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The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Seamstress and Chambermaid. (search)
to commit any lawless or violent act against the Government of the United States. Bad conduct of the Massachusetts troops. We find the following paragraph in the New York Herald about the recruiting dodges of that smart Yankee State, Massachusetts: Massachusetts is in trouble. Her importations of Swedes, Poles, Germans, Hungarians, &c., by the cargo, to fill her quotas under the various recent calls for troops, have turned out badly, and the War Department is thinking of refusinMassachusetts is in trouble. Her importations of Swedes, Poles, Germans, Hungarians, &c., by the cargo, to fill her quotas under the various recent calls for troops, have turned out badly, and the War Department is thinking of refusing to give her credit for the scum thus foisted upon the public service. The fact is, that nearly all these imported mercenaries have deserted to the enemy, under the liberal terms of General Lee's proclamation, and that such as have yet been unable to desert are utterly unable or unwilling to fight. In a recent case, in the rific-pits before Petersburg, they dropped their arms and lay down flat on their bellies in the trench while a charging column of rebels swept over them, carrying all that