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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work., Oldport in winter. (search)
ne can hear better repartees among the boat-builders' shops on Long Wharf than among those who have made the grand tour. All the world over, one is occasionally reminded of the French officer's verdict on the garrison town where he was quartered, that the good society was no better than the good society anywhere else, but the bad society was capital. I like, for instance, to watch the shoals of fishermen that throng our streets in the early spring, inappropriate as porpoises on land, or as Scott's pirates in peaceful Kirkwall,--unwieldy, bearded creatures in oil-skin suits,--men who have never before seen a basket-wagon or a liveried groom, and whose first comments on the daintinesses of fashion are far more racy than anything which fashion can say for itself. The life of our own fishermen and pilots remains active, in its way, all winter; and coasting vessels come and go in the open harbor every day. The only schooner that is not so employed is, to my eye, more attractive than
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 2 (search)
hree months; but through the persuasion of General Scott, who well knew that it was no three monthsch he says, in his dispatch of the time to General Scott: We were fired upon by raking masked battertment of the Ohio, and its control had by General Scott been intrusted to General George B. McClelhole adverse force. In a letter to Lieutenant-General Scott, communicating his proposed plan of oth the tremendous problem forced upon him. General Scott knew well war and war's needs. He knew thimmediate action. Now, a plan of campaign General Scott could well devise; for he was a man that kg to the infuriate bull? They prevailed. General Scott has confessed it: his moral firmness gave campaign, General McDowell was assured by General Scott that, if Johnston joined Beauregard, he sh of Washington and united with McDowell's. General Scott expected Patterson to attack Johnston, I threats and demonstrations. Dispatch from General Scott, July 18th. but he gave no imperative orde
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 3 (search)
alley35,467 On the lower Potomac1,350 ______ In all73,456 Meantime, the task of collecting water transportation, and embarking the troops for the proposed expedition, was being pushed forward with the utmost energy. Unhappily, however, while every thing seemed to be under way, certain occurrences took place that marred the auspicious circumstances that should have attended the expedition. Upon the evacuation of Manassas, General McClellan, who had, since the retirement of Lieutenant-General Scott in the preceding November, exercised the functions of generalin-chief, was relieved from the control of the armies in the field, and relegated to the command of the Army of the Potomac. At the same time, the troops in Western Virginia were placed under General Fremont, who was assigned to what was called the Mountain Department. Now, a few days before he sailed for Fortress Monroe, General McClellan had been informed by the President that a strong pressure had been brought to bear
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
1, 22; what a direct march on would have effected, 147; outer line of redoubts pierced by Kilpatrick, 400; merits of plans of advance discussed, 406; outer defences penetrated by Sheridan, 460; entered by Union troops, 605. Rivers of Virginia, system of the, 19. Rivers, theories of defence of, 415. Round Top—see Gettysburg. Russell, W. H., on McDowell's army, 43. Schenck, General, flight of his reconnoitering party near Vienna, Virginia, 33; on Vienna masked batteries, 34. Scott, Lieutenant-General, views and plans of the war—how they were overruled, 41; dispatch to General Patterson on operations against Johnston, 45. Sedgwick, General, at Mine Run, 395; his death at Spottsylvania, 447; see also Chancellorsville, Seminary Ridge—see Gettysburg, 336. Seven days retreat, the, 140; Lee discovers McClellan's movement for the James River, 154; commenced, 154; Lee commences pursuit, 155; battle of Savage Station, 156; the army debouches from White Oak Swamp, 156;<
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Dante. (search)
in Italian. Instead of endeavoring to manufacture a great poem out of what was foreign and artificial, he let the poem make itself out of him. The epic which he wished to write in the universal language of scholars, and which might have had its ten lines in the history of literature, would sing itself in provincial Tuscan, and turns out to be written in the universal dialect of mankind. Thus all great poets have been in a certain sense provincial,—Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Burns, Scott in the Heart of Midlothian and Bride of Lammermoor,—because the office of the poet is always vicarious, because nothing that has not been living experience can become living expression, because the collective thought, the faith, the desire of a nation or a race, is the cumulative result of many ages, is something organic, and is wiser and stronger than any single person, and will make a great statesman or a great poet out of any man who can entirely surrender himself to it. As the Gothic
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
into Scotland. Coleridge was their companion during a part of this excursion, of which Miss Wordsworth kept a full diary. In Scotland he made the acquaintance of Scott, who recited to him a part of the Lay of the Last Minstrel, then in manuscript. The travellers returned to Grasmere on the 25th of September. It was during this ntences are long and involved; and his friend De Quincey, who corrected the press, has rendered them more obscure by an unusual system of punctuation. （Southey to Scott, 30th July, 1809.) The tract is, as Southey hints, heavy. It was at Allan Bank that Coleridge dictated The Friend, and Wordsworth contributed to it two essays, onehe did not look upon poetry too exclusively as an exercise rather of the intellect than as a nepenthe of the imagination. According to Landor, he pronounced all Scott's poetry to be not worth five shillings. He says of himself, speaking of his youth:— In fine, I was a better judge of thoughts than words, Misled in estimating
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
, 1717 Fly and Granville, two pirates, July 7, 1726 A young negro, for murder, May 17, 1751 William Wier, for murder, Nov. 19, 1754 Lewis Ames, for robbery, Oct. 21, 1773 Grant and Cover, on the Common, for murder, Oct. 28, 1784 Scott and Archibald, for murder, May 5, 1785 A. and J. Taylor, on Neck lands, for robbery, May 8, 1788 Two men and one woman, on the Common, for robbery, Oct. 8, 1789 Brown and Bailey, on the Common, for robbery, Oct. 16, 1790 Collins, Polission, June 18, 1860 John M. Barnard, dedicated, Feb. 23, 1866 Schooners began to be built at Boston, 1714 Scissor Grinder's bells mistaken for City Crier, 1832 Scollay's buildings removed to complete the square, May, 1871 Scott, Gen. Winfield visited Boston, Sep. 4, 1843 Resigned command of the army, Nov. 2, 1861 Died, at West Point, aged eighty-two, May 29, 1866 Sea Fencibles. A military company of sea captains, formed, July 25, 1814 Serpent, believed
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Index. (search)
s, 132, 133 Rogues' Gallery, 133 Roulette, 133 Rowing Regattas, 133 Rubber Merchants, 133 Russian Embassy, 133 S. Sabbath Breakers, 133 Safe Blowing, 133 Sailors' Homes, 133 Saltpetre Explosion, 133 Sandemonians, 133 Savage, Edward 133 Savage, Edward H. 134 Savannah Sufferers, 134 Scales, 134 Scandals, 134 Scavengers, 134 Schools, 134 to 136 School-master, 136, 137 Schooners, 137 Scissor Grinders, 137 Scollay's Buildings, 137 Scott, Gen. Winfield 137 Sea Fencibles, 137 Sea Serpent, 137 Sealers Weights and Measures, 137 Seats on Common, 137 Siege of Paris, 137 Selfridge and Austin, 137 Selectmen, 137 Sewell, Samuel 138 Sewerage, 138 Shaw, Lemuel 138 Shakedown, 138 Shay's War, 138 Sherman, Gen., Wm. T. 138 Sheridan, Gen., Phil. 138 Ships, Sailing 138 Ships, Steam 138, 139 Ship Fever, 139 Shot, 139 Siamese Twins, 139 Silver Coin, 139 Skating Rink, 139, 140 Sked
Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Introductury (search)
charge of the troops, and the result of such an appeal, in the present state of feeling, would be doubtful. The boat was not a passenger steamer, and had only two or three small staterooms, occupied by its officers. These might be required by the military commanders. Instantly, and unhesitatingly, I decided to make the trial. We ladies then descended to the parlor, while one by one our friends were conveyed out of the house. A new difficulty at once arose; a friend had applied to General Scott for a pass—unsuccessfully. The precious hours were passing, and failure seemed imminent. This difficulty was increased by the fact that I had undertaken the charge of Jemmy Little, a boy of ten, who, having lingered too long at school in Baltimore, had been cut off from his family in Norfolk, and being desperately unhappy, had implored to be included in the plans formed for me. He was to pass as my brother, and, having once promised, I could not disappoint him, especially as his waking
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 4: (search)
ood the harness racks, while in front the Battery was parked. The weather being pleasant for some days after our arrival, our drills were resumed with the customary vigor. In one of these a sham fight was had between the Battery and a body of Scott's Nine Hundred cavalry that had recently encamped near by. As the contest waxed warm and men became excited, Frank Loham, No. Two man on the second piece, was quite seriously wounded in the face and breast by a premature discharge. Once in a veral concerts were given in the Town Hall near by to quite large audiences, composed mainly of the officers of the brigade and their friends from in and around the town. At one time it devolved upon Capt. Sleeper to inspect tile detachment of Scott's Nine Hundred cavalry, to which reference has already been made. As might have been expected by any one who knew anything about this body, he reported them to be in a poor state of discipline and generally in an unsoldierly condition. This was
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