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of Major Ralph W. Newton, was ordered to garrison Fort Warren, where it remained until the 1st of June.
Major-General Samuel Andrews, of Boston, was ordered to take command of both forts, which position he held from the 1st of May until the 1st of June, when he was relieved.
The command of Fort Warren was given to Brigadier-General Ebenezer W. Peirce, on the 13th of May.
He was relieved on the 27th of the same month, having been appointed to take command of the Massachusetts troops at the front, and to fill the vacancy occasioned by the promotion of General Butler to be a major-general of volunteers.
General Peirce was succeeded in command of Fort Warren by Brigadier-General Joseph Andrews, who remained on duty there, and at Camp Cameron, in Cambridge, until Nov. 18, 1861.
On the 21st of May, the Fourth Battalion of Rifles, Major Samuel H. Leonard, was ordered to Fort Independence, where it was recruited to a regiment of three years volunteers, afterwards known as the Thirteenth Regiment.
A camp was also formed on Long Island, in Boston Harbor, to which a number of companies, composed of men of Irish birth, were ordered.
These companies were to form two regiments of three years men, to be known as the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Regiments.
They were afterwards consolidated into one, and known as the Ninth.
Of this camp, on the 11th of May, Brigadier-General William W. Bullock was placed in command.
He remained on duty until the 12th of June, when the Ninth was ordered to Washington, and the camp was broken up.
The battalions first ordered to the forts performed much labor in removing rubbish, old shanties, piles of bricks, and lumber; filling up excavations; erecting chimneys and cook-houses; arranging hospital accommodations, and preparing them, as well as the limited means would permit, for defensive operations.
These labors have never been properly acknowledged by the General Government; on the contrary, a captious and unjust report of the condition of the forts was made, in June, 1861, by an army officer, a copy of which was sent to Governor Andrew by Major-General Wool.
This report sets forth that the
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