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Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
to telegraph to Major-General Butler, at Fortress Monroe, as follows :– Do you want two compa General Butler an answer, as follows:— Fortress Monroe, Jan. 12, 1864. General Schouler, Boston.r to raise two companies for service at Fortress Monroe, Va., with the condition that the men enlistmpanies of heavy artillery for service at Fortress Monroe be entitled to receive them? In a word, Men for the two artillery companies at Fortress Monroe will not under any circumstances get bounwhenever and wherever ordered,—whether to Fortress Monroe, Nashville, New Orleans, or Texas; and thepartment of Virginia and North Carolina, Fortress Monroe, Jan. 26, 1864, and was addressed to Hon.ilchrist at Richmond, and was returned to Fortress Monroe. Not knowing what to do with it, I have tilities were commenced, having landed at Fortress Monroe on the morning of April 20, 1861. On ters to report to Major-General Butler, at Fortress Monroe. The First Battalion, which had been f[1 more...
Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
of civilization and liberty. Our volunteers have represented Massachusetts, during the year just ended, on almost every field, and in every department of the army, where our flag has been unfurled,—at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Fort Wagner; at Chickamauga, Knoxville, and Chattanooga; under Hooker, Meade, Banks, Gilmore, Rosecrans, Burnside, and Grant. In every scene of danger and of duty,—along the Atlantic and the Gulf; on the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Mil Bartlett, while a captain in the Twentieth Regiment, had lost a leg in the service. He afterwards raised the Forty-ninth (nine months) Regiment, and went with it as colonel, to the Department of the Gulf. His gallantry and coolness before Port Hudson commanded the admiration of both armies. He was wounded there also. On his recovery, he was commissioned colonel of the Fifty-seventh, and, when the letter was written, was with his regiment in the Ninth Army Corps. The Governor concludes h
Leicester, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ace short of his own banishment. The day that made a colored man a soldier of the Union, made him a power in the land. It admitted him to all the future of glory, and to all the advantages of honorable fame, which pertained to men who belonged to the category of heroes. No one can ever deny the rights of citizenship in a country to those who have helped to create it or to save it. On the 1st of January, the Governor received the following letter from Miss Philena M. Upham, of Leicester, Massachusetts:— When I was in Queen-street Hospital, Alexandria, with my young nephew, who was wounded at the battle of Cedar Mountain, and who has since died of his wounds, a suffering soldier in one of the hospitals there remarked, If I only had such a scrap-book as my sister used to make, wouldn't I enjoy it? The wish was renewed by others. I stored their desires in a cell of my brain to be brought forth for future use. The last eleven weeks, I have assiduously devoted every moment of
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
brated encounter between the Merrimack and the Monitor, disturbing all further theories of naval attack and coast defence, and casting doubt upon the stability of the existing projects for the fortification and armament of our harbors, and demonstrating the absolute necessity of more powerful guns, and in much greater numbers than contemplated in General Totten's recent report. Indeed, in the night after the first irresistible attack of the Merrimack on our fleet at Newport News, and in Hampton Roads, when it was thought that the rebel iron-clad might next day complete the destruction of the fleet, and, proceeding to sea, attack any of our most important seaports, the Governor received official advice from Washington to proceed at once to close the harbor of Boston by sinking temporary obstructions in the entrance to the harbor, so little could our defences be relied upon to repel an attack of this new and fearful engine. The War Department immediately afterwards requested the Go
Rock Island, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
n the recruiting service. Then follows a description of the person recruited. Only last week, a roll was presented at this office of sixty-four men in the navy, with a request that they be credited to a certain town in this vicinity, sworn to by the chairman of the selectmen, that the men were legal citizens of said town, and liable to do military duty therein. And yet thirty-six of these men were rebel prisoners, taken at Missionary Ridge, Tenn., sent to the military prison at Rock Island, Ill., where they took an oath of allegiance, and afterwards sent to Massachusetts, where they were enlisted as sailors, and were put on board the receiving ship Ohio. Not a man of them had ever been in Massachusetts before. I do not state these facts to find fault with town or city authorities: I have daily evidence of their arduous, patriotic, and ofttimes ill-requited labors. And if they have trusted bad men, and paid their money upon false statements, they have done so with an hones
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
armies. The Governor closed his address in the following eloquent and touching words:— But the heart swells with unwonted emotion when we remember our sons and brothers, whose constant valor has sustained on the field, during nearly three years of war, the cause of our country, of civilization and liberty. Our volunteers have represented Massachusetts, during the year just ended, on almost every field, and in every department of the army, where our flag has been unfurled,—at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Fort Wagner; at Chickamauga, Knoxville, and Chattanooga; under Hooker, Meade, Banks, Gilmore, Rosecrans, Burnside, and Grant. In every scene of danger and of duty,—along the Atlantic and the Gulf; on the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Mississippi, and the Rio Grande; under Dupont, Dahlgren, Foote, Farragut, and Porter,—the sons of Massachusetts have borne their part, and paid the debt of patriotism and valor. Ubiquitous as the stock they desce
Shrewsbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ducted it, should not be superseded by the accidental presence of an officer of superior rank. General Andrews, here spoken of, was one of the first volunteer officers in the war, having been commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, May 24, 1861. He was afterwards commissioned colonel of that regiment, and served with distinction to the end of the Rebellion. He is now the United-States Marshal of Massachusetts. Charles O. Green, one of the selectmen of Shrewsbury, wrote to the Governor for authority to have the remains of a soldier who had fallen in battle brought home for interment. On the 3d of February, the Governor wrote to Mr. Green that he had no authority in the matter, and said,— My own inclination with regard to those of my friends who have fallen in this war is to have them rest on the fields where they fell. There is no other place of burial for them more congenial to their repose or to my feelings. But if the feelings of others
Topsfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
onsible and corrupt brokers. To show how easy it is to cheat, I will relate a circumstance that happened only the day before yesterday. Two men, belonging to Topsfield, enlisted for that town in Lieutenant Holmes's office, who is himself a citizen of Topsfield; they were mustered in, one for Uxbridge, and one for Tewksbury; thTopsfield; they were mustered in, one for Uxbridge, and one for Tewksbury; the men themselves knew nothing of the change. Lieutenant Holmes investigated the matter; and it was discovered that the clerk in his office, for one hundred dollars paid him, made out fraudulent enlistment papers. I reported the case to Major Clarke; and, as the rolls had not been forwarded to Washington, the men were credited to Topsfield, where they belonged. When the call was made in July, 1863, for three hundred thousand three years men to be raised by draft, certain towns claimed that they should be credited with the surpluses they had already furnished; Colonel Fry, Provost-Marshal-General of the United States, agreed that they should be. According
Essen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (search for this): chapter 10
s was, that no more could possibly be obtained in this country. At this time, Mr. John M. Forbes, being in England, was making inquiries into the possibility of our obtaining any such guns in Europe. The result of these inquiries was, that there were only three parties known in all Europe in a position to manufacture such guns. Of these it was understood that Sir William Armstrong was not at liberty to manufacture for any foreign power, while Mr. Knapp, the famous steel-founder of Essen, in Prussia, was fully employed by the Prussian and Russian Governments. There remained, therefore, only Captain Blakely. The real Blakely gun consists of a steel spindle or gun proper, over which another steel gun or jacket is shrunk on, inclosing the whole breech, and extending forward to the trunnions for longitudinal strength, and reinforced by one or more layers of steel rings shrunk on over the jacket. Captain Blakely had received large contracts for his guns from the Russian Government
Fort Independence (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
been excited by the defenceless condition of the coast of Massachusetts; and as early as April 24, 1861, he sent a detachment of the volunteer militia to occupy the forts in Boston Harbor, in which, since the withdrawal of the garrison from Fort Independence for service in the South, the United States had left only one or two elderly ordnance-sergeants. These detachments were sufficient to guard the forts from being seized by a surprise, and held by the enemy; but the armament of the fort was so defective, that they could not have been defended against a serious attack. In Fort Warren there was only one old condemned gun; Fort Winthrop was equally manned; and, though Fort Independence appeared to be better protected, yet its few guns were so old, and of such small calibre, as to be in reality of little value. The other important points of the Massachusetts coast were either not at all or still worse prepared for defence. Earnest and unceasing efforts were made to induce the
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