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Francis J. Parker. The Story of the Thirty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
The Story of the Thirty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
Table of Contents
ERRATUM
PREFACE
I. IN GARRISON
II. ON OUR OWN HOOK
III. ON THE PENINSULA
IV. CAMPAIGNING UNDER POPE
V. OUR THIRD BATTALION
VI. THE ANTIETAM CAMPAIGN
VII. AFTER ANTIETAM
VIII. TO FREDERICKSBURG
IX. BETWEEN CAMPAIGNS
X. CHANCELLORSVILLE
XI. FREDERICKSBURG TO GETTYSBURG
XII. AFTER GETTYSBURG
XIII. A LADY AT WINTER QUARTERS
XIV. AT LIBERTY
XV. OUT ON PICKET
XVI. ON FURLOUGH
XVII. THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN
XVIII. THE BOMB PROOFS
XIX. OUR CORPS HOSPITAL
XX. ABOUT PETERSBURG
XXI. THE LAST CAMPAIGN
Roster at the Expiration of Service
Colonel: J. CUSHING EDMANDS, Brevet Brig. General. Lieutenant Colonel: JAMES A. CUNNINGHAM, Brevet Brig. General. Major: EDWARD O. SHEPARD, Brevet Lieut. Colonel. Adjutant: Captain ISAAC F. KINGSBURY. Surgeon: SAMUEL W. FLETCHER. Assistant Surgeon: JOHN McGREGOR
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Francis J. Parker
Whence it came; where it went; what it saw, and what it did
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We were not without occupation, nor even without our amusements through the long winter. The officers were fully occupied, in the intervals of duty, in bonfing over the tactics. To learn and teach both the infantry and artillery manual, as well as battalion movements, and at the same time to perform the various duties of the post, implied no great amount of leisure,—on the part of the officers at least. But time was found for an occasional evening entertainment, including one or two excellent concerts.
One evening there was a musical soiree in the quarters of Mr. Buell, one of the post staff, and two or three of the prisoners were present by his invitation; among them was Colonel Pegram, of Virginia, who, being invited to sing, complied, and to the surprise of everybody selected the disloyal song, “My Maryland,” which he sang well to his own guitar accompaniment. When he stopped, there ensued for a minute or two an absolute and ominous silence, which was broken by our Captain Draper, who, with his ringing voice, began the patriotic song, “Vive l’America.” The chorus was taken up by all the Union officers present, singing perhaps with more fervor than accuracy:—
