"Massachusetts" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Theological Institute in 1848, and was ordained to the ministry in the Second Church in Amherst and became its pastor Nov. 7, 1849. He remained there till September 2, 1863 when he resigned to become chaplain to the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment. In this service he remained nearly a year, and in 1865 was appointed general agent of the American Missionary Association for Massachusetts, and in 1866 its District Secretary for New England, with office ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 2, June, 1898 • Various
... on the mothers, it's even harder on the Homeburg girls. They say there are one hundred thousand old maids in Massachusetts. I'll bet that's just about the number of Massachusetts young men who have gone West or somewhere, and haven't remembered the things they said at parting as well as the girls did. We've got plenty of girls in Homeburg who are ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch
... "First Kansas Colored," which began recruiting a little earlier, though it was not mustered in the usual basis of military seniority till later. [See Appendix] These were the only colored regiments recruited during the year 1862. The Second South Carolina and the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts followed ...
— Army Life in a Black Regiment • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... small cottage belonging to Richard Watson Gilder, at Tyringham, Massachusetts, Samuel Clemens and his daughters tried to plan for the future. Mrs. Clemens had always been the directing force—they were lost without her. They finally took a house in New York City, No. 21 Fifth Avenue, at the corner of Ninth Street, ...
— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine
... the "Peace Congress," might temporarily have turned the tide it was wholly powerless to dam; but the arch seceder, Massachusetts, manipulated even that slight chance of compromise. The weaker elements in convention were no match for the peaceful Puritan whom war might profit, but could not injure. Peace was pelted from under her olive with splinters of Plymouth Rock, ...
— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon
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