Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass. volunteer infantry, with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James, Part 43

Author: Denny, Joseph Waldo, 1825 or 1826-
Publication date: 1879
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Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers. .204


Final muster-out (1865) 438


First gun of the war ..


companies from Worcester County 7


meeting to organize Massachusetts Twenty-fifth. 10


Regimental Order ... 14


Review of Massachusetts Twenty-fifth.


23


Sunday at Camp Hicks ..


35


Flags of truce, how received.


149


Flag presented by ladies of Worcester


244


Flasser, Captain, of the Navy Camp, at Plymouth.


129, 196, 199, 201


.193


Forbes, Arthur P .. 135, 165, 174, 184, 194, 244, 397, 417


Forces in North Carolina reduced: 219


Fort Macon, siege of. 112


407


408


Fortress Monroe, quarantine at .400


Fort Steadman, attack upon .. .42y


Forty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. .143, 192, 216


Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia 143, 144, 190, 191, 216


Forty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. 143, 155, 156, 157. 216


Forty-sixth Massachusetis Volunteer Militia. 143, 155, 159, 204, 216


Foraging, Companies G and H. .222


Foster, John G.


.42, 127, 190, 193, 247


189, 212, 288, 391, 392, 394 Foster, Albert H.


Fort Fisher, Butler at. capture of.


Fitchburg Committee at Roanoke


84


Exodus of secessionists from Congress


Fallacy of State Sovereignty theory


Engagement, naval, on Roanoke river


516


GENERAL INDEX.


Foss, Charles H. Page 12, 184, 185, 223,329, 330, 333


Foster's Brigade organization. 39


Freedmen in North Carolina 226


Frost, Sumner, of I, death of. 38


Fuller, Corporal J. H., of A, at Andersonville .372


Garrison at Little Washington surprised. 127


431


General Orders against attempted officers.


259


Getty's Station, Va. 243


Gilmore, William E., band leader.


131


Guard ship at Fortress Monroe.


401


Godwin Parke, speech of. 23


Goldsborough, Louis M 67


153


Goldsboro' expedition. battle of ... 158


Goodhue, John M., mustering officer. 17


Goodwin, Francis E. 17, 117, 206, 336, 345


Goulding, Henry, 2d, death of. 292


.373


Grand rounds in Camp Oliver. review at New Berne.


180


Graham, Lieutenant James, death of.


329


Graham, George H ..


159


Grant, General, at head of the armies. 303


306


Graton, Edward R., of C 79


Green, Samuel A., M. D . 62, 83, 84


.214


Gium Swamp expedition.


202, 206


Halleck, General, relieved as General-in-Chief.


.303


Hamlin, Dr., upon Andersonville .. .308, 379


Hanging soldiers at Kinston, N. C. .250


Happiness of silence 395


Harrington, Samuel. . 125, 148, 165, 360, 397, 410, 420


Harrington, Charles A., of K, death of.


39


Hartranft, Colonel John F. 44, 101


Harkness, E. A. 98, 115, 140


Hatteras Inlet 53, 56, 58


18


Heckman, General C. A


.221, 264, 272, 281, 2$7


Heckman's Brigade.


.264, 283, 285, 314, 414


strength of, at Cold Harbor. 315


220


Hitchcock, Dr., of Fitchburg at Roanoke


.331


Hoke, rebel commander, checked. .41.5


Holt, Corporal, of I ... 222


129


Hospital, General, Beaufort, N. C. at Cold Harbor, Va.


.332


Ilooker, Lyman, of C. .397


Humorons poetry of a soldier ..


Hunt Lieutenant W. C., leading fighting sutlers. 251


Hurd, Albert S., of HI, death of .331


Impudence, illustration of. 111


James, Rev. Horace.


21, 182, 226, (Appendix) 441


James river, moving up 267


Gould, Dr., experience at Andersonville.


135


" will fight it out on this line' moves to end the matter. 429


Guerillas, capture of.


Haven, Jubal H., of A


Hill's Point on Pamlico river .. 84


Hodgkins, Sergeant, death of ..


102


General assault at Petersburg.


GENERAL INDEX. 517


James river, moving down. Page 298


Joe, of the Symposium. . 224


Johnson, Lieutenant George A. .329


Jones, Colonel J. R., death of. .211


Judson, Captain J. A .. . 253


Justice according to law, ete 263


Kendall, Charles H., of A ..


.360, 397


Kent, George E., of H, death of.


136


Kinglake, his opinion of warfare.


416


Killing, a war duty. 376


Knight, Otis H., of D, killed in prison ..


149, 167, 173


Kurtz, Colonel John . 43, 144


Landing at Roanoke Island. 72


Last gun of the civil war .. 438


Lawson, Peter, and Major Whitford .. 151


Lawrence, John, Ninth New Jersey : Volunteers 84


Leading the advance. 204


Lee, Colonel Ilorace C. .43, 143, 153, 181, 215, 227, 287, 290


Lee's Brigade in North Carolina. . 143, 153, 163


Lewis, Corporal John E., death of.


.318


Lewis, Lieutenant-Colouel Third New York Cavalry


175


Life or death, a question of.


401


Life in New Berne. .107, 115


Lightless Lighthouse. 54


Line officers. 17


Lincoln, Abraham, President. 4


President, calls for seventy-five thousand troops. 4


assassination of .. 123


General W. S., an incident reported by 380 remarks of. 405


D. Waldo 244, 404, 405


Loval man and his lantern 404


44


Mann, Corporal Randall, of H ..


SO


March to near Kinston, autumn of IS64


411


Martindale's Division wins applause


329


Mathews, Sergeant Twenty-first Massachusetts.


83


Maynard, Charles F., of F, death of ..


39


MeClellan, General, in Western Virginia. 5 suggests the coast division. 47 instructions to Burnside 48


166


MeCarter, John G. .. 117, 118


McCafferty, Major, resigns.


McConville, Henry, appointed Adjutant. 140


Adjutant, death of .. 329


Mc Dowell's advance into Virginia. 5


MeHugh, Sergeant, of E, and the flag 328


McLane, Lieutenant, James J. 184, 187


Medical department of regiment .397 Medical officers, roster of .. 390


Men wearing the blue hung. 250


Men of the Twenty-fifth dead in rebel prisons .385


Merrill, Sampson A, of B, shipwrecked. 60


321


Martindale, General, and his cigar, .356


Matthews, Lieutenant Henry ..


Maggi, Lieutenant-Colonel.


128


Knott, Lieutenant, of Confederate cavalry.


156


Kinston, battle of.


-


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518


GENERAL INDEX ..


Messer, Lieutenant A. P. Page 329


Missouri, General Lyons operates in. 5


Mix, John, Third New York Cavalry. .361


Mine explosion ..


court of inquiry on .. ISS


362


Moore, Corporal, of I, fired upon on the Chowan.


81


Morse, Lieutenant, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts, killed ..


.337


Moulton, O. .102, 165, 184, 223, 273, 317, 320, 337, 376 .372


Sergeant, of I. John B., of K. 130


Movements in North Carolina, ignorance of .. 51


Movement to Wise's Torks .. 413


Movements on James river, winter of 1864.


Movement against Richmond, how to be made [1864]. 427 303


Murdock, Charles C ..


174, 175, 194, 397


Murdock, W. E., of K.


.110


Muster into service. 17


405


National Democratic Convention [1860].


415


Naval vessels of Barnside's expedition


61


bombardment of Roanoke.


69


operations at Elizabeth City


$7


expedition up the Roanoke. 129


.150


New Berne, approaching


.93,97


rebel joy iu.


93. 96


defences of .


94


battle of ..


99


Postmaster of ..


107


description of ..


attack upon [March 14, 1863] 178


a stricken city .. 397


yellow fever Sunday in. .398


Nine months' troops in North Carolina. 143


leave North Carolina 215


Ninth Army Corps in Army of Potomac


304


Ninth New Jersey Volunteers.


.39, 219


Non-commissioned staff. officers.


19


North Carolina coast ..


Noreum, James, Mavor of Edenton. 186


195


Officer whose tongue would not wag.


Officers driven to the spring, would not drink. 259


Official, extra, arrest of a rebel. 355


Oliver. camp, in New Berne.


('Neill, Thomas .128


O'Neill, Thomas, in fight at Little Washington


death of .. .326


sketch of his life. .520


James ... 101,161 Operations, plan of, in North Carolina


49


Ord, General E. O. C., commands Eighteenth Corps. 359


Organization of B Company (appendix) 439


1


Natural instinct for fighting.


engagement on Roanoke river.


201


to Nethercott, Major, a bushwhacker.


96, 100


Progress, newspaper


54


98, 102, 128, 205


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.123, 159


Monteuil, Lieutenant-Colonel, death of ...


Muster out October 20, 1864


GENERAL INDEX. 519


Osborn, Francis A., Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Page 89, 126


Pagan Creek, near Smithfield, Va. 244


Palmer, General I. N. 177, 191, 222, 253, 411, 413


Panie of Hawkins' Zonaves. 75


Paper exchange with the enemy .. .354


Partridge. John W., of D, death of. 375


Parke, General John G .. . 42


Parkhurst, Varanus P .. 73, 105, 145, 187, 237, 342, 345, 346, 351, 391, 393


Patterson, General, near Martinsburg, Va. 6


Peck, General Jolin J .248, 253


Peltou, Charles H. 166, 329, 333


Perkins, William, of H, death of.


.318


Petersburg, garrison at, May 6, 1864.


269


reenforced by Lee's Army 349


continuous engagement at.


.390


Phelon, Captain H. A .. 179, 202, 215


.110


Picket sentinel alarms the camp. 121


Pickett, Josiah. . 141, 145, 223, 228, 261, 289, 323, 405, 411


Pickett, George E. (Confederate). 247, 252, 269


Pierce, John D., of D, killed.


.353


Plan of operations in North Carolina campaign, 1864 .. 268, 303


49


operations against Richmond. .303


Plymouth, N. C., Twenty-fifth Massachusetts at .132, 184


193


put in defensive condition .. captured by the enemy .244, 252


102


Popular vote for President [1860].


2


Port Walthal Junction. . .


270


Portly officer of the quarter-deck


401


Postmaster at New Berne ...


10.


Potomac,'Army of, reorganized


245


Pratt, Henry HI .. of A.


.246, 360, 397


141


Principal musicians.


19


Prisoners of war at Roanoke 75, 89


from the Twenty-fifth Massachusetts. 375


.377


Promotions in Twenty-fifth Massachusetts, (January, 1863]. 163


Pyrotechnic display at Plymouth, N. C. 198


Putnam, Samuel H .. 171, 241, 347, 563


Quarantine, escape from, at Fortress Monroe 400


in New York Harbor. .403


Question of seniority of rank.


410


Raising flag over Fort Williams


197


Rauk, seniority of, question of


410


Ration, army ..


33


Rations to prisoners, Dr. Hamlin's statement .. 368 Raymond, Edw. T., of K. provided by United States for prisoners of war .378 129


Reams' Station, fight at .. .364


Rebel officer wants his pay-roll. 173


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Presentation to Colonel Upton


of war, exchange of. rations provided for by United States. Confederate policy in treatment of.


.378


.377


Proctor, George B., of F. 256, 259


Poetic letter from soldier of E Company


Philanthropic work at New Berne


Personal heroism.


520


GENERAL INDEX.


Reconciliation theory in 1775. Page 425


Reducing officers to the ranks. .256


Reenlisted men leave on furlough. 235


Reed, John B., of C, appointed Postmaster. 107


Reenlistment of the Twenty-fifth Regiment. 233


Regimental Band .. 18 complimentary Order 180


Reno, General Jesse L ..


42


Reno's and Parke's Brigades to Virginia.


126


Republican National Convention [1860]


2


Report, official, of Goldsboro' march.


163


Rescue of Lieutenant Daly 320


37S


Review, first, of Twenty-fifth Massachusetts


23


of troops at New Berne at Annapolis, Md.


33


Richmond must be evacuated


131


surrendered . 432


.20,332


Richter, H. M ..


147


Roanoke island.


66, 67, 69


landing at.


72


battle of.


14


leaving.


91


Rockwood, Edward P., of H, seven wounds


325


Rodman's Point on Pamlico river


220


Roster of medical officers.


390


Rouse, Rev. J. II. .136, 398


Rural camp life. 119


Russell, Colonel Charles L.


44


Sanford, Captain, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts. 184, 227, 295


Saul, Thomas ..


166, 317, 376


Scheme to rot Yankees.


366


Schofield, General, in North Carolina. 409


Scott, Lieutenant-General, retires from active command. 5


Seagrave, Lientenant, upon convoy duty 25


Secessionists in Buchanan's cabinet ..


Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers 119, 144, 155, 157, 249


219


Shaw, Colonel, of Roanoke fame, killed.


264


Shelter tents. . 38


Sheppard, J. A., of B, death of.


Sheridan against Early ... 428


at Appomattox Court House. 435


Sherman holds the " key" of Richmond. .415


General, to operate against Johnston .303


Shovel Brigade.


212


Siege of Little Washington 190 Petersburg .353 Sigual Corps .. 60


Simonds, John, of F. 260


Sisson, Colonel, runs up Pamlico river ... 193


Skirmish at Trenton. N. C. [May, 1862]. 120


Smith, General W. F .356, 359


ISO


Rice, Surgeon J. Marcas ..


of Twenty-third Army Corps. .225, 328, 332, 375, 387, 389


Savage, John B., of A


225, 575 Schlenker, Christian, of G.


307


Richardson, Rev. Merrill.


Responsibility for cruelty at Andersonville


GENERAL INDEX. 521


Social life at Little Washington. Page 224


Soldiers in blue " toting" rebel baggage. 88 running the New Berne newspaper. 110 anxiety to reach home. 404


Soldier cating a General's dinner. 157


South Carolina brigade charges


Spinola's failure to aid Little Washington. 191


Sprague. A. B. R .. .9, 11, 21, 64, 98, 138, 139, 218, 219


Spy, Worcester, on Twenty-fifth Massachusetts .. 25


168


Stannard, General, commands the Star Brigade 297


leaves Heckman's Brigade. .337


Stanly, Edward, Military Governor.


Star Brigade ...


264


Steamer Arrow captured by the enemy.


195


Star of the West tired upon.


4


Stevens, Private, of B, killed. 345


Stevenson, Colonel Thomas G. .43, 306


Stevenson's Brigade detained in South Carolina.


219


Stone, Emerson, Sergeant of K.


Storm at Hatteras 174, 194, 375


59


Stowe, C. F., of K, mortally wounded. .358


Stragglers from the battle-field. 329


Stratton, Lieutenant Charles II. 336, 360


Strength of Grant's Army May, 1864 305


Lee's Army May, 1864. 305


Story and a night attack 163


Suffering of a single night 162


Sumter, Fort, surrendered ..


4


Summing up of Buchanan's administration.


3


Sunday, first, at Camp Hicks ..


35


Surgeon, button-holed ..


401


Surrender of Lee to Grant.


437


422 Johnston to Sherman .. of New Berne demanded. 255


Sutler of the Regiment 212


Swash at Hatteras 62


Swash, go over or sink .. 63


Sword, etc., presented to Colonel Upton. 141


Swift's creek, movement to. 220


Tarboro' Expedition. 144


Temple, Dr. Theron, Massachusetts Twenty-fifth.


Tenth Connecticut Volunteers 39, 75, 144, 219


Terrible experience in the pocoson. 209


Terry, General A. IL., at Fort Fisher. 408


Testimony of Dr. Hamlin on Andersonville, etc. 365


Tew, Charles F. .184, 336, 360


Thanksgiving day [1861], in camp .. 34


Thayer, private of D. dies from a singular wound. 358


Third Massachusetts Volunteer Militia .. 143, 144, 159, 172, 192, 216


207


Townsend, Elward, of C .. 61


Transport steamers with troops


Trask, Sergeant of I, in Andersonville .372


Trenches, life in the .. .353, 358


a new position taken in. .363


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Steamers, transport. 61


Squeezing a deserter.


Tourtellotte, Corporal of D, captures prisoners 176, 215, 256


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522


GENERAL INDEX.


Trenton, march to. Page 120, 131


Troops marching to Bull Run [1861] 5


Troops brigaded at Annapolis. 39


Tucker, Captain, Forty-first North Carolina Cavalry 124


Theker, James. ..


Twiggs, David E., deserts the flag.


165, 311, 352, 397, 419, 420


4


Twenty-fifth Massachusetts armed.


15


in Foster's brigade


39


as provost guard.


10,


to picket duty 116, 118


well drilled. 181


Jeave camp Oliver for Plymouth. 184


return from Plymouth. 202


surprised by a ghost ? 202 right wing of, to Little Washington.


220


leave for Virginia ..


reunited on banks of James River. 229


243


moves to succor Plymouth, N. C. 241


assigned to Heckman's brigade. 245


moves to Yorktown 245


in close quarters 293


make an advance. .351


reduced to 125 guns


353 an hour with the 359


reduced to a skeleton 393


return from Virginia to North Carolina.


.394


deaths of, in rebel prisons ..


.385


moves homeward, Oet., 1864


under new organization. 399


410, 412


assigned to Carter's division 412


assigned to Twenty-third army corps. .421


occupy Charlotte, N. C 423


Twenty-first Massachusetts Volunteers. 39, 74, 75, 112, 126


Twenty-third Massachusetts Volunteers .39, 74, 78, 144, 155, 157, 219, 337


Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers .39, 77, 78, 113, 126, 219


Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers. 39, 74, 131, 161, 190, 204, 337


126


Underwriter, gunboat, surprised at New Berne.


Union troops occupy Washington, N. C.


,113


Union dead unburied by the enemy


Upton, Colonel Edwin. .. . . . 11, 14, 64, 73, 74, 85, 90, 99, 101, 102, 131, 140, 141


279


Upton, camp.


122


Victory won, how 416


Virginia, western, campaign in .. 5 a corner of. not desolated. 299


270


Wading the swollen creek. 162


Wagely, Captain Louis ..


15, 174


Walker, Major of Twenty-seventh Massachusetts, killed. . 337


Ward, Marcus H., of I, captured.


Ward, T. M. of A .397 188 Warrant Officers. 19


Warren, General, takes the offensive 430


at Five Forks 431


Washburn. H. S., poetry of. ஓம்


Twenty-fourth Massachusetts at Tranter's Creek. occupy Little Washington.


113


.249


273


Upton, Lieutenant Charles E., death of.


1


Vivid story of Port Walthal Junction.


.


.


GENERAL INDEX. 523


Washington, N. C., occupied by Union troops. . Page 113


attack upon. 127


siege of .. 190


social life at. 224


evacuated .


253


Webber, Colonel Max, at Hatteras


57


Weldon Railroad, Warren's Corps take


.364


Wellington, camp ..


134, 244


Wellington, T. W., of Worcestor .. 244


Western soldiers and Twenty-fifth Massachusetts. 426


202


What might have been, with Burnside ..


114


Wheeler, Sergeant Lyman S., of I, captured.


ISS


Whelan, Miss E. E.


.389


White, Sergeant, of H. .136, 280


Whitney, Sergeant, Hospital Steward. 222, 400


157


White House on the Pamunky. 299


Wilcox, Captain, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts, killed. 337


Wilder, W. O., of HI .. 321


Wilson, Corporal, of G. 32, 98, 125


260


Winder, an inlammuan brute


366


Winfield, Union garrison at


184, 187, 188


Winton, movement to.


221


Wise's Forks.


413, 414


Wise, Henry .1 ..


68


O. Jennings, death of ..


Wiswell, W. C. of G, captured. 176, 375


Witherby, Edwin T., of K .156, 158, 159, 162, 204, 270, 333


Wood, Charles F., of D, captured. .375


Woodworth. James C .. . 166, 233, 235, 288, 329


Worcester Spy on Twenty-fifth Massachusetts flag presented by ladies of. 244


25


Wounded of Twenty-fifth Massachusetts June 3rd, 1864 325


Yellow fever in New Berne. 398


on board steamer .. .401


Yorktown, march to. in January, 1864. .237


Twenty-fifth Massachusetts in camp at. 245, 264


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