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Updated: June 19, 2025
Bartlett was younger than I, entering service when scarcely beyond boyhood, losing a leg at Ball's Bluff, and when only twenty-three Colonel of the 49th Massachusetts. I remember well a beautiful night, the moon at the full, and the hospital on the river bank just below Port Hudson where hundreds of wounded men were arriving from a disastrous battle-field close at hand.
Ball's brother-in-law. The excitement spread over the whole village. Doctor Lanham talked about it, and the ministers, and the lawyers, and the loafers in the stores, and the people who came to the post-office for their letters. Of course, it broke out furiously in the "Maternal Association," a meeting of mothers held at the house of one of the ministers. "Mr.
It does seem to many as though gross incompetency or treachery must have influenced the authorities having immediate oversight of the affair, and that our fallen braves have been needlessly immolated upon their country's altar. "Big Bethel, Bull Run, and Ball's Bluff, Oh, alliteration of blunders! Of blunders more than enough, In a time full of blunders and wonders."
No, sir, he 'adn't been inside the church for years. 'Church is for folks as knows nowt about the stars, he used to say. 'Sir Robert Ball's my parson. One night when he was sittin' outside the door. I sez, 'Why don't you come in and get yer supper? It's getting cold. 'Let it get cold, he sez; 'I'm not comin' in till the moon's riz. It's as good as a drop o' drink to see it.
At Poolsville we lay all day, waiting for our small cavalry force to find out the course which Early's army had taken, but on Saturday morning, the 16th, we were moving at daylight. We marched toward the Potomac, which we forded near the scene of Ball's Bluff slaughter. The spectacle at the ford was novel and exciting. The stream was wide, but not more than two or three feet deep.
"Avast," says he, with an oath, "what's this come among us?" and he looked me over with a comical eye. "A d-d provincial," he went on scornfully, "but a gentleman's son, or Jack Ball's a liar." Whereupon his companions rose from their seats and crowded round me. More than one reeled against me.
"Your people have certainly established a reputation on the score of bravery, but we can claim quite as much." "But we have whipped you in every battle. We whipped you at Manassas and Ball's Bluff, and we whipped General Grant at Belmont." "That is very true; but how was it at Shiloh?" "At Shiloh we whipped you; we drove you to your gun-boats, which was all we wanted to do."
On a grave here and there a tiny flag waved in the indolent June breeze. If Lynde had been standing by the head-stones, he could have read among the inscriptions such unlocal words as Malvern Hill, Andersonville, Ball's Bluff, and Gettysburg, and might have seen the withered Decoration Day wreaths which had been fresh the month before.
But she now had other use for it in trying to hide her tears. The Callisto was still going straight up, with a speed already as great as a cannon ball's, and was almost out of sight. The multitude then began to disperse, and Sylvia returned to her home. Let us now follow the Callisto.
"Is this Mr. Ball's land?" I asked. "Oh yes, sir, it's Mr. Ball's land." "I wonder how he'll like our camping on it?" I said, thoughtfully. "I'd 'a' thought, sir, you'd 'a' asked him that before you came," said old John, in a tone that seemed to indicate that he had his doubts about Mr. Ball. "Oh, there'll be no trouble about that," cried Euphemia. "You can drive me past Mr.
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