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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, September (search)
s, was excluded from the mails and post-offices of the United States until further orders.--Post Office Orders. The Seventh regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, numbering one thousand and seventy-two men, left New Haven for the seat of war near Washington. The regiment is commanded by Colonel A. A. Terry.--N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, Sept. 19. A correspondent at Washington says that the Government has just discovered that the rebels are carrying on a contraband trade between Worcester County, Maryland, and Virginia. Large supplies of army stores have been transported to the rebels' lines by this route. The necessary measures have been taken to stop the traffic.--A regiment has just passed down Pennsylvania avenue, headed by a soldier who lost a leg at the battle of Stone Bridge. He carried his musket strapped to his back. The spectacle excited the greatest enthusiasm among our citizens. The new gunboat Sagamore was launched to-day from Sampson's yard, East Boston, Mass.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, October (search)
The Fifteenth Mass. regiment, in Maryland, had to day their first parade since the battle at Ball's Bluff, on the 21st. After the parade the regiment was formed in a square and the gallant Colonel Devens made them an address. No description could produce the tender subdued fervor with which the colonel first spoke, the electric sympathy by which his men were affected, or the earnest determination with which the question was asked and answered: Soldiers of Massachusetts, men of Worcester County, with these fearful gaps in your lines, with the recollection of the terrible struggle of Monday fresh upon your thoughts, with the knowledge of the bereaved and soul-stricken ones at home, weeping for those whom they will see no more on earth,--with that hospital before your eyes, filled with wounded and maimed comrades,--I ask you now whether you are ready again to meet the traitorous foe who are endeavoring to subvert our Government, and who are crushing under the iron heel of despot
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, November (search)
he rebels to erect fortifications in that neighborhood. He crossed the river with Captain Chapman and twenty-five picked men of the Pennsylvania regiment, reconnoitred the vicinity, and found a force of rebels upon whom he quietly closed and surprised with a volley of shots. After firing two or three volleys, the rebels were routed, leaving three men and one horse dead on the field. Gen. Lockwood, with the expedition for the eastern shore of Virginia, marched from Snowville, Worcester County, Maryland.--N. Y. Express, Nov. 20. The First Kansas Cavalry, Colonel Jennison, went to Sedalia, Mo., to protect supply trains and other Government property at that and neighboring points. Colonel Jennison issued a proclamation to the people of Jackson, Lafayette, Cass, Johnson, and Pitt counties, Missouri, in which he said, that every man who feeds, harbors, protects, or in any way gives aid and comfort to the enemies of the Union, will be held responsible for his treason, with his li
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
nd General Webb at the Wilderness. Entering the latter campaign with 275 men, it lost, prior to its muster-out, 14 killed, 58 wounded, and 4 missing; not including 67, who were missing or captured at Petersburg. The Fifteenth was raised in Worcester County. It left Worcester August 8, 1861, and returned July 14, 1864, when it was mustered out, its three years term of service having expired. Its return to Worcester was marked by a grand and memorable ovation on the part of the citizens and St11 Walthal Junction, Va. 5 Petersburg Trenches, Va. 11 Arrowfield Church, Va. 18 Picket, N. C. (1862） 1 Proctor's Creek, Va. 2     Present, also, at Kinston, N. C.; Whitehall, N. C.; Wise's Forks, N. C. notes.--Recruited in Worcester county, and left the State November 1, 1861. It went to Annapolis, and thence with the Burnside expedition to North Carolina, arriving at Hatteras Inlet on February 6, 1862. It was in Foster's (1st) Brigade, and was engaged at Roanoke Island with
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
d the wisdom of this unholy and God-abhorred war, meet our severest condemnation, and cannot be submitted to without protest by a people calling themselves free, without a total overthrow and subversion of our Republican institutions and an establishment of a military or imperial despotism in their stead. The Feeling in Massachusetts. A correspondent of the Boston Courier, writing from Worcester county, Mass., under date of August 12, says: The war is not popular, even in Worcester county, and I find the people ready to bring it to an end by any means consistent with honor and patriotism. The trouble with the leaders has been that they were not far-seeing men. They neither knew the temper of the South nor foresaw the consequences of their policy. This change in sentiment — if it be a change — is the result of an examination of the questions in dispute, and the discovery that the controversy could have been settled without a resort to arms. The bulk of opinio
The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
. From the appearance of the corpses, and the confessions of the negroes, they fought most desperately, but were overpowered. The mother was away from the house visiting; and her son, a lad of thirteen, was also absent, at school, at the time. These were the only ones of the family who escaped. The late raid on the Cape Charles light-house. We recently published the fact that a small party of Confederates had accomplished the destruction of Cape Charles light-house. The Worcester (Md.) Shield says: A bold and successful foray was made on Monday morning last on the light-house and Government property on Smith's Island, just outside of the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. A party of nine men in a boat issued out from a concealment on Mockhorn Island and made for Smith's Island, where they landed. They gave themselves out as fishermen; but, after asking many questions, privately informed the keeper of the light-house, Wm Webb States, that they had come to destroy his
The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
.; Washington, slave of Robert Young, Charles co., Md.; Lewis, slave of George B. Wilson, Norfolk; Henry, Geo. W. Owen, Dorchester, Md.; John, slave of John Wayland, Howard co., Md.; Charles, slave of Captain Arnold, Colburn, Md.; Frank, slave of Alfred Oden, Pike co., Mo.; John, slave of Jim Leighter, Dorchester, Md.; Sam, slave of Robert Tung, Charles co., Md.; Andrew, slave of William Gordon, Marion co., Mo.; George, slave of John Ronsells, Rowell, Mo.; John, slave of Seth M. Wayland, Worcester, Md.; Ephraim, slave of John Hammond, Howard, Md.; John, slave of Mrs. Ward, Marion, Mo.; Willis, slave of L. Vaughan, Hanover, Va.; Charles, slave of John Ayres, Ronsells, Mo.; Peter, slave of R. L. Gordon, Orange, Va.; Isaac, slave of Dr. Shaw, St. Mary's, Md.; John, slave of Thos. Deralbis, Frederick, Md.; John, slave of Wm. Boesy, St. George, Md.; Lewis, slave of W. Wedington, Frederick, Md.; George, slave of W. Wall, Prince George, Md.; James, slave of Dr. Pike, Charles co., Md.; Charles