It was nine o'clock, in the evening of the 16th, before your Excellency decided to attach the commands of Captains Sampson and Dike to the Sixth Regiment. A messenger was despatched to Stoneham with orders for Captain Dike, who reported to me, at eight o'clock the next morning, that he found Captain Dike at his house in Stoneham, at two o'clock in the morning, and placed your Excellency's orders in his hands; that he read them, and said, “Tell the Adjutant-General that I shall be at the State House, with my full command, by eleven o'clock to-day.” True to his word, he reported at the time; and that afternoon, attached to the Sixth, the company left for Washington. Two days afterwards, on the 19th of April, during that gallant march through Baltimore which is now a matter of history, Captain Dike was shot down while leading his company through the mob. He received a wound in the leg, which will render him a cripple for life.The orders were promulgated at Stoneham immediately. The bells of the several meeting-houses were rung. The company and the inhabitants assembled. Immediate preparations to leave were made. The citizens made up a purse of five hundred
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Pickering, captain; Daniel S. Yeaton, A. Lawrence Hamilton, Eben H. Ellenwood, and Eugene J. Mason, lieutenants,—all of Lawrence.
Company K, ‘Washington Light Guard,’ Boston.
Officers: Walter S. Sampson, captain; Ansell D. Wass, Moses J. Emery, Thomas Walwork, and John F. Dunning, lieutenants.
This company was detached from the First Regiment to complete the Sixth.
The company was drilling in its armory, on Eliot Street, Boston, on the evening of the 16th.
About ten o'clock, the Adjutant-General brought to Captain Sampson, at the armory, an order from the Governor, attaching the company to the Sixth Regiment, to proceed the next morning to Washington.
The order was received with nine cheers.
Every man was ready and eager to go.
Company L, ‘Light Infantry,’ Stoneham. Officers: John H. Dike, captain; Leander F. Lynde, Darius N. Stevens, and John F. Rowe,—all of Stoneham,—and William B. Blaisdell, of Lynn, lieutenants.
This company was detached from the Seventh Regiment.
The Adjutant-General, in his Report for 1861, says,—
1868. E. P. DUtton and Co. Boston,.
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