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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
his promotion earnest letter to Mr. Sumner Troubles about recruiting complaints made a Convention held Letterof the Adjutant-General the recruiting of New regiments Forwardedto the front the advance of General Grant. On the 1st of January, 1864, there were three camps of rendezvous for enlisted men in the Commonwealth,—one at Long Island, in Boston Harbor, under command of Brigadier-General Devens, to which drafted men were sent; Camp Meigs, at Readville, commanded by Brigadier-General R. H. Peirce, to which recruits for old regiments were sent; Camp Wool, at Worcester, in charge of Colonel William F. Bartlett, Fifty-seventh Regiment, was specially used for recruiting and organizing that regiment. The number of men at each of these camps was as follows: Long Island, 1,086; Camp Meigs, 2,270 ; Camp Wool, 300,—total, 3,656. The seventeen nine months regiments had returned home; and Massachusetts had at this time, in the service of the United States, thirty-six regiments