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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
im information as to the approach of the enemy, had been withdrawn without his knowledge. Official War Records, V, 296. X. Filling up the regiments. After the battle of Ball's Bluff, the mayor of Worcester sent a messenger to enquire of Colonel Devens what the city could do for the 15th Mass., which had been recruited there. The answer was: Send us three hundred and ten men to fill our gaps; also a blanket and a pair of mittens for each of us. That will do for the present. H. S. Washburn's Poems, p. 19. Doubtless the clothing was supplied, but the need of recruits for any particular regiment brought up some new problems not quite so easy to solve. There is no subject on which criticism has been more constant than on the mistaken policy pursued in some of the States, and especially in Massachusetts, in respect to recruiting. Mr. J. C. Ropes, who is undoubtedly our ablest military critic, thinks that the greater part of the Northern States blindly and recklessly threw