how to buy Lurasidone onlineMassachusetts Volunteer Major, Paul Joseph Revere, was a grandson of Paul Revere, of Revolutionary War fame and also carried on a Boston Brahmin Legacy of serving in the United States military. A burly outdoorsman and champion of the poor, Revere was married, the father of two, and a successful businessman, in 1861, when he volunteered to serve in the Civil War. Paul Joseph Revere, a staunch abolitionist, shared with his mother before he enlisted,
“I have weighed it all and there is something higher still. The institutions of the country, indeed free institutions throughout the world, hang on this moment…. I should be ashamed of myself if I were to sit down in happy indulgence, and leave such a great matter as this to take its course…. I will never go without your consent; but I shall be humbled if I stay at home.”
Paul Joseph Revere, was born on September 10, 1832, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph and Mary Revere. He was educated in the schools in Boston, with occasional periods of country life at school, making friends in every place, and forming warm attachments for life with many of his chums. A close friend remembers Revere,
“When a boy, in that truest of all republics, the playground, his companions instinctively recognized in him a leader. There that keen sense of justice which seemed to be part and parcel of him was so conspicuous, that he was the well-known umpire in the boyish disputes of his companions, and we fondly recall the often-used expression, I’ll leave it to Paul.”
where to buy Lurasidone onlineIn 1849, Revere enrolled at Harvard University and graduated with the class of 1852. After graduation, he started a mercantile career, however, in 1854, on his father’s urging he traveled to the Great Lakes region to investigate copper mining opportunities in the area of Lake Superior. The following four years he undertook the care of an extensive wharf in Boston and there exerted himself for the benefit of laborers and exposed women and children.
In 1859, he married Lucretia Watson Lunt, daughter of Reverend W. P. Lunt, D. D. and made their home near his ill and aged father. When the Civil War began, though occupying a prestigious place in the community and surrounded by everything calculated to make life pleasant, he at once volunteered his services and accepted a commission as major in the 20th Massachusetts regiment of volunteers.
Not long after, he and his older brother, Edward, a surgeon, were both wounded and captured, at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff and imprisoned, at Libby Prison, an old warehouse in Richmond, Virginia. Observation and reflection, while a prisoner, had confirmed his original conviction, that the war of the Rebellion was a war for the supremacy or extermination of human slavery. He clearly saw that the institution of slavery was the salient point of the Rebellion, and that the success of the Union arms, even if it demanded “the last man and the last dollar,” was an imperative duty.
After a lengthy and excruciating incarceration, Revere and his brother were finally exchanged. He next participated in the campaign on the James river and at Antietam was on General Sumner’s staff, where his brother was killed ministering the wounded, Revere, was complimented for his gallantry and promoted to the rank of colonel and command of the 20th Massachusetts. Having received a severe wound, Revere had a long period of pain and rehabilitation.
On July 2, 1863 as Revere was leading his troops at Gettysburg he was wounded in the chest and died on July 4, 1863, only 30 years old. He was laid to rest at the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. After his death, Revere was posthumously promoted to Brigadier General, from July 2, 1863, for “gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., where mortally wounded.” He was survived by his wife Lucretia and daughter Pauline.
Lurasidone (Latuda) over the counterIn 1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior, another comrade in the 20th Massachusetts, who was not present at Gettysburg, gave a Memorial Day speech titled “In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched by Fire” in which he recalled Revere,
“I see one – grandson of a hard rider of the Revolution and bearer of his historic name – who was with us at Fair Oaks, and afterwards for five days and nights in front of the enemy the only sleep that he would take was what he could snatch sitting erect in his uniform and resting his back against a hut. He fell at Gettysburg.”
Massachusetts Volunteer Major, Paul Joseph Revere, in the true Legacy of the Boston Bramin, was an older, established family and business man. A champion for the underdog and down trodden. However, Revere left the comfort of hearth, home and family in order to support and serve his country and the ideals of the constitution, he held so dear.
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WRT Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and Edward Revere: Union 20th Mass Vol Inf Regimental Surgeon, Maj. Edward Revere, removed a minie ball from Lt. Oliver Wendell Homes Jr’s wound after his evacuation from the Balls Bluff Battlefield, VA in Oct 1861. When OWH Jr. died in 1935 (Age 90), three minie balls (Balls Bluff VA (1861), Antietam, MD (1862), and Chancellorsville VA (1863)) extracted from his CW wounds were later found in his suit coat pocket wrapped in paper. His old “blood stained” Union Army uniform was also found displaying his Brevet ‘Colonel’ rank which also became his epitaph.
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Source: White, G. Edward, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes:Law and the Inner Self.New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-19-510128-7
Harvard Biographies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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The Balls Bluff VA National Military Cemetery near Leesburg in Loudoun County, VA is the third smallest of the National Military Cemeteries. The half acre cemetery contain 25 graves for the 54 unknown (except one) fallen soldiers of the Union 20th Mass Vol INF Regt (AKA “The Harvard Regiment”)..
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FYI- An irony of History at Gettysburg,,,on July 1st ,1863, Col. Rufus Dawes, 6th Wisc Vol Inf Regt was engaged in checking A.P. Hill Corp incl. Henry Heth’s Division on the Cashtown road trying to enter Gettysburg from the north. BG John Buford’s dismounted cavalry was heavily engaged with Heth’s soldiers and soon got support from the arrival of MG John Reynold’s 1st Corp including the iron Brigade. MG Reynolds was KIA on July 1st.
Rufus Dawes was the grandson of William Dawes who was the co-rider with Paul Revere on the famous ride to warn the citizens of the Boston area of the British offensive on April 18/19th 1775.
Rufus’s son, Charles Dawes, would become Calvin Coolidge’s ‘first’ VP (1920-1924).
In addition to Edward Revere, M.D. (WIA at Balls Bluff, VA;POW; and KIA at Antietam in Sept 1862) and Paul Revere (KIA on July 2, 1863 at Gettysburg, they had an uncle, BG John Revere who also served the Union and also served in the U.S. Navy.
Many of the fallen CW officers of the “Harvard” Regt are buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge,MA. incl. BG Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Cavalry Brigade Commander, and a kinsman
Terrific new book: Gettysburg, The Last Invasion, by Allen C. Guelzo.
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Thanks for all of the additional information, the “old guy” finds it all fascinating, as do the readers of this blog. Guelzo is a must read, the stack continues to grow. Thanks again,
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