Identifier: lifeachievements00burr (find matches)
Title: Life and achievements of James Addams Beaver. Early life, military services and public career
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Burr, Frank A., 1843-1894
Subjects: Beaver, James A. (James Addams), 1837-1914 Pennsylvania Infantry. 148th Regiment, 1862-1865
Publisher: Philadelphia, Ferguson bros. & co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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I have no fear for the result in Gods own good timeand in his own right way—I am therefore resigned. It seemslike doubting God to hesitate for an instant. I never doubt.I have therefore no anxious thoughts as to the future. What-ever that future is will be right; God does not go backward.Forward is the watchword of the creation of the universe—ofnations as well as of armies. What a privilege to live whenprogress, civilization and universal liberty are making suchcolossal strides; when ignorance, superstition, slavery andwrong shrink back to their native darkness before the risingday.7 Even while this eloquent and patriotic letter was beingpenned, Hooker was preparing to cross the Rappahannock.On the 27th of April the One Hundred and Forty-eighth tookits place in the Second corps and moved forward for its firstbaptism of blood. Three days later it crossed the river atUnited States ford, and, marching until midnight, came to ahalt at the White House on the west of Chancellorsville.
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XII. WOUNDED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE. General Hookers army lay on the left and rear of Gen-eral Lees position at Fredericksburg in a broad flat V, whoseapex was at Chancellorsville, with one arm made up in part ofthe Sixth and Eleventh corps, stretching north to the river, andthe other nearly east and west, facing towards Fredericksburg,made up of the Second corps with the Twelfth on its right. Toreach the apex of the V, where the One Hundred and Forty-eighth regiment lay, marched until about 11 p. M., says abrief entry in Colonel Beavers diary. At the close of themarch, the regiment stood in the tangled thicket which madethe fight at Chancellorsville a scramble in the woods. It iseighteen years since; but unconscious acts born of characterlive long, and the commander of a regiment lying hard by stilltells of hearing in the dark the tread of an infantry regiment,the rustle of the column and then a shrill voice, Battalion halt,right dress, and a sense of soldierly admiration came over hima

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