History of the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

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Press of the Pittsburgh printing Company, 1905 - 267 Seiten
Details the regimental history of the 78th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry from their original mustering-in to mustering-out including descriptions of battles fought. Includes details of the second regimental organization of the same name and number created after the original regiment's mustering out.
 

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APPENDIX
167
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Seite 165 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat 289 Were shaped the anchors of thy hope...
Seite 172 - Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line ; It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. ' Hearts of oak,
Seite 166 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with th.ee.
Seite 91 - But it seems to me that the elan of the Southern soldier was never seen after Chickamauga — that brilliant dash which had distinguished him was gone forever.
Seite 117 - ... hearing the enemy's advancing musketry and cheers, I became doubtful whether the left had held its ground, and started for Rossville. On consultation and further reflection, however, I determined to send General Garfield there, while I went to Chattanooga...
Seite 170 - And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make us perfect in every good work to do his will ; working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory forever and ever. AMEN.
Seite 162 - Sheridan, and served his term of enlistment; then re-enlisted in the same regiment and served until the close of the war, and was mustered out of the service in August, 1865.
Seite 46 - The weather now began to grow intensely severe; and during the latter part of November and the first half of December, Captain Parry's Journal presents little more than observations on it; and on the meteoric appearances, and fantastic illusions of light and colour, with which Nature seems to amuse herself in these dreary solitudes, as if, secure from the prying impertinence of man, she might descend to downright gambol...
Seite 170 - THE God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting^ covenant ; Make you perfect in every good work to \ do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight ; through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Seite 29 - ... developed in the order below. 1. Wolffian duct. 2. Wolffian body. 3. Head-kidney. 4. Miillerian duct. 5. Permanent kidney and ureter. About 2 and 5 we shall have nothing to say in the sequel. We have already in the early part of the paper given an account of the head-kidney and Miillerian duct, but it will be necessary for us to say a few words about the development of the Wolffian duct (so called). Without entering into the somewhat extended literature on the subject, we may state that we consider...

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