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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
vernor Banks, in developing the regimental organization of the militia, before regarded merely as a series of detached companies; and that of Governor Andrew, in ordering first an accurate levy of the militia G. O. 4, Jan. 16, 1861. and then recommending (against disapproval and even derision) that the State should contract for overcoats, blankets, knapsacks and ball cartridges for two thousand troops. There were already in the armory of the State when the war broke out three thousand Springfield rifled muskets of the best pattern. Trivial as this provision now seems, it enabled Massachusetts to be first in the breach, and perhaps to save Washington. But the actual enlistment of soldiers was only one of the many ways in which the aroused public sentiment showed itself. Cheques and other gifts were received from individuals, for sums from ten thousand dollars downward, William Gray and Gardner Brewer each giving the former sum. The Boston banks offered to loan the State, with