In Memoriam, Alexander Stewart Webb: 1835-1911, Volume 7 |
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adjutant advance Alexander Stewart Webb Andrew Cowan Angle Antietam Armistead Army Artillery assault battle of Gettysburg battlefield of Gettysburg brave Brevet Bristoe Station captured Cavalry Cemetery Ridge Civil CLINTON BECKWITH Colonel command comrades Confederate Culp's Hill Cushing duty Emmitsburg Emmitsburg Road enemy enemy's engaged field fight fire flags flank fought front gallant gallantry Gettysburg National Park Governor Whitman guns honor Horatio hundred and sixth infantry John July killed Latta lieutenant Little Round Top Longstreet's Major Massey Rhind Meade medal memory meritorious services military N. Y. Vols o'clock October October 12 officers official party Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Volunteers Philadelphia Brigade Pickett's charge position Potomac president rear Rebel regiment repulse Round Top Second Corps second day Second Division Seminary Ridge Seventy-first Pennsylvania Seventy-second Pennsylvania skirmish soldier splendid Spotsylvania statue Stegman stone wall to-day troops Union valor Vermont Brigade veteran Webb's wounded York Monuments Commission
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Page 38 - They fell, who lifted up a hand And bade the sun in heaven to stand ! They smote and fell, who set the bars Against the progress of the stars, And stayed the march of Motherland ! They stood, who saw the future come On through the fight's delirium!
Page 37 - ... given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests; Fulfil now...
Page 116 - By direction of the President of the United States, I hereby assume command of the Army of the Potomac. As a soldier, in obeying this order — an order totally unexpected and unsolicited — I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of the hostile invasion.
Page 20 - Department has received the cordial recognition of the Finance Committee of the Senate and the Ways and Means Committee of the Assembly, nor has the Executive failed at any time to manifest his earnest interest in the progress made.
Page 13 - Fourth United States Artillery, which had been posted on the crest, and Brown's Rhode Island Battery on his left, were both practically destroyed by the cannonade. The horses were prostrated, every officer but one was struck, and Cushing had but one serviceable gun left. As Pickett's advance came very close to the first line, young Cushing, mortally wounded in both thighs, ran his last serviceable gun down to the fence, and said: "Webb, I will give them one more shot!
Page 14 - Armistead, animating and encouraging his men. He led the Seventy-second Pennsylvania regiment against the enemy, and posted a line of wounded men in rear to drive back or shoot every man that deserted his duty. A portion of the Seventy-first Pennsylvania, behind a stone wall on the right, threw in a deadly flanking fire, while a great part of the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania and the remainder of the Seventy-first made stern resistance from a copse of trees on the left, near where the enemy had broken...
Page 11 - March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the campaign terminating with the surrender of the Insurgent Army under General RE Lee...
Page 122 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they...
Page 97 - By 2.45 o'clock had silenced the Rhode Island battery and all the guns but one of Cushing's Battery, and had plainly shown by his concentration of fire on this and the Third Brigade that an important assault was to be expected. I had sent, at 2 p. M., Captain Banes, AAG of the Brigade, for two batteries to replace Cushing's and Brown's.
Page 116 - As a soldier, in obeying this order, an order totally unexpected and unsolicited, I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to this army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of a hostile invasion. Whatever fatigues and sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved, and let each man determine to•do his duty, leaving to an all-controlling Providence the decision of the contest.