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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 5: (search)
on as they can be prepared for service, under the orders of General Sherman, who will indicate the place of rendezvous. The place of rendezvous was somewhere in Long Island, N. Y. On the next day after this letter was written,—namely, on the 28th of August,—Colonel David K. Wardwell, who had commanded a company in the Fifth Regiment, three months militia, received authority from Secretary Cameron to raise a regiment of volunteers in this State. He was instructed to report to His Excellency they-second Regiment, and he was afterwards commissioned captain in that regiment. Having protested to the authorities in Washington against this pernicious and illegal system of granting special permits to raise regiments in this State, on the 28th of August—the very day on which Wardwell had been given authority to recruit a regiment,—the Governor received a telegram from the Secretary of War, that he would not sanction for the future any such irregularities; and Quartermaster-General John H. R
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
s, which are nevertheless to be subject to the same draft as the counties in the inland States. So great is this inequality, that, if the draft is to be vigorously imposed on some of our seaports without making this allowance, it will absorb the whole male population of those towns within the limits of the military age. The letter produced no change; and the towns referred to succeeded in filling their quotas by inducing persons to enlist from other places to their credit. On the 28th of August, the Adjutant-General reported to the Governor thus:— In recruiting the nine months men, we meet with obstacles at every step. The mustering officer refuses to muster them in until a regiment is full. Now he also refuses to furnish transportation for the recruits to camp, and there is no way to get them to camp unless the State assumes the responsibility, or the officers and men pay their fares from their own means. As this is a matter of serious importance, I ask your Excellenc