Recollections of the Early Days of the National Guard: Comprising the Prominent Events in the History of the Famous Seventh Regiment New York MilitiaJ. M. Bradstreet & Son, 1868 - 201 Seiten |
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1st Company 3d Company 5th Company Adjutant announced arms Arsenal ASHER TAYLOR Assistant Quarter-Master Battalion Battery Board of Officers BRIGADE ORDERS Brigadier-General buttons CAMP CLINTON Captain celebration character citizens City Hall coat Colonel STEVENS Colors command Commander-in-Chief Committee Common Council Corps Court of Inquiry directed Division Orders drill duty eight Eighth Company Eleventh Regiment eminent encampment Evacuation Day excitement FAYETTE Fourth Company Fourth of July front gallant gentlemen Hamilton Square HOLT honor L. W. STEVENS LA FAYETTE Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Major Major-General manner marched Martial Matrosses Mayor ment military Militia National Guard Non-commissioned officers o'clock occasion organization pany Park patriotic Pay-Master PHILETUS H Poughkeepsie present rank received recollection Regi Regiment paraded Regimental Orders resolution salute SAMUEL D Second Lieutenant Second Regiment sentinel Sergeant Seventh soldier SPICER spirit staff steamboat street sword tents tion Twenty-seventh Regiment uniform veteran WETMORE WILLIAM York State Artillery
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Seite 170 - Take thy banner! and, beneath The battle-cloud's encircling wreath, Guard it, till our homes are free! Guard it ! God will prosper thee ! In the dark and trying hour, In the breaking forth of power, In the rush of steeds and men, His right hand will shield thee then.
Seite 87 - On motion, resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the chairman and secretary, and delivered to Dr. DODS, and that they be published in the newspapers of the city. " JOHN P. HULBERT, Chairman.
Seite 119 - American veteran, is a new testimony of that persevering affection of which it has been, during near sixty years, the pride and delight of my life to be the happy object. The only merit on my part, which it does not exceed, is to be found in the warmth of my gratitude, and the patriotic devotion that binds to the United States the loving heart of an adopted son.
Seite 139 - That the thanks of the Common Council be presented to the individuals who thus nobly sustained their reputation as citizen soldiers, and proved the importance and the necessity to the city of a well-disciplined militia, in time of peace as well as in time of war Major-General MORTON, in promulgating the resolution of the Common Council, adds: Next to the satisfaction arising from the consciousness of having performed a duty, is the approbation of those whose good opinion we prize. These resolutions,...
Seite 119 - Washington, of whom it is the most gratifying circumstance of my life to have been the beloved and faithful disciple, in no point more than in his fond hope of a perpetual union between the States of the...
Seite 147 - We know there is this instinct in man, else it would never have been proclaimed that all men are born equal, and endowed by their Creator with the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Seite 170 - Take thy banner! But when night Closes round the ghastly fight, If the vanquished warrior bow, Spare him, by our holy vow, By our prayers and many tears, By the mercy that endears, Spare him; he our love hath shared; Spare him!
Seite 165 - Resolved that the sum of Four hundred and Fifty dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated...
Seite 186 - twas a gallant day, In memory still adored, That day of our sun-bright nuptials With the musket and the sword ! Shrill rang the fifes, the bugles blared, And beneath a cloudless heaven Twinkled a thousand bayonets, And the swords were thirty-seven.
Seite 24 - The President of the United States directs that General La Fayette when he arrives in this country, be received at all the United States...