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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, April (search)
hroughout the city were closed.--A public meeting was held in the afternoon, at which the Mayor and Gov. Hicks were present.--Secession sentiments prevailed. The Mayor and Governor both notified the President that no more troops could pass through Baltimore unless they fought their way.--(Doc. 69.)--Times, April 21. Boston was terribly excited at the attack on the Massachusetts troops in Baltimore. The Government recognizes the similarity in the day and event suggested by the 19th of April, 1775, and those immortal memories which cluster around the men of Lexington and Concord. The Governor sent the following despatch to the Mayor of Baltimore: I pray you cause the bodies of our Massachusetts soldiers, dead in battle, to be immediately laid out, preserved in ice, and tenderly sent forward by express to me. All expenses will be paid by this Commonwealth. John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts. --(Doc. 70.) At Fall River, Mass., a meeting was called on the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, May (search)
more stirring to the martial blood than the scenes just enacted — passing before our eyes in the villages and towns of our dear old Commonwealth. Henceforth be silent, ye shallow cavillers at New England thrift, economy, and peaceful toil! Henceforth let no one dare accuse our northern sky, our icy winters, or our granite hills? Oh what a glorious morning! was the exulting cry of Samuel Adams, as he, excluded from royal grace, heard the sharp musketry which on the dawn of the 19th of April, 1775, announced the beginning of the War of Independence. The yeomanry, who in 1775, on Lexington Common and on the banks of Concord River, first made that day immortal in our annals, have found their lineal representatives in the historic regiment which on the 19th of April, 1861, in the streets of Baltimore, baptized our flag anew in heroic blood, when Massachusetts marched once more in the sacred cause of liberty and the rights of mankind. Grave responsibilities have fallen, in the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, April (search)
He is reported to have left Harrisonburgh yesterday for Gordonsville by the mountain road. He encamped last night at McGaugeytown, eleven miles from Harrisonburgh. The anniversary of the attack upon and massacre of Massachusetts troops in Baltimore was noticed in Boston by a grand Promenade Concert given in Music Hall in the evening, for the benefit of the soldiers. In Worcester, the day was noticed as a commemoration of the marching of the Minute Men for Lexington on the nineteenth of April, 1775, under command of Capts. Bigelow and Flagg, of the passing of the Worcester Light Infantry through Baltimore on the nineteenth of April, 1861, and also of the dedication of the Bigelow Monument. The Tatnuck Fremont Guards, and other volunteers, paraded as the Minute Men of 1775, and the McClellan Guards and Highland Cadets as the Minute Men of 1862. At Baltimore, the anniversary was also commemorated in an appropriate manner by the loyal citizens of that place.--Boston Traveller
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 48 (search)
ockingham and others, was thrown away on the narrow-minded monarch and the bigoted ministry which then swayed the destinies of the British Empire. Still in hope, they continued the struggle for one whole year. At length the British Parliament declared the Colonies out of the protection of the parent State. And then at last no other course was left them but to proclaim their independence, and defend it if need be with their life's blood. The battle of Lexington was fought on the nineteenth of April, 1775, and on the twelfth of April, 11770, the Provincial Congress of North-Carolina empowered their delegates in Congress to concur with the delegates of the other Colonies in declaring independence and forming foreign alliances, and on the fifteenth of the following month Virginia, through her Convention, instructed her delegates in the Continental Congress to propose to that body to declare the United Colonies free and in dependent States, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 17: events in and near the National Capital. (search)
passions, and precipitating them into the gulf of a horrid rebellion, to endure woes unutterable. That massacre seemed to the loyal people as an imperative call to patriotic duty, and like one of the repetitions of history. It was on the 19th of April, 1775, that the blood of the citizen soldiery of Massachusetts, the first that was shed in that revolution in which the liberties of the American people were secured, moistened the green sward at Lexington; now, on the 19th of April, 1861, the bl, prayed; an original hymn was read by the Rev. J. J. Twiss, Universalist; the closing prayer was by the Rev. D. Mott, Baptist; and the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. F. Hinckley, Unitarian. Over the rostrum were displayed the words:--April 19, 1775; April 19, 1861. and then the two bodies were laid in a vault in the Lowell Cemetery. A little more than four years afterward, the remains of these first martyrs were laid beneath a beautiful monument of Concord granite, erected, to commemor
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Contents of Thie first volume. (search)
one, Hartford Courant,30 40.Original Ode, Charleston, S. C., July 4,30 41.The New Birth, W. W. Howe,31 42.An Appeal for the Country, Ellen Key Blunt,31 43. Liberty and Union, one and Inseparable, F. A. H., 31 44.The 19th of April, 1861, Lucy Larcom, 32 45.Through Baltimore, Bayard Taylor,32 46.Under the Washington Elm, Oliver Wendell Holmes,33 47.Sumter,33 48.The Two Eras, L. H. Sigourney,34 49.The Sixth at Baltimore, B. P. Shillaber,34 50.Col. Corcoran's Brigade, Enul, 34 51.April 19, 1775-1861, H. H. B., 35 52.All Hail to the Stars and Stripes! G. T. Bourne,35 53.Songs of the Rebels: The War Storm,35 54.Songs of the Rebels: Illumination of Richmond, M. Copland,36 55.Songs of the Rebels: Sumter — A Ballad of ‘61, E. O. M., 36 56.The Other Abou-Ben-Adhem, 38 57.On, Brothers, On! S. W. Brooks,45 58.God for our Native Land, G. W. Bethune, D. D.,45 59.A Poem, by C. F., [C. Frost,]45 60.Arming for Battle, W. C. Richards,46 61.A Song for the Union,46 62.The Northern
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 143 (search)
48. the two Eras. April 19th, 1775, and April 19th, 1861. The Bay State bled at Lexington, But every drop that ran, By transmutation strange and strong, Sprung up an armed man:-- Sprung up, indomitably firm, And multiplied and spread, Till Freedom's amaranthine crown Enwreath'd our country's head. Yet, when the born of Lexington, Who kept their natal day, Were writing fourscore years and six Upon their annals gray, The Bay State bled at Baltimore,-- Wherefore, I may not speak; For sad and tender memories rush From heart to moisten'd cheek. And sighs of buried fathers break The cold, sepulchral bed, And hideous harpies clap their wings When brothers' blood is shed: And stars that in their courses sang, Their constellations shroud, And wind-borne echoes cry forbear! From yonder cloven cloud: While contrite souls from holy church And shaded hearth-stone pray, That He who rules above the skies, Would turn his wrath away, And rule the spirit that of old The Shepherd Abel slew,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), 51. April 19th, 1775-1861. (search)
51. April 19th, 1775-1861. Once more, (our dear old Massachusetts!) How the thought comes over us-and well it may! Of the drops wherewith that ancient green was reddened-- It is six and eighty years this very day. Six and eighty years-and it seemed but a memory-- Little left of all that glory — so we thought-- Only the old fire-locks hung on farm-house chimneys, And rude blades the village blacksmith wrought. Only here and there a white head that remembers How the Frocks of Homespun stood against King George-- How the hard hands stretched them o'er the scanty embers When the sleet and snow came down at Valley Forge. Ah me, how long we lay, in quiet and in error, Till the Snake shot from the coil he had folded on our hearth-- Till the Dragon-Fangs had sprouted, o'erhatched of hate and terror, And hell, in armed legions, seemed bursting from the earth. Once more, dear Brother-State! thy pure, brave blood baptizes Our last and noblest struggle for freedom and for right-- It fell
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 240 (search)
Remarkable Coincidence — was it accident?--It has already been noticed, that the attack upon the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment at Baltimore, occurred on the anniversary of the battle of Lexington--the one being on April 19th, 1861, and the other on April 19th, 1775, just 86 years previous. This fact was remarkable, but not as much as another in the same connection. It appears from a Boston letter in the New York World, that that Regiment was all from Middlesex County, which embraces the battle-fields of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. One or two of the companies are entirely composed of the lineal descendants of the patriots who were in the Concord fight. The gallant Sixth was first sent forward because it first reported itself at Headquarters with fullest ranks. Col. Jones received his orders at Lowell on Monday night at 11 o'clock, in the midst of a driving northeast storm. He mounted his horse, and rode all night through the scattered towns in which his companies wer
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 243 (search)
In the Concord Company which is with the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment, are four Buttricks, sons of one man, and he the descendant of Col. Buttrick who gave the word of command at Concord Bridge, on the 19th of April, 1775, Fire! Fellow-soldiers! For God's sake, fire! --Boston Transcript, April 29.
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