History of the Philadelphia Brigade: Sixty-ninth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and One Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers |
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advance army artillery assault attack Ball's Bluff batteries bridge Camp Observation Captain Cold Harbor Colonel Baker column command Confederate crossed Culp's Hill Died at Andersonville Died at Philadelphia duty enemy Fair Oaks Falmouth fight fire Fitz John Porter flank force front guns Hancock Harrison's Landing heavy Hooker Hundred and Sixth James River John 66 July June 29 Killed at Antietam Killed at Ball's Killed at Fredericksburg Killed at Gettysburg Killed at Petersburg Killed at Savage Killed at Spottsylvania Killed at Wilderness large number Lieutenant line of battle loss miles moved movement night officers Philadelphia Brigade picket plank road Poolesville position Potomac Private G rear received at Gettysburg regiment river Roll of Dead Savage Station Second Corps Second Division Sedgwick Sept Seventy-First Seventy-Second Sixth Corps Sixty-Ninth skirmishers soldiers Spottsylvania C. H. Sumner tion troops woods wounds received
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Page 180 - The enemy are on our soil; the whole country now looks anxiously to this army to deliver it from the presence of the foe ; our failure to do so will leave us no such welcome as the swelling of millions of hearts with pride and joy at our success would give to every soldier of this army.
Page 92 - You have saved all your material, all your trains and all your guns, except a few lost in battle, taking in return guns and colors from the enemy. Upon your march, you...
Page 251 - Your heroic deeds, noble endurance of fatigue and privation, will ever be memorable. Let us return thanks to God for the mercy thus shown us, and ask earnestly for its continuance.
Page 10 - ... when, amid sheeted fire and flame, I saw and led the hosts of New York as they charged in contest upon a foreign soil for the honor of your flag, so again, if Providence shall will it, this feeble hand shall draw a sword, never yet dishonored — not to fight for distant honor in a foreign land, but to fight for country, for home, for law, for Government, for Constitution, for right, for freedom, for humanity ; and in the hope that the banner of my country may advance, and wheresoever that banner...
Page 92 - Upon your march you have been assailed day after day with desperate fury, by men of the same race and nation, .skillfully massed and led.
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Biographical Dictionary of the Union: Northern Leaders of the Civil War John T. Hubbell No preview available - 1995 |