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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 12 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 8 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
Chapter 10: The military camps in Massachusetts-number of troops Jan. 1, 1864 where serving letter of Governor to Lewis Hayden from Miss Upham soldier's scrap-book letter to Samuel Hooper sale of Heavy Ordnance the condition of our defences Colonel Ritchie in England meeting of the Legislature organization addresses of Mr. Field andColonel Bullock address of the Governor eloquent extract Abstractof military laws members of Congress letter to John B. Alley Thespringfe Gulf, was changed from infantry to cavalry; and the three unattached companies of cavalry, in that Department, was consolidated with it, and the organization was afterwards known and designated as the Third Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry. Lewis Hayden, formerly a slave in Kentucky, but who had been for many years employed in the office of the Secretary of State, entered warmly into the business of recruiting colored soldiers for Massachusetts, and visited Pennsylvania and other States to ad
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
. This triumph has been achieved with small loss to our army: General Thomas reports that his loss has been very small, probably not exceeding three hundred, and very few killed. On the 21st of December, the Governor addressed a letter to Lewis Hayden, a colored citizen of Boston, who, as we have before stated, had been a slave in Kentucky, but who was at that time, and is now, employed in the office of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts. Mr. Hayden was the Master of a colored Lodge oMr. Hayden was the Master of a colored Lodge of Free Masons in Boston. The Governor writes,— I send you with this note, for presentation to the Prince Hall grand Lodge, a gavel, made from a piece of the whipping-post at Hampton, Va. The gentleman who sent it to me says, This post or tree stood directly in the rear of the old court-house, and in front of the jail: while I was cutting it, about twenty colored men and women bore testimony to me, that it was the identical post or tree that they had been tied to; and had their backs lace