Indeed I have a mortal antipathy at riding, and that was the true reason for my refusing a regiment of dragoons which the King of Prussia offered me at the beginning of this war.
I am recruiting again; I believe our regiment won't go abroad this summer.
In London he found Hyacinth, much disturbed about her husband, who had gone as volunteer with General Middleton, and was in command of a cavalry regiment at Chatham.
London was in arms; and Brill remembered its repulse of Hampden's regimentwith a proud consciousness of being invincible.
It seemed to these mourners, in their loss the regiment itself was blotted out--that it would no more be known and honored--that its sun had forever set.
On returning to Warren he opened an office, and in August organized the Fifty-first Regiment National Guards, and was elected its colonel.
Early on the morning of the 28th of June, three trains of cars were slowly conveying the regiment into the wilds of Western Virginia, where war, in its madness, was to confront it.
After nearly five months' service, when the regiment was mustered out, he was appointed colonel, for the purpose of reorganizing it for three years' service.
Its clear sky and pleasant atmosphere were strangely similar to that bright Sunday in May, two years and a half ago, when the Seventh Regiment marched out of Cleveland on its way to the battle-fields where it was destined to win such renown.
On the 4th of July, a grand ovation was given to the regiment, in connection with the Eighth Ohio; in fact, while the regiment remained in Cleveland, it was one continued ovation.
The regiment had marched but eighteen miles in as many days, and could, without any injustice being done it, have returned the day the order was given.
While with the regiment he was much esteemed, by reason of his ability as a surgeon, as well as for his kind and courteous behavior.
On the 30th of November, the regiment was engaged in the terrible battle of Franklin.
After remaining for some time at Bridgeport, the regiment was ordered to the vicinity of Lookout Mountain.
When the regiment was about leaving, however, he took command, Colonel Tyler having gone to Virginia in advance of the starting of the regiment.
This misfortune to theregiment completely unmanned him.
A letter taken from a soldier of the 118th Regiment may be cited as corroborative evidence: "We were put in a motor car and proceeded at a headlong pace to Tahure, by way of Vouziers.
The boy officer's regiment had been the first to penetrate the enemy's trenches.
The writer met a boy, the only officer of his regiment who had come out of the trenches alive and unwounded, and who had a bullet through his pocket and another through his helmet.
One Serbian regiment charged seven times and each time captured three guns, only to have them wrested out of its hands again.
At this spot a regiment covered three miles in two hours and captured ten guns.
With such a shout a whole regiment of the fierce Shumadians leaped out of its trenches and tore across the intervening ground between its trenches and the rocks of a near-by eminence which a force of Magyars had made into a position.
Two battalions of the Turkish Twenty-eighth Regiment now joined the fight, but the British artillery threw them into disorder, and by 3 p.
Late in the afternoon a French regiment had reached the road from Souain to Tahure.
Groups of people were talking excitedly and from them I learned that the Volynski regiment had revolted and had killed its officers, because the day before they had commanded the soldiers to shoot on the people.
By the time it got to the next regiment the question was whether they would have the monk Iliodor as their ruler.
I had no difficulty whatever in locating at once the position of both parties and the exact spot on which my regiment and company fought.
The companies without arms, among which was Company H, was to repair to Nashville where we procured arms, joining the rest of the regiment a few weeks later at Bowling Green.
But here again the Orphans engaged in this fight paid dearly for their honors, especially the Second Regiment, which lost heavily in both officers and men, the Ninth Regiment also losing considerable.
At another time during the afternoon I heard him while discussing the situation with other officers of the regiment use substantially the same argument.
Here fell the gallant and polished Major Millett within ten paces of our entrenchment, he being the third major of the Fourth Regiment to be killed on the field.
The Sabreurs got possession of the castle, but the Duc de Mercœur sent a regiment to assist the citizens, and the Sabreurs were dislodged.
When the party left Antibes for Nice, they went by sea, because of the badness of the road; and were obliged to be accompanied by a felucca with a whole regiment on board, to protect them against corsairs.
Count Pontis was given a squadron under the Duke of Dalmatia; and when the French army retreated he was accorded a battalion in the 100th regiment of the line.
The divisional cavalry, existing only in war time, consisted of a regiment of four squadrons, from men and horses previously registered.
They must have thought we were a regiment of cavalry, for, except for a few, they suddenly yelled and bolted.
An hour later the right column came up and opened an artillery fire, and under cover of this bombardment a Serbian regiment reached the foot of the mountain.
Each of these territorial divisional districts was subdivided into four regimental recruiting districts, each of which provided one infantry regiment of four battalions and one depot battalion.
Now upon this point and to the north of it stood the Sussex Regiment and to the south of it the Northamptonshire Regiment.
Attached to each division was a regiment of artillery, consisting of three groups of three 6-gun batteries; in all, 54 guns.
In addition to these five divisions of the First Ban, there was also a regiment of mountain artillery, made up of six batteries, six howitzer batteries and two battalions of fortress artillery.
The fighting culminated in a savage bayonet attack which resulted in the recapture of these trenches by the British composed of the King's Royal Rifles, the Royal West Surrey Regiment and the Northamptons.
Still farther south the Essex Regiment and the Lancashire Fusiliers fought savagely, but were driven back upon Armentierre when night fell.
There was at Dieuze a regiment of white cuirassiers at whose head it was his intention to make a triumphal entry into Nancy.
The remnants of the Guards retreated until they were met by the London-Scottish regiment sent to reenforce them.
The lieutenant color bearer was killed, in the midst of a ring of dead, and not until almost the whole regiment had been killed under the impact of far superior numbers, were the tattered colors taken into the French lines.
October 21 brought the most severe attack made on the First Corps at Ypres, in the checking of which the Worcestershire Regiment did good work.
The scouts reported only a regiment of cavalry ahead, but a powerful detachment of French artillery on the road from Jouchery.
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment was coming down to Charleston; they destroyed railroads as they came.
Before he was twelve years old, he joined the “Murcia” regiment as a cadet.
The uniform of this regiment was white and blue, the same colours the mature soldier afterwards carried in triumph over half a continent.
This action was greatly applauded by the whole army, a badge of honour was given to all who charged with him, and he was appointed captain in the Bourbon regiment “on account of distinguished conduct in the action at Argonilla.
Captain Carretero of the Burgos regiment was the head of the conspirators.
The auxiliary corps of Las Heras formed the nucleus of this army, to which was soon added two companies of the 8th Regiment from Buenos Ayres, with four field guns.
He did as Cromwell did in his day; he made one regiment the model for an army.
He explains that he is away on a week's furlough and answers their questions concerning the regiment and his plans with nervous impatience.
This comes from the rear and to the left, and continues after the curtain is up, dying away gradually as though the band, and the regiment with it, had passed and continued on up the street.
Five hundred and forty came to the regiment from Camp Upton, N.
Several officers of the 311th regiment had secured quarters in the Baines.
While at Boncourt the matériel of the regiment was inspected by an ordnance officer and passed inspection.
While in progress, the transfers rendered the regimentlike unto a Depot Brigade.
When the regiment returned to the old stamping ground Batteries D and E were billeted at Cirey.
Except for a detachment from the regiment who replaced the negro M.
About 3 o'clock that afternoon the barrack bags of the regiment were received and distributed to the soldiers.
Tired and hungry the soldiers were greeted on the pier by a large delegation of Red Cross workers who had steaming hot coffee, delicious buns, cigarettes and candy to distribute to the regiment as a farewell tribute and morning appetizer.
Battery D was filled to full war-strength during the first week of July, just before departure, when the outfit received a quota of 150 men who came to the regiment from the Depot Brigade.
Word was received that the regiment was to entrain at La Courtine on November 14th.
Details were kept busy for several days digging gun pits near the regimental drill grounds, but before the job was fully completed orders came for the regiment to leave Montmorillon.
This beautiful girl was, about the year 1795, kept as a mistress by an adjutant of a Scotch regiment of fencible cavalry.
After peace was declared, and theregiment had returned to the States, they were married.
As the regiment toiled over the hill beyond which the enemy was supposed to be waiting for him, he "would have given anything to be back in Illinois.
The regiment was moved to Corpus Christi, a trading and smuggling port.
In Louisiana the regiment encamped on high ground near the Sabine River, not far from the old town of Natchitoches.
Before the place was reached, the imperiled regiment had delivered itself by retreating.
His leave required him to report to Jefferson Barracks, and although he knew his regiment had gone, he construed the orders literally and returned there, staying only long enough to declare his love and learn that it was reciprocated.
It was then ordered to Quincy, on the Mississippi River, and Colonel Grant, for reasons of instruction, decided to march his regiment instead of going by the railroad.
Grant, thinking his own regimentmight go soon, got a twenty-days leave to visit his home.
Upon returning to his own country he left his regiment on a furlough of four months.
To this he was attached as a brevet second lieutenant, and after the expiration of the usual leave spent at home, he joined hisregiment at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis.
While he was absent Governor Yates appointed him colonel of the Twenty-First Regiment of Illinois Infantry, then in camp near Springfield, his commission dating from June 15.
Then followed a long period of uneventful routine service in garrisons at Detroit and at Sackett's Harbor, until in the summer of 1852 his regiment was sent to the Pacific coast via the Panama route.
The Hook fort was subsequently completed by a volunteer regiment of Cuban cigar-makers, from the Bowery.
I rushed to the door, and to my astonishment beheld above the heads of the crowd the tall caps of a British dragoon regiment towering aloft.
He joined in all their schemes of pleasure and amusement with the zest of his own buoyant nature; and the youngest cornet in the regiment felt himself the Colonel's inferior in the gaiety of the mess as much as at the head of the squadrons.
The Irish regimentcaught up the cry, and a yell as wild as ever rose above the din of battle shook the air.
The trumpets of a cavalry regiment on the march were soon added to the uproar without, accompanied by cries of 'The English!
I have gone on expecting my gazette to a regiment on service.
Amid the wildest cries of rejoicing and frantic demonstrations of gratitude from the crowd, the regiment moved on to the little square of the village.
I am now endeavouring to raise a little money to pay off the most pressing of my creditors, and have made an application to the Horse Guards to be appointed to any regiment on service, wherever it may be.
At the head of the regimentrode three officers, whose looks were bent steadily on me, while they seemed to enjoy my surprise and confusion.
The only plan I could devise for the future was, as soon as I should recover my liberty, to exchange into some regiment in the East Indies, and never to return to England.
My old Second Company of the First Infantry Guard Regiment has shared, through good and evil days, the vicissitudes of its old captain.
Some say the Emperor should have gone to some regiment at the front, hurled himself with it upon the enemy, and sought death in one last attack.
Only the other day we gave him that dinner on his appointment to his regimentin the Egyptian army, and he is off to Cairo.
Edward commanded his troops to be put in array to meet the traitor; but Lord Hastings told him that he had not a regiment that he could rely upon; that nothing was to be thought of but his personal safety, and that on the instant.
Catesby had accepted a commission as captain in a regiment of cavalry, to be commanded by Sir Charles Percy, in the service of Spain.
Knox had perpetrated the unpardonable offence to Elizabeth in writing his "First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
A regiment of well-disciplined troops was marched from the Isle of Wight to defend the person of the sovereign, and suspected persons were arrested.
He still delayed joining his regiment in Flanders, and Garnet, the Jesuit, came to suspect that he was engaged in some plot and warned him against such attempts.
Nine regiments deserted his standard, whilst a regiment of Papists on the other side, not sufficiently satisfied with the concessions thus dearly purchased, also marched out of his camp.
It seemed, at one time, as if a whole regiment of soldiers were tramping up the chief staircase.
Friday Bourget was attacked by a regiment of Francs-tireurs and the 9th Battalion of the Mobiles of the Seine.
A regimentmarched in, and there was a cry that it had come from the front; then artillery filed by out of the city gate.
A friend of mine has just come in, and tells me that at eight this morning a regiment on their way to Bourget found the Mobiles who were in it falling back.
Our wary Mobiles outside not only refuse to allow Prussians to pass, but such is their vigilance, they generally arrest officers of any regiment except their own who come within their ken.
The week before had befallen the fiftieth anniversary of the marching away of his old regiment to the front; there had been articles in the daily papers about it.
The Ferozepore Sikh Regimentalso accompanied them, and some of the Madras Fusiliers.
I heard to-day an officer in our regiment had given a bottle of sherry for a cake of soap.
Footnote 1: This regiment afterwards mutinied to a man.
