History of the 103d Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865: By Luther S. Dickey ...Details the history of the 103rd Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment from their mustering-in August 1861 and the capture of the regiment at Plymouth and the incarceration at Andersonville to their mustering-out in July 1865. Includes supplemental material written by various members while at Andersonville as well as personal accounts of various battles. |
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abatis advance Andersonville prison army artillery attack battery battle of Fair battle of Kinston battle of Plymouth Bern brigade buried in Nat Capt capt'd at Plymouth captured Casey Casey's division cavalry cert Charleston command Confederate cooked today Corp Couch's date not given died at Andersonville disch discharged enemy enemy's Fair Oaks field fire flank force front Gazzam guard guns Heintzelman infantry intrenchments James John July June 25 Keyes killed Lehmann line of battle McClellan miles morning moved Naglee night North o'clock officers official report ordered Penna picket line pleasant position prisoners prisoners of war railroad rain rear rebels received redoubt Regiment Richmond rifle pits river Roanoke Island S. C.-Morning Samuel sent Sept serv Seven Pines skirmishers troops Veteran Wessells White Oak Swamp William Williamsburg road woods wounded at battle yards York
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Page viii - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page viii - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those Divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page viii - ... needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God .always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page viii - OR EVEN BEFORE THE CONFLICT ITSELF SHOULD ' CEASE. EACH LOOKED FOR AN EASIER TRIUMPH AND A RESULT LESS FUNDAMENTAL AND ASTOUNDING. BOTH READ THE SAME BIBLE AND PRAY TO THE SAME GOD AND EACH INVOKES HIS AID AGAINST THE OTHER.
Page 298 - ... the Stockade — a place the horrors of which it is difficult to describe, and which is a disgrace to civilization— the condition of which he might, by the exercise of a little energy and judgment, even with the limited means at his command, have considerably improved.
Page 285 - Southern prisons not to exchange them, but it is humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. Every man we hold, when released on parole or otherwise, becomes an active soldier against us at once either directly or indirectly. If we commence a system of exchange which liberates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated. If we hold those caught they amount to no more than dead men.
Page 302 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 297 - Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War. The condition of the prison at Andersonville is a reproach to us as a nation.
Page 288 - Enclosed is a copy of a communication which, on the 10th inst., I addressed and delivered to Major Jno. E. Mulford, Assistant Agent of Exchange. Under the circumstances of the case, I deem it proper to forward this paper to you, in order that you may fully understand the position which is taken by the Confederate authorities. I shall be glad if the proposition therein made is accepted by your Government. Respectfully your obedient servant, Ro. OULD, Agent of Exchange.
Page 280 - ... thirty-five thousand enlisted men, many of them the bravest and best, the most devoted and heroic of those grand armies which carried the flag of their country to final victory. For long and weary months here they suffered, maddened, were murdered, and died. Here they lingered, unsheltered from the burning rays of a tropical sun by day, and drenching and deadly dews by night, in every stage of mental and physical disease, hungered, emaciated, starving, maddened ; festering with unhealed wounds...