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E. Wool (search for this): chapter 8
etter to Mr. Gooch, M. C. Army officers in Boston cases ofSuffering Useless detail of volunteer officers letter to General Wool suggestions about recruiting about deserters staff appointments complaints nine months men letter to J. H. Mitchuse to the country or of advantage to themselves. On the 2d of February, the Adjutant-General wrote a letter to Major-General Wool, commanding the Eastern Department, with headquarters at New York, calling his attention to the matters complained d April 20, 1863:— I have been ordered by His Excellency the Governor to proceed this evening to New York, to see General Wool. There is a man, a deserter, at Fort Independence, who is sentenced to be shot, and the Governor is very anxious to have the sentence commuted. General Wool has power to do it. If I am successful, I save a poor fellow's life; if unsuccessful, I will have the satisfaction of having done what I could to save it. W. S. The sentence was commuted, and the man's lif
Robert C. Winthrop (search for this): chapter 8
colored soldiers Temperance Generalullman's expedition coast defences General Wilde John M. Forbeswrites from London Colonel Ritchie a rebel letter Robert C. Winthrop letter to Mr. Gooch, M. C. Army officers in Boston cases ofSuffering Useless detail of volunteer officers letter to General Wool suggestions about recdamage the Yankees as much as possible. But in this case, as in many others, discretion became the better part of valor. On the twenty-third day of May, Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, inclosed a letter to the Governor, which he had received from the American consul at Malta, a kinsman of his, giving information in regard to a letter contained much information which was of interest at the time, and would have been invaluable in case of a war between the two nations. The letter which Mr. Winthrop forwarded to the Governor was a copy of one the consul had written to Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. On the 28th of May, an order was passed by the Executi
George Winslow (search for this): chapter 8
. Copeland as a personal insult. On the second day of February, a letter was written by Mr. George Winslow, of Boston, to the Governor, in which he informs him that the pirate Alabama was reported,n. The letter has this indorsement:— The within copy of a letter I have received from George Winslow, Esq., a respectable and intelligent merchant of this city. I respectfully refer it to the addressed to the Navy Department to-day. The Governor had telegraphed, on the receipt of Mr. Winslow's letter, to have a war-vessel sent to Provincetown. It may be regarded as one of the coincihe 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 hCommodore 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
Winn (search for this): chapter 8
is full. The captain did not get what he asked for. As a contrast to the foregoing case, a petition was presented to the Legislature by Mr. Seth T. Maxwell, of Charlemont, for payment of expenses incurred by him in trying to raise a company of sharpshooters in the western part of the State, which was also referred to the Adjutant-General by the Committee on Military Claims, who reported, substantially, that on representations made in November, 1861, by Mr. Maxwell, of Charlemont, and Mr. Winn, of Greenfield, then acting as assistant Attorney-General of the State, authority was given by the Governor, Dec. 4, to Mr. Maxwell, F. M. Thompson, of Greenfield, and Alvin P. Nelson, of Colerain, to raise a company of sharpshooters in the western counties of the Commonwealth for three years service. It was stated in the authority given, that the company, if recruited to ninety-eight enlisted men on or before Dec. 20, will be accepted, and pay and rations will then commence. The company
Henry Wilson (search for this): chapter 8
old rules, made when the army of the United States did not number as many men as the county of Middlesex has sent to this war. Goodfellow is now at the Hancock House at the expense of the Commonwealth. He had either to go there or sleep all night in the Tombs or police station. It is this utter disregard of the rights and amenities of brave and patriotic men that is sapping to its roots the tree of patriotism, and making recruiting almost an impossibility. Please show this letter to Senator Wilson and such of your colleagues as you may think best, and let me hear from you as soon as possible. Many of the authorities of the cities and towns will never forget the repulses which they met, and the vexations they underwent in recruiting, during the time Colonel Day represented the military authorities of the nation at this post. And yet he was an honest and brave officer; but he was wholly unused to transact business, except as specified in general orders and army regulations. Go
Henry A. J. Williams (search for this): chapter 8
efore we shall again become a burden to the service. In my opinion, if we are not removed to some station free from malaria before fall, the remnant that may be left will come home utterly broken down. Captain Welles also said that a great deal of sickness might have been avoided, if negroes who had come within our lines had been employed as soldiers, 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
Edward A. Wilde (search for this): chapter 8
teamers rights of colored soldiers Temperance Generalullman's expedition coast defences General Wilde John M. Forbeswrites from London Colonel Ritchie a rebel letter Robert C. Winthrop lettk Barlow, of New York, as a good officer to detail for such a command. It appears that Colonel Edward A. Wilde, of the Massachusetts Thirty-fifth Regiment, was also named for brigadier-general of coying to force upon the Government a new brigadier-general, and that you refuse to commission Colonel Wilde as a brigadier-general until he shall have raised a colored brigade in North Carolina. The Governor warmly disclaims any such intention. He proposed the name of Colonel Wilde in obedience to the suggestion made to him from the War Department, to name a suitable person for such a positileft arm. The letter of the Governor appears to have been satisfactory to Mr. Stanton, as Colonel Wilde was commissioned brigadier-general April 24, eight days after it was written. The defence
William V. Welles (search for this): chapter 8
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 Welles, of the Thirtieth Regiment, which contained a very full and interesting account of the sanitary condition of that regiment, and expressed fairly the condition of the others. It appears by Captain Welles's report, that at times not more than seventy men of the entire command were free from sickness, and entirely well. Feb. 15, 1863, the regiment had about four hundred men left for light duty, out of more than one thousand officers and men. From the time they had left the State, six harvice. In my opinion, if we are not removed to some station free from malaria before fall, the remnant that may be left will come home utterly broken down. Captain Welles also said that a great deal of sickness might have been avoided, if negroes who had come within our lines had been employed as soldiers, as they wished to be,
Washington (search for this): chapter 8
soon as possible. Many of the authorities of the cities and towns will never forget the repulses which they met, and the vexations they underwent in recruiting, during the time Colonel Day represented the military authorities of the nation at this post. And yet he was an honest and brave officer; but he was wholly unused to transact business, except as specified in general orders and army regulations. Goodfellow finally reached his regiment by transportation furnished by orders from Washington. We give this case as one of a class. Here is another class of cases, of which there were a great number:— To his Excellency. The case of George M. Dixon is this: He enlisted in the Tenth Battery (Captain Sleeper) on the 16th of August, and was sent to camp, where he remained until the 9th of September, when he was mustered into service. He has been paid from the time of muster in, but has received nothing for the one month (lacking five days) he was in camp previous to that
Samuel H. Walley (search for this): chapter 8
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 in defending our coast. He also refers to the bill for coast defences, then before the Legislature, which he had no doubt would pass, appropriating a million and a half of dollars for that object. On the twenty-third day of March, the Governor wrote to George T. Downing, a well-known and highly respected colored citizen of New
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