nition as he could spare from camp.
Colonel Codman, of the Forty-fifth Regiment, was ordered on duty at Readville.
Colonel Lee, of the Forty-fourth Regiment, was to assemble his command at their armory at Boylston Hall forthwith, and await furthForbes then speaks of Colonel Lowell, of our Second Cavalry, who had gone off on a rather dangerous scout on the skirts of Lee's retreating army.
He also says,—
He had quite a little brush at Ashbury, charged a gap where the rebels held a stoar, marched to the front at Petersburg, and, in the early spring of 1865, advanced with the great Army of the Potomac upon Lee's works, from which he was driven, the rebel army routed, and the war closed.
About this time, the Governor was anxious that, in no event, would they be sent beyond the boundaries of the State.
On the 10th of September, he wrote to Colonel Henry Lee, Jr., one of his personal staff,—
It would be as well to have no force as to limit its operations to the State l