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Governor
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to
Europe
Regard
to
Colonel
Couch,
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of the Union
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Bounties
Readville-Letter
Adjutant-General-The
Recruiting
of
Beginning
of
1864
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Governor by
Freeman
Clarke
and his Cabinet
Cabinet
into
power
in
the three
dis-
cussed
which
Governor
Banks
was
to
the harsh and unjust provisions of the act of Congress
passed
in
1850,
known
as
turned
ers
claimed
The opinion of the
States,
Massachusetts man,
 a
positive,
of the owner
Supreme
approved
by
confirmed
Legislature
to
the
sections
of
in any
occurred
in
had
been
country.
The
lapse
be
broken.
He
so
many
or
to
prepare
that
war, when
concerning
he
companies of
aids,
Horace
;
Governor
Baldwin Mr.
and close.
The Massa-
for it was the
The whole
teer
militia,
5,593.
were paid
the dor-
be
placed
 For
how
State
black
tide
true to her
necessary to
mittee
a
similar
solves which had
resolves were
-The
day,
and
considered.
he
could not abide by her opinions, since they might desecrate
the soil of Massachusetts
let blood come.
the bidding
resolves,
and
people
of
Massachusetts,
and
ing the
of Kentucky, as
the increase
of the militia for the bill of Mr. Banfield, of
Roxbury,
-yeas
96,
Volunteer
Militia.
artillery
organization
of
other
hundred privates, and a
farrier
repealed.
Sect.
3.
This
act
shall
take
effect
suffering in
the
suffer-
ing
elsewhere,
our own affairs
fulfilled
troops of
honor
W illiamSchouler,
commissioners
appointed
to
represent
the
Commonwealth
the
and no full or
Constitution, each of
failed
was adopted
by the
the sanction of
vote,
either
 
 On
Feb.
6,
a
second
Sargent, who
met him
again later
not
39
Your Excellency's
most obedient,
Harrison Ritchie,
least
one
district.
them;
necessary:
that
arriv-
February 8th, in
certain suggestions in regard
letter
that
I
his two aides,
letter of
introduction to
had obtained
notice this.
would
of Mr.
Goddard's errand,
not
know
yet
what
is
sea,
tary wished to issue his proposals on Monday, if possible,
and
hoped
these
and
previous
day,
and
that
1
had
conveyed
yesterday,
if
possible,
and
get
of
our
delegation
to
and
us
already.
opinion with
see
what
do
last night, though, for my own pleasure, 1 should have
liked to
this great crisis.
this morning that my
not
come
through
to
you
has
proved
standing and communication
prove
very
to
me
by
at
the
time
the
Senate and House, with power
enough,
a
resistance
Massachusetts
battle.
He
knows
that
over. If
a gun
is fired
alarm.
you will
fidelity to the
and
brightness.
and the
loyal States.
Her militia
organizing.
enforced.
The
of
country sel-
-
William
J.
Dale,
Medical
Service-Action
Governor
to
Secre-
tary
Cameron
-
Regi-
ment
Regiment
to
Washington
at
land
in
;
day,
Adjutant-General
By command
the
4
Fourth at
Faneuil Hall
steps
military
medical
of
the
of charge. A meeting of the
Boston Bar was held, at which it was voted to take charge of all
cases of other attorneys while
absent in
the war,
and that
liberal provision
the sick and wounded, and protect the physical, moral, and
religious welfare
Rev. Mr. Cudworth, pastor of the Unitarian Church in East
Boston.
crisis, in which he
his
raised
by
and
that
they
over.
had given
soldiers' families.
On this occasion, the pulpit was draped with the American
flag.
of May,
enlargement of
not be performed by one
person
rience
in
senior aide-de-camp
duties
had previously been performed, during the week, by the aides-
de-camp of the
was received
executive
and
Colonels
the Governor's per-
emergency
to
may
be,
for
the
of the
credit
to
such
;
through
Had the route
avoided.
to
understand,
if,
as
may
Lincoln,
Washington
to
be
inaugurated,
perilous
death,
have
of
the
my office,
Annapolis and
and arsenals with forces
would
Lincoln would
delphia.
He
troops
to
with the Administration, and
feared the worst consequences.
stood
river Bridge, about
to give
information which
case
combustible
travelled had
of the way.
he would not
life would
find
him
I t
turned out,
that all
that had
been communicated
as strong circum-
there
were
to
be
destroyed,
and
Washington
cut
of about
whitewash,
saturated
with
train
concentrate
all
of trouble.
Baltimore, and thence to
the Northern
Central, and
of
be renewed
to
knowledge, and
arranged
procession,
facts
his
journey
to
saw
the detective
up,
Mr. Lincoln
in
as he passed,
'Well, old fellow,
train to send a package by it, or you would
have
1,
had Old Abe on
life, he shall have
moment that his duties
A man
strongly resembling
Mr. Lincoln
had come
down to
the train,
the
;
brake,
saw Mr. Lincoln, in the
hands of a friend,
delivered into
the hands
morning
his
breakfast.
agreed
'Your
been
delivered,'
signed
of
joy
and
a
devout
thanksgiving
to
Him
from
setts, and
Richardson, captain
16th. Its
your
fellow-citizens
will
be
justified
trial
as
a
people
we
might
show
tenderness of
failed, wherever
he may
Pilgrims
field, I thank
to the
call of
the morning of
coal,
when
in Lowell. The
at
one
from
Sixth were Edward
Emery,
Thomas
welcome,
quartered
for
until the 18th.
The field and
;
and Samuel
son,
Boston
to
American
hearts, as
the official
representative of
soldiers, citizens, and
the
falls
before
us.
With
?
and
children
you
may
leave,
and,
as
you
will
be
faithful
advanced guard of
and
three
and said,
the
labors
morning, a messenger
General Butler,
The
Governor's
orders
were
the
battery
might
be
night.
The
Adjutant-General
would
be
ready
by
of it he did not know. The
ad-
;
impressive and
primeval
Chester Square, he learned that the adjutant had sailed for
Europe the week
Street, where
lived.
He
purpose of the errand.
hved, and
all wanted
company
John P. Ordway, of Boston, surgeon; F. Le Baron Monroe,
assistant-surgeon
the Third
to
 
companies in the
sent to
get
water's edge,
excepting the
'United States;'
enemy had
almost obstructed
the chan-
nel. The
of June.
disastrous
battle,
military record.
sacrifice life
in the
to
offer
of
George
mob
Still the
streets
accordance
as a
biography
order
to
him that
REBELLION.
of things in Baltimore, and of the impossibility of his going
that
way,
as
and
with artillery,
to resist
would
ground, by
;
to
Seventh,
come in
possession of,
and urge
went
I earnestly advised
course,
as
I had heard that the rebels had erected batteries on the
banks
of
the
Potomac.
Washington,
as
the next best thing to going to Perryville, the Perryville route
being quicker than the
joined General Butler at
Gen-
Station, in the
'
military
the
of the Susquehanna, unless
engine
that
and salt
pork bearing
the same
free.
General
Buder
man-of-war.
General
Butler
United-States
House
of
Representatives,
recently exhibited in
in the
His
expresses
a
of having
The
when it was
end of
the garrison commanders.
;
with Virginia and
their patriotism and
August,
old
quarters.
In
the
manly bearing,
as by
volunteer
militia.
Their
record
is
one
which
will
the
day
The three-months
Among these
ereux
side
of
shadow
which
name Chambers and Pratt and Parker
and Prescott and Keyes
were
eloquence. The Union,
passed,
pledging
life
and
fortune
to
Independence
at
home.
companies were
offered than the Government would receive;
and more articles of clothing and stores of provisions than the
men
required.
The
public
The
year;
but
him
into
rebel-
lion.
16,
until this self-preserving
smiled upon
men
1
destroyed
the
tea,
and
patriots felt they
end,
as it was with the old Mother Country, after wars between
White
War
Department.
He
concluded
heroes
of
'76
Let
yet see the nation united, and our old flag
without
Advertiser says,
siasm,
and at the close of his speech he was loudly cheered.
Loud
calls
upon the balcony.
In response, he
in an
past
week,
address them.
The crowd
accept;
but,
to
Mr.
Webster's
regiment
immediately
volunteered
to
serve
for
three
years
in the great Music Hall, which was crowded in every
part
speech
and
He
exhaustion
and carry Lexington and the
19th
of
which
are
now
coffm
;
farmers
of
Worcester,
;
may
think
all
Genius of Liberty robed
in
her
diadem,
Boston.
the
city
had
height
the
national
The ceremonies
of
the
Union  
Courage
to
the
heart
and
strength
to
the
shall be
the
Capitol,
from
triumph
be
the
The gentleman
of the Democratic
ability.
Notwithstanding
his
kind and generous
;
almost within the
meeting.
ladies through him
regiments.
Acknowledges
from Dr.
taken
up
appointed under
Phillips,
Cambridgeport,
all applica-
the parties.
steamer before midnight
wing,
under
Colonel
Lawrence,
their march.
of
a
first-
go
where
he
may
be
wanted
for
six
weeks?
A
first-rate
armorer,
Charles
with
acknowl-
edges
receipt
of
a
the families
may
Washington
this
evening,
if
he
had
to
eighty-eight
S.G.
of
Writes
to
President
Lincoln,
setts and the militia.
Writes
her proportion
of the
purchase
two
thou-
regard to
the Execu-
tive Council,  to place guns on board the ship, and to
have
for
the
defence
of
to
gentlemen
urge
you
to
hold
requisition for them.
ready,
without
waiting
requisitions?
WTiat
Fort
which
I
can
request you to
defence,
be detailed
soon be able
of
adjutant
we
let
with
authority
to
give
us
some
to
the
 
the
earliest
practical
moment,
probably
gift of
families of
tion
committee, for appropriate
task without adding
Also,
a
a check of
To Governor
the Adjutant-General's
office, embracing
the same
and ap-
plications made
most
part,
to
a
warm
to
contribute
a
the ice
man
whom
you
your
citizen and brave soldier.
more, but
neither of
killed, Charles
his family
was
bodies
of
imposing.
In
sepul-
chres .
Draper, of New York,
brief notice
 Cam-
had sailed,
provisions for the
Rifle
Battalion.
After
taking
out
the Potomac
should share
should share
Matthews, her com-
receive your directions.
to
General
Scott,
per
lb
160.00
-
 
to take charge of
such
of
their
supplies
as
are suitable to their use, a d pay for the same,
as
suggested.
taken the responsibility of joining the underwriters and merchants of
Boston in buying, fitting out, and, with the help of Captain Hudson,
arming
 Neither of the vessels
little above
ful to
the public
receive
the
vessels
at
their
give them employment, in
to
individuals,
with
threatened
piratical
on our
as
red
tape
more regiments to
 
for some drill-
ing here. The men we offer, besides fighting, can do any other
things
for
which
clams
up
ready
for
fantry and one
and enlisted
men of
No. 15
War, in which directions
each
State
was
to
furnish;
eighteen
days after the call had been made, that the quota
which
at least 10,000
by
letter,
But, before
I
first
port question. In common with
all Massachusetts, I then
to
window was
window was
clear case
means
two or three
I
write
our neighboring States. The gentleman stated that
Governor
Sprague
;
Massachusetts men there as soon as
'
Washington first.
by
the
Adjutant-General
show
which
inspired
the
people :
Bridge' in
peril I
however
humble,
where
I
I
wiU
hasten
The writer went
Fifth
Regiments.
He
chaplain for
glad to accompany any regiment to the capital or
elsewhere,
 I wish
branch
go
sustained,
and
that
cause:
every
come
for any
position in
I could
be useful.
be brought
mainly
in
been confined to my house a
day
in
the
use, not show, may I beg of
you,
graphs,
the
public?
the
oldest
and
been
Governor
many years had
in Somerville,
and was
pleasant.
On
the
ing
pleasant.
On
the
3d
of
August,
1861,
guished
comfort
of
our
brave
volunteers.
roll of
the
front,
result of fifty years'
the East.
and Indian Islands.
months, including June,
possible.
It
back of the head
prefer felt.
excellent
was never adopted,
Federal authorities.
bly be
guard
of
students
to
Cambridge.
May
10.
of the
subject,
months
Une of com-
munication with him.
yard
On
the
24th
responsibility
exercise the power,
each
despatches
I
Upon
the
George
S.
Boutwell,
that the
was
Just
Under
the
circumstances,
however,
she
seemed
or
to
the
General
Government.
I
and
own
half
understanding
managed
as
;
coast-guard
or
despatch
basis, to make
her pay her
to Captain Hudson
to put the
matter into the
acted
effi-
part of the
quota, such vessels
an
will be appointed
country.
Baltimore
troops through Maryland
Washington with
people
are
gradually
and
the
regulations
the highlands that
under any
North. It is at
I shall
now, that the
cold
and
dampness
of
the
place.
He
my hearing, that
as
Boutwell.
While
at
;
seems to be the strong desire of every
one
here,
a
the occasion, the
of their best
was
a
greatly
needed
is far behind
There
are
a
number
of
bills
here
a
faithful,
sensible
man,
with
a
and
to
a
great
variety
shall have
inter-
meddling
left
 Cambridge
to
take
the purchase
the business
Annap-
olis
their
They had
city in the evening,
hardly able to stand
the
sickness and misery of
not
that.
They
only
been
partially
landed
blanket,
and
company
to
I
will
write
orders for Massachusetts regiments
been forwarded.
we close this part of the correspondence relating to matters
connected with the three months' troops, and
the disposition of
the War Department
been
forwarded
at
Howe
arrived
this
urgent representations
war.said that none could be received at present, and that
he could
asked
as
to receive ten
to receive ten
to accept
only three.
the
impres-
is
not
clearly
was
fortunate
you
regiment that
of
October,
1864,
he
was
made
a
his horse,
and died on
the Adju-
tant-General's Report
custody
twelve
battle-flags,
of him
and
bravest.
with
a
thorough
comprehension
to
;
Commonwealth
He went by
provision
made
for
their
comfort
and
efficiency.
There
that
that stern
rebuke the
occasion
prose-
cute
he
should
sons
came
given.
He
proceeds,
military
nor
It
was
simply
a
question
of
good
He
then
speaks
of
 the
benign
Annapolis.
The
no
city
a vote of
arisen, as
from the preponderance
shall
be
by
poison,
or,
as
in
us.
purpose,
the
after
non-appearance
by
General
Butler
to
Eighth
Regiment,
he was
months'
The
war began to assume a giant form, that increased in stature
and
ordered
lo
garrison
Fort
Warren,
where
to Brigadier-General
at the front, and
at Camp
18,
1861.
Rifles, Major
afterwards known
in
Boston
Harbor,
to
which
a
mand. He
remained on
was
broken
up.
the forts performed
lumber
: they now
from
might
to
not
accept
their
issued,
A
three years' men.
My dear Friend,
-Your last letter,
in which was
your sympathy
on, we desire
inquiries
It ought
all to
interest.
are not as expeditious as
they
would
away.
refer
and Mr. Roulstone,
of the same carriage department, and see if, with their suggestions,
he
cannot
inspire
some
branches of
received until the
enclosed herewith
regiments.
rather
than
to
than eight regiments,
serve
discharge. In making up
General Order No.
12 was issued
hope that more
Among the
you
herewith
with the
to my application in favor of taking additional forces, author-
izing me
the loyal and patriotic
with
the
terms
inst.
pressed.
On the
 he
dead
The delay at
resources of men and money at
her com-
mand. Accordingly,
order, referred to
importance of meeting
time, may
army, whose long
and
though
white
be
their
affectionate
peace, not less than
of the
skill,
and
handwork
 But how shall I record the great and sublime uprising
of the
pathos, or
enacted, passing
before our eyes in the villages and towns of our
dear old
winters: or
Lexington
Common,
19th of
Lee, Davis
Peirce of
Hyde
of
Newton.
Mr.
sections,
entitled
of
a
military
force.
W.
behalf of the
the Judiciary.
seventy-one others,
allow cities and towns to raise money for the support
of
volunteers
of Hampden, a
joint committee was
177
out
two
opposed
out the
report.
the
Special
Committee,
reported
a
bill
-The
motion
to
reconsider
the
12
-
bill
great
part
on
of
a
whereby
referred
to
rules.
same
committee,
reported
 
States, ought not to
Cambridge, and at Captain's
families of
;
 
rejected
gard to
tions
would
do
one
that I am
vote
present,
the
prorogation
of
with
a
message
from
the
Governor,
rogued
We
have
given
bear
ions of the
1,
1863,
Legislature, and
the actual
to the
gave
the
Gov-
the Commonwealth,
for sums
not exceeding,
Commonwealth,
mus-
and instruction
the
not to
of in-
fantry, and one battery of six pieces of artillery, at any one
time
until
mustered
the President should
these forces was
him. He had the
the
camp
within which
war.
the State,
and organ-
State to accommo-
was,
15,
when
it
by
Colonel
a
in
Fifth,
and
Sixth
Regiments
regiments.
Colonel Couch at  Camp
Old Colony, near Taunton,
intelligence,
high
brigadier-general of volunteers, and was killed in the Battle of
Spottsylvania,
Va.,
May
10,
1864.
rank
of
brigadier-general,
and
Major Robert H.
commis-
the
death
city of Wor-
cester. It left
the war, was
of this
of the United
render
you
my
sincere
of giving him
the sick
and wounded,
brigadier-general
by
Governor
Andrew,
by
obeyed and
thirteenth day
of June,
Governor to
the rank
the early
part of
these
and
Massachusetts officers
homes.
With
regard
to
the
perform,
you
will,
so
a
was familiarly known as
which Colonel
It
became
a
home
Massachusetts, appointed
of their soldiers.
Governor,
These
issued in
several
boxes
and
Aide-de-camp.
Charles
to
fate
behalf
been
distributed,
sent to
one
and
a
half
pounds
powder.
through heeding advice given
the Governor or the
to
disband
Gov-
we have no
furnished
by
them.
year was the
Monu-
ment
large
concourse
of
people
was
erected,
Association, the
men of the
Hill with their
blood, he said,
controversy of our time,
are
of march, and in
through the
till its lofty
view. I now stand
time
whatever
summit for
before the close
people
volunteering,
offered
them-
selves
the
gaps
which
so it
was all
to
speak
the great orator
whom
sigh
It was fitting
that his remains
broad
and his
to the inmost core.
prime
the
gun trade,
who has
the means
nothing
in
France,
under the
emergency, that
we ought
and con-
tracted for
19,380
arms and
equipments in
the procurement of arms
patriotic duty to
him
to
the
grati-
that of every
succeeding
year,
in
his
proclamation,
stating
the
number
equalizing, as
far as
place
be
made
obtain them
thin clothing
such an opportunity
point, agreed at
S.
with
McClellan;
army, at
form a
hands
of
Sept.
28.
have not heard from
writes to
It is
my desire that the regiment under Colonel Wilson shall form a
part of
advised
recent
information
of
the
you.
 There
seems to be no diminution of the zeal or the patriotism of
the
people
are in
will
war,
as
chusetts families, and depressed
Bull
Run,
people.
high
army
officers.
In
-
pressure of employment, and
in
the
of mind,
confided,
I
see
of
slowness,
and
ring
in
spirit
grand conflict of Western
efforts of war.
will
know
communicate to you
this afflicting informa-
bravery
of
your
JOHN A.
J.
in the battle
of Ball's Bluff.
Baltimore for the rebels,
and says,  It will
post, as you
aim, its be-all
war,
the convention to adopt
money will be
their Government
are made to suspect
similar extracts
from the
be
Mr.
Cameron
four
days
before.
Upon
the other
the Eastern
Bay-State Regiment
lery, and
Boston, Oct. 12, 1861.
by
General
Butler,
but
upon duty, would
the power of recommenda-
 His Excel-
Butler to the
The
selection
by
consulta-
an
unformed
regiment,
not
a
personal
objection,
being
absent
duty,
seems
to
him
very
objec-
tionable.
It
corps.
whom he would
Butler's
regiments,
cannot
protect
and
commissioned,
New England,
letter
Browne how
am
assured,
by
him.
to
your
ing to
be your
Excellency's co-ordinate.
the chief of
Colonel
following extracts :
whether temporarily
within such limits as the
'co-ordinate' of
gentleman of General
quote
the
he resigned
character
months afterwards, bravely
fighting, we have
thought it proper
Under
date
my disposal
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, now stationed at Fortress Monroe,
is
the
person
to
whom
you
ad-
1,
I
would
a letter addressed by him to the
Adjutant-General
United
States
army,
the
Executive
of
received
man,
to
enter
his
country.
These
gentlemen
or testimony whatsoever,
received
no reason what-
made
I have had with Colonel Wyman
during
the
in the army of the United
States volunteers
myself
through
duty,
both
to
the
Common-
proper pains
to see
that justice
stated,
he
ited
higher
military
of the Federal Gov-
holds the place of
and closes with
organizing
and
equipping
two
regiments
which
the
Governor
had
offered
November, after the
outside parties
but
one had the right to appoint or to commission offi-
cers but the Governor.
the
responsibility
entire
hands of the Governors of
States,
must
be
apparent
to
every
acts to the people of
their
several calls
arranged plan of operations,
parties.
There
could be no State within a State. The Governor was the
supreme executive
its
how-
complete it.
was modified, and
Governor
in
so
doing,
sustain the whole
his
as to
the course
year 1861 and
sent
to
the
front.
The
Twenty-
eighth,
Washington and at
all
rifles,
interdict
against
war
length, to the
was
ride in safety.
from us
not of
he regards its ulti-
what
is
Bowman, lie in
the Com-
months'
service
Commonwealth,
from
the
been claimed
Dorchester, the Committee
field may
Jan.
be
printed.
Jan.
the
the
Committee
send
other articles
discussed during
may sue out a
clad
in
which
the
family
All
such
Massachusetts
wounded
of which were
State
such of our
'
the
weeks
the
ships
were
at
sea
which he
many of the
April
19,
1861,
it
was
taken
in
car-
Here the first wounded
held,
to
organize
a
society
to
look
out
for
the
wants
of
Massachusetts,
in
dead,
of
called
the
Massachu-
setts
Association.
in the
war. The
names of
William Stimpson, I. 0. Wilson, Nathan
S.
H.
H.
Pangborn,
J.
Wesley
Jones,
Z. K. Pangborn, Judson S. Brown, B. Fanuel Craig, B. W.
Perkins.
The
George
W.
;
treasurer
was
Prince
of all arms
Hall's
Hill
though
it
was
within
the
the skeletons of dead
his tent, and
saw
most
of
Baltimore
in
same
General Halleck
Willard's almost in disguise
made most
determina-
tem of bribing
General
Burnside
offered
Colonel
to
reinforce
against
an
Fort-
ress
one
to
get
up
this
river.
uniform an 'open
Colonel Ritchie.
them
returned.
length in
regard to
filling the
Forty-first Regiments,
Eleventh
one different organizations
The
Legislature
of
Massachusetts
passed
Mr. J. P.
fulfilment
Massachusetts regiments
solitary case,
regiments depended
company, containing
Treasury
on
interest,
five hundred
dollars a
at
of it
which we are
United
States,
and
only
just
four steamers, belonging
for action
and in
;
tion
here
made
was
assistant, Mr. J.
and command.
It appears
that Mr.
chief part
of his
May
26
in
the
forts
in
Company
Battalion, which
was ordered
to the
duty
until
Jan.
1,
1863.
mustered
of
1862,
upwards
of
and sent
in
service full,
pursuance
of
year
to
third and Thirty-fourth,
Thirty-
 
-
Navy
hundred thousand men, to
Commonwealth,
States, for
enlist more
eagerly. In
recruits.
military
commander.
means you may
advance with
can scarcely
have
been
have
a
well
as
other
Slates
which
challenges
;
mechanical defects of system and method, I feel as if
we
will ever
great
an
archangel,
or
press the sentiments
hour.
of September,
active was
telegraphed the Governor
forward
hospital
stores.
legs,
and
 how
funny
they
felt
after
taken off;
of
our
wounded
men.
wished for
What
qualities
we
know
is the
saw
necessary in a great offi-
cer,
presented to us
soldiers, was General Hooker. They
loved
to
felt
It was
curious and
interesting to
in a
manner not
affection.
Burnside and
bellion
mind and
the
Virginia
lar
great
Webster,
swear
that
we
ernor
a
communications,
proposed
escaped slaves then within
back
their rights
the river,
or two,
two mustering
officers in
and
he
cometh
ought
to
be,
command
of
at  Camp Meigs,
Militia, under
nucleus of this
officers
and
men.
It
left
Boston,
Oct.
22,
by
transport,
The Forty-fifth Regiment
mand of
the
regiments
that
were
de-
It
sailed
from
Boston,
three regi-
State,
when
it
great
degree
by
Marsh, with
safety
in
the
latter
four
last
fall,
until
he
He
several others,
He was
would
as
provost-
was
matters. In
the mean
time, the
by
the
War
Department
tion of iron-clad
the President
to
steamers for the protection
to
will-
that
sorry to find a State entering the market in competition
with Government,
were
at
least
two
such
offer, to
curing
founderies which
;
by
him
of
Mr.
the
Treasurer
proper
James
M.
Shute,
James
Ritchie,
The Governor then states,
order, being communicated
of the
Governor and
on
the
part
thing herein contained,
to
express
an
opinion.
Adjutant-General, Quartermaster-General, Master of Ordnance,,
and the
tures;
volunteer
past
year.
He
speaks
of
constant obligation.
of praise
fies as
nothing but
a
hence,
the
children
every regiment; and I would then, by
word
rebels
too.
You
and ascribe to my
character, the apparent
in connection
coincidences of
should have
14,
in
military service.
The Adjutant-General
cause,
and
undaunted
courage,
set
against
employing
In the
experiment of
withdraw his prohibition, so
fluence.
Permission
was
not
given.
listed in the
as
favor of
another
effort
day
of
States,
recapitulating
Massachusetts
the
Gulf
importance.
He
believed
the
expe-
dition,
views
a
view
by
such
an
expenditure.
been
ordered
to
Tennessee, received
of which
by Mr. Andrews, superintend-
he says,
were United States soldiers.
should be selected
as
proposition favorably,
of April
mences as follows
in
obedience
as a surgeon
the battles before
The
The defenceless
attracted
the
mensely to the
since
the
war
the
sub-
the
defences,
supply
than eight-inch
and
of
old
like
the
in the harbor
ered
 all
stuff.
Mr.
then
in
London,
bring
on
another
excitement
similar
to
fronn
dimly.
It
needs
infinite
of interest
at the
to Mr.
by
and
Whitworth
guns,
or
agent be
in the
tant-General's office,
calling his
soon
as
possible.
Many
vexations they
of
a
class.
this
appropriation
of
money,
see how he can
gratuity of
ten or
fifteen dollars
some ener-
above.
commissioned offi-
they
There were others
into which this company was put
reported
to
;
commission
who
This petition
was referred
above
recited,
have
no
right
to
me, shortly after the
much
modesty
Massachusetts,
more
suffering
and
been
well qualified to
it
at
once.
Feb.
26,
until
March
22,
I
sharpshooters, unless as a company to
complete
regiment in
complete it,
thing.
United
States
refused
to
accept
it
after
labor and expenses.
He is a
peace, contentment,
and happiness
deserter,
at
it. If
I am
successful, I
company
his cell, and had a
brief
conversa-
fill
up
from Lieutenant
wrong that gentlemen should go to
the ex-
destination after
toils and
to be
an
order
(No.
110),
a
batteries
here
com-
panies.
But,
on
the
was received by
The officers
have been
across the
detached
service.
that place.
port
to
the
Provost-Marshal-General,
of the brigade.
post
Engineer
Department
Teche, and proceeded
men
voted
to
receive
it to
proceed to
The Forty-fourth Regiment
on Williamston
Goldsborough expedition Dec.
the
battle
of
eight killed and four-
Golds-
borough
on
command
duty
at
Newbem,
14,
1863,
forgetfulness, always
men
of
their
command.
his
acts
of
kindness
precaution,
steady
nerve,
contributed
at
Washing-
and
sachusetts
Volunteers.
The
Forty-third
12th of December,
Eight companies
General Foster's
with
the
enemy
regiment
the
Trent
encounter. General
Foster recalled
city, the
the
entrenchments.
upon the same road to reinforce
Colonel
Amory,
but
returned
to
its
two
Massachusetts, a
Jan.
17,
1863.
an expedition
to Pollocks-
ville. Having
ing driven
;
for the comfort
stationed at
City
30,
On
returned
to
Newbem
greatly
old quarters
men,
to
division
the
regiment
was
immediately
moved
forward
and succeeded in driving them back,
so
May
27.
soon
under
at this
1,
sustained
which
five
miles
from
Port
vance
cities
and
towns
brought
to
of
the
cities
As a
general rule,
town authorities
mustered into the service,
forwarded
to
their
regiments
The
the way from
;
It
was
instigated
by
our regiments at
Congress,
degree
which
spread to
armory of the
Eleventh Battery, in
that place,
his battalion
was ready.
the
evening;
Boston, and
Boston, and
at
Medford
Somerville,
Captain
B.
serve Guards of Cambridge,
and
the
Reserve
Guard,
mand of Fort
military duty.
Volunteers, on
duty at
 
between
164,178.
The
which
amounted
to camp at
de-
serted.
73
1,
adequate cause
than
filled
without
resort
war
with
a
surplus
of
13,083
men.
have it
Secretary of War
to Colonel
be
sent
to
to
New
troops and of the
On
the
organization
and contended that the
of
be
no
hesitation
or
delay.
The
by
ner
of
doubt,
Wise
says
he
has
received
no
answer
to
a
United-
knees,
but
the other, he held
the Stars and Stripes
on
flag;
I mention
 Of the death of
Colonel Shaw and his
formation
at
He says that Colonel
fort.
He
severe
indeed
upon
at
our
men,
the
and
bravely
at
the
very
front,
a
by
a
letter
con-
Haggerty
of
volunteer militia of
boundaries
well as
Commonwealth
was
fly
the
and
established
with
Fort
Independence.
Colonel
-
do it.
We have
Adjutant-
General
of
whose
manufacture,
each of the
unfaltering
service
two hundred and thirty-six
(101,236).
Such was the record of the State when the Rebellion entered
upon its
ond
Second,
man
of
letters,
enemy; but
the armament
in
reality
of
either not
suggested the
the
would
require
and
the
The seizure
guns needed.
of
in
the
large
ordnance
ever,
experience necessary
the
cessation of the demand consequent upon a return of peace, be
left
unemployed,
forward to engage in
and
Massachusetts could
production.
profitable employment
given to
with
encounter between the
necessity
of
much greater numbers than
report.
to pro-
representations
the parties
stood ready
contracts to each of
construction
of
sufficiently large to justify
necessity of
use
appeared
tion of a
greater number, if
their early success
guns in
great numbers.
about
April,
1862,
re-
for
total contract prices, and
Blakely's guns, with
eral
introduction
of
at
once.
shipped for the United
eighteen
spindles of cast-iron,
stronger material.
Colonel Ritchie, au-
ordered.
But
three
11
might be secured
the
War, to pro-
United-States Military Hospital,
festivities,
and
the
delights
of
the
two
his return
and
the hospital
to
the
coast
young men in mathematics,
to
at least out
millions
tending to pre-
The Governor closed his address in the
following
eloquent
and
;
chusetts
debt
Ubiquitous as the stock they descend from, national in their
opinions
and
universal
where
they
thundered
down
from
the
of
a
inspirations of lofty
sf)eech,
By the
homely traditions
of. the
the
sea,-
parents and
In
a
their gore,
conduct
 
oceans, and has modified
hearts
regenerated, and
commission concerning the military
Massachusetts.
April
13.
-A
message,
transmitting
a
printed
copy
of
the
of the Commonwealth,
Quartermaster-General,
Surgeon-General,
documents
as
will,
to
a
rea-
Commonwealth, and
the
exclusively
to
matters
of
a
local
character.
soldiers
left little
great many
duties to
of
them
portant questions
addressed by
sentatives
promptly as, the Governor
letters were
the
question.
from
to
Adjutant-General,
the
which
Department of
of
the
service
of nearly
two
to
three
all commands
of their
speak of
recruits receive,
for it, it
would show
this letter
to Mr.
decision
of
Colonel
feeling will
be widely
of Colonel Fry
and
in
his
own
handwriting,
made
the
service into
popular disrepute.
their case which
they feel it
$400
will
be
re-enlist
the first
land.
I
have
heard
him
attacked.
any officer in
have
and
friend,
sion,
founded
au
The
twelve
companies
of
the
Second
ask
to
raise,
one
of
which
just
left
the
State?
well
to
kind
at
the
present
juncture
War Department
sons, who have
enlisted in good faith, it is a matter of great impor-
tance. Please show this letter
to
importance
 
Governor
wrote
the
following
letter
to
Mayor
Lincoln :
acknowledge in
the most
reception which the city
pass
Governor
this
note :
officer
of
my
staff
the
Thirty-second
your
co-operation.
teer
officers
in
the
war,
served
and suffering
men when
on board
have
to
you,
to
make
such
Devens, who
had been
Feb.
22,
in
money.
1861-62,
benefit of the prisoners there,
belonging
to
He was to expend the
money
for
to him by some
Bluff, and was part of a
larger sum
dollars
arrived
in
Richmond,
a
portion
of
of the
sorry that
they yet.
could avoid it
three
miles,
and
knees,
sent to
of
proper department
he
wrote
Selectmen of
your
Board
of
Selectmen
larger fort
in that manner
you and
occasion
Edward
Winslow,
who
was
Plymouth Colony, with
know
of London,
and a
North to
It appears
yet a
at
it.
Mr.
a letter to
mistaken in
delay whatever in forwarding
back
a
the justice
of his
receive at once that
colored regiment,
of State of Massachusetts.
colored Lodge of
says,
the
they had
been tied
with the whip.'
rude
boat
from
how
so
to
freedom.
The
narrative
of
Jack
rebel picket line,
knife,
and
work in the
was
of my sister's.
asleep, but challenged me before I got near the shore,
and I
coming
ashore
for
freedom.
The secesh picket heard me. and after I got up the bank
he
noth-
Governor
with
den
-yes,
We have given
of Governor believing
written by him, relating to the daily routine of his
office, during the last six months of the
year
1864,
from them in this volume.
Many of them refer to
living
per-
standards.
The
Genera Patrick
is stationed
here as
provost-marshal-general of
the Army
was,
that
This, I feared, would disconcert
my plan of seeing our
regiments, and perfecting our rolls
;
to
find
some
what
of the Christian
in
getting
the book,
and paying
place
over
the front
near
by,
was
to
ever
been
reported.
From
exposed
Oct. 27.
The boat left
circuitous
route,
of
which
him.
ceeded
with
my
colored
orderly
to
the
headquarters
bulance to the railroad
wise
called to
of Jonathan
twenty-five
who
the chair,
at
Lincoln,
it
but all
to order by
each
of
these
taking
Commonwealth, the
defence of their country's
done,
until
private of them
records
soldier-son of ours a
of death,
The num-
ber of
ses-
sion,
in-
terests
the
maximum.
Governor
Andrew
was
I can, to find
year is
out. Can
And
who
are
the
issued a
to their
their terms
attention of the
to
wear
leg
able
and
convincing.
ought not to be.
poor private
ferred
everywhere
received
the city
was held in
statesman-
and termination of
to the
attention.
Springs,
a topic most intimately
auxiliary considerations only
control would permit. 'I thought,
however, since the tragedy of the
19th of April was
chusetts,
it
was
fitting
to
encounter.
of the
and
when
States,
at
Salem.
Governor Andrew,
the
views
he
and importance, cannot fail
the time
the
colored
at
us
four
risk, great or small,
appeal
to
fraud.
They
appealed
to
force,
the
power
not
to
we may
cal functions of citizenship. All the North will, by and
by,
agree
learned
freedmen.
 I
suffrage
vestige of heresy on that question might be first eradicated
from New England, where it even now retains a
foothold. I
have
of political
controversy. For one, however, 1 still hope and believe that there
need be no strife
nor angry debate. We
temperate, philosophical, and statesmanlike treatment of grave que -
tions has
sity.
We
resume control of public affairs sometimes
too
caprices
of
poli-
tics
will
in the end,
find the de-
philosophical,
and
statesmanlike
letter,
without
and
prosperity
which
pointed.
The
approaching
Commencement
at
length,
which
followed.
read
and genius contributed so
original
Among the
and charitable
When Colonel Lee, Major
of Boston
were acquainted with her loyalty, and esteemed her for the
regard with which she had
treated our soldiers
to sympathize
who
faith, I am not sufficiendy apprised of the grounds upon
which
of
Colonel
as
having
written,
and it is now
repre-
and
We are aware, however, that permission
was
had
in jail, in
and
fol-
Potomac
my
have rendered
Governor
Andrew
head, what
acceptance of
South.
Pre-eminent
the
advocate
de-
to
the
South
to
ter in
the copying-book
be
read
save
their
South. Their mules,
Company and Agency,
or
invest either in
the purchase of lands
think, with efficiency
to
I hope that every exertion will be made now and
without delay
to introduce
reasonable amounts
These,
more
than
colored
race.
and
the industry of the South during the continuance of the late
war
fits
you
wrote
to
Major-Gen-
eral
W.
United
entertain
She
Thirty-
third,
 
enlistment of foreigners
of
'
eigners, 907,
tain the
 
of cavalry.
great ex-
gentlemen against the
he made remarks
Massachusetts volunteers
who intrusted
peculiar satisfaction and
and nation, from
so
beloved.
 Proud
their
flaming
folds
heart,'
in
the
noble
actions.
they
will
remain
to
testify
to
future
generations
commenced
in her belief that
That
the
to it.
had not been confined
leav-
Dr.
of
also to the Massa-
testaments.
had been distributed;
drawers,
sorts of
towels, comforters,
tea, cof-
Testaments, Bibles,
were
to
the
North-eastern
branch
of
the
left
by
consisted
from fifty in the beginning
of
the
work
managers,
ladies
England, who undertook
meeting
them.
to act as medium of communication
 
of which
manity they but
sent to the
existence,
was
1,010,869.
Of
these,
the
form
a
large
variety
necessary
here
to
mention
and
spirits,
22,275
sent
fruit,
vegetables,
farina,
lemons,
hospitals, with
About
$133,000
was
expended
Webster
a
provide the
663
loughed,
was
490,661.
of
the
association,
whose
s
o
expenditures in the
its
debts,
amounting
ing such
results, and to measure out to each his adequate por-
tion of thanks,
Association, R. B.
our
and
sufferers
At
dred gentlemen,
ex-
Governors,
society
to
raise
and
dis-
The fund
We
was
raised
Gray,
lars
unexpended.
a later period, to raise money
for
thus raised amounted to
by
the
an
alder-
was
an unexpended balance
will
1861,
which,
expended
for
the
war
by
her bonds, and had
public
creditor.
ture of affairs in the rebel
States, and the best mode of
bring-
views
and hope of the
delay,
democratic, constitutional liberty is invincible;
the rights of human
commandments of God.
discord rears
Eternal Babel,
Executive M
iLiTARY Order.
The Governor
and Commander-in-chief,
act,
and
contact
with
executive officer, when
of
those
brave
noble
the States of
And that
 my father
na-
riches,