposed that all could see, was carried slowly
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ii. (search)
hamber and the porches were heavily draped. The great building, like the multitude it contained, was in mourning. Long before the hour for the services in the Senate drew near, the galleries were crowded, and nearly all the Senators were promptly in their places. The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, the President and all the Cabinet, were successively announced, and each were received by the whole body present standing. General Sherman and many other officers of the army, Admiral Porter, with a number of his associates, and the authorities of the district were present. The legations sent a large representation, and the diplomatic gallery was filled with the wives and families of the Cabinet and the legations. At precisely 12.20 the pall-bearers appeared at the door with the coffin. The great company, so fully representing the nation, rose and stood in profound silence as the coffin, covered with flowers, but open and so exposed that all could see, was carried slowly
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 4 (search)
military company, to be watched at its drill on the common, or on its proud march to the suburban tavern where it dined,--Porter's, at what is now North Cambridge,--and on its sometimes devious return. 0 ecstasy of childish love for costume and rhytceiving their friends. My grandfather, Stephen Higginson, used to come over from Brookline, take quarters in this way at Porter's tavern (the Boylston Street Porter), and keep open house, with probable punchbowl. The practice had ceased before the Porter), and keep open house, with probable punchbowl. The practice had ceased before the period of my recollection, but my cousin, the Rev. William Henry Channing, has vividly described the way in which my grandfather must have set out on these expeditions.1 Owing doubtless to the fact that, following the universal fashion of gentlemin this condition at any other time. We boys used to watch the Harvard Washington Corps on its return from the dinner at Porter's, quite secure that some of our acquaintances would stagger out of the ranks and find lodgment in the gutter. The regul
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
re and I saw Mrs. Hayes and liked her quite as much . . . .She has nature's good manners, making society manners quite superfluous—just such manners as a Republican presidentess should have. She clapped her hands like a girl when she saw the ocean (for the first time in her life) and repined a good deal in being carried off to tea in a fine house, saying that she could take tea at any time but might never see the ocean again. He also records May 30:— Talked with Admirals Farragut, Porter and Capt. Worden. . . . He [Farragut] is a good looking well-knit man—P. less showy with black beard-W. coarser looking, with auburn beard and still burnt with powder. Colonel Higginson had been more or less associated in Worcester with Dr. E. E. Hale, who was for a time the only clergyman in that city who was willing to exchange with the pastor of the Free Church. I had such an amusing glimpse, he wrote, of Edward Hale and his numerous offspring. I was at the Redwood library [Newp<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, Index (search)
, 392. Pattison, Dr., Mark, 340; and Higginson, 337, 338. Peabody, Josephine Preston, Higginson writes poem to, 388, 389. Pedro, Dom, of Brazil, account of, 261, 262. Perkins, Stephen H., Higginson becomes tutor in family of, 45-54. Petrarch, Fifteen Sonnets of, 278, 425. Phillips, Wendell, 113, 132; impression of Higginson, 96; and Burns affair, 142; favors disunion, 181; Anti-Slavery speeches at Music Hall, 201-03. Phillips, Mrs., Wendell, on Sims case, 112. Porter, Admiral, 260, 261. Pratt, Dexter, Longfellow's village blacksmith, 8. Prescott, Harriet, letters of Higginson to, 53, 122,130,157,181; describes Higginson, 95, 96; receives literary prize, 107, 108. Quakers, described, 135, 255. Quincy, President Josiah (of Harvard College), 90; and students, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36. Radcliffe College, 20, 377. Rawnsley, Canon, 358. Red path, James, 176; warns Higginson, 196, 197. Ride through Kansas, A, 169, 173, 407. Robinson, Gov., 176. Roge
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
well as your other friends, have had occasion to admire the manner in which you have treated public questions of legal interest,—a manner characterized by a liberal, comprehensive, and philosophical spirit, and by freedom from technical and professional narrow-mindedness. The article begins with a spirited description of remarkable mutinies; notably those of the Bounty, and of several in the English navy, near the close of the last century; and of the American ship Essex, when under Commodore Porter's command,--a narration which showed a talent for historical composition. Then, reviewing the facts of the Somers mutiny, he vindicates the summary execution of the mutineers by the principle of self-defence, and by the duty of the commander to the ship and to the lives on board. The true issue, he contends, was not their actual guilt, but their guilt as apparent at the time; not the actual necessity, with the light of subsequent knowledge, but the necessity as it then seemed to the c
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Parish list (search)
ict Street Pinney, Mr. and Mrs. George H.21 Morton Street Pitman, Mrs. Kate42 Benton Road Pitman, Mr. and Mrs. George W.42 Benton Road Pitman, Miss42 Benton Road Poor, Miss Emily30 Mt. Pleasant Street Powers, Miss Belle F.41 Everett Avenue Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin185 Central Street Porter, F. Gertrude22 Pearl Street Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.20 George Street Prescott, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.59 Concord Avenue Prescott, Harold59 Concord Avenue Prichard, Mr. and Mrs. Asa68 Broadway QuPorter, F. Gertrude22 Pearl Street Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.20 George Street Prescott, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.59 Concord Avenue Prescott, Harold59 Concord Avenue Prichard, Mr. and Mrs. Asa68 Broadway Quennell, Mrs. F. 244 Broadway Quennell, Miss Nellie 244 Broadway Randlett, Mr. and Mrs.11-A Pleasant Avenue Richards, Miss Bertha8-A Melvin Street Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. R. M.8 Benedict Street Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. G. W.50 Vinal Avenue Robinson, Charles F.107 Washington Street Robinson, Mrs. I. L.32 Vinal Avenue Royal, Miss Estelle 42 Columbus Avenue Runey, Mrs. M. M.252 Medford Street Saben, Miss Nellie110 Pearl Street Saben, Miss Alice110 Pearl Street Sanborn, Miss Eva9 Hamlet
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