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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 6 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 4 0 Browse Search
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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 1: recruiting. (search)
antry. His headquarters were at Springfield, and he worked in Western Massachusettts and Connecticut. When ordered to camp, about April 1, he had recruited some seventy men. Much the larger number of recruits were obtained through the organization and by the means which will now be described. About February 15, Governor Andrew appointed a committee to superintend the raising of recruits for the colored regiment, consisting of George L. Stearns, Amos A. Lawrence, John M. Forbes, William I. Bowditch, Le Baron Russell, and Richard P. Hallowell, of Boston; Mayor Howland and James B. Congdon, of New Bedford; Willard P. Phillips, of Salem; and Francis G. Shaw, of New York. Subsequently the membership was increased to one hundred, and it became known as the Black Committee. It was mainly instrumental in procuring the men of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, besides 3,967 other colored men credited to the State. All the gentlem
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
0 Feb 65, not must. Discharged 16 May 65 for promotion. Wounded 30 Nov 64 Honey Hill, S. C. Other service:— Co. F. 2nd Mass. 25 May 61; re-enld 30 Dec 63, Sergt., Capt 103d U. S. C. T. 9 May 65. Discharged 16 Apl 66 ex. term., Oakland, Cal. Webster, Frederick hedge; 2nd Lieut. 2 Aug 43 Boston; single; clerk; Boston. 2d Lt 4 May 64, must. 16 Jly. Died of disease 25 Jan 65 Gen. Hos. Beaufort, S. C. The following officers were commissioned in the regiment, but were not mustered:— Bowditch, Henry P. as Major 27 Jly 63 declined. Lynch, James, as Chaplain 27 Oct 64, commission cancelled. Greeley, Adolphus W. as 2nd Lieut. 28 Feb 63, commission cancelled. Smith, Charles F. as 2nd Lieut. 9 Jly 63, commission cancelled. Hall, F. A. as 2nd Lieut 1 Aug 63 commission cancelled. Adams, Z. Boylston, as 2nd Lieut. 15 Aug 63 declined. Hocking, Alfred as 2nd Lieut 4 May 64 declined. Patten, Thomas H. as 2nd Lieut. 22 Feb 65, commission cancelled. Haskins, William G
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Index. (search)
,195. Bloody Bridge, S. C., 214, 215. Blue House, S. C., 277. Bluff Battery, 129, 134. Boat Infantry, 119, 188. Boat reconnoissance of Sumter, 139. Bogle, Archibald, 167. Bohicket Creek, S. C., 209. Bolan's church, 239, 241, 242, 245, 247, 250, 255. Bonaventure Cemetery, 287. Bonham, M. L., 97. Boston Brigade Band, 318. Boston, Departure from, 32. Boston Journal, 8, 136. Boston, steamer, 64, 182, 193. Bounty from United States, 137. Bounty rolls, 24. Bowditch, William I., 11. Boyd's Landing, S. C., 238, 239, 241, 254, 257. Boykin's Mills, S. C., 301, 305. Boynton, W. P., 244. Bradford Springs, S. C., 299. Bragg, Braxton, 135, 195. Branchville, S. C., 270, 272, 275. Brannan, J. M., 266. Brayton, C. R., 124. Bridge, Watson W., 10, 20, 34, 51, 133, 164, 165, 192, 193, 202, 212, 233, 234, 283, 291, 301, 302, 316. Bridgham, Charles B., 34, 51, 142, 164, 166, 169, 172, 176, 196. Bridgham, Thomas S., 158, 164, 237, 291, 308, 316. Brigaded with
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 6: end of the Liberator.—1865. (search)
States; therefore, this Society calls upon its members for fresh and untiring diligence in finishing the work to which they originally pledged themselves, and putting the liberty of the negro beyond peril. Lib. 35.81. The debate on these propositions continued through two May 9, 10. days, that of Mr. Phillips being supported by C. L. Remond, Lib. 35.81, 82, 85, 86. Frederick Douglass, Robert Purvis, S. S. Foster, and Anna E. Dickinson, while Samuel May, Jr., Oliver Johnson, and William I. Bowditch favored continuing the Society only until the Thirteenth Amendment should have been officially ratified. The point having been made that the Society was pledged to continue until negro suffrage should be secured, because the elevation of the free people of color was one of the objects set forth in its Declaration and Constitution, Mr. Garrison rejoined that, as the author of the Declaration, he felt competent to interpret it. This Society, he continued, is The American Anti-
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 9: Journalist at large.—1868-1876. (search)
is co-Trustees, Edmund Quincy and Samuel May. Mr. Phillips, on the other hand, advocated its appropriation for the support of the Anti-Slavery Standard, on the ground that the political enfranchisement of the freedmen, which the Standard (not alone, however, but in common with some of the ablest and most influential journals in the country) was especially urging, was more important than their education. Others of the Trustees sided with Mr. Phillips, Namely, Charles K. Whipple and William I. Bowditch. Edmund Jackson, the testator's brother, favored giving one-quarter of the amount to the Standard and the rest to the freedmen. and, for the sake of adjusting the matter, Mr. Garrison proposed that five thousand dollars be given to the freedmen, and the balance ($4200) to the Standard; but when Congress, a month or two later, passed the Reconstruction Act enfranchising the freedmen, the special plea for the continuance of the Standard seemed to him no longer weighty or plausible, an
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 36: first session in Congress.—welcome to Kossuth.—public lands in the West.—the Fugitive Slave Law.—1851-1852. (search)
em in letters to the Antislavery Standard, which were copied by the Liberator in August, and in the Boston Courier, August 14. The resolution was opposed by William I. Bowditch Mr. Bowditch, in a note to Sumner with reference to Mr. Garrison's course at the meeting, said: Much as I honor and love him, Mr. Garrison's passion someMr. Bowditch, in a note to Sumner with reference to Mr. Garrison's course at the meeting, said: Much as I honor and love him, Mr. Garrison's passion sometimes seems to be to attack single individuals rather than the system of slavery; and it frequently happens that his attacks fall on those who sympathize very fully, though not entirely, in his views. and Wendell Phillips. The latter in a letter to Sumner, April 27, said:— I have never, my dear friend, ceased one moment to t. James G. Birney, the Liberty candidate of 1844, expressed his great gratification, and anticipated the powerful effect it would produce on the country. William I. Bowditch, the Abolitionist (his brother Henry, the eminent physician, writing in a similar vein), wrote:— I have read your speech with delight and profit. Wor