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...ce and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Con...

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...n V olume Six of Seven Abraham Lincoln 1862-1863 RECOMMENDATION OF NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AN... ...ired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus... ...at the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United S... ...N. 6 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH TO THE 12TH INDIANA REGIMENT, MA Y [15?] 1862 SOLDIERS, OF THE TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT: It has... ...ary heretofore, nor will it be hereafter, for me to say something to every regiment passing in review. It occurs too frequently for me to have speeche... ... performed in this great struggle, I tender more thanks especially to this regiment, which has been the subject of good report. The thanks of the nati... ...AL PECK. W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., June 25, 1863. GENERAL PECK, Suffolk, V a.: Colonel Derrom, of the Twenty-fifth New Jersey V olunteers, ...

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... “But I assure you, Char ley, that neither Captain Church, nor any of the officers and soldiers who fought in King Philip’s War, did anything a thous... ...and the same was the case with the lieutenant governor and some other high officers. The people, however, were still allowed to choose representatives... ...on Harbor. On board of this fleet was the English General Hill, with seven regiments of soldiers, who had been fighting under the Duke of Marlborough ... ...rom morning till night. In about a month the fleet set sail, carrying four regiments from New England and New York, besides the English soldiers. The ... ..., while the drummers beat strange old tunes, like psalm tunes, and all the officers and soldiers put on their most warlike looks. It would have been a... ...d at home,” said Grandfather, “and was general of the militia. The veteran regiments of the English army which were now sent across the Atlantic would... ...Custom House stood at a little distance down King Street, nearly where the Suffolk Bank now stands, and a sentinel was continually pacing before its f...

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...iti- cal principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle ... ...n. He went to the Lord Justice-Clerk, to the Lord-Advocate, and to all the officers of state, and each appli- cation was answered by the production of... ...tenant being overleapt with great agility) Captain Waverley, of Gardiner’s regiment of dragoons, which he must join in their quarters at Dundee in Sco... ...orses destined for his campaign. T wo were 37 Sir Walter Scott black (the regimental colour), superb chargers both; the other three were stout active... ...ustered before the gate of the Hall a larger body of horse than your whole regiment consists of. I could have wished that these twenty young fellows f... ...yes of the young soldier. [See Note 4.] It may be easily imagined that the officers of a regiment, commanded by so respectable a person, composed a so... ... fast as you can; there will speedily be unexpected guests on the coast of Suffolk, or my news from France has deceived me.’ [The sanguine Jacobites, ... ... fools has been disused in England. Swift writes an epitaph on the Earl of Suffolk’s fool,— ‘Whose name was Dickie Pearce.’ In Scotland the custom sub...

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... relation in the Peninsular army. Oh! yes: her only son was there. In what regiment? He was a trooper in the 23d Dragoons. My heart sank within me as ... ...3d Dragoons. My heart sank within me as she made that answer. This sublime regiment, which an Englishman should never mention without raising his hat ... ...y, I believe, not so many as one in four survived. And this, then, was the regiment—a regiment al- ready for some hours known to myself and all London... ... together. But I told her how these dear children of England, privates and officers, had leaped their horses over all obstacles as gaily as hunters to... ...our illustrations, by placing it in a separate paragraph. On a set day the officers of the army were invited by Cæsar to a banquet; it was a circumsta... ...; it was a circumstance expressly noticed in the invitation, by the proper officers of the palace, that the ban- quet was not a “coena,” but a “prandi... ...ittle time before. About the year 1740, Pope complains to a friend of Lady Suffolk’s dining so late as four. Young people may bear those things, he ob... ...s; but as to himself, now turned of fifty, if such doings went on, if Lady Suffolk would adopt such strange hours, he must really ab- sent himself fro... ...such strange hours, he must really ab- sent himself from Marble Hill. Lady Suffolk had a right to please herself: he himself loved her. But if she wou...

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...ecause Boadicea, a British queen, the widow of the King of the Norfolk and Suffolk people, resisted the plundering of her property by the Romans who w... ...r Norfolk people, established them selves in one place; the Southfolk, or Suffolk people, established themselves in another; and gradually seven king... ...king ashes, where they had found rich towns. To crown this misery, English officers and men deserted, and even the favourites of Ethelred the Unready,... ...to the English. He made a Norman Archbishop, and Norman Bishops; his great officers and favourites were all Normans; he introduced the Norman fashions... ...edient for making himself acceptable to his brother. He invited the French officers of the garrison in that town to dinner, murdered them all, and the... ...e English exiles then in France, she landed, within a year, at Orewell, in Suffolk, where she was immediately joined by the Earls of Kent and Norfolk,... ...ued letters to borrow money at high interest. The Parliament raised twenty regiments of foot and seventy five troops of horse; and the people willingl... ...eir wedding rings. Every member of Parliament who could raise a troop or a regiment in his own part of the country, dressed it according to his taste ... ...h the blood stained Irish rebels for a sum of money, and invited the Irish regiments over, to help him against the Parliament. In the battle of Naseby...

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... to guess how he knew she had a brother on the medical staff of one of the regiments in India: she asked 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and ... ...ve stood their ground, had they not taken his handful to be the advance of regiments. These are the deeds that win empires! the argument in his favour... ... Lord Ormont’s books, and there was not a modern or a minor name among the regiments. They smelt strongly of the bookseller’s lump lots by order; but ... ... the Peninsula; I was at Talavera with him. Bad day for our cavalry.” “Our officers were young at their work then.” “They taught the Emperor’s troops ... ...men of my age or older for the 57 George Meredith cavalry—heavy losses of officers.” She spoke, as if urged by a sting to revert to the distasteful: ... ... who had suffered on her behalf in old days, was coming up to her from the Suffolk coast on a visit for a week. However much a slave and an unloved wo... ...poleon’s tactics, his command to the troopers to “give point,” and English officers’ neglect of sword exercise, and the “devil of a day” Old England i... ...ty. Selina Collett was writing under the verandah letters to her people in Suffolk, performing the task with marvellous ease. Aminta noted it as a mar...

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... says Mr. Pickwick, ‘appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. The commodities chiefly ex posed for sale in t... ...were imitating their example in other parts of it. The less aristo cratic officers of the 97th devoted themselves to the families of the less importa... ...nto an angle of the passage, ‘my name is Slammer, Doctor Slammer, sir—97th Regiment—Chatham Barracks—my card, Sir, my card.’ He would have added more,... ...ion to the local authorities—do not obtain the assistance of several peace officers, to take either me or Doctor Slammer, of the 97th Regiment, at pre... ...f several peace officers, to take either me or Doctor Slammer, of the 97th Regiment, at present quartered in Chatham Barracks, into custody, and thus ... ...nd review was to take place upon the lines. The manoeuvres of half a dozen regiments were to be inspected by the eagle eye of the commander in chief; ... ...de, prohibited a pugilistic contest between the Middlesex Dumpling and the Suffolk Bantam? A duel in Ipswich, ma’am? I don’t think—I do not think,’ sa...

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... that having acciden- 53 Thomas de Quincey tally seen a native Devonshire regiment (either volunteers or militia), nine hundred strong, marching past... ...ed him. 6 ‘Revolt of Islam,’ canto xii. 7 See his bitter letters to Lady Suffolk. 54 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater THE THE THE THE THE TR... ...tain lady Di. le Fl., whom once I knew, a Howard by birth, of the house of Suffolk, told me as her reason for omitting the Le, that it caused her too ... ...ve to introduce to you Colo- nel Wesley, who is a lieutenant-colonel of my regiment. He is a sensible man, and a good officer.’ Posterity, for we are ... ...e.’ William III. again, about eleven years afterwards, raised twenty-three regiments with the same ease and in the same space of six weeks. It may be ... ...pro- duced by the absence of your association and intercourse with British officers and merchants: you have no moral dis- cernment to distinguish betw...

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...t have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did.” The parish officers testified the truth of this story; but it seems, there had been a ... ...d, he would have liked them still less. ‘Is he recruiting for a—for a fine regiment?’ said Joe, glancing at a little round mirror that hung in the bar... .... ‘I believe he is,’ replied the host. ‘It’s much the same thing, whatever regiment he’s recruiting for. I’m told there an’t a deal of difference betw... ...can trust me then, and credit what I say. I believe I shall enlist in your regiment to night. The reason I don’t do so now is, because I don’t want un... ...ecretary clasped his hands—’a blessed yesterday indeed! The Protestants of Suffolk are godly men and true. Though others of our countrymen have lost t... ...he lobby to the door of the House of Commons, where it was received by two officers of the house who rolled it up to the table ready for presentation—... ...that way, and that the flames would shortly reach them; and calling to the officers of the jail to come and quench the fire from a cistern which was i...

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...n the French came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his officers was superior to my Henry, and he was not the equal of my poor Geor... ...her’s request, and marry- ing a gentleman who was but the younger son of a Suffolk Baronet), yet I own to a decent respect for my name, and wonder how... ...all his infidelity; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, when he ... ...r part of the county for the affairs of the King. It was arranged that the regiment of Scots Grays and Dra- goons, then quartered at Newbury, should d... ... Lockwood comes running up from the village with news that a lawyer, three officers, and twenty or four-and- twenty soldiers, were marching thence upo... ...d, and a new cap put on, so that she might at least look her best when the officers came. “I shall take leave to place a sentinel in the chamber, so t... ... of his poor plight, confirmed him in his new title of Marquis, gave him a regiment, and promised him fur- ther promotion. But titles or promotion wer...

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...e and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient f... ...iged to bear arms; they formed a national militia, which appointed its own officers, and was to hold itself at all times in readiness to march for the... ...itizens were entered;*** clerks were directed to keep these registers;**** officers were charged with the administration of vacant inheritances, and w... ... particular and unvarying manner. Thus one man is born to the command of a regiment, another to that of a company; when once they have reached the utm... ...tary of the province; and that the justices of the peace for the county of Suffolk should be commissioned to require bail of the said James Franklin f...

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...lf, at present, I will go back to my birth. I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, or there by , as they say in Scotland. I was a post- humous child... ...y. Still, nobody appeared, to claim the dusty youngster from Blunderstone, Suffolk. More solitary than Robinson Crusoe, who had nobody to look at him ... ...m anything of the sort. And if Mr. Steerforth ever comes into Norfolk or Suffolk, Mr. Peggotty, I said, while I am there, you may depend upon it I... ...ty. My passion for her is beyond all bounds. The eldest Miss Larkins knows officers. It is an awful thing to bear. I see them speaking to her in the s... ... Larkins s house in the evening, though it cuts me to the heart to see the officers go in, or to hear them up in the drawing-room, where the eldest Mi... ...the enchanted house, where there are lights, chattering, mu- sic, flowers, officers (I am sorry to see), and the eldest Miss Larkins, a blaze of beaut... ...en our portmanteaux went to the coach, that if we had had the baggage of a regiment with us, we should hardly have wanted porters to carry it. In a wo...

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...tion to the Mediterranean. He had come home from Gibraltar, and joined his regiment only a few weeks before setting out with his friend Captain Herrie... ... going home with my Lady to dear Carminster.” “No, no, he remains with his regiment in town, unless he rides down later when he can have his leave of ... ... cried both auditors. “Oh yes! you know my Lady is very thick with my Lady Suffolk, and she persuaded the King to speak to him at the levee. ‘Comment’... ... mother’s darling, Lady Belle, I may have leave of absence from her and my regiment, both at once, and go to meet Mr. Wayland if I like, or at any rat... ...a billet been brought in from the widow of one of her father’s old brother officers who had heard of his being in town, and begged him to bring his da...

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...declaration of his principles, that as Mr. Carstone is about to rejoin his regiment, perhaps Mr. C. will favour him with an order on his agent for twe... ...ontispiece) of Mr. Daniel Dancer and his sister, and also of Mr. Elwes, of Suffolk, and transfers all the facts from those authentic narratives to Mr.... ...beach. There was a concourse of people in one spot, surrounding some naval officers who were landing from a boat, and press ing about them with unusu... ...e noble house, the pictures of his forefa thers, strangers defacing them, officers of police coarsely handling his most precious heirlooms, thousands... ...e. It was now past one, as I saw by the clock against the wall. Two police officers, looking in their per fectly neat uniform not at all like people ...

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...to him. He said she was the wife of Mr. Waters, who was a captain in their regiment, and had often been with him at quarters. “Some folks,” says he, “... ...Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II devil? For I have heard some of our officers say there is no such person; and that it is only a trick of the pa... ... the parsons would be of no more use than we are in time of peace.”—”Those officers,” says Par tridge, “are very great scholars, I suppose.”—”Not muc... ...eople be sent to him? and I have read all that upon a book.”—”Some of your officers,” quoth the landlord, “will find there is a devil, to their shame,... ...ad lived some years with one Captain Waters, who was a captain in the same regiment to which Mr. Northerton belonged. She past for that gentleman’s wi... ...ling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II him that one also. The division of the regiment to which Captain Waters be longed had two days preceded the march... ..., saying, “All’s our own, boy, ten thousand honest Frenchmen are landed in Suffolk. Old England for ever! ten thousand French, my brave lad! I am goin...

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...o baronet with a head seven hundred years thick, may. A man who joined his regiment at twenty and within a week challenged the most imperious and pres... ...hen he fell in love with her at a ball on board the Crippler, given to the officers of that ship when she lay in Plymouth Harbour. “The dear old Cripp... ...ommission was obtained and Richard re ceived directions with it to join a regiment in Ireland. He arrived post haste with the intelligence one evenin... ...assoon. The old girl bor rowed a bassoon from the bandmaster of the Rifle Regiment. I practised in the trenches. Got on, got another, get a living by... ... I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal Artillery establishment—officers, men, tumbrils, waggons, horses, guns, and ammunition.” “’Tis like... ...ontispiece) of Mr. Daniel Dancer and his sister, and also of Mr. Elwes, of Suffolk, and transfers all the facts from those authentic narratives to Mr.... ...beach. There was a concourse of people in one spot, surrounding some naval officers who were landing from a boat, and press ing about them with unusu...

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...army: Eton was quitted for ever. In a few months he would have to join his regiment, and before he left he must say goodbye to his friends.... Would R... ...hing! She—Richard knows her better than I do—an old lady—somewhere down in Suffolk. I think we had better advise her not to proceed. The expenses of l... ...ly. It’s a horrid sad business, not to be treated with levity.—Is that his regiment?” she said, as they passed out of the hussar-sentinelled gardens. ... ... tain magisterial functions connected therewith. ‘It is decreed that these officers be all and every men of science,’ etc.” And Adrian cheerily drove ...

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...s an account of the ancient home of the Alardyces, or rather, of spring in Suffolk, which was very beautifully written, although not essential to the ... ...for the space of a day or two. The books on his shelves were as orderly as regiments of soldiers, and the backs of them shone like so many bronze beet... ... Mrs. McCormick, and how South Kensington impressed her as the preserve of officers’ widows. She described how the door had opened, and what gloomy av...

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...TER II I COME TO THE END OF MY CAPTIVITY, BUT NOT OF MY TROUBLE..................................... 162 CHAPTER III I TAKE THE QUEEN?S PAY IN QUIN?S REGIMENT. ...................................................................... 171...

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.......................... 162 CHAPTER III I TAKE THE QUEEN’S P A Y IN QUIN’S REGIMENT. .................................................................... ...n the French came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his officers was superior to my Henry, and he was not the equal of my poor Geor... ...her’s request, and marry- ing a gentleman who was but the younger son of a Suffolk Baronet), yet I own to a decent respect for my name, and wonder how... ...all his infidelity; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, when he ... ...r part of the county for the affairs of the King. It was arranged that the regiment of Scots Grays and Dra- goons, then quartered at Newbury, should d... ... Lockwood comes running up from the village with news that a lawyer, three officers, and twenty or four-and- twenty soldiers, were marching thence upo... ...d, and a new cap put on, so that she might at least look her best when the officers came. “I shall take leave to place a sentinel in the chamber, so t...

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...ge to be treated of in two volumes in such way as to do justice to all the officers and men engaged. There were thousands of instances, during the reb... ...were thousands of instances, during the rebellion, of individual, company, regimental and brigade deeds of heroism which deserve special mention and a... ...had been men capable of bearing arms—furnished the Union army four general officers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine generals and field... ...fficers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine generals and field officers of Vol- unteers, that I can think of. Of the graduates from West P... ...f the class were called upon to record their choice of arms of service and regiments. I was anxious to enter the cavalry, or dragoons as they were the... ... the cavalry, or dragoons as they were then called, but there was only one regiment of dragoons in the Army at that time, and attached to that, beside... ...enching, and on the 7th he sent out his cavalry from 384 Personal Memoirs Suffolk to cut the Weldon Railroad. He also sent out detach- ments to destr... ...othold, and a force of three thou- sand cavalry, under General Kautz, from Suffolk, to operate against the road south of Petersburg and Richmond. On t... ...pickets towards Richmond. “General Kautz, with three thousand cavalry from Suffolk, on the same day with our movement up James River, forced the Black...

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... and that of their 58 Young Folk’s History of England friend, the Earl of Suffolk, in marrying Margaret of Anjou— the daughter of a French prince, wh... ... put down; and, almost at the same time, the queen’s first English friend, Suffolk, was exiled by her enemies, and taken at sea and murdered by some s... ...arried to please herself. But he forgave her, and made her husband Duke of Suffolk. Henry’s chief adviser, at this time, was Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop... ...plain that it would never come to an end, Oliver Cromwell sent some of his officers to take King Charles into their hands, instead of the persons appo... ...settled while the king lived, nor by the Parliament, so he sent one of his officers, named Pryde, to turnout all the mem- 96 Young Folk’s History of ... ...uld not do his will, and then the fifty who were left appointed a court of officers and lawyers to try the king. Charles was brought before them; but,... ...Cromwell’s army was broken up, and the men sent to their homes, except one regiment which came from Coldstream in Scotland. These would not disband, a... ...l the men learnt something of how to be soldiers, and made themselves into regiments of volunteers; and careful watch was kept against the quantities ... ...ing, while every English person left in the city was murdered. The English regiments in India made haste to come into Bengal, to try to save their cou...

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..., launching epigrams, quarrelling with his friends, jealous of young puppy officers. He tries to be a good father; he boasts himself a libertine. Sick... ...he was more restless and flighty at night – often fancied himself with his regiment – by his talk sometimes seem’d as if his feelings were hurt by bei... ... weapon – to Japan. A long letter was prepared in Chinese for the American officers; it was revised and corrected by Sakuma, and signed by Y oshida, u... ... very doubtful authenticity, or worse. 154 Robert Louis Stevenson unhappy Suffolk, who received fourteen shillings and fourpence a day for his expens... ...oner and his gaoler: a fact of considerable interest when we remember that Suffolk’s wife was the granddaughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer.* Apart f... ...ssy was admitted to an interview with the captive duke, in the presence of Suffolk. Charles shook hands most affec- tionately with the ambassadors. Th... ...rs of the life of Charles of Orleans. The duke and duchess, their staff of officers and ladies, and the high-born and learned persons who were attract... ... persecuted in the two kingdoms by one anomalous power plainly, then, the “regiment of women” was Antichristian. Early in 1558 he communicated this di... ... his notorious book – The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.* As a whole, it is a dull performance; but the preface, ...

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...re the parish vestry, the parish infirmary, the parish surgeon, the parish officers, the parish beadle. Excellent institutions, and gentle, kind-heart... ...of intelligence 87 Charles Dickens equally interesting. Besides these two officers, there was a little thin old man, with long grizzly hair, crouched... ...Lord Mayor’s facetiousness, but more at his own; the constables and police-officers were (as in duty bound) in ecstasies at Mr. Hobler and the Lord Ma... ...n the captain, who was reported to have once passed through Spain with his regiment, and who must be well acquainted with the national music. He was i... ...c ceremony of nodding and sipping gone through)— ‘Tottle, were you ever in Suffolk?’ inquired the master of the house, who was burning to tell one of ... ... clause, ‘but I’ve been in Devonshire. ’ ‘Ah!’ replied Gabriel, ‘it was in Suffolk that a rather singular circumstance happened to me many years ago. ... ...cases. We will attempt to give them an idea of our meaning. ‘When I was in Suffolk—’ said Mr. Gabriel Parsons. ‘Take off the fowls first, Martha, ’ sa...