The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
Many dead, who still lie unburied on the enemy's ground, bear them
witness. And the highest encomium is due in general to the detachments
Medici and Melara, and to the Manara Bersaglieri, on the right wing, and
on the left to Major Cenni, of the staff of the division; and, of the
Arcioni legion, to Captains Joanny, Baily, Romagnori; 1st Lieutenant
Carlotti; 2d Lieutenant Bellonghi; and to all the soldiers of that
corps. Of the Regiment of the Union, Capt. Colombani and Lieut. Dezzi
distinguished themselves. The soldiers are the same as those who so
lately defended the Casetta, near the Vascello.
And the detachment of the line should not be forgotten, commanded by
Sub-Lieutenant Ferrandi, of the 3d regiment, who showed themselves
openly, and intrepid under fire. When the firing had ceased, in
consequence of the repulse of the enemy, there was an almost perfect
silence, interrupted only by a few exchanges of shot, chiefly harmless.
Nothing important occurred before daybreak, and things still remain as
yesterday.
Salutation and brotherhood!
General Head-quarters, morning of June 26th, 1849.
GARIBALDI.
General commanding the 1st Division.
The following editorial passage follows the preceding report, in the
same paper, the _Monitore Romano_. As it relates to a subject of which
much use was afterwards made by the French and Popish writers, to
justify themselves, and falsely to accuse the Romans, it seems proper to
insert it here, for the information of the reader. In spite of what is
here said (greatly to the disgrace of the French invaders), many of the
statues, buildings, pictures, and other valuable "monuments of the
city," were injured, and some destroyed, by their bullets, grape-shot,
cannon-balls and bomb-shells. They chose their point of attack near St.
Peter's church and the Vatican palace, and sometimes appeared to aim
their artillery for the wanton destruction or injury of those and other
edifices.
From the Monitore Roman of June 26th, 1849.
The Paris _Constitutionnel_, and all the other journals of the (French)
government, make known the reason why General Oudinot has not yet
entered Rome, in the following passage:
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