A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . 200 A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK the occasion. I could hardly hear the rattle of ourgun carriages, and only once or twice the music ofour band came to me muffled and quelled by theuproar. We knew it now, if we had not before di-vined it, that our great city was with us as one man,utterly united in the great cause we were marchingto sustain. This grand fact I learned by two hundreds of persons roared it into my ears, thou-sands slapped it into my back. ... So we saidgood-bye to Broadway, moved down
A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . 200 A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK the occasion. I could hardly hear the rattle of ourgun carriages, and only once or twice the music ofour band came to me muffled and quelled by theuproar. We knew it now, if we had not before di-vined it, that our great city was with us as one man,utterly united in the great cause we were marchingto sustain. This grand fact I learned by two hundreds of persons roared it into my ears, thou-sands slapped it into my back. ... So we saidgood-bye to Broadway, moved down Cortlandt Streetunder a bower of flags, and at half j^ast six shovedoff in a ferryboat. The place where the Seventh Regiment beganits existence has been marked by a tablet, wdiich youcan see at the southwest corner of Fulton and jSTassauStreets. It reads as follows: ON THIS SITE IN THE OLD SHAKESPEARE TAVERN WAS ORGANIZED THE SEVENTH REGIMENT NATIONAL GUARD, S. N. Y. AUGUST 25, 1824. To help on the cause of the Union, not menonly but money in abundance was the
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