Charles Devens. Orations And Addresses On Various Occasions, Civil And Military;
Charles Devens. Orations And Addresses On Various Occasions, Civil And Military;
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At Yorktown, having been assigned to the com- mand of a brigade by promotion, my own im- mediate connection with the regiment ceased, and Colonel Ward being utterly disabled, the active command passed for the time to the always brave and reliable Colonel Kimball. The regiment participated in all the conflicts of the Peninsula.
I have re-read the reports of Generals Gorman, Sully, Howard, and Sedgwick. In different forms of expression each of those generals has said that better and braver troops... no man ever led. It was in the same division with the Nineteenth and Twen- tieth Massachusetts Volunteers, who, it is just to say, received similar commendations. My own words are of little importance compared with those ; but in a report made by myself to Gov- ernor Andrew, December 20, 1862, principally as to the Seventh, Tenth, and Thirty-seventh Massa- 184 THE 15th regiment AND GETTYSBURG.
chusetts regiments, then in my brigade, I spoke of the Fifteenth in language in which I believe as firmly now as when I wrote it : " Called upon," I said, "both at Ball's Bluff and at Antietam, when it was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Kimball, to endure the terrific loss of more than one half of its men engaged, it exhibited a courage and fidelity more than worthy of vet- eran troops, for it was worthy of the holy cause which had drawn its men from their peaceful homes." At Antietam, when I was moving up with my brigade on the morning after the princi- pal battle, anticipating its renewal, my orderly, George W.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
At Yorktown, having been assigned to the com- mand of a brigade by promotion, my own im- mediate connection with the regiment ceased, and Colonel Ward being utterly disabled, the active command passed for the time to the always brave and reliable Colonel Kimball. The regiment participated in all the conflicts of the Peninsula.
I have re-read the reports of Generals Gorman, Sully, Howard, and Sedgwick. In different forms of expression each of those generals has said that better and braver troops... no man ever led. It was in the same division with the Nineteenth and Twen- tieth Massachusetts Volunteers, who, it is just to say, received similar commendations. My own words are of little importance compared with those ; but in a report made by myself to Gov- ernor Andrew, December 20, 1862, principally as to the Seventh, Tenth, and Thirty-seventh Massa- 184 THE 15th regiment AND GETTYSBURG.
chusetts regiments, then in my brigade, I spoke of the Fifteenth in language in which I believe as firmly now as when I wrote it : " Called upon," I said, "both at Ball's Bluff and at Antietam, when it was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) Kimball, to endure the terrific loss of more than one half of its men engaged, it exhibited a courage and fidelity more than worthy of vet- eran troops, for it was worthy of the holy cause which had drawn its men from their peaceful homes." At Antietam, when I was moving up with my brigade on the morning after the princi- pal battle, anticipating its renewal, my orderly, George W.
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