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Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Nims' Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
00 contrabands, men, women, and children to work in the government plantations in LaFourche Co. Irwin says: Nineteenth Army Corps, p. 136. The column covered in the march the long train that stretched out for eight miles over the prairies with a motley band of negroes, horses, and beeves for a cumbrous accompaniment. With the possible exception of the horde that set out to follow Sherman's march to the sea, this was the most curious column ever put in motion since that which defiled after Noah into the ark. On April 22 the right and left sections with the First Brigade, General Dwight, pushed forward through Washington to the Tableau River where they rebuilt a bridge which had been burned. During the day there was a slight skirmish with the cavalry. In C. B. Maxwell's diary we read: Our battery with General Dwight's Brigade. Joe Knowlton and I crossed river to plantation owned by a widow and obtained some milk and two dozen eggs. Just then the enemy's force fired on our cav
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 7: Baltimore jail, and After.—1830. (search)
sir, I can prove from the Bible that slavery is right. Ah! replied I, that is a precious book—the rule of conduct. I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression. However, sir, I should be glad to hear your text. He somewhat hesitatingly muttered out— Ham—Noah's curse, you know. O, sir, you build on a very slender foundation. Granting, even—what remains to be proved—that the Africans are the descendants of Ham, Noah's curse was a prediction of future servitude, and not an injunction to oppress. Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfil the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage? Why, sir, exclaimed the slavite, with unmingled astonishment, do you really think that the slaves are beings like ourselves?—that is, I mean do you believe that they possess the same faculties and capacities as the whites? Certainly, sir, I responded; I do not know that
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 5: year after College.—September, 1830, to September, 1831.—Age, 19-20. (search)
most, and dreaded to sunder ourselves from so many kindly associations. One month hath not a whit altered me; my mind is still full of those feelings of affection which bound me to the place and the friends I there enjoyed. I find it hard to untie the spell that knits me so strongly to college life. I never had a more melancholy time in my life than for the four hours after I last saw you. I went to my room, and found it usurped by a new race, and my furniture on the road to Boston. Like Noah's dove, then, with nowhere to rest the sole of my foot, I went from room to room, and saw everywhere the signs of approaching departure. Juniors were parading round, the almost undisputed lords and masters of what we Seniors a day before alone enjoyed. Excuse this sentimentality. Two days after you had read your dissertation, the fame whereof was in the land when I arrived, I underwent the most unwelcome drudgery of reading mine,—namely, of going through the form,—in order to satisfy th
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
portant and mysterious figure, playing distinguished parts in the world's history. Like the well-graced actor, it appears, reappears, and appears again on the stage. It shows itself solemnly in the first creation of the universe: in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. And seven days have ever since filled the division of time called a week. This number entered with Noah into the ark; of every clean beast, said the Lord, thou shalt take to thee by sevens. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. He went on in this way, running through all literature, ancient and modern, in the most extraordinary fashion, quoting from the Old and New Testaments, Aeschylus, Ovid, Virgil, Homer, Juvenal, Shakspeare, Donne, Milton, Spenser, Dryden, Statius, Cicero, Niebuhr, Tertullian, Aulus Gellius, Sir Thomas
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
d New York regiments and a section of the 2d Mass. Battery under Lieutenant Snow. His column was to cover in the march the long train that stretched for eight miles over the prairies, with a motley band of five thousand negroes, two thousand horses and fifteen hundred beeves for a cumbrous accompaniment. With the possible exception of the herd that set out to follow Sherman's march through Georgia, this was perhaps the most curious column ever put into motion since that which defiled after Noah into the ark. Irwin, p. 156. It sustained some slight attacks only, and in its last thirty-one hours marched forty-eight miles, reaching Brashear May 28. On May 21, 1863, an encounter took place, with some loss, at Plains Store, La., in which a brisk artillery fire was interchanged, followed by a charge from the Confederates, of which the 48th Mass. (Col. E. F. Stone) bore the brunt, being sustained by the 49th Mass. (Col. W. F. Bartlett). The loss was not, however, large. In both th
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 3: Newport 1879-1882; aet. 60-63 (search)
r, trying to overcome it. Crawford delighted in singing, and Auntie in playing his accompaniments. At dusk the two would repair to the old Chickering grand to make music — Schubert, Brahms, and arias from the oratorios they both loved. In the evening the three guitars would be brought out, and aunt and nephew, with Maud or Brother Harry, would sing and play German students' songs, or the folk-songs of Italy, Ireland, and Scotland. Our mother was sure to be asked for Matthias Claudius's Als Noah aus dem Kasten war: Crawford would respond with Im schwarzen Wallfisch zu Ascalon. This was the first of thirty happy years passed at 241 Beacon Street, the house Uncle Sam bought for her. The day she moved in, a friend asked her the number of her new house. 241, she answered. You can remember it because I'm the two-forty one. Oscar Wilde was at this time making a lecture tour through the United States. This was the heyday of his popularity; he had been heralded as the apostle of
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Some Cambridge schools in the olden time. (search)
To bind us close to slate pencils and slates, Adams' Arithmetic before our eyes. (He made it after he left Paradise. We cannot fancy that in scenes Elysian Adam and Eve knew ever Long Division.) Oft-times we stood in rows with aspect solemn, Convulsive adding up some figured column. Sad grew one heart I knew, and ever sadder, To find on every side a swifter adder. And when sometimes a sultry south wind blew, Our Baker found too hot his oven grew, Sent out his living things by two and two, As Noah from his ark was glad to do. There sat the boys and ciphered in the shade, And the soft air about their temples played. Busy and happy ones; all smoothly went, While with their tasks legitimate content, But from the narrow way the least deflection Is pretty sure of no remote detection. The square is drawn; its characters you know, Nine minor squares to fill with X or 0, And he says, “Tit, tat, too,” who gets a row. “Tit, tat,” says James, and marks it down, but hark “Too,” shouts the
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
iel, b. 14 Dec. 1669; Thomas, b. 12 Sept. 1673; Noah, b. 27 Sept. 1677, prob. the same who was of Bl, b. 21 July 1700; Solomon, b. 17 Mar. 1701-2; Noah, b. 14 Sept. 1704; Downing, bap. 10 Mar. 1705-6in 1764; his w. Abigail d. 18 Jan. 1785. 12. Noah, s. of Daniel (7), m. Martha Hubbard 26 Oct. 17ad Nathaniel (b. about 1694), bap. 11 Ap. 1697; Noah (b. about Feb. 1696-7), bap. 11 Ap. 1697; Simonphysician in Philadelphia. Lewis's Lynn. 9. Noah, s. of Nathaniel (4), m. Priscilla, dau. of Ichand d. before 1765; Nathaniel, b. 28 Oct. 1727; Noah, b. 19 Oct. 1729, was of Rutland 1765; Martha, . 1777, a physician in New Hampshire, d. 1847; Noah, b. 29 Ap. 1759; Blake, b. 12 Ap. 1761, m. Annahn, b. 3 May 1742; Thankful, b. 14 Mar. 1744-5; Noah, b. about 1747, d. 18 Oct. 1759. John the f. rm. Judith Carter of Woburn 5 Dec. 1763, and had Noah, b. 18 Nov. 1764; Elizabeth, b. 29 Aug. 1766; J; his w. Hepzibah d. 25 May 1801, a. 71. 11. Noah, s. of Ebenezer (6), m. Betty (Elizabeth) Fitch[16 more...]
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, B. (search)
ug. 1706; Rebecca, b. 10 Jan. 1708-9; Hannah, b. 2 Ap. 1711, m. Beriah Wetmore of Middletown, Conn.; Andrew, b. 27 Ap. 1713; Martha, b. 10 Feb. 1714-15, m. Nehemiah Cutter, 17 July 1739; Deborah, b. 30 May 1716, m. Nathaniel Kidder, 17 Sept. 1741; Noah, b. 23 Oct. 1718; Elizabeth, bap. 7 May 1721, d. 11 Oct. 1739; Eunice, bap. 4 Nov. 1722; Abigail, bap. 15 Mar. 1723-4, m. William Winship, Jr., 30 Dec. 1755; Susanna, bap. 10 July 1726. Samuel the f. d. 1746, and his son Samuel, then of Chs., admd. 27 Oct. 1802, a. 76. 9. Samuel, s. of Samuel (6), m. Hannah Frost, 20 Mar. 1745-6, and had Samuel, bap. 26 Ap. 1747; Edmund, bap. 12 Feb. 1748-9; Hannah, bap. 17 Feb. 1750-51. Samuel the f. d. June 1783; his w. prob. d. 25 Ap. 1794. 10. Noah, s. of Samuel (6), m. Hannah Winship of Lex. (pub. 14 July 1744), and had Hannah, prob. b. 1745, adm. to the Ch. 1763; Joshua, bap. 15 Feb. 1746-7, grad H. C. 1766, a Captain in the Continental army, m. Abigail Fowle of Wat., 1767; Elizabeth, ba
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, C. (search)
m. Nicholas Bowes 6 May 1690; Daniel, b. 14 Dec. 1669; Thomas, b. 12 Sept. 1673; Noah, b. 27 Sept. 1677, prob. the same who was of Boston, and appointed guardian to Ap. 1697, d. 26 Mar. 1705; Daniel, b. 21 July 1700; Solomon, b. 17 Mar. 1701-2; Noah, b. 14 Sept. 1704; Downing, bap. 10 Mar. 1705-6; Richard, bap. 23 Nov. 1707; Tho1810. Solomon the f. was living in 1764; his w. Abigail d. 18 Jan. 1785. 12. Noah, s. of Daniel (7), m. Martha Hubbard 26 Oct. 1725, and had John, b. 12 Oct. 1729; Noah, 14 Jan. 1731-2; Noah, bap. 23 Dec. 1733. All these appear to have d. young. Noah the f. died 1749. His w. Martha long survived him, and was a distinguishedNoah, bap. 23 Dec. 1733. All these appear to have d. young. Noah the f. died 1749. His w. Martha long survived him, and was a distinguished school-dame. In 1758 she purchased the homestead of Dr. Coolidge, at the E. corner of Harvard and Holyoke Streets, where she resided, in the old red house, until he, 8 Ap. 1739; William, 2 Nov. 1740; Richard, 5 Dec. 1742; Jonathan, 2 Dec. 1714; Noah, 21 Dec. 17-16; Samuel, 2 Oct. 1748; Sarah, 21 July 1751; Nathan, 26 Mar. 1753;
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