Following the Greek cross, or, Memories of the Sixth Army Corps, by Thomas W. Hyde

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Following the Greek cross, or, Memories of the Sixth Army Corps, by Thomas W. Hyde

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by Thomas W. Hyde

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• Following the Greek cross, or, Memories of the Sixth Army Corps

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• Boston | and New York, Houghton, Mifflin, and company, 1894

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• Ch. 1. Signs of the coming conflict -- Chicago in 1860 -- Abraham Lincoln, President elect -- The seventy five thousand call -- ch. 2. Bull Run -- Recruiting for the 7th Maine -- In camp at Augusta -- Election of officers -- Start for the front -- ch. 3. Lunch in Faneuil Hall -- War rumors -- Hostile Baltimore -- John Barleycorn our worst enemy -- The romance of war -- ch. 4. A rebel spy -- Camp fare -- First visit to Washington -- Death of Colonel Marshall -- Kalorama Hill -- Crossing into Virginia -- ch. 5. Camp Griffin -- Opossum soup -- Irish volunteers -- First independent command -- ch. 6. The grand review -- Start for the Peninsula -- Advance on Yorktown -- A night alarm -- Under fire first time -- ch. 7. Hard tack, mud, and rain -- Building corduroy roads -- A picket fight -- Old Generals and young volunteers -- Estimate of McClellan -- ch. 8. Buried torpedoes -- The battle of Williamsburg -- Hancock's bayonet charge -- McClellan's speech -- ch. 9. An episode in the enemy's country -- Old Madeira -- The White House -- Skirmish at Mechanicsville -- No McDowell -- A grim rebel -- Custer's first skirmish -- Fair Oaks -- In the hospital -- Malaria -- ch. 11. Lee strikes our right -- Gaines's Mill -- Holding our own -- Fight at Garnett's Mill -- An anxious night -- ch. 12. Savage Station -- White Oak Swamp -- Rout of the Germans -- Vermonters mark time to the shell fire -- ch. 13. Malvern Hill -- Stealing the General's dinner -- To Harrison's Landing -- ch. 14. Fitz-John Porter -- A mule disappears in the mud -- Home again -- Second Bull Run -- Death of Sam Fessenden -- ch. 15. Chantilly -- Glorious deaths of Kearny and Stevens -- Falstaff's army -- The gallant Swede -- My Maryland -- ch. 16. Crampton's Gap -- Picket on the mountain -- First charge at Antietam -- The Germans redeemed -- Fine sharpshooting
• Ch. 17. Charging an army -- Reaching the farthest point in the enemy's lines -- Vain heroism -- "Rally, boys, to save the Major!" -- Applause from the Vermonters -- Rebel reports -- ch. 18. Under arrest -- Welcomed to Maine again -- A winter at home -- Miss the Battle of Fredicksburg -- ch. 19. Back in the field -- General Franklin -- "Baldy" Smith -- In clover at last -- General Sedgwick -- ch.20. Reorganizing the army -- A military pageant -- Getting ready for the assault -- A Southern marksman -- A government contract -- ch. 21. Storming Marye's Heights -- Salem Church -- An ill-boding night -- Lee attacks with three to one, and is beaten off -- Over the river again -- A movable bed -- ch. 22. Fame of the Sixth Corps as bright as ever -- Guarding Southern homes -- Whitworth bolts -- Hooker relieved -- ch. 23. To Taneytown for orders -- Council of war in Meade's tent -- Seventy-mile ride -- The Corps up the Baltimore Pike -- ch. 24. Longstreet's magnificent attack -- The Corps directed toward the heavy firing -- Up Little Roundtop -- Gloomy rumors -- ch. 25. Farnsworth's charge -- Two hundred and ten cannon dealing death -- Pickett's charge -- A carnival of death -- Sabre flashes in the dust clouds -- ch. 26. The morning after Gettysburg -- Our Capua -- Mount misery -- The Funkstown traitress -- The general's forbearance -- ch. 27. Across the Potomac -- Rebel maidens of Warrenton -- After Mosby -- A loving-cup with "Jeb" Stuart -- A brilliant feat at Rappahannock Station -- ch. 28. A Virginia mansion of the olden time -- A British contingent -- Locust Grove -- Mine Run -- Back to camp, cold and disgusted -- ch. 29. Our winter city -- Ball rooms of the camp -- Romantic ride across Hazel Run -- Enter Grant and Sheridan -- Torbert's horse -- ch. 30. Over the Rapidan -- Orders for Meade -- Alternate victory and success in the Wilderness -- Scouting round the enemy -- A good Samaritan
• Ch. 31. Down the road to Spottsylvania -- Destructive sharp-shooting -- Sedgwick's death -- In memoriam -- ch. 32. Upton's assault -- Hancock's assault -- The bloodiest fight of the war -- ch. 33. A woodland fortress -- "How long, O Lord, how long!" -- A cure for the goitre -- The Battle of Massaponax Church -- General Mackenzie -- Dr. Fiske -- ch. 34. Carbine fire -- In the lines at Cold Harbor -- Photographed in action -- Useless assaults -- A flag of truce at midnight -- ch. 35. Naval hospitalities -- Mr. Lincoln -- Mahone flanks us -- ch. 36. Back to Washington -- Early on the war path -- The President under fire -- Ragged and footsore veterans meet -- Honors divided, but Washington saved -- ch. 37. Return to the regiment -- The snow bivouac -- Sheridan takes command -- Narrow escapes -- Muster out of the 7th Maine -- ch. 38. The first Maine veterans -- Lose Sheridan's ride -- Perils of the valley -- A brigade by inversion -- A land of milk and honey -- ch. 39. Box cars with fireplaces -- Our Dutch Gap Canal -- A star chamber -- Picket attacks -- ch. 40. Gordon's attack at Hare's Hill -- We attack in our front -- Under the fire of thirty cannon -- Our vandalism -- ch. 41. The wedge assault -- A camp fire guides to victory -- The lines pierced -- Death of A.P. Hill -- Veterans take colors, while substitutes run -- ch. 42. Attack on Lee's headquarters -- General Lee heads our opponents -- Taking a battery -- The spires of Petersburg -- Penrose wounded -- ch. 43. Moses Owen -- Pushing on after Lee -- Under Sheridan's eye at Sailor's Creek -- The surrender at last -- Wild rejoicing -- Refused a sight of the rebel army -- ch. 44. Lincoln's assassination -- Occupy Danville -- Army journalism -- The grand review -- Home at last

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19 cm

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xi, 269 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates

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Colby: Original olive cloth, brown cloth shelfback; lettered in gold on front cover and on spine; decorative flag insignias stamped in blue, red, and silver on front cover; gray coated endpapers; contemporary news clipping with portrait tipped in at front; from the library of William O. Fuller, Colby 1929; in black buckram box

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