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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 15: Worcester County. (search)
n forming a military company for active service; each man was to receive a uniform, a revolver, and eight dollars a month when in active service, and one dollar a day while engaged in drilling previous to enlistment; all persons between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five were invited to meet in the town hall every Saturday afternoon to drill. A full company was not formed at this time, but a number of young men enlisted in the Second Regiment then forming by Colonel, afterwards General, Gordon. July 4th, The selectmen were directed to pay State aid to soldiers' families as provided by law. 1862. July 19th, Voted, to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer who should enlist for three years within twenty days and be credited to the town; the bounty to be paid either to the soldier or his family as he should elect. The treasurer was authorized to borrow five thousand dollars to pay the same. A recruiting committee of one from each school-district was appointed. On
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 18: the battle of Antietam. (search)
he Dunker church. On one side of this turnpike lay rows of Union dead,—in some instances taking in every man in the line—while on the opposite side lay the dead Confederates, equally thick, showing how terribly in earnest these lines had been which lay on each side of the narrow road and shot at each other. A terrible sight to go into battle over! But Forward, man rang out the order,—Close up, etc.—and the lines dashed on. The mission of Sumner was to support the sorely pressed troops of Gordon and Crawford. Sedgwick's Division was in front of the column. After passing the turnpike, the Brigade descended slightly into another wood where Death was holding high revel. These woods were not like the Peninsula swamp forest, filled with underbrush and creeping vines, black stagnant marsh and stifled air, but open and clear, with large trees and firm ground underfoot and spreading branches overhead. While descending this slope, Ernest A. Nichols, of Company C, a lad of but 17, was
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 11: last years.—1877-79. (search)
the ground of impotency, the old anti-slavery issue is still (and must be persistently insisted [on] as constituting) the paramount issue before the country. I cannot endorse your estimate of Gen. Butler. Indeed, your praise of him is so lavish as to surprise me. He was re-elected with a virtual understanding and expectation that he, of all others in Congress, would be the man to champion the cause of the outraged colored people at the South as against such haughty usurpers as Ben Hill, Gordon, and the rest; but on no occasion has he since, on the floor of the House, made any such issue, or protested against bulldozing the loyal colored voters, or arraigned Hayes's conciliatory policy. Besides, he is sustained by the worst elements in the Commonwealth, and opposed by the best. I hope for his defeat. Yours for the triumph of the right, Wm. Lloyd Garrison. In December, Mr. Garrison completed his 73d year, and Dec. 10, 1878. his letters in reply to the congratulations sent
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904, Anniversary exercises, Wednesday , February 17 (search)
Isaac Newton, his body was placed, and Cannon Farrar, of the established church, pronounced a noble eulogy in his memory. Such is the irony of time. But the thing to hold fast to is that, in this intellectual and theological revolution, the real high and fine faith of humanity was neither destroyed nor impaired. The truth of a saying of Bacon is well shown in this connection: Slight tastes of philosophy may perchance move one to atheism, but fuller draughts lead back to religion. As Dr. Gordon strikingly says, for twenty years after Darwin the intellectual world was drunk with evolution, it was the romance and the mood of the time. But now the reaction has come, as it was bound to come; the great thing in the thought of the age is no longer this new and true method by which God has been working, it is fact of the power behind the method, the intellect and love behind the method. The earlier workers in science may have been skeptical in regard to some of the final facts of the
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
, which had crossed the Antietam during the night and lay in reserve a mile to the rear, was ordered up to support and relieve Hooker's troops. Of this corps, the first division, under General Williams, took position on the right, and the second, under General Greene, on the left. During the deployment, that veteran soldier, General Mansfield, fell mortally wounded. The command of the corps fell to General Williams, and the division of the latter to General Crawford, who, with his own and Gordon's brigade, made an advance across the open field, and succeeded in seizing a point of woods on the west side of the Hagerstown road. At the same time, Greene's division on the left was able to clear its front, and crossed into the left of the Dunker church. Yet the tenure of these positions was attended with heavy loss; the troops, reduced to the attempt to hold their own, began to waver and break, and General Hooker was being carried from the field severely wounded, when, opportunely, tow
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
Then pushing out several hundred yards, the corps took position on the hither side of a piece of woods that lies between the river and the Virginia Central Railroad, distant a mile and a half. Nothing more than a heavy skirmish line was at first met, the only Confederate force at the moment present being a single brigade of Wilcox's divison of Hill's corps, under command of Colonel Brown. But this was soon re-enforced by the three other brigades of the division, The brigades of Scales, Gordon, and Thomas. and by Heth's division. Warren's line was just about to begin intrenching itself in the position taken up, when, a little past five o'clock, Griffin, holding the centre, was furiously assailed by the force above enumerated, which suddenly developed double lines of battle. Griffin effectually repulsed the attack, and with such loss to the assailants, that the Confederate commander, while continuing to hold three brigades on Griffin's front, detached the brigade under Brown to m
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 13 (search)
ing of the 25th of March was appointed for the attack. It was to be made by two divisions under Gordon; but to render it as forcible as possible, all the additional troops available (about twenty thos well known that there was great dereliction of duty on the part of the supporting columns; for Gordon's attack was left almost wholly unsupported, notwithstanding that Lee had massed in the vicinitye the divisions of Wilcox, Pickett, Bushrod Johnson, and the remnant of Ewell's corps, now under Gordon. Taking from these corps all he dared—two divisions and three brigades—he assembled a force of Army of Northern Virginia now presented this sorry spectacle. A thin line of battle, made up of Gordon's troops in front; another scant line composed of the wreck of Longstreet's corps in rear—in alles of some thousands of unarmed stragglers, too weak to carry their muskets. Lee sent orders to Gordon to cut his way through at all hazards. This was immediately begun with wonderful impetuosity, a<
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 22: statistics. (search)
ph. Foster, Thomas. Freeman, John. Frost James. Frost, James, 2d. Frost, William. Fuller, J. N. Fuller, Oliver. Fuller, Robert. Fuller, Timothy. Ford, Thomas. Farrar, Jacob. Fairbanks, Silas. Fay, Isaac. Gary, Jonathan. Gay, Lusher. Gideon, John. Gilson, Asa. Gilson, Simeon. Goddard, Benjamin. Goddard, Daniel. Goddard, John. Goddard, Nathaniel. Goddard, Thomas. Goodenow, Daniel. Gookin, Squire. Gookin, Thomas T. Gordon, Charles. Gorham, Benjamin. Gould, Camaralzaman. Grant, Abraham. Gray, Benjamin. Gray, Lewis. Green, John. Green, Samuel S. Green, Zaccheus. Greenwood, Henry. Gibbs, John. Gray, Samuel. Goodhue, Nathaniel. Gannett, Thomas B. Hadley, Israel. Hagar, Jonathan. Hall, Jesse. Hancock, Samuel. Hancock, Solomon. Hancock, Torrey. Harlow, Asaph. Harlow, Joshua. Harris, Benjamin. Harris, Leonard. Harris, Samuel. Hastings, Charle
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
When in my arms burd Helen dropt, That died to succor me! O, think ye not my heart was sair When my love dropt down and spake na mair? compare this with,— Proud Gordon cannot bear the thoughts That through his brain are travelling, And, starting up, to Bruce's heart He launched a deadly javelin: Fair Ellen saw it when it came, And, stepping forth to meet the same, Did with her body cover The Youth, her chosen lover. And Bruce (as soon as he had slain The Gordon) sailed away to Spain, And fought with rage incessant Against the Moorish Crescent. These are surely the verses of an attorney's clerk penning a stanza when he should engross. It will be not here also departs from his earlier theory of the language of poetry by substituting a javelin for a bullet as less modern and familiar. Had he written,— And Gordon never gave a hint, But, having somewhat picked his flint, Let fly the fatal bullet That killed that lovely pullet, it would hardly have seemed more like a parody
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 18: (search)
y enfilading fire, all would have been lost. These artillery officers deserve great credit, and I have the pleasure to mention them favorably. I may preface the following extract from a letter written me by Gen. McAllister, by saying that Gen. Gordon, commander of the Rebel Second Corps, was in command of the enemy. In a conversation with Gen. Gordon, relative to this 5th of February Hatcher's Run battle, I asked him how many troops he had charging against us. Three divisions, and I wGen. Gordon, relative to this 5th of February Hatcher's Run battle, I asked him how many troops he had charging against us. Three divisions, and I was never more certain of victory. I expected to gobble you up, and don't know why I did not succeed, was his answer. He then asked me, How many troops had you in the fight? I replied, One brigade, assisted by a part of a Massachusetts battery on the other side of a swamp or low ground. He was astonished when ,he learned this fact. He advanced in three lines, division-front, making three separate charges, each of which we rolled back as they came up. He expected the right of his division
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