- William B. Williams, Quarter-Master-Sergeant, .Cadets.
- Dr. Luther Parks, Surgeon.
- Charles E. Parker, Norfolk House.
- Dr. John McLean, Roxbury.
- Dr. H. B. Bryant, Tremont Club.
- Dr. Hall Curtis, 85 Beacon Street.
- Dr. L. M. Sargent.
- E. C. Saltmarsh (has a company), 4 Cornhill Square.
- C. R. Mudge, 45 Summer Street.
- E. G. Park, 91 State Street.
- Dr. Sargent, Rutland Street.
- George A. Batchelder, Woburn.
- Guy C. Underwood, City Hall.
- Charles F. Cabot, 128 State Street.
- F. W. Dorr, Boston U. S. C. S.
- C. F. Morse, Jamaica Plain.
- L. S. Jordan, 46 State Street.
- Edward A. Whiston, Framingham.
- James M. Ellis, 42 Court Street.
- J. Parker Whitney, Tremont House.
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as if all the wealth, all the precious life-blood, all that nearly a hundred years of social and intellectual development had garnered, were offered for the sacrifice.
I much regret that I have no reliable record of the order in which applications for commissions were received; but by the best evidence I have, the first applicant, Greely S. Curtis, was followed by A. B. Underwood.
Then came
Wilder Dwight, and within a few days George L. Andrews, who made personal application for the office of lieutenantcolonel.
The following names, with residences, I find among my notes, upon a sheet bearing evidence that they were written in the order in which I received the application.
I copy them precisely as they were written in the spring of 1861:
James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.
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