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February 6th (search for this): chapter 8
lling their attention to the vexatious delays of the General Government in the payment of the soldiers, which occasioned suffering both in the army and to the families of the soldiers at home. He therefore recommended to the Legislature to assume the payment of the Massachusetts soldiers, or such of them as would consent to allot a portion of their monthly pay for the support of their families at home, or to deposit on interest in the State treasury subject to their order. On the sixth day of February, in reply to an order of the House, requesting a report of the amount claimed or paid as commissions, compensation, expenses, or profits by persons who went to foreign countries to purchase arms on account of the State, the Governor submitted a brief statement, by which it appears that Mr. Crowninshield, and Mr. McFarland, who accompanied him to Europe to purchase arms and equipments, were the only persons that had been employed on that business up that time. Mr. Crowninshield retur
February 7th (search for this): chapter 8
ed as one of the coincidences of the war, that the information in the above letter should have been conveyed to the Governor by Mr. Winslow, and that the Alabama should have been sunk by Commodore Winslow, months afterwards, in the harbor of Cherbourg, France. Authority was received from the Secretary of War, by an order dated Jan. 26, to recruit a colored regiment in Massachusetts. The first authority given by the Governor to any person to recruit colored men in Massachusetts, was dated Feb. 7; and the regiment; was filled to the maximum May 14, in less than one hundred days. Before its organization was completed, there being so many colored men anxious to enlist, it was decided to raise another regiment, which was rapidly filled. These two colored regiments were designated the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth. An almost impenetrable wall of prejudice had been reared against the employment of colored men in the military service. The Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, in his report
February 12th (search for this): chapter 8
iers, as they wished to be, or in digging ditches and making roads through swamps, which the Northern soldiers had been employed to do. General Williams, he said, returned these slaves to their owners, who undoubtedly used their stout arms on the defences of Vicksburg, while we are killing white men, digging canals and trenches before Vicksburg. On the eighteenth day of March, the Governor telegraphed to Senator Sumner,— I earnestly entreat your immediate attention to mine of Feb. 12, about war steamers. See the President and Fox, to whom I wrote same date. Nobody answered. Boston is very earnest and solicitous. Can we do any thing by visiting Washington? This telegram was also signed by Mr. Lincoln, Mayor of Boston. On the twentieth day of March, the Governor wrote to Edward S. Tobey and Samuel H. Walley,— I have yours of the 14th inst., and I assure you of the cordiality with which we shall endeavor to co-operate with our citizens and municipalities i
February 24th (search for this): chapter 8
of the Commonwealth for his personal expenses, which amount is included in the $2,500 allowed to him by the order of the Governor and Council of Sept. 17, 1862; and it is not intended on the part of the Governor to admit, by any thing herein contained, that any valid claim existed against the Commonwealth in favor of the agent for time and services. On that point, for the purpose of the inquiries of the honorable House, it is not necessary here to express an opinion. On the twenty-fourth day of February, the Governor transmitted with a message to the House the Annual Report of the Adjutant-General, Quartermaster-General, Master of Ordnance, and the Surgeon-General. Of these reports he says,— It has been the aim of the Adjutant-General to present in full detail, not only the formal returns, but, so far as possible, the main features, of the military history of each of the Massachusetts volunteer and militia corps organized and serving during the past year. He speaks of
February 26th (search for this): chapter 8
ve this company accepted. The Adjutant-General of the Army told me to put my proposition in writing, which I did. I received no answer to it until the twenty-sixth day of February, after I had returned home. The answer was, that the sharpshooters cannot be added to Colonel Briggs's regiment, as he has now ten companies, the legcontinue recruiting, he might; if not, I will issue orders to discontinue it at once. He received no answer to his letter to the Adjutant-General of the army, of Feb. 26, until March 22, nearly a month after it was written. The answer was as follows:— In reply to your communication of Feb. 26, I have the honor to state that Feb. 26, I have the honor to state that the services of the sharpshooters, unless as a company to complete some infantry regiment, cannot be accepted. L. Thomas, Adjutant-General. This was communicated to Mr. Maxwell. As we had no regiment in the field that required a company to complete it, of course nothing was left to do but to disband the company, to raise whi
March (search for this): chapter 8
t to be obtained by the Government. As the climate of Louisiana caused a great amount of sickness among the Massachusetts regiments on duty in that State, this doubtless influenced the Governor in his efforts to have them removed to Texas. The reports received from the three years regiments on duty there presented a fearful list of deaths, and of men sick in hospitals of malaria fever. So great, indeed, was the fatality from this cause, that the Governor wrote to the Secretary of War in March, asking that the regiments of Massachusetts troops which had passed the preceding summer in the Department of the Gulf might be replaced by others, and that they be brought North, as two successive summers there might be very fatal to their unacclimated constitutions. He asked this, not as a favor to himself or State, but as a measure of humanity and common prudence. Accompanying these letters was a report which had been received by the Surgeon-General of the Commonwealth, from Captain W
March 1st (search for this): chapter 8
housand dollars for the benefit of the Discharged Soldiers' Home, on Springfield Street, Boston, on condition that an equal amount be raised by private subscription, and used for the same purpose. An act approved April 27, legalized the acts and doings of cities and towns in paying bounties to volunteers, and taxes assessed to pay the same. An act approved April 23, authorized the State aid to be paid to families of drafted men the same as to families of volunteers. An act approved March 1 rendered null and void any tax levied upon a city or town to relieve or discharge from the military service any person who shall be called or drafted into such service. The resolves approved April 6, were in grateful acknowledgment of the services rendered by our soldiers in the war; and the Governor was authorized to forward copies of the same to the different regiments. The resolve approved April 28, authorized the Governor to appoint three persons to be commissioners to inquire in
March 3rd (search for this): chapter 8
rward copies of the same to the different regiments. The resolve approved April 28, authorized the Governor to appoint three persons to be commissioners to inquire into the expediency of establishing a State military academy. An act passed March 3, provided for the payment, by the State, of the pay due to soldiers by the Federal Government, and for the encouragement of the allotment of pay by the soldiers. An act approved March 7, provided that each city and town shall keep a complete s descriptive list from you; I pray you to send it on. I am as anxious to return deserters as you can possibly be, and probably exert myself to send them back as much as any one; but this man is not a deserter, and should not be so regarded. March 3.—To William D. Northend, Salem:— You ask if an inhabitant of Salem goes directly to Virginia, and there enlists, and is mustered into the service of the United States in the Massachusetts Second Regiment, can he be considered a part of the
March 4th (search for this): chapter 8
of citizens intrusted with the superintendence of the recruiting for these regiments. This contribution is noticeable because Mr. Smith had devoted his wealth and talents for years in the interests of the American Peace Society. While our Forty-eighth Regiment was in the Department of the Gulf, Captain Sherman, of Company F, wrote to the Governor respecting certain officers in that department, whose sympathies, if judged by their language, were on the side of the rebels. On the fourth day of March, the Governor wrote to Captain Sherman thanking him for his letter, and said,— I well understand the cry of every honest soldier, and his scorn and disgust at the insidious croakers, in the midst of the army, who fight feebly with their hands, while they sow dissension with their mouths; hireling parasites, feverish for the ruin of the country which pays them, and insolent in a seemingly temporary success. By and by, like the venomous reptile so appropriately the symbol of the
March 7th (search for this): chapter 8
ur soldiers in the war; and the Governor was authorized to forward copies of the same to the different regiments. The resolve approved April 28, authorized the Governor to appoint three persons to be commissioners to inquire into the expediency of establishing a State military academy. An act passed March 3, provided for the payment, by the State, of the pay due to soldiers by the Federal Government, and for the encouragement of the allotment of pay by the soldiers. An act approved March 7, provided that each city and town shall keep a complete record of the soldiers belonging thereto in the United States service; the book to be furnished by the Adjutant-General. An act approved March 17, authorized the Governor to pay bounties, not to exceed fifty dollars each, to volunteers. The resolve approved March 30, appropriated twenty thousand dollars for the maintenance of agencies out of the Commonwealth, as the Governor may find needful, for the aid of sick and wounded or di
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