Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment
The book Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment was written by author John G B John Gregory Bishop Adams Here you can read free online of Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment a good or bad book?
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Standing in front he would say, "Look at me. Put on your bayonets, put 'em on." He would go through the motions, they fol- lowing. After a few days his "army of all nations" was disbanded, the men being assigned to companies. Arriving at the James River we crossed on a steamer and halted for rations, but before they could be served were ordered forward, and marched twenty-five miles without a 102 NINETEENTH MASSACHUSETTS BE&IMMNT. hard tack. We reached the first line of works before Peters- bur...g, and relieved a division of colored troops commanded by our old colonel, now General Hincks, who had been fight- ing all day. This was a great day for some of us. It had been said that the negro would not fight, but here we found them dead on the field side by side with the rebels they had killed. The stock of the negro as a soldier was high in the market. With no time for rations we went into line and waited until nearly morning, when the detail brought us our hard tack and pork. Hard fighting every day since the Battle of the Wilder- ness had reduced our officers to major, adjutant and four line officers, with the addition of First Sergeant Osborne of Company B, who had been promoted on the march.
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