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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
ermination of the Governor and Council that the sum thus expended should be assumed by the State. On the fourteenth day of August, the Governor writes to Joseph F. Hitchcock, Warren,— It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated this day, which makes known to me the patriotic action of the citommended was never convened. The battle of Antietam, in which many of the Massachusetts officers and men were killed and wounded, was fought Sept. 15, 1862. Dr. Hitchcock, of Fitchburg, a member of the Executive Council, was requested by the Governor to obtain, if possible, from General McClellan, the transfer of the Massachusetts soldiers to our own State hospitals for treatment. Dr. Hitchcock says,— I called at General McClellan's headquarters, and delivered the Governor's written request, which he immediately telegraphed to the Secretary of War, to which a favorable reply was returned. This interview, which lasted but a few minutes, was remarka