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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 1: recruiting. (search)
3 per month, and State aid for families. All necessary information can be obtained at the office, corner Cambridge and North Russell Streets. Lieut. J. W. M. Appleton, Recruiting Officer. In five days twenty-five men were secured; and Lieutenant Appleton's work was vigorously prosecuted, with measurable success. It was not always an agreeable task, for the rougher element was troublesome and insulting. About fifty or sixty men were recruited at this office, which was closed about the last of March. Lieutenant Appleton then reported to the camp established and took command of Company A, made up of his recruits and others afterward obtained. Early in February quite a number of colored men were recruited in Philadelphia, by Lieut. E. N. Hallowell, James M. Walton, who was subsequently commissioned in the Fifty-fourth, and Robert R. Corson, the Massachusetts State Agent. Recruiting there was attended with much annoyance. The gathering-place had to be kept secret, and the men
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 5: the greater assault on Wagner. (search)
ad his captain's permission. While occupied with this faithful soldier, who came to him as he lay in the embrasure, Captain Appleton's attention was distracted, and the gun was fired. In the fighting upon the slopes of Wagner, Captains Russel and marched to the rear, and after proceeding a short distance down the beach, encountered Lieutenants Jewett, Emerson, and Appleton, with some of the men. There the Fifty-fourth bivouacked for the night, under the shelter of the sand-bluffs. Althougd with Captain Jones and Lieutenant Emerson into the southeast bastion, and joined in the desperate fighting there. Captain Appleton was finally badly wounded, and made his way out with great difficulty, to report the situation in the bastion. Captd himself, saying, I will go, but if I am killed, just tell them I did not run away! As he was still able to fight, Captain Appleton, who was disabled, went instead. Lieutenant Homans was wounded near the fort, and thought himself mortally hurt, as
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
en. William Cogswell, it was assumed for him that he recruited the first company in this State for the Civil War. As a soldier he manifested a loyal and patriotic devotion to his country by raising the first volunteer company for the late war. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography makes a similar statement: In 1861 he raised the first company of volunteers for the national cause in Massachusetts. The facts in regard to the Cambridge company seem to disprove this statement; but, since trtillery; nor finally was the commanding general (as all agree) where he could either know or direct their advance, their management or their defeat. （Gordon's War Diary, p. 188.) Compare Cowley's Leaves from a Lawyer's Life, pp. 88, 93. Maj. J. W. M. Appleton's paper in Putnam's Magazine, N. S. IV, 9. Gordon's War Diary, pp. 188, 198. General Seymour's report is in Official War Records, 46, p. 345. and the loss of eighty killed showed what the struggle had been; the national colors were broug
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
A., 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 36, 37, 39, 40, 52, 54, 71, 73, 79, 80, 83, 136, 139, 144, 147, 148, 149, 153, 158, 207, 298. Andrews, A. J., 329 Andrews, Alvin, 497 Andrews, C. B., 329 Andrews, C. E., 329 Andrews, G. L., 69, 68, 69, 70, 198 Andrews, Robert, 497 Andrews, W. B., 329 Andrews, W. B. D., 329 Andrews, William, 329 Angell, J. F., 329 Ankemins, Joseph, 329 Anthony, W. H., 329 Aocts, James, 497 Appleton, C. A. G., 329 Appleton, Charles, 440 Appleton, J. W. M., 86, 178 Appleton, W. H., 440 Archibald, Thomas, 440 Archpool, Lawrence, 330 Archy, J., 497 Arlen, W. S., 830 Arling, Alonzo, 330 Arm, Adolph, 497 Armington, Henry, 497 Armington, S. W., 133 Armstrong, C. R., 330 Armstrong, D. E., 330 Armstrong, Francis, 440 Armstrong, G. A., 497 Armstrong, William, 330 Arnold, Benjamin, 440 Arnold, C. H., 440 Arnold, Henry, 497 Arnold, J. C., 497 Arrington, G. W., 497 Arsnel, W. H., 497 Artist, Joseph, 490 Ash, D. B., 440 Ash, F