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those of us who remained gathered at the windows that stormy forenoon to see the company go by, the sight filled us with the most gloomy forebodings.
So the troops went forth from the towns in the shore counties of Massachusetts.
Most of the companies in the regiments that were called reported for duty at Boston this
very 16th--two companies from Marblehead being the first to arrive.
One of these companies was commanded by Captain Knott V. Martin, who was engaged in slaughtering hogs when Adjutant (now Major-General) E. W. Hinks rode up and instructed him to report on Boston Common in the morning.
Drawing the knife from the throat of a hog, the Captain uttered an exclamation which has passed into history, threw the knife with a light toss to the floor, went immediately
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