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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
h clothes tattered and torn, but yet showing they had seen service, and, by their firm tread and manly bearing, that they were ready and willing to do their duty to their country, and to the glorious old flag. It was mustered out of service Aug. 7, 1863. The Forty-second Regiment was in the Department of the Gulf, and arrived at New Orleans Dec. 16, 1862. On the 19th, Colonel Burrill, with companies D, G, and F, embarked on the transport Saxon, for Galveston, Texas, and arrived in Galveston Bay on the 24th. The Colonel immediately proceeded to the gunboat Westfield, to consult with Commodore Renshaw, then in command of the blockading fleet, off Galveston; and by his advice, added to that of the commanding officers of all the gunboats then in the harbor, to land at once, with the most positive assurances of the entire safety of the position, a landing was made. Jan. 1.—The enemy advanced with artillery upon this small force, two or three attempts to capture the position bein