 | Alexander Graydon - History - 1811 - 394 pages
...appeared, that the sordid spirit of gain was the vital principle of this greater part of the army.X The only exception I recollect to have seen, to these...constituted bands from New England, was the regiment ofGlove? from Marble*head. There was an appearance of discipline in this corps ; the officers seemed... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pages
...family chest. In short, it appeared, that the sordid spirit of gain was the vital principle of this greater part of the army.* The only exception I recollect...from New England, was the regiment of Glover from Marblehead.f There was an ap* This sentiment is supported by a passage in a letter from General WASHINGTON... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 530 pages
...family chest. In short, it appeared, that the sordid spirit of gain was the vital principle of this greater part of the army.* The only exception I recollect...from New England, was the regiment of Glover from Marblehead.f There was an ap* This sentiment is supported by a passage in a letter from General WASHINGTOM... | |
 | Essex Institute - Essex County (Mass.) - 1863 - 360 pages
...filled up in Massachusetts, and when taken into the Continental pay still retained its efficiency. There was an appearance of discipline in this Corps,...and to understand what belonged to their stations. Glover's command led the advance in the passage of the Delaware at Trenton, and its Commander was never... | |
 | Essex Institute - Essex County (Mass.) - 1863 - 302 pages
...first filled up in Massachusetts and when taken into the Continental pay still retained its efficiency. There was an appearance of discipline in this Corps,...and to understand what belonged to their stations. Glover's command led the advance in the passage of the Delaware at Trenton, and its Commander was never... | |
 | William Phineas Upham - History - 1863 - 78 pages
...filled up in Massachusetts, and when taken into the Continental pay still retained its efficiency. There was an appearance of discipline in this Corps,...seemed to have mixed with the world, and to understand whut belonged to their stations. Glover's command led the advance in the passage of the Delaware at... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Historic buildings - 1874 - 560 pages
...makes an exception in favor of Glover's regiment, which he saw in New York in 1776. Ho says : — " The only exception I recollect to have seen to these...the world, and to understand what belonged to their station. But even in this regiment there were a number of negroes, which, to persons unaccustomed to... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Historic buildings - 1874 - 544 pages
...makes an exception in favor of Glover's regiment, which he saw in New York in 1776. He says : — "Tlie only exception I recollect to have seen to these miserably...the world, and to understand what belonged to their station. But even in this rtgimt-n: there were a number of negroes, which, to persons unaccustomed... | |
 | Phrenology - 1876 - 1000 pages
...New England troops, carefully exempts Glover's regiment (this was before it grew to a brigage) thus: "The only exception I recollect to have seen to these...the regiment of Glover, from Marblehead. There was," he continues, " an appearance of discipline in this corps-; the offi' cers seemed to have mixed with... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Middlesex County (Mass.) - 1876 - 476 pages
...makes an exception in favor of Glover's regiment, which he saw in New York in 1776. He says : — " The only exception I recollect to have seen to these miserably constituted bunds from New England was the regiment of Ulover from Marbleheud. There was an apiiearance of discipline... | |
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The only exception I recollect to have seen, to these miserably constituted bands from New England, was the regiment of Glover from Marblehead. There was an appearance of discipline in this corps ; the officers seemed to have mixed with the world, and... 
