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Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
at Readville, commanded by Brigadier-General R. H. Peirce, to which recruits for old regiments were sent; Camp Wool, at Worcester, in charge of Colonel William F. Bartlett, Fifty-seventh Regiment, was specially used for recruiting and organizing thaever the hue of the hands by which it was upheld. The House was organized by the choice of Alexander H. Bullock, of Worcester, for Speaker, and William S. Robinson, of Malden, for clerk. Each gentleman received every vote cast. Mr. Bullock, onealth, to which our sick and wounded soldiers might be transferred. A hospital has been established during the year at Worcester, and was named in honor of the distinguished Surgeon-General of the Commonwealth, the United-States Dale General Hospi Readville, and left the State March 20. The Fifty-seventh, Colonel William F. Bartlett, was organized at Camp Wool, Worcester, and was sent forward April 18. The Fifty-eighth, nine companies, was recruited at Readville, and was sent to the fr
Menotomy (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
exercised by a competent and efficient commander. Their appearance was in all respects creditable and satisfactory. The officer above referred to was major of the Fourth Regiment, in the three months service, and was the first loyal officer to touch the soil of Virginia, after hostilities were commenced, having landed at Fortress Monroe on the morning of April 20, 1861. On the 19th of April, the Governor wrote by his military secretary, Colonel Browne, to William E. Parmenter, of West Cambridge,— I send you copies of correspondence concerning an application of Colonel Joselyn, of our Fifteenth Regiment, precisely similar to that in the case in which you are interested. You will see that it is about hopeless to induce the Secretary of War to let any rebel go from the North to the South, to arrange an exchange for himself. But General Hitchcock seems to think there would be no objection to the reverse of the arrangement, and is willing to arrange, with any of our men who
Harrisburg, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
his command an expedition of Massachusetts veteran organizations now being raised here? It will greatly promote their completion, and the General will come here personally to assist. The authority asked for was not given; but these regiments, as soon as completed, were forwarded to the Army of the Potomac, and afterwards went with Grant and Meade in their advance through the Wilderness. Major-General W. S. Hancock, commanding the Second Army Corps, then on recruiting service at Harrisburg, Pa., to fill up his corps, wrote to the Governor, requesting him to use every means in his power to recruit the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-eighth Regiments, and the company of sharpshooters which were in his command. On the 22d of January, the Governor wrote to General Hancock, informing him that no efforts on his part should be wanting to fill up the regiments as he requested. He also said,— I should gladly welcome you to this State, if you should be able to come
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
for many years employed in the office of the Secretary of State, entered warmly into the business of recruiting colored soldiers for Massachusetts, and visited Pennsylvania and other States to advance that interest. In a letter directed to him when in Pennsylvania, the Governor said,— I do not favor recruiting for MassachusPennsylvania, the Governor said,— I do not favor recruiting for Massachusetts in that State, and I do not wish to be understood to favor it. But if, by work in Pennsylvania, you can help those fleeing from slavery through that State to reach Massachusetts, where they will be received into all the rights and advantages of our own citizens, I shall be glad. I do not want either to speculate out of the bPennsylvania, you can help those fleeing from slavery through that State to reach Massachusetts, where they will be received into all the rights and advantages of our own citizens, I shall be glad. I do not want either to speculate out of the blood or courage of colored men; but I rejoice in having been instrumental in giving them a chance to vindicate their manhood, and to strike a telling blow for their own race, and the freedom of all their posterity. Every race has fought for liberty, and its own progress. The colored race will create its own future, by its own br
Fort Warren (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
fort was so defective, that they could not have been defended against a serious attack. In Fort Warren there was only one old condemned gun; Fort Winthrop was equally manned; and, though Fort Indeed to the field, and requesting that a militia regiment be called out to take their places at Fort Warren and elsewhere. The Governor says,— In order to systematize matters, I wish you would lon of these companies were sent to the front; but the battalion under Major Cabot, on duty in Fort Warren, was not allowed to go. The necessity of its services at the forts for the defence of Boston,rm of organization. There were at this time one hundred and seventy-two rebel prisoners at Fort Warren, among whom were Captain Reed of the Tacony, Captain Webb of the Atlanta, half a dozen of Morsetts has in the field, and is denied only to us. In regard to Major Cabot's battalion at Fort Warren, he says,— I would say that no one can fail to perceive that the fort would only be a
Lookout Mountain, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
Cumberland, the Mississippi, and the Rio Grande; under Dupont, Dahlgren, Foote, Farragut, and Porter,—the sons of Massachusetts have borne their part, and paid the debt of patriotism and valor. Ubiquitous as the stock they descend from, national in their opinions and universal in their sympathies, they have fought shoulder to shoulder with men of all sections, and of every extraction. On the ocean, on the rivers, on the land, on the heights where they thundered down from the clouds of Lookout Mountain the defiance of the skies, they have graven with their swords a record imperishable. The muse herself demands the lapse of silent years to soften, by the influences of time, her too keen and poignant realization of the scenes of war,—the pathos, the heroism, the fierce joy, the grief, of battle. But, during the ages to come, she will brood over their memory; into the hearts of her consecrated priests will breathe the inspirations of lofty and undying beauty, sublimity, and truth, in
Springfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
head. Of the men recruited, seventy-two had enlisted in Springfield, and were counted as part of its quota, and it was expecallows. As one of these companies was to be raised in Springfield and vicinity, and as a large number of recruits have alrar disrepute. The following letter to William Stowe, Springfield, Jan. 14, by the Adjutant-General, gives the result of tutler's despatch that authority is given: go ahead. The Springfield company was enlisted before they knew of the decision whhe call of the President, of Oct. 17, 1863. The city of Springfield has to furnish, as her quota of the present call, 476 meto their original design; and I received a telegram from Springfield this morning, that they would report in a body at Camp M This, I understand, is the law of the land. Now, this Springfield company is an organization authorized to be recruited byUnion. It was also of special importance to the city of Springfield that the men should be accepted, and thus form a part of
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
the Governor wrote to Mr. Green that he had no authority in the matter, and said,— My own inclination with regard to those of my friends who have fallen in this war is to have them rest on the fields where they fell. There is no other place of burial for them more congenial to their repose or to my feelings. But if the feelings of others are different, and if it would lessen the grief of a parent to have the remains of a son removed from the battle-field to the churchyard near his New-England home, I would be the last person to interpose any obstacle, not warranted in reason, to the satisfaction of her desire. In the month of February, Surgeon-General Dale was appointed by the Governor superintendent of the State agencies, so far as they related to the care of sick and wounded soldiers; and the agents were directed to correspond directly with him on those subjects, and to forward to him from time to time their accounts of disbursements, expenses, &c., to be audited and adj
Woolwich (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
Woolwich Arsenal, with the knowledge that they were intended for our use; and a fiction had to be set afloat, and carefully kept alive, that they were for the Russian Government. This was so well done, that, after the account of their proof appeared in the Times, the Russian military officers in London applied to know when they were to be delivered, and were surprised to learn that they were already at sea, on their voyage to America. The first gun, on being hoisted out of the lighter at Woolwich, carried away the crane, and, falling through the bottom of the lighter, sunk the whole; when landed, the bridge across the moat of Woolwich Arsenal had to be strengthened before they could be drawn across it to the proving ground; and so great was the interest felt in the result, that numbers of English artillery officers and cannon-founders attended the proof. Great was their surprise at seeing a bolt weighing 533 pounds, driven by fifty pounds of English powder, penetrate thirty-one fee
America (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
ns might be secured; and he was able to make a contract for them on terms which left it optional with the State to accept the contract or not. The State did ratify and adopt it; and these five guns were finished in due time, but never shipped to America. It would not be just to conclude this account without acknowledging that the delays which occurred in the execution of Captain Blakely's contract were due to the difficulties which were encountered in the first efforts to produce guns of thewas so well done, that, after the account of their proof appeared in the Times, the Russian military officers in London applied to know when they were to be delivered, and were surprised to learn that they were already at sea, on their voyage to America. The first gun, on being hoisted out of the lighter at Woolwich, carried away the crane, and, falling through the bottom of the lighter, sunk the whole; when landed, the bridge across the moat of Woolwich Arsenal had to be strengthened before t
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