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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 4: (search)
red. The motion was adopted: and the committee appointed on the part of the Senate were Messrs. Stone of Essex, Bonney of Middlesex, Northend of Essex, Rogers of Suffolk, Davis of Bristol, Walker of Middlesex, and Cole of Berkshire; on the part of the House, Messrs. Bullock of Worcester, Calhoun of Springfield, Branning of Lee, Dit was recommitted. The bill for the organization of a home guard was passed to be engrossed. A bill to regulate drill companies was opposed by Mr. Rogers, of Suffolk, and Mr. Battles, of Worcester, and rejected. The bill to enable banks to purchase Government securities, under a suspension of the rules, was passed to be enaany. The Seventeenth Regiment was recruited at Camp Schouler, Lynnfield, of which eight companies belonged to the county of Essex, one to Middlesex, and one to Suffolk. Captain Thomas J. C. Amory, of the United-States Army, a graduate of West Point, was commissioned colonel. He belonged to one of the oldest and best families o
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
present war. Mr. Heard, of Clinton, offered an order, which was referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, that the Governor be requested to communicate with the President of the United States in regard to obtaining the release of Colonel Lee and Major Revere of the Twentieth Regiment, and of Captains Rockwood and Bowman of the Fifteenth Regiment, who are confined as hostages, in a felon's cell in Richmond, for captured rebel privateersmen. Jan. 8. In the Senate—Mr. Stockwell, of Suffolk, from the Committee on Printing, reported in favor of printing two thousand extra copies of the Adjutant-General's Report. In the House.—Mr. Brown, of Taunton, introduced an order directing the Committee on the Militia to consider the expediency of amending the law of 1861, so that each city and town shall provide for the support of persons who may be dependent on volunteers of this State mustered into the United-States service, and that each city and town shall be reimbursed from the St
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
Worcester, were sent. The old camp at Lynnfield was continued, and designated Camp Stanton, which served as the general rendezvous of recruits from the counties of Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Nantucket, Plymouth, and Suffolk. Until further orders, Lieutenant-Colonel Lincoln, of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, which was then being recruited, was placed in command of Camp Wool; and Colonel Maggi, of the Thirty-third Regiment, which was also being recruited, was placed in to leave the State for the nine months service. It received orders to report at Washington, and left Massachusetts under command of Colonel Albert S. Follansbee about Sept. 1. It remained in Washington until the 13th, when it was ordered to Suffolk, Va. The Eighth Regiment served with distinction in the three months service. It opened the route by Annapolis to Washington. It was recruited to the maximum for the nine months service at Camp Lander, at Wenham. It sailed from Boston on the
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
better officers or men than these volunteers from California served in the Union army. Many of them were killed in battle, and never returned again to the shores of the Pacific; among whom was the first captain, J. Sewall Reed, who was killed in action Feb. 22, 1864. The Legislature for 1863 met at the State House on Wednesday, Jan. 7. Jonathan E. Field, of Berkshire County, was elected President of the Senate, having received all the votes but four, which were cast for Peter Harvey, of Suffolk. On taking the chair, Mr. Field made a short address, the only part of which relating to national affairs was the following reference to the Proclamation of Freedom issued by the President, which went into effect on the first of January. Mr. Field said,— The year was inaugurated by an event claimed by its friends to be second in importance only to that which relieved us from colonial dependence. Whatever may be its influences upon the war and upon the disloyal States, the loyal ar
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
nts of the Gulf and North Carolina. The Sixth Regiment was in Virginia, near Suffolk, during most of its term of service. On July 1, General Banks, with his com. 9, 1862, with orders to report at Washington. From thence it proceeded to Suffolk, Va., twenty-three miles from Norfolk, where there was a force of about five thoudereliction of duty. April 8.—The regiment was ordered to be ready to leave Suffolk, and preparations were made, when the order was countermanded, as an immediateanticipated. April 11, a large force, under General Longstreet, laid siege to Suffolk. Colonel Follansbee was placed in command of the front; the position was occu held their position, protecting the workmen till the track from Carrsville to Suffolk was taken up. The Sixth then returned to Deserted House on the 19th, and bivou relieved, as the term of service would soon expire. Accordingly, it left for Suffolk, arriving after ten days of most fatiguing and exhausting service, which told