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Vol. Infantry, by William H. Clark + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry + +Author: William H. Clark + +Release Date: August 6, 2010 [EBook #33357] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REMINISCENCES OF THE *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<h2>REMINISCENCES</h2> +<h4>OF THE</h4> +<h1>Thirty-Fourth Regiment,</h1> +<h3>MASS. VOL. INFANTRY.</h3> +<p> </p> +<h3><i>By WILLIAM H. CLARK</i>,</h3> +<p class="center">[<span class="smcap">Private, Co. E.</span>]</p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center">PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR.</p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center">HOLLISTON:<br />J. C. Clark & Co.<br />1871.</p> +<p> </p><p> </p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcaplc">TO</span><br /> +GEN. WM. S. LINCOLN,<br /> +<span class="smcaplc">OF WORCESTER,<br /> +SO LONG AND HONORABLY ASSOCIATED<br /> +WITH THE REGIMENT,<br /> +THESE SKETCHES ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED<br /> +BY THE AUTHOR.</span></p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> +<h2>NOTE.</h2> + +<p class="note">The Reader will please bear in mind that this little work does not claim +in any sense to be a <i>history</i> of the Regiment; but simply the +recollections of the writer up to May 15th, 1864, when he received the +wound which disabled him from further military service.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 25%;" /> +<h2>CONTENTS.</h2> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="contents"> +<tr><td> </td><td align="center"><a href="#CHAPTER_I"><span class="smcaplc">CHAPTER I.</span></a></td> +<td><span class="smcap">The Farewell</span>,</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td align="center"><a href="#CHAPTER_II"><span class="smcaplc">CHAPTER II.</span></a></td> +<td><span class="smcap">Fun in Camp</span>,</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td align="center"><a href="#CHAPTER_III"><span class="smcaplc">CHAPTER III.</span></a></td> +<td><span class="smcap">Harper’s Ferry</span>,</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td align="center"><a href="#CHAPTER_IV"><span class="smcaplc">CHAPTER IV.</span></a></td> +<td><span class="smcap">The Skirmish</span>,</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td align="center"><a href="#CHAPTER_V"><span class="smcaplc">CHAPTER V.</span></a></td> +<td><span class="smcap">Newmarket</span>,</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td align="center"><a href="#CHAPTER_VI"><span class="smcaplc">CHAPTER VI.</span></a></td> +<td><span class="smcap">Incidents</span>,</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td align="center"><a href="#CHAPTER_VII"><span class="smcaplc">CHAPTER VII.</span></a></td> +<td><span class="smcap">In Memoriam</span>,</td><td> </td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td></tr></table> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2> +<h3>THE FAREWELL.</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/cap_i.jpg" style="margin-top: -2em;" alt="I" /></span>t is the +afternoon of a summer day, with but little breeze more than +enough to gently sway the folds of a new and handsome National Flag, which +is in full view of the multitude who encompass it. We have taken the +reader, in thought, to the spacious and beautiful Common in Worcester, on +the 15th of August, 1862.</p> + +<p>A few words concerning this great gathering; the close attention of all +being drawn to the speaker’s stand in its centre. Citizens of all classes +are here, gazing and listening, representing the population of the city +and suburbs. Its inner circles are clothed in the uniform of their +country’s service, and stand in military order. To them, as a Regiment, +through<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> their commander, who is conspicuous on the stand by his uncovered +head and noble bearing, the Flag is being presented: a touching farewell +act of the ladies of Worcester.</p> + +<p>It is delivered with fitting words, and now not only the soldier, but the +orator speaks. Never, while memory lasts, will the picture be erased from +the mind of one, at least; the central figure, the devoted Wells: so soon, +comparatively, to be the lamented.</p> + +<p>The throng breaks, and the Regiment gradually prepares to leave the city +for fields of duty, not to shrink from fields of danger. Hark! as they +slowly recede from sight, and the clangor of martial music is hushed, can +you not almost distinguish, stealing through yonder casement where a +lonely heart is thinking of the absent ones, the plaintive words:</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="poem"> +<tr><td>“Thinking no less of them,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But loving our country the more;</span><br /> +We’ve sent them forth to fight for the flag,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That our fathers before them bore.</span><br /> +<br /> +Brave boys are they,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Gone at their country’s call;</span><br /> +And yet, and yet, we cannot forget<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That many brave boys must fall.”</span></td></tr></table> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2> +<h3>FUN IN CAMP.</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/i011.jpg" style="margin-top: -2em;" alt="W" /></span>eary and monotonous indeed, would be many of the days spent in camp by +the soldier, did not something crop out of an amusing nature, either in +the proper members of the camp or in some of its motley group of +followers.</p> + +<p>One such safety-valve was found in a stout, unctuous darkey, who seemed to +be the “right hand man” of our regimental sutler. Worthy Oscar! I know not +whether thou dost still walk on this earth of ours, or hast entered the +spirit land which so many of thy brave fellow-Africans reached, who with a +more warlike spirit than thine, died on fields of duty and glory. Peace to +thee, in any event, for none more faithfully performed his duty.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>On one occasion, however, the “even tenor of his way” was rudely broken in +upon, to the great amusement of the large number who happened to be in +view of that part of the camp at the time. It seems that a private soldier +of mischievous propensities had been for some time teasing our colored +friend by thrusting a burning twig from the camp fire into his face; yet +during the ordeal he had kept his patience, and only tried to get rid of +his tormentor by entreaties. Suddenly he turns upon him, forbearance +having ceased to be a virtue in the case, and the two fall heavily to the +ground; Oscar having decidedly the advantage of his enemy, which he as +decidedly keeps. The roar of laughter which followed this unexpected +discomfiture was probably more pleasant to the ears of Oscar than to those +of his antagonist.</p> + +<p>Another case in which our hero was concerned related to the legitimate +business of the sutler’s tent, and was told in Company E to the amusement +of many, by poor Hunter, who afterwards while in the performance of duty +at the Shenandoah, fell through an opening in the bridge in an unguarded +moment and was drowned.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>The story was something like this: “Well yer see de feller he comes up +’mongst de crowd, an’ says he, I wants a <i>fried pie</i>. So I takes de fried +pie an’ hands it to him, an’ looks for de money; but somehow de feller +gits shook up in de crowd, an’ I hav’nt seen <i>him</i>; nor de <i>money</i>, nor de +<i>fried pie</i> since.” This was given with capital powers of imitation, and +never failed to “bring down the house.”</p> + +<p>There is something which irresistably appeals, in many phases of the +African character, to our American sense of humor. At the same time we +discover running through it a vein of sentiment, which blending with the +other, dignifies the effect.</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="poem"> +<tr><td>“’Way down upon de Swanee Riber,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Far, far away;</span><br /> +Dere’s where my heart am turning eber,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dere’s where de old folks stay.</span><br /> +<br /> +When I was in de fields a hoeing,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Near set ob sun;</span><br /> +So glad to hear de horn a blowing,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Telling dat de work was done.</span><br /> +<br /> +O, den de darkies frolic sweetly,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Banjo in tune;</span><br /> +Dinah and Phillis dressed so neatly,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dance by de big round moon.”</span></td></tr></table> + + +<p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2> +<h3>HARPER’S FERRY.</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/i014.jpg" style="margin-top: -2em;" alt="F" /></span>or some weeks the Thirty-Fourth had remained in Washington, D. C., +furnishing daily heavy details of neatly equipped men for guard duty; +principally to be employed in guarding the Carroll and Old Capitol +Prisons. During this time the general soldierly deportment of the rank and +file, together with the fine appearance of the regiment on dress parade, +attracted much attention and called forth many complimentary expressions +from the residents of Washington.</p> + +<p>But “marching orders” do not stop to take counsel of their subjects, and +on a well-remembered evening in July, 1863, they turned our quiet barracks +into a scene of bustle and confusion. A ride of a few hours<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> over the +Baltimore and Ohio Railroad brought us into the immediate vicinity of +Harper’s Ferry.</p> + +<p>The activity which prevailed throughout our force on the morning of July +14th made it evident to all that a movement across the Potomac was +intended. All needful preparations having been made, a lively cannonade +was opened from the heights above, under cover of which our force embarked +in pontoon boats that were near at hand, and crossing, passed through the +deserted streets up to the higher ground beyond; dislodging a small body +of the enemy which had been holding possession. As the afternoon advanced +a considerable force of cavalry passed through the place, file following +file in a seemingly endless succession, till the eye was wearied with +attempting to take in the living current. Our occupation of Harper’s +Ferry, begun under these circumstances, was destined to continue for many +months, with the exception of an occasional brief visit to Martinsburg +towards the close of winter.</p> + +<p>Perhaps the most notable incident of our service during these months was a +trip to Harrisonburg, about one hundred miles into Virginian territory,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +over that noble production of the road-maker’s art, the “Shenandoah Valley +turnpike.” This demonstration, which was successfully and safely +accomplished, was doubtless intended as a diversion in favor of the raid +at that time being executed by Gen. Averill, with his much larger force. +Although we were closely followed by a brigade of the enemy, in our rapid +and forced march homewards; yet by the intervention of favorable events, +the friendly shadow of the Maryland heights was reached with no loss from +our hazardous attempt at “bearding the lion in his den,” as our adventure +was described by the Richmond <i>Examiner</i>.</p> + +<p>Our long stay in this town gave many opportunities for examining its +objects of interest, including the Engine House, worthy of note as the +fortress occupied by John Brown while he held possession, during the brief +campaign destined to end so disastrously for those engaged in it. The +ruins of Armory and other buildings made it very evident that an immense +amount of property had been destroyed in the two years in which the spirit +of war had held carnival there.</p> + +<p>The climate, through the winter months we spent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> in this place, seemed to +suggest some New England locality rather than a part of the “sunny South.” +Snow storms and bleak, cold winds, find as congenial a home around those +rocky heights as Massachusetts could offer them; at least, such was the +impression made upon the mind of the writer. The sublimity and grandeur of +Nature’s works here well repay any effort required to reach an eligible +point of view; but it requires no effort to enable the mind nurtured +“beneath New England’s sky” to dwell again, in thought, among its native +hills.</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="poem"> +<tr><td>“Once more, O Mountains of the North, unveil<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your brows, and lay your cloudy mantles by!</span><br /> +And once more, ere the eyes that seek ye fail,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Uplift against the blue walls of the sky</span><br /> +Your mighty shapes, and let the sunshine weave<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Its golden net-work in your belting woods,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Smile down in rainbows from your falling floods</span><br /> +And on your kingly brows at morn and eve<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Set crowns of fire! So shall my soul receive</span><br /> +Haply the secret of your calm and strength,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your unforgotten beauty interfuse</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My common life, your glorious shapes and hues</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And sun-dropped splendors at my bidding come,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Loom vast through dreams, and stretch in billowy length</span><br /> +From the sea-level of my lowland home!”<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;"><i>Whittier.</i></span></td></tr></table> + + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2> +<h3>THE SKIRMISH.</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/i018.jpg" style="margin-top: -2em;" alt="T" /></span>he morning of Sunday, October 13, 1863, proved a disastrous one to the +Ninth Maryland Regiment, who were only a few miles distant from our +encampment at Harper’s Ferry. As it proved, the enemy in considerable +force, under Gen. Imboden, had made an early and vigorous attack on that +Regiment at Charlestown, and captured them bodily, in number about three +hundred. Every available man of the Thirty-Fourth was promptly called out, +and preceded by a Battery which was stationed near by, we started in +pursuit. Often had the wish been expressed that we might see some actual +fighting, and at last the wish was to be gratified.</p> + +<p>A running fight commenced soon after reaching<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> Charlestown, the Battery +which was still in advance, having engaged the enemy just beyond that +place. We pushed on, passing at one time the dead body of a soldier, +killed during the morning’s engagement, and a few miles of rapid marching +bring us into close proximity to the foe, as the shells falling within a +short distance from our ranks fully prove. Each Company has been assigned +the best position allowed by the character of the ground, which is +somewhat uneven and obstructed by fences. A lively discharge of musketry +is kept up from both sides for a time, but finally ceases. At about this +period in the fight, a small body of mounted infantry from the enemy’s +force charge toward us till but a short space intervenes, and then +wheeling easily, soon disappear in the distance. We afterwards learn that +the Springfield muskets of one of our wing Companies told with effect on +their ranks. The firing has now ceased, and we are ordered to cross the +open ground which separates our position from that of the enemy. This is +safely accomplished, and it is found that they have again retreated.</p> + +<p>Our Commanding Officer now considers that the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> pursuit has been pushed far +enough, and the order is given to return to Harper’s Ferry. Marching and +resting alternately, we reach our quarters at a late hour, feeling well +satisfied with this first experience of actual fighting. Two of the Color +Corporals, Clark of Co. K and Gage of Co. E, have laid down their lives; +but they died gloriously, and what matters the form in which death comes, +if it finds us in the path of duty.</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="poem"> +<tr><td>“Come to the bridal chamber, Death;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Come to the mother, when she feels</span><br /> +For the first time her first-born’s breath:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Come when the blessed seals</span><br /> +Which close the pestilence are broke,<br /> +And crowded cities wail its stroke;<br /> +Come in Consumption’s ghastly form;<br /> +The earthquake shock, the ocean storm;<br /> +Come when the heart beats high and warm,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With banquet song, and dance, and wine,</span><br /> +And thou art terrible: the tear,<br /> +The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,<br /> +And all we know, or dream, or fear<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of agony, are thine.</span><br /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>But to the warrior, when his sword<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Has won the battle for the free,</span><br /> +Thy voice sounds like a prophet’s word,<br /> +And in its hollow tones are heard<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The thanks of millions yet to be.”</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><i>Halleck.</i></span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco.jpg" alt="" /></div> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2> +<h3>NEWMARKET.</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/cap_a.jpg" style="margin-top: -2em;" alt="A" /></span>fter a march of some hours, our Regiment had arrived in the vicinity of +Newmarket, Va.; not, however, without an occasional shot being exchanged +between the light artillery which preceded us and that of the enemy. As we +were marched to a position somewhat sheltered by a low ridge, this firing +was kept up with vigor. The peculiar tone and expression assumed by our +commander, Colonel Wells, as he directed our movements will be remembered +by many. “Don’t you see how they are firing at me?” was his demand, +evidently more for its effect on his men than from any special concern as +to his own safety.</p> + +<p>So passed the afternoon of Saturday, May 14, 1864,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> and the night, a rainy +and uncomfortable one, settled down upon us; but war is no respecter of +the stillness of night, and the fact of a foe being close at hand is a +great promoter of uneasiness. Suddenly a shot is heard, then a volley, and +we are roused up without ceremony; but the alarm proves nothing serious, +being caused by a small reconnoitreing party from the enemy. We lie down +again, all save the watchful sentinels, and sheltering ourselves from the +rain so far as possible, get what sleep may be had under the +circumstances. A part of the morning is occupied in putting our arms and +ourselves in good fighting condition, though this is a difficult matter in +some cases; the rain having, in spite of our care, reached our muskets to +some extent.</p> + +<p>The quiet is broken by an order to a different position, which order is +repeated occasionally during the forenoon, keeping us in motion almost +constantly from one point to another. At last, a satisfactory position +having been reached, we lie down on our arms for a short time, but soon +are ordered to rise and then to load and fire as rapidly as we can. In the +meantime, a Battery has been stationed on our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> right and its guns begin to +play on the enemy. After firing several volleys a charge is ordered, and +as we advance, the opposing force comes plainly into view. The yells and +cheers accompanying this movement make it almost impossible to hear any +order from our superior officers, but we finally comprehend that a +“right-about” is ordered. This is executed, and we retrace our steps for a +short distance, still keeping on a line with the colors, while the +continuous cheering of the enemy shows that they fully appreciate their +advantage. We now begin to feel seriously the effect of the heavy fire, +both musketry and artillery, which fills the air with deadly missiles. A +prominent field officer is disabled by a severe wound, and as the enemy +press close upon us, necessarily falls into their hands; while others who +are less injured are supported from the field to receive surgical aid.</p> + +<p>The Regiment, having reached a good position, is halted, faced about, and +aids in checking the enemy’s advance, much to the satisfaction of the +wounded, who are making their way to Mt. Jackson, some four miles distant. +Night falls, and the sounds of battle are hushed; but this Sabbath day, so +disturbed by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> mortal strife, has proved the last for many who had +cherished hopes of “bright days yet to be.”</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="poem"> +<tr><td>“And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dewy with Nature’s tear drops, as they pass;</span><br /> +Grieving, if aught inanimate e’er grieves,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Over the unreturning brave: alas!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Ere evening to be trodden like the grass;</span><br /> +Which now beneath them, but above shall grow<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In its next verdure, when this fiery mass</span><br /> +Of living valor, rolling on the foe,<br /> +And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.”<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;"><i>Byron.</i></span></td></tr></table> + + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco.jpg" alt="" /></div> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2> +<h3>INCIDENTS.</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/cap_i.jpg" style="margin-top: -2em;" alt="I" /></span>t will be remembered by some, that at an early period of our regimental +history, a fever for enlistment into the regular army prevailed to a +certain extent. The causes which produced this state of things are unknown +to the writer, but it seems probable that highly colored statements as to +the relative advantages of one branch of the service over another had been +employed.</p> + +<p>Col. Wells, as the event proved, felt no sympathy with this movement, and +had no idea of quietly looking on while his Regiment was depleted in +numbers to fill the voracious maw of Uncle Sam. Accordingly, taking his +opportunity when they were drawn up for dress parade, he expressed his +views in the case<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> in a manner that held the attention of all to the +close. That part of his argument which covered the points of promotion and +travel, as nearly as can be recalled, was something like this. “You have +been promised opportunities for promotion and travel: as for <i>travel</i>, you +would have plenty of that, and would have to travel <i>pretty close to the +line</i>. With regard to promotion in the regular army, there is a regular +system of promotion, in which non-commissioned officers only stand a +chance of sharing, and they after years of waiting.” The address, whether +from its sarcasm or its sense, was effectual in curing the uneasiness that +had prevailed.</p> + +<p>At one time, the young and popular Captain of a certain Company saw fit to +celebrate his birthday by furnishing his men with an unusual treat. A +supply of “lager” was secured from a neighboring fort, and placed +conveniently in one of the tents, with the understanding that all were +welcomed to partake. As the evening advanced a spirit of jollity naturally +prevailed, stimulated a little, it may be, by the influence of the +Teutonic beverage, till the stentorian voice of Orderly B— rang out even +more loudly than<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> usual, summoning the Company to fall in for evening +roll-call, after which quiet was restored, and night settled down +peacefully as usual over our camp.</p> + +<p>The Company in which occurred the last incident numbered among its +original members two, who were truly of a kindred spirit, though of +different birth. Once, for some infraction of discipline in which both +were concerned, they were compelled to wear “the wooden shirt,” and to +march back and forth before the Captain’s quarters: yet they were far from +being disheartened, but with great merriment performed this unusual sentry +duty, assisting each other, in case of any accident, with an almost +brotherly regard. One of this pair of intimate friends is believed to have +died at Andersonville. As to his comrade, many years have passed since the +writer last beheld his strongly marked features, and whether he is still +in the land of the living is a matter of uncertainty. So drops the curtain +over our heroes.</p> + +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="poem"> +<tr><td>“All the world’s a stage,<br /> +And all the men and women merely players:<br /> +They have their exits and their entrances;<br /> +And one man in his time plays many parts,<br /> +His acts being seven ages.”<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><i>Shakspeare.</i></span></td></tr></table> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2> +<h3>IN MEMORIAM.</h3> + +<p> </p> +<p><span class="dropfig"><img src="images/cap_a.jpg" style="margin-top: -2em;" alt="A" /></span> few closing words as a tribute to the honored dead. While referring +especially to a few names in this connection, no peculiar honor is claimed +for them above the large number of their comrades in other Companies whose +record is equally honorable; but of those we know best we can, doubtless, +best speak.</p> + +<p>Brave Christopher Pennell; with a noble ambition leaving his many friends +to serve in another field, and falling at last before Petersburg.</p> + +<p>Captain William B. Bacon: an able and intrepid soldier, than whom few had +brighter prospects of advancement and honor, stricken down at Newmarket<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +while inspiring his men with his own fearlessness of spirit.</p> + +<p>Sergeant Henry B. King: of a gentle and obliging spirit and beloved by all +his comrades, dying on the field of battle, and leaving only the knowledge +of his devotion to duty to cheer his youthful and bereaved companion.</p> + +<p>The brothers, Dwight and Henry Chickering: noble and promising youths, +making the woods ring with the sound of their axes, and their whole-souled +laughter, as we prepared to encamp after the day’s weary march.</p> + +<p>But one more will be particularly mentioned here, in reference to whom +Brigade Surgeon Clarke uses this language, in a letter informing his +friends of his death: “he was a brave, conscientious and faithful +soldier.” And what shall I say of thee, my brother, my faithful friend? +Though the snows of seven winters have in their season robed thy grave +with a stainless winding-sheet, yet is thy memory cherished fondly as at +first: still shall the flowers of each succeeding summer strew that grave, +and the lofty pines of thy native state shall furnish thy requiem.</p> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="poem"> +<tr><td>“How sleep the brave, who sink to rest<br /> +By all their Country’s wishes blest:<br /> +By fairy hands their knell is rung;<br /> +By forms unseen their dirge is sung;<br /> +Here Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,<br /> +To deck the turf that wraps their clay;<br /> +And Freedom shall awhile repair<br /> +To dwell, a weeping hermit, there.”<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><i>Collins.</i></span></td></tr></table> + +<p> </p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/deco.jpg" alt="" /></div> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth +Regiment, Mass. 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Vol. Infantry, by William H. Clark + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry + +Author: William H. Clark + +Release Date: August 6, 2010 [EBook #33357] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REMINISCENCES OF THE *** + + + + +Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + REMINISCENCES OF THE + Thirty-Fourth Regiment, + MASS. VOL. INFANTRY. + + + _By WILLIAM H. CLARK_, + [PRIVATE, CO. E.] + + + PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. + + + HOLLISTON: + J. C. Clark & Co. + 1871. + + + + + TO GEN. WM. S. LINCOLN, OF WORCESTER, + SO LONG AND HONORABLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE REGIMENT, + THESE SKETCHES ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. + + + + +NOTE. + + +The Reader will please bear in mind that this little work does not claim +in any sense to be a _history_ of the Regiment; but simply the +recollections of the writer up to May 15th, 1864, when he received the +wound which disabled him from further military service. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + CHAPTER I. THE FAREWELL, 9 + + CHAPTER II. FUN IN CAMP, 11 + + CHAPTER III. HARPER'S FERRY, 14 + + CHAPTER IV. THE SKIRMISH, 18 + + CHAPTER V. NEWMARKET, 22 + + CHAPTER VI. INCIDENTS, 26 + + CHAPTER VII. IN MEMORIAM, 29 + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +THE FAREWELL. + + +It is the afternoon of a summer day, with but little breeze more than +enough to gently sway the folds of a new and handsome National Flag, which +is in full view of the multitude who encompass it. We have taken the +reader, in thought, to the spacious and beautiful Common in Worcester, on +the 15th of August, 1862. + +A few words concerning this great gathering; the close attention of all +being drawn to the speaker's stand in its centre. Citizens of all classes +are here, gazing and listening, representing the population of the city +and suburbs. Its inner circles are clothed in the uniform of their +country's service, and stand in military order. To them, as a Regiment, +through their commander, who is conspicuous on the stand by his uncovered +head and noble bearing, the Flag is being presented: a touching farewell +act of the ladies of Worcester. + +It is delivered with fitting words, and now not only the soldier, but the +orator speaks. Never, while memory lasts, will the picture be erased from +the mind of one, at least; the central figure, the devoted Wells: so soon, +comparatively, to be the lamented. + +The throng breaks, and the Regiment gradually prepares to leave the city +for fields of duty, not to shrink from fields of danger. Hark! as they +slowly recede from sight, and the clangor of martial music is hushed, can +you not almost distinguish, stealing through yonder casement where a +lonely heart is thinking of the absent ones, the plaintive words: + + "Thinking no less of them, + But loving our country the more; + We've sent them forth to fight for the flag, + That our fathers before them bore. + + Brave boys are they, + Gone at their country's call; + And yet, and yet, we cannot forget + That many brave boys must fall." + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +FUN IN CAMP. + + +Weary and monotonous indeed, would be many of the days spent in camp by +the soldier, did not something crop out of an amusing nature, either in +the proper members of the camp or in some of its motley group of +followers. + +One such safety-valve was found in a stout, unctuous darkey, who seemed to +be the "right hand man" of our regimental sutler. Worthy Oscar! I know not +whether thou dost still walk on this earth of ours, or hast entered the +spirit land which so many of thy brave fellow-Africans reached, who with a +more warlike spirit than thine, died on fields of duty and glory. Peace to +thee, in any event, for none more faithfully performed his duty. + +On one occasion, however, the "even tenor of his way" was rudely broken in +upon, to the great amusement of the large number who happened to be in +view of that part of the camp at the time. It seems that a private soldier +of mischievous propensities had been for some time teasing our colored +friend by thrusting a burning twig from the camp fire into his face; yet +during the ordeal he had kept his patience, and only tried to get rid of +his tormentor by entreaties. Suddenly he turns upon him, forbearance +having ceased to be a virtue in the case, and the two fall heavily to the +ground; Oscar having decidedly the advantage of his enemy, which he as +decidedly keeps. The roar of laughter which followed this unexpected +discomfiture was probably more pleasant to the ears of Oscar than to those +of his antagonist. + +Another case in which our hero was concerned related to the legitimate +business of the sutler's tent, and was told in Company E to the amusement +of many, by poor Hunter, who afterwards while in the performance of duty +at the Shenandoah, fell through an opening in the bridge in an unguarded +moment and was drowned. + +The story was something like this: "Well yer see de feller he comes up +'mongst de crowd, an' says he, I wants a _fried pie_. So I takes de fried +pie an' hands it to him, an' looks for de money; but somehow de feller +gits shook up in de crowd, an' I hav'nt seen _him_; nor de _money_, nor de +_fried pie_ since." This was given with capital powers of imitation, and +never failed to "bring down the house." + +There is something which irresistably appeals, in many phases of the +African character, to our American sense of humor. At the same time we +discover running through it a vein of sentiment, which blending with the +other, dignifies the effect. + + "'Way down upon de Swanee Riber, + Far, far away; + Dere's where my heart am turning eber, + Dere's where de old folks stay. + + When I was in de fields a hoeing, + Near set ob sun; + So glad to hear de horn a blowing, + Telling dat de work was done. + + O, den de darkies frolic sweetly, + Banjo in tune; + Dinah and Phillis dressed so neatly, + Dance by de big round moon." + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +HARPER'S FERRY. + + +For some weeks the Thirty-Fourth had remained in Washington, D. C., +furnishing daily heavy details of neatly equipped men for guard duty; +principally to be employed in guarding the Carroll and Old Capitol +Prisons. During this time the general soldierly deportment of the rank and +file, together with the fine appearance of the regiment on dress parade, +attracted much attention and called forth many complimentary expressions +from the residents of Washington. + +But "marching orders" do not stop to take counsel of their subjects, and +on a well-remembered evening in July, 1863, they turned our quiet barracks +into a scene of bustle and confusion. A ride of a few hours over the +Baltimore and Ohio Railroad brought us into the immediate vicinity of +Harper's Ferry. + +The activity which prevailed throughout our force on the morning of July +14th made it evident to all that a movement across the Potomac was +intended. All needful preparations having been made, a lively cannonade +was opened from the heights above, under cover of which our force embarked +in pontoon boats that were near at hand, and crossing, passed through the +deserted streets up to the higher ground beyond; dislodging a small body +of the enemy which had been holding possession. As the afternoon advanced +a considerable force of cavalry passed through the place, file following +file in a seemingly endless succession, till the eye was wearied with +attempting to take in the living current. Our occupation of Harper's +Ferry, begun under these circumstances, was destined to continue for many +months, with the exception of an occasional brief visit to Martinsburg +towards the close of winter. + +Perhaps the most notable incident of our service during these months was a +trip to Harrisonburg, about one hundred miles into Virginian territory, +over that noble production of the road-maker's art, the "Shenandoah Valley +turnpike." This demonstration, which was successfully and safely +accomplished, was doubtless intended as a diversion in favor of the raid +at that time being executed by Gen. Averill, with his much larger force. +Although we were closely followed by a brigade of the enemy, in our rapid +and forced march homewards; yet by the intervention of favorable events, +the friendly shadow of the Maryland heights was reached with no loss from +our hazardous attempt at "bearding the lion in his den," as our adventure +was described by the Richmond _Examiner_. + +Our long stay in this town gave many opportunities for examining its +objects of interest, including the Engine House, worthy of note as the +fortress occupied by John Brown while he held possession, during the brief +campaign destined to end so disastrously for those engaged in it. The +ruins of Armory and other buildings made it very evident that an immense +amount of property had been destroyed in the two years in which the spirit +of war had held carnival there. + +The climate, through the winter months we spent in this place, seemed to +suggest some New England locality rather than a part of the "sunny South." +Snow storms and bleak, cold winds, find as congenial a home around those +rocky heights as Massachusetts could offer them; at least, such was the +impression made upon the mind of the writer. The sublimity and grandeur of +Nature's works here well repay any effort required to reach an eligible +point of view; but it requires no effort to enable the mind nurtured +"beneath New England's sky" to dwell again, in thought, among its native +hills. + + "Once more, O Mountains of the North, unveil + Your brows, and lay your cloudy mantles by! + And once more, ere the eyes that seek ye fail, + Uplift against the blue walls of the sky + Your mighty shapes, and let the sunshine weave + Its golden net-work in your belting woods, + Smile down in rainbows from your falling floods + And on your kingly brows at morn and eve + Set crowns of fire! So shall my soul receive + Haply the secret of your calm and strength, + Your unforgotten beauty interfuse + My common life, your glorious shapes and hues + And sun-dropped splendors at my bidding come, + Loom vast through dreams, and stretch in billowy length + From the sea-level of my lowland home!" + _Whittier._ + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +THE SKIRMISH. + + +The morning of Sunday, October 13, 1863, proved a disastrous one to the +Ninth Maryland Regiment, who were only a few miles distant from our +encampment at Harper's Ferry. As it proved, the enemy in considerable +force, under Gen. Imboden, had made an early and vigorous attack on that +Regiment at Charlestown, and captured them bodily, in number about three +hundred. Every available man of the Thirty-Fourth was promptly called out, +and preceded by a Battery which was stationed near by, we started in +pursuit. Often had the wish been expressed that we might see some actual +fighting, and at last the wish was to be gratified. + +A running fight commenced soon after reaching Charlestown, the Battery +which was still in advance, having engaged the enemy just beyond that +place. We pushed on, passing at one time the dead body of a soldier, +killed during the morning's engagement, and a few miles of rapid marching +bring us into close proximity to the foe, as the shells falling within a +short distance from our ranks fully prove. Each Company has been assigned +the best position allowed by the character of the ground, which is +somewhat uneven and obstructed by fences. A lively discharge of musketry +is kept up from both sides for a time, but finally ceases. At about this +period in the fight, a small body of mounted infantry from the enemy's +force charge toward us till but a short space intervenes, and then +wheeling easily, soon disappear in the distance. We afterwards learn that +the Springfield muskets of one of our wing Companies told with effect on +their ranks. The firing has now ceased, and we are ordered to cross the +open ground which separates our position from that of the enemy. This is +safely accomplished, and it is found that they have again retreated. + +Our Commanding Officer now considers that the pursuit has been pushed far +enough, and the order is given to return to Harper's Ferry. Marching and +resting alternately, we reach our quarters at a late hour, feeling well +satisfied with this first experience of actual fighting. Two of the Color +Corporals, Clark of Co. K and Gage of Co. E, have laid down their lives; +but they died gloriously, and what matters the form in which death comes, +if it finds us in the path of duty. + + "Come to the bridal chamber, Death; + Come to the mother, when she feels + For the first time her first-born's breath: + Come when the blessed seals + Which close the pestilence are broke, + And crowded cities wail its stroke; + Come in Consumption's ghastly form; + The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; + Come when the heart beats high and warm, + With banquet song, and dance, and wine, + And thou art terrible: the tear, + The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, + And all we know, or dream, or fear + Of agony, are thine. + But to the warrior, when his sword + Has won the battle for the free, + Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, + And in its hollow tones are heard + The thanks of millions yet to be." + _Halleck._ + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +NEWMARKET. + + +After a march of some hours, our Regiment had arrived in the vicinity of +Newmarket, Va.; not, however, without an occasional shot being exchanged +between the light artillery which preceded us and that of the enemy. As we +were marched to a position somewhat sheltered by a low ridge, this firing +was kept up with vigor. The peculiar tone and expression assumed by our +commander, Colonel Wells, as he directed our movements will be remembered +by many. "Don't you see how they are firing at me?" was his demand, +evidently more for its effect on his men than from any special concern as +to his own safety. + +So passed the afternoon of Saturday, May 14, 1864, and the night, a rainy +and uncomfortable one, settled down upon us; but war is no respecter of +the stillness of night, and the fact of a foe being close at hand is a +great promoter of uneasiness. Suddenly a shot is heard, then a volley, and +we are roused up without ceremony; but the alarm proves nothing serious, +being caused by a small reconnoitreing party from the enemy. We lie down +again, all save the watchful sentinels, and sheltering ourselves from the +rain so far as possible, get what sleep may be had under the +circumstances. A part of the morning is occupied in putting our arms and +ourselves in good fighting condition, though this is a difficult matter in +some cases; the rain having, in spite of our care, reached our muskets to +some extent. + +The quiet is broken by an order to a different position, which order is +repeated occasionally during the forenoon, keeping us in motion almost +constantly from one point to another. At last, a satisfactory position +having been reached, we lie down on our arms for a short time, but soon +are ordered to rise and then to load and fire as rapidly as we can. In the +meantime, a Battery has been stationed on our right and its guns begin to +play on the enemy. After firing several volleys a charge is ordered, and +as we advance, the opposing force comes plainly into view. The yells and +cheers accompanying this movement make it almost impossible to hear any +order from our superior officers, but we finally comprehend that a +"right-about" is ordered. This is executed, and we retrace our steps for a +short distance, still keeping on a line with the colors, while the +continuous cheering of the enemy shows that they fully appreciate their +advantage. We now begin to feel seriously the effect of the heavy fire, +both musketry and artillery, which fills the air with deadly missiles. A +prominent field officer is disabled by a severe wound, and as the enemy +press close upon us, necessarily falls into their hands; while others who +are less injured are supported from the field to receive surgical aid. + +The Regiment, having reached a good position, is halted, faced about, and +aids in checking the enemy's advance, much to the satisfaction of the +wounded, who are making their way to Mt. Jackson, some four miles distant. +Night falls, and the sounds of battle are hushed; but this Sabbath day, so +disturbed by mortal strife, has proved the last for many who had +cherished hopes of "bright days yet to be." + + "And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, + Dewy with Nature's tear drops, as they pass; + Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, + Over the unreturning brave: alas! + Ere evening to be trodden like the grass; + Which now beneath them, but above shall grow + In its next verdure, when this fiery mass + Of living valor, rolling on the foe, + And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low." + _Byron._ + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +INCIDENTS. + + +It will be remembered by some, that at an early period of our regimental +history, a fever for enlistment into the regular army prevailed to a +certain extent. The causes which produced this state of things are unknown +to the writer, but it seems probable that highly colored statements as to +the relative advantages of one branch of the service over another had been +employed. + +Col. Wells, as the event proved, felt no sympathy with this movement, and +had no idea of quietly looking on while his Regiment was depleted in +numbers to fill the voracious maw of Uncle Sam. Accordingly, taking his +opportunity when they were drawn up for dress parade, he expressed his +views in the case in a manner that held the attention of all to the +close. That part of his argument which covered the points of promotion and +travel, as nearly as can be recalled, was something like this. "You have +been promised opportunities for promotion and travel: as for _travel_, you +would have plenty of that, and would have to travel _pretty close to the +line_. With regard to promotion in the regular army, there is a regular +system of promotion, in which non-commissioned officers only stand a +chance of sharing, and they after years of waiting." The address, whether +from its sarcasm or its sense, was effectual in curing the uneasiness that +had prevailed. + +At one time, the young and popular Captain of a certain Company saw fit to +celebrate his birthday by furnishing his men with an unusual treat. A +supply of "lager" was secured from a neighboring fort, and placed +conveniently in one of the tents, with the understanding that all were +welcomed to partake. As the evening advanced a spirit of jollity naturally +prevailed, stimulated a little, it may be, by the influence of the +Teutonic beverage, till the stentorian voice of Orderly B-- rang out even +more loudly than usual, summoning the Company to fall in for evening +roll-call, after which quiet was restored, and night settled down +peacefully as usual over our camp. + +The Company in which occurred the last incident numbered among its +original members two, who were truly of a kindred spirit, though of +different birth. Once, for some infraction of discipline in which both +were concerned, they were compelled to wear "the wooden shirt," and to +march back and forth before the Captain's quarters: yet they were far from +being disheartened, but with great merriment performed this unusual sentry +duty, assisting each other, in case of any accident, with an almost +brotherly regard. One of this pair of intimate friends is believed to have +died at Andersonville. As to his comrade, many years have passed since the +writer last beheld his strongly marked features, and whether he is still +in the land of the living is a matter of uncertainty. So drops the curtain +over our heroes. + + "All the world's a stage, + And all the men and women merely players: + They have their exits and their entrances; + And one man in his time plays many parts, + His acts being seven ages." + _Shakspeare._ + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +IN MEMORIAM. + + +A few closing words as a tribute to the honored dead. While referring +especially to a few names in this connection, no peculiar honor is claimed +for them above the large number of their comrades in other Companies whose +record is equally honorable; but of those we know best we can, doubtless, +best speak. + +Brave Christopher Pennell; with a noble ambition leaving his many friends +to serve in another field, and falling at last before Petersburg. + +Captain William B. Bacon: an able and intrepid soldier, than whom few had +brighter prospects of advancement and honor, stricken down at Newmarket +while inspiring his men with his own fearlessness of spirit. + +Sergeant Henry B. King: of a gentle and obliging spirit and beloved by all +his comrades, dying on the field of battle, and leaving only the knowledge +of his devotion to duty to cheer his youthful and bereaved companion. + +The brothers, Dwight and Henry Chickering: noble and promising youths, +making the woods ring with the sound of their axes, and their whole-souled +laughter, as we prepared to encamp after the day's weary march. + +But one more will be particularly mentioned here, in reference to whom +Brigade Surgeon Clarke uses this language, in a letter informing his +friends of his death: "he was a brave, conscientious and faithful +soldier." And what shall I say of thee, my brother, my faithful friend? +Though the snows of seven winters have in their season robed thy grave +with a stainless winding-sheet, yet is thy memory cherished fondly as at +first: still shall the flowers of each succeeding summer strew that grave, +and the lofty pines of thy native state shall furnish thy requiem. + + "How sleep the brave, who sink to rest + By all their Country's wishes blest: + By fairy hands their knell is rung; + By forms unseen their dirge is sung; + Here Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, + To deck the turf that wraps their clay; + And Freedom shall awhile repair + To dwell, a weeping hermit, there." + _Collins._ + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth +Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry, by William H. 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