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May 12th (search for this): chapter 4
of artillery, borrowed from the City of Roxbury, manned by volunteer gunners, awoke the slumbering scene with a national salute. Then the Stars and Stripes were given to the breeze, and Brook Farm was baptized Camp Andrew. On Sunday, the twelfth of May, Captain Abbott made to me his first report of the condition of matters in camp. We reached camp, he says, about four o'clock Saturday afternoon (the eleventh). The flag-staff was raised, the flag saluted, and a national salute fired at suamp, he enumerated as follows: officers commissioned, 5; noncommissioned, 8; musicians, 2; privates, 72; total, 87. If I would give the order, he added, since the tent equipage was ready, he would put the men in camp immediately. Between the twelfth and twentieth of May, the site of the encampment was selected, and the permanent regimental camp established. On the third of May, as I have said, the President of the United States called by proclamation for forty-two thousand and thirty-fou
John A. Andrew (search for this): chapter 4
neral Government in the great Rebellion. Governor Andrew had taken steps to prepare the militia asheart-swellings and frantic cheers, heard Governor Andrew, in inspired tones, bid God-speed to the st, the assent and cordial cooperation of Governor Andrew to raise it; second, the promise of the Gof April, before all the troops were off, Governor Andrew made good the promise of his influence, bDepartment, Washington, May 15, 1861. Governor John A. Andrew, Boston: Dear Sir, I have the honobout the twentieth of May, 1861, I handed Governor Andrew, at the State House, a complete list of eto rank. Taking from my hand this paper, Governor Andrew, in my presence, delivered it to the Adjuf an official communication received from Governor Andrew before we left camp, that he had caused tmpment, and forwarded with my approval to Governor Andrew. On one of the last days in June, 1861ant-General. Now, to show how rapidly Governor Andrew grew in wisdom, let me quote the followin[7 more...]
Boutwell (search for this): chapter 4
thousand and thirty-four volunteers. At the same time it was declared that no more three months regiments would be accepted. Governor Andrew, before the proclamation, had urged the General Government to accept other regiments in addition to mine. On the twenty-fifth of April he had written the Secretary of War, In addition to raising Gordon's regiment, we can send you four thousand more troops within a very short time after receipt of a requisition for them. On the second of May, Mr. Boutwell wrote Governor Andrew from Washington that Mr. Cameron, Secretary of War, agreed to authorize Massachusetts to raise two regiments in addition to mine, but that a cabinet meeting prevented completion of the orders; and it was not until the fifteenth of May, 1861, that any official designation or call was made from Washington for any other regiments for three years, or during the war, save for this one. On the above date the following letter was written Governor Andrew:-- War Departmen
17th (search for this): chapter 4
ews and Major Dwight to go forward for me, and fulfil my purposes. On the afternoon of the twenty-fifth these gentlemen started, taking with them a letter from Governor Andrew to the Secretary of War, repeating the former's request of the seventeenth instant, to which no reply had been made. The following letter to me from Major Dwight, dated April 25, is pertinent. It is as follows:-- Dear Gordon, If you think you cannot go to Washington this P. M., Andrews and myself are ready to staof command was heard in the land; the right policy was adopted. It is to be remembered, however, that the Second Massachusetts Regiment was tendered to the President of the United States, first in the letter of Governor Andrew, written on the seventeenth, and again by messengers sent direct to the President, repeating this offer, on the twenty-fifth of April. It is to be remembered that this regiment was not accepted by the President for the war, under his own call, on the third of May, for t
Clinton (search for this): chapter 4
M. Tremlett, 289 Shawmut Avenue. Henry S. Russell (at G. H. Shaw's), 1 Joy Street. F. W. Loring, 73 Mount Vernon Street. J. M. Rodocanachi, 33 Central Wharf. R. Morris Copeland, 50 School Street. N. T. Messer, Fort Independence. H. S. Everett, 32 Summer Street. Francis Wildes, Newburyport. James G. C. Dodge, Boston. Geoffrey Paul, Boston. Forsyth Howard, Boston. Charles B. Slack, Newton. H. W. Sewell, Winthrop House. Dr. Lincoln R. Stone, Salem. Henry Bowman, Clinton. --Cartwright, State Street. D. D. Farr, Rockport. Joseph Hayes. C. J. Higginson, 2 Louisburg Square. J. Lewis Stackpole. Robert G. Shaw. Thomas R. Robeson. William D. Sedgwick, Lenox. That paper does not contain the names of all who received commissions in the second regiment; nor does it name some who undoubtedly had been promised a commission at an earlier date than any found in it,--such as Captain Abbott, who must have followed soon after Colonel Andrews. Oth
April 20th (search for this): chapter 4
uare. J. Lewis Stackpole. Robert G. Shaw. Thomas R. Robeson. William D. Sedgwick, Lenox. That paper does not contain the names of all who received commissions in the second regiment; nor does it name some who undoubtedly had been promised a commission at an earlier date than any found in it,--such as Captain Abbott, who must have followed soon after Colonel Andrews. Other names brought before me in letters of application, with dates, are appended:-- S. W. Waldron, on the 20th April Samuel M. Quincy, letter of May 2, 1861, from Colonel Holmes. G. N. Macy, through letter of May 6, 1861, from F. A. Osborn. Frank H. Tucker, applying for quartermaster or captaincy, May 6, 1861. George P. Bangs, letter recommending, May 6. William Cogswell, letter, May 8, 1861, from Governor Andrew. I find the names of Charles G. Loring, Jr., W. B. Williams, C. F. Morse, Rufus Choate, S. M. Quincy, Richard Goodwin, George P. Bangs, James M. Ellis, C. P. Horton, appended to a
July 1st (search for this): chapter 4
red his resignation at once. Subsequently repenting, however, he withdrew his resignation, and informed the Governor that he would prefer to remain, drink or no drink, corporal or no corporal. It was under these circumstances that, on the first of July, the Governor desired my presence, and would be glad to see me one-quarter of an hour earlier than the time appointed for Captain — to call. I had an interview with the Governor; but I am sorry to say our views differed very widely. The f1861. Says the Governor:-- Can it be intended by Congress, that volunteers in the field should fill vacancies by election? Where is to be the source of discipline, when every candidate is seeking personal favor of the men? From the first of July, when he thought that pledging a social glass with his corporal was an act by a captain of a company of no significance, when judged by the light of peaceful militia camp-life, to the third of August, the Governor grew rapidly in wisdom. F
July 8th (search for this): chapter 4
ir countrymen, who could ill afford it. In these companies, says the Governor, there are several officers and nearly thirty men who have served in the German armies, and are therefore trained soldiers. As the acceptance of his material would have been a departure from the policy I had adopted, I declined the offer. It would be interesting to give in detail the letters, correspondence, and reports that flowed in upon me from the fifteenth day of April, 1861, to the very morning of the eighth of July following, when the regiment left the State: offers of services to drill; offers of services to fight; individual offers, and offers by groups and companies; German soldiers by Mr. Urbino, and French veterans by Colonel Fletcher Webster; applications for a first or second lieutenancy in an infantry regiment from a man who had commanded ships varying in size from six hundred to eighteen hundred tons; applications for a first or second lieutenancy from a man who says, to use his own words,
July 11th (search for this): chapter 4
he first and last military occupants of Brook Farm come and gone, that it seemed like the vision pictured by Scott of the clans of Rhoderick Dhu:--The wind's last breath had tossed in air Pennon and plaid and plumage fair; The next but swept a lone hill-side Where heath and fern were waving wide; The sun's last gleam had glinted back From spear and glaive, from targe and jack; The next all unreflected shone On bracken green and cold gray stone. At five o'clock in the morning, on the eleventh of July, the regiment forded for the first time the Potomac, at Williamsport in Maryland, and entered upon the sacred soil of Virginia. Its destination was Martinsburg, the headquarters of General Patterson, to whom, as ordered by General Scott, I was to report. Never again was the Second to make that march in such style. The officers were in full uniform, adorned with epaulettes and sashes. The ranks were full, a thousand men, marching in close order, moving with the military precision
May 20th (search for this): chapter 4
s of enlisted men on the date of their arrival at camp were as follows:-- Captain AbbottfullMay 11. Captain Coggswell75 menMay 14. Captain Savage42 menMay 14. Captain Whitney78 menMay 14. Captain Underwood82 menMay 15. Captain Quincy80 menMay 20. I find among my papers a sheet, on one side of which, in my own handwriting, is a list of all the proposed officers of the regiment, from the colonel to the last second lieutenant, and on the other side a statement of the condition of the ced as follows: officers commissioned, 5; noncommissioned, 8; musicians, 2; privates, 72; total, 87. If I would give the order, he added, since the tent equipage was ready, he would put the men in camp immediately. Between the twelfth and twentieth of May, the site of the encampment was selected, and the permanent regimental camp established. On the third of May, as I have said, the President of the United States called by proclamation for forty-two thousand and thirty-four volunteers; and
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