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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
, and William B. Alexander, of Boston, lieutenants. Company B, Cambridge City Guards, of Cambridge. This company was the first company raised for the war in Massachusetts, and was organized in January, 1861, and attached temporarily to the Fifth Regiment. It was recruited out of the Cambridge Wide Awake Club. Its officers were James P. Richardson, captain; Samuel E. Chamberlain and Edwin F. Richardson, lieutenants,—all of whom belonged to that part of the city of Cambridge known as Cambridgeport. Company G, the Assonet Light Infantry, Freetown. John W. Marble, captain; Humphrey A. Francis and John M. Dean, lieutenants,—all of Freetown. Company H, Samoset Guards, Plympton. Lucian L. Perkins, of Plympton, captain; Oscar E. Washburn, of Plympton, and Southworth Loring, of Middleborough, lieutenants. Company K, Bay State Light Infantry, Carver. William S. McFarlin, of South Carver, captain; John Dunham, of North Carver, and Francis L. Porter, of New Bedford, lieutenants.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
Is the way open? Can you communicate by telegraph with Washington? Has Jones reached Washington? April 20.—Writes to Dr. H. H. Fuller that surgeons are appointed under the militia law by colonels of regiments, and not by the Governor. Acknowledges receipt from Captain Edward Ingersoll, Springfield Armory, of two hundred and fifty rifled muskets. Thanks Miss Laura A. Phillips, of Great Falls, N. H., for her offer to nurse our wounded men in Baltimore; also Miss Laura B. Forbes, of Cambridgeport, for the same offer. Telegraphs Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President, Hampden, Me., I advise you to come forward without delay, in view of possible events at Washington. Telegraphs Governor Washburn, of Maine, One advance regiment [the Sixth] has reached Washington. No other yet beyond Philadelphia. Directs the Adjutant-General to grant all applications for organizing new companies when he has confidence in the parties. When doubts exist, consult the Governor. Directs the Adjutant-
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 4: (search)
wenty-seven thousand officers and enlisted men. They had been organized, officered, equipped, and sent to the front, within six months. Including the three months men, the number of soldiers furnished by Massachusetts, from the sixteenth day of April to the thirty-first day of December, 1861, in the aggregate was thirty thousand seven hundred and thirty-six officers and enlisted men. This is exclusive of six companies, raised in Newburyport, West Cambridge, Milford, Lawrence, Boston, and Cambridgeport, which went to New York in May, and joined what was called the Mozart Regiment, and Sickles's brigade; nor does it include two regiments which were recruited by Major-General Butler at Pittsfield and Lowell, and which were originally known as the Western Bay State and the Eastern Bay State Regiments, of which we shall speak in the next chapter; nor does it include three hundred men who were recruited in Massachusetts for a military organization at Fortress Monroe, known as the Union Coas