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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
ry Clark, all of Gloucester, lieutenants. Company H, Glover Light Guard, Marblehead. Officers: Francis Boardman, of Marblehead, captain; Thomas Russell, Nicholas Bowden, and Joseph S. Caswell, all of Marblehead, lieutenants. Company I, Light Infantry, Salem. Officers: Arthur F. Devereux, of Salem, captain; George F. Austin, Ethan A. P. Brewster, and George D. Putnam, all of Salem, lieutenants. This company belonged to the Seventh Regiment, but was ordered, on the evening of the 17th of April, to join the Eighth, and, at ten o'clock the next morning, reported at Faneuil Hall with full ranks. Before leaving Salem, it was addressed by the Mayor and other prominent citizens. A great crowd met it at the depot, and cheered it when it left. This company wore a Zouave uniform, and, in skirmish drill, was probably the most efficient in the State. Company K, Allen Guard, Pittsfield. Officers: Henry S. Briggs, of Pittsfield, captain; Henry H. Richardson and Robert Bache, both of
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
ral Nettleton, of Chicopee, writes, I hereby tender to His Excellency the Governor, and through him to the President, my personal services to any appointed post in the gift of either. I cannot, by reason of age, be admitted to the ranks by enlistment; yet I am hearty and hale, and not older than my grandsire was when following the lead of Washington. General Nettleton's son raised a company for the Thirtieth Regiment, of which he went out captain, and came home colonel of the regiment. April 17.—Edward Kinsley, of Cambridge, writes, The patriotic ladies of Cambridge are making bandages and preparing lint for our troops who have been ordered out of the State. A box will be ready to-morrow morning. Please tell the bearer where you will have it sent. Colonel Borden, of Fall River, writes, The Empire State will be let at a thousand dollars a day; the State of Maine, for eight hundred. George B. Upton, of Boston, writes that he had made a contract with the agents of the S. R. Spaul
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
re-imbursement to the cities and towns for the bounties paid by them to volunteers, in sums not exceeding one hundred dollars to each volunteer. An act passed April 17, authorized sheriffs and deputy-sheriffs, police of cities, and constables of towns, to arrest persons charged with desertion, upon the written order of the provost-marshals of the different districts within the Commonwealth. An act approved April 17, provided that no person, enlisted or drafted, who had received bounty money or advance pay, should be discharged from the service upon a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that he was a minor, or on any other ground, until he had paid oveeded in raising several thousand dollars as a testimonial to Sergeant Plunkett, and requesting the Governor to make Sergeant Plunkett a captain. On the seventeenth day of April, the Adjutant-General wrote to Mr. Hale as follows:— Your favor of the 16th instant I had the honor to receive this morning. Your labors in behalf