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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 2: off to the front. (search)
ed soil. From the Common they marched, at 7.30 P. M., to the Old Colony depot, accompanied by the band of the Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment, taking the train and the Fall River Line boat for New York. As the steamer rounded into the North River on the morning of August 29, it was hailed with cheers, the waving of flags and firing of guns. As it approached a United States warship, the drums were heard to beat to quarters, and, as the steamer passed abreast of her, the sailors manned hing on, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah— Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, As Hinks goes marching on. The regiment left the City Hall Park, marched up Broadway, countermarched at the Metropolitan hotel, passed through Canal to Vestry Street, to Pier 39, North River, and went on board the Ferry boat John Potter, of the Camden and Amboy Line, taking the cars at Perth Amboy for Washington. On the march through the streets of New York City, cheers were given for the Union, The Commonwealth, The Hub of the U