Register of Members, Annual Report of the Board of Managers, Annual Sermon, and Historical AddressSociety under the direction of the Secretary, 1897 |
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1891 Philadelphia ALBADÉ CABEEN ALEXANDER Anthony Wayne Applause April 13 battle BIDDLE Board of Managers British camp Captain Cavalry Chairman Chaplain CHARLES HENRY JONES Chestnut Hill Church City Colonel command Committee Continental Army death December December 19 DECHERT Delegates died elected ETHAN ALLEN ETHAN ALLEN WEAVER FRANCIS VON ALBADÉ FREDERICK GEORGE Germantown Great-great-grandson Harrisburg HENRY HOBART BELLAS HENRY JONES honor JAMES EDWARD CARPENTER JOHN WOOLF JOHN WOOLF JORDAN JOSEPH JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH July June 12 LL.D March 13 March 26 March 9 MEMBERSHIP military Militia Moravian Navy November NUMBER October officers patriotic Penna Pennsylvania Society Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Pittsburg President Regiment Revolution RICHARD MCCALL CADWALADER ROBERT SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER Schuylkill Second Lieutenant Secretary Society of Pennsylvania Society of Sons soldiers Surgeon troops U. S. Army Valley Forge Vice-President Washington Wilkes Barre WILLIAM MACPHERSON HORNOR WILLIAM WAYNE WOOLSEY HODGE
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Seite 121 - O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead.
Seite 93 - I can assure those gentlemen, that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside, than to occupy a cold, bleak hill, and sleep under frost and snow, without clothes or blankets.
Seite 95 - Else why so swell the thoughts at your Aspect above ? Ye must be Heavens that make us sure Of heavenly love ! And in your harmony sublime ' I 'read the doom of distant time ; That man's regenerate soul from crime Shall yet be drawn, And reason on his mortal clime Immortal dawn.
Seite 94 - Unprovided with this, or materials to raise them from the cold and wet earth, sickness and mortality have spread through their quarters in an astonishing degree. Nothing can equal their sufferings, except the patience and fortitude with which the faithful part of the army endure them.
Seite 79 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Seite 57 - O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.
Seite 94 - No spot on earth — not the plains of Marathon, nor the passes of Sempach, nor the place of the Bastile, nor the dykes of Holland, nor the moors of England, are so sacred in the history of the struggle for human liberty as Valley Forge.
Seite 50 - God, who visits the iniquities of the Fathers upon the Children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him, and shows mercy unto thousands in them that love Him, and keep His Commandments.
Seite 3 - It being evident from the steady decline of a proper celebration of the national holy days of the United States of America, that popular concern in the events and men of the War of the Revolution is gradually declining, and that such lack of interest is attributable, not so much to the lapse of time and the rapidly increasing flood of Immigration from foreign countries, as to the neglect, on the part of...