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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 4 0 Browse Search
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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 1: recruiting. (search)
out April 1, he had recruited some seventy men. Much the larger number of recruits were obtained through the organization and by the means which will now be described. About February 15, Governor Andrew appointed a committee to superintend the raising of recruits for the colored regiment, consisting of George L. Stearns, Amos A. Lawrence, John M. Forbes, William I. Bowditch, Le Baron Russell, and Richard P. Hallowell, of Boston; Mayor Howland and James B. Congdon, of New Bedford; Willard P. Phillips, of Salem; and Francis G. Shaw, of New York. Subsequently the membership was increased to one hundred, and it became known as the Black Committee. It was mainly instrumental in procuring the men of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, besides 3,967 other colored men credited to the State. All the gentlemen named were persons of prominence. Most of them had been for years in the van of those advanced thinkers and workers who had
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Index. (search)
berton, Fort, 53,199. Pennsylvania Troops. Infantry: Fifty-Second, 52, 63, 64, 139, 187, 188, 196, 206, 217, 234, 282, 283. Seventy-Fourth, 201, 209, 215. Seventy-Sixth, 74. Eighty-Fifth, 111, 115, 116, 157. Ninety-Seventh, 53, 54, 63, 74,103, 106. One Hundred and Fourth, 52, 118, 139, 187, 188. Perkins, James A., 115. Pet, prize schooner, 42. Philadelphia, steamer, 210. Philadelphia Weekly Times, 251. Philbrick, E P., 15. Phillips, Wendell, 10, 13, 15, 24, 32, 180. Phillips, Willard P., 11. Phisterer's, Statistical Record, 172. Pierce, Edward L., 13, 73, 78, 94. Pierce, R. A., 19, 23. Pike's Bluff, Ga., 39. Pilatka, Fla., 156, 179,184. Pinckney, Castle, 283. Pineville, S. C., 295. Planter, steamer, 109. Platner, Thomas E., 316. Plummer, A., 16. Plummer, Avery, Jr., 16. Pocotaligo, S. C., 238, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 269, 271, 272. Pocotaligo Bridge, 294. Pocotaligo River, 263, 267, 269, 274. Pocotaligo River (north), 293. Pocotaligo Swamp, 2
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 58: the battle-flag resolution.—the censure by the Massachusetts Legislature.—the return of the angina pectoris. —absence from the senate.—proofs of popular favor.— last meetings with friends and constituents.—the Virginius case.—European friends recalled.—1872-1873. (search)
the obliteration of Union victories from histories and school-books. Nast's caricature in Harper's Weekly, Dec. 28, 1872, gave countenance to such absurd ideas. Colonel Charles R. Codman, who had served his country in the Civil War, and Willard P. Phillips, led the opposition to the committee's report. The sober sense of the members was adverse to the proposed censure; but too many of them were of a type of men who yield readily to clamor, and they feared, quite erroneously, that the veterafully that they had voted against their better judgment. The resolution, as required by its terms, was sent to the senators and representatives of the State in Congress, but none of them presented it in the House or Senate. Sumner wrote to W. P. Phillips, December 21: Boston Herald, Jan. 15, 1893.— I cannot comprehend this tempest. The resolution which is treated so severely is an old inhabitant. I have already brought it forward in substance twice before this last motion, and rece