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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
e year's service, and was known as the Sixty-first Regiment. It left the State in detachments, to report to General Grant at City Point. Of this regiment, Charles F. Walcott was commissioned colonel, Nov. 9, 1864. The Fourth Regiment of Heavy Artillery, one year's men, was also recruited, and left the State by detachments, betw arrived at City Point at seven o'clock, and made my way to the hotel, and secured a cot for the night. My purpose, however, was to pass the night with Lieutenant-Colonel Walcott, of the Sixty-first; but I could find no conveyance to take me to his camp, and, the night being dark and rainy, I could not find my way without a guidethe attention I received was great. My disappointments were, that I did not see Lieutenant-General Grant, and did not see the Sixty-first Regiment and Lieutenant-Colonel Walcott, who had done me the honor to call his camp after my name. Nov. 4, Washington.—I found on my return, several letters for me at the National Hotel abo
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 12: (search)
he excellent manner in which they were carried out, the class-meetings in the different halls, the hand-shakings, the singing of camp-songs by those who had followed the flag, and defended it on so many bloody fields. It was truly a re-union of the men of Harvard. Many of the young men who, three or four years before, had graduated, bore on their shoulders the insignia of generals and colonels. Among these were Barlow, Force, Devens, Payne, Hayes, Loring, Bartlett, Eustis, Sargent, Ames, Walcott, Stevens, Higginson, Savage, Palfrey, Crowninshield, and Russell. Some appeared with but one arm, others with but one leg. Then there were scrolls commemorative of those who had fallen, among whom were Wadsworth, Webster, Revere, Peabody, Willard, the Dwights, Lowell, Hopkinson, How, Shurtleff, and the two brothers Abbott, and many others, whose love of country closed but with their lives. The procession was formed at eleven o'clock, under the direction of Colonel Henry Lee, Jr., who ac