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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
d forthwith to tender the services of the Sixth Regiment to the commander-in-chief and legislature, when such services may become desirable, for the purposes contemplated in General Order No. 4. That resolution went to the governor on the 22d of January. and on the same day Governor Andrew sent the following message to the House of Representatives:-- I transmit herewith, for the information of the General Court, a communication offering to the commander-in-chief and the legislature the sAndrew, and urged the necessity that our troops should be put in full readiness to march. On the 19th of January, in my brigade, resolutions were passed tendering the services of my home regiment to Governor Andrew and the legislature. On January 22 those resolutions were received by Governor Andrew, and immediately communicated to the legislature as being received from my hands. On the 5th of February, the legislature appropriated one hundred thousand dollars to put the troops in readine