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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 4: (search)
Regiment was recruited at Camp Massasoit, Readville, and left the State for Washington on the 4th of September, 1861. William Raymond Lee, of Roxbury, a graduate of West Point; Francis W. Palfrey, of Boston, son of Hon. John G. Palfrey; and Paul J. Revere, of Boston,—were chiefly instrumental in raising the regiment: and they were commissioned, severally, colonel, lieutenant-colonel, and major. The roster of this regiment contains the names most distinguished in the history of Massachusetts. The Twentieth bore a prominent part in the disastrous Battle of Ball's Bluff, Oct. 21, 1861. Many of the officers were killed and wounded. Colonel Lee, Major Revere, and Adjutant Charles L. Peirson, of Salem, were taken prisoners, and confined in a cell as hostages at Richmond. We shall have occasion to speak of these gentlemen in subsequent chapters. The Twenty-first Regiment was recruited at Camp Lincoln, at Worcester. The men belonged to the central and western portions of the Commonw
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 5: (search)
d in it. They behaved with great gallantry, and suffered severely, especially the Twentieth. On the 25th, Lieutenant-Colonel Palfrey telegraphed, Colonel Lee, Major Revere, Adjutant Peirson, Dr. Revere, and Lieutenant Perry, prisoners; Lieutenants Babo and Wesselhoeft, probably drowned; Lieutenant S. W. Putnam, killed; Captains Dr. Revere, and Lieutenant Perry, prisoners; Lieutenants Babo and Wesselhoeft, probably drowned; Lieutenant S. W. Putnam, killed; Captains Dreher, Schmitt, Putnam, Lieutenants Lowell and Holmes, wounded,—not fatally. All other officers safe, including myself. Captains Dreher and Schmitt, badly wounded,—probably not fatally. Captain Putnam's right arm gone,—doing well. Lowell and Holmes doing very well. This disastrous battle carried grief into many of our Masse, and occasionally exposed to the insulting language and demeanor of the populace of that city. Some of their number—among whom I may mention Colonel Lee and Major Revere, of the Massachusetts Twentieth Infantry, and Captains Bowman and Rockwood, of the Massachusetts Fifteenth (all of them gentlemen and soldiers, who have no su
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
complish their salvation. The great rebellion was to be put down, and its promoters crushed beneath the ruins of their own ambition; and now, he says,— When the beauty of their Israel has been slain in our high places, and when her Lee and Revere, Rockwood and Bowman, lie in felon's cells, and hundreds of her sons wear out their hearts in sad captivity,—victims of their valor, and devotion to our Union,—one irrepressible impulse moves our people, and inspires our people in the field; one . Mr. Heard, of Clinton, offered an order, which was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, that the Governor be requested to communicate with the President of the United States in regard to obtaining the release of Colonel Lee and Major Revere of the Twentieth Regiment, and of Captains Rockwood and Bowman of the Fifteenth Regiment, who are confined as hostages, in a felon's cell in Richmond, for captured rebel privateersmen. Jan. 8. In the Senate—Mr. Stockwell, of Suffolk, from
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 12: (search)
Sargent, Ames, Walcott, Stevens, Higginson, Savage, Palfrey, Crowninshield, and Russell. Some appeared with but one arm, others with but one leg. Then there were scrolls commemorative of those who had fallen, among whom were Wadsworth, Webster, Revere, Peabody, Willard, the Dwights, Lowell, Hopkinson, How, Shurtleff, and the two brothers Abbott, and many others, whose love of country closed but with their lives. The procession was formed at eleven o'clock, under the direction of Colonel Hened and distinguished citizens ever assembled on the continent of America. Among the good people of Richmond, Va., who were kind and charitable to our prisoners, and loyal to the Government, was the family of the Van Lews. When Colonel Lee, Major Revere, and others who had been taken prisoners at the battle of Ball's Bluff, were confined in the Richmond prison, the Miss Van Lews had contributed whatever was in their power to relieve them from the horrors of prison life to which they were subj