This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... about the peaceful cemetery in Marshfield where the body of the great statesman was lying. Next went on board the 36th New York, then the Second Rhode Island, and last of all the Tenth, Companies G, E and C going aboard the Sea-Shore, H and F on the Donclson, K, D, B, A and I on the Ariel. The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... about the peaceful cemetery in Marshfield where the body of the great statesman was lying. Next went on board the 36th New York, then the Second Rhode Island, and last of all the Tenth, Companies G, E and C going aboard the Sea-Shore, H and F on the Donclson, K, D, B, A and I on the Ariel. The Embrasure in North Works. Westward, Parapet at Right. Interior, looking West. Northward, Parapet, Right. FORT STEVENS IN 1890. sutler's wagons, etc., were loaded on the Mystic, a whole day being devoted to the embarkation. Everything was ready for the morrow's start. Thursday, the 27th, came at last and while the men breakfasted from haversacks on board, the officers found their morning meal ashore and at nine o'clock the steamers were under way. The Ariel stopped at Alexandria and took in tow two schooners, loaded with cavalry men and horses. Eight months before, almost to a day, the Regiment was steaming up the river, and while it had seen no fighting, it was a much better organized and equipped body now than it was then, soon to prove itself a magnificent fighting machine. Again was Mount Vernon passed and Fort Washington, nearly opposite; at Aquia Creek appeared indications of recent occupation in that the Rebels had just departed, leaving smoking ruins of wharfs and store-houses, lest they might fall into Union hands. What a bustling place this same Aquia Creek was to become in the near future, and what a field of waste would extend all the way to Fredericksburg! The 28th revealed Fortress Monroe, said to be the strongest fortification in the United States, and Yankee boys admired its immense proportions and gazed over the waters, where only twenty days before the appearance of a strange craft and its subsequent deeds had unsettled for all...
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