Guide to West Point, and the U.S. Military AcademyBoynton, Edward C. (Edward Carlisle)
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Guide to West Point, and the U.S. Military Academy
Boynton, Edward C. (Edward Carlisle)
West Point (N.Y.) -- Guidebooks
Yorktown 1862.
Gaines's Mill 1862.
Malvern Hill 1862.
Bull Run No. 2 1862.
Antietam 1862.
Fredericksburg 1862.
Chancellorsville 1863.
Gettysburg 1863.
Wapping Heights 1863.
Wilderness 1864.
Spottsylvania 1864.
North Anna River 1864.
Po-Potmail Creek 1864.
Coal Harbor 1864.
Petersburg 1864.
Lee's Surrender 1865.
The colors of some other regiments and batteries bear even a greater
number of inscriptions, but none date as far back in the past.
A pedestal and shell, brought from South Carolina, is inscribed on
its four sides by Rebel and Union hands, as follows:
FIRST FACE.
Fifteen Inch Hollow Shot, fired by the
Abolition Fleet of Iron Clads, at Fort Sumter,
April 7, 1863.
SECOND FACE.
Presented to the Citadel Academy,
By General G.T. Beauregard,
Charleston, S.C., April 27, 1863.
THIRD FACE.
Taken at Columbia, S.C., Feb. 17, 1865,
By the troops of the United States, under
Major-General W.T. Sherman.
FOURTH FACE.
Presented to the U.S. Military Academy,
By Major-General Wm. B. Hazen,
April 1, 1865.
The centre of the room is occupied by a model of the Silver Mine of
Valenciana, in Mexico, purchased in the City of Mexico in 1847, by
subscription among the officers of the army, whose names are affixed.
The upper surface represents the operatives, made of silver amalgam,
practising their several divisions of labor, while the sides exhibit
the galleries of the mine, with the miners at work. The case contains,
besides, many mineral specimens, and models of Aztec idols. The whole
is surmounted by an eagle and a portion of drapery taken from over the
Vice-President's Chair in the Mexican Senate Chamber.
In the CHAPEL, east of the Academic building, may be seen a fine
picture over the chancel, by Professor Weir, typical of Mars and
Minerva. On the west side, the walls present memorial tablets of the
general officers of the Revolution, and the guns presented by Congress
to Major-General Greene, implanted beside a niche of trophy colors
taken from English and Hessian regiments. On the east side are
memorial tablets of all the officers of our army who fell in the
Mexican War, and trophy guns and colors taken by Generals Scott and
Taylor, during their campaigns in the same war.
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