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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 5: (search)
from the corps said to have been recruited by General Butler. No assurance had been received from Washington, that the men had been mustered in, and credited to the contingent of the State. On the 27th of November, Major Strong, chief of staff to General Butler, forwarded to the Adjutant-General of the State a list of officers which had been adopted by General Butler for a company known as the Salem Light Artillery, with a request that they be commissioned by the Governor. On the 17th of December, General Butler wrote to the Governor, calling his attention to the letter of Major Strong, with a request that he might be favored with a reply whether he will or will not commission the officers therein named. General Butler also claimed, that the company was raised under the authority of the State, and with His Excellency's approval. By direction of the Governor, Colonel Browne replied on the same day to this communication, that it was the intention of the Governor at a proper ti
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
e full standard for the nine months service at Camp Joe Hooker, at Lakeville. On the twenty-second day of October, the regiment embarked at Boston, in steamers Merrimack and Mississippi, under command of Colonel Silas P. Richmond, and arrived at Beaufort, N. C., Oct. 26, and reached Newbern the same evening. The Fourth Regiment, which had also served in the three months campaign in 1861, was recruited to the full standard at Camp Joe Hooker for the nine months service. On the seventeenth day of December, it was ordered to join General Banks's command at New Orleans. It left the State on that day for New York, under the command of Colonel Henry Walker. From New York it went by transport to New Orleans. The Fifth Regiment, which had also served in the three months campaign, was recruited for nine months service at Camp Lander, at Wenham. It sailed from Boston in transports, under command of Colonel George H. Peirson, for Newbern, N. C., with orders to report for duty to Majo
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
g, it was ordered to camp on the banks of the Trent River, Nov. 30; two companies were detached and ordered to Beaufort, N. C., under command of Captain Fowle, where they remained till March 4, 1863. The regiment joined the expedition to Goldsborough, under Major-General Foster. It was under fire Dec. 14, at the battle of Kinston, but, fortunately, without any injury. Dec. 16.—It was again under fire, at the battle of Whitehall, where it lost one killed, and three or four wounded. Dec. 17.—It was detached from the main column, and sent, with a section of artillery and one company of cavalry, to Spring Bank Bridge, where the enemy was found in small force. It drove them across the bridge, and then burned it, losing one man killed, one wounded; and was afterwards ordered to join the main column on its return from Goldsborough. In January, 1863, detachments from the regiments were sent out on picket duty at Bacheller's Creek and Evans's Mills. On the 17th, the regiment,
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
concur with your estimate of the importance of the promptest and most determined action, in the work of constitutional amendment, to secure the destruction of slavery. In preparing my annual address to the Legislature of Massachusetts, I intend to urge your views in the most emphatic manner; meanwhile I shall gladly receive and gratefully appreciate any other or further suggestions that may occur to you to present. Our Legislature will meet the first Wednesday in January. On the 17th of December, the Governor received the following telegram from the Secretary of War:— The great battle between the United-States forces, under Major-General Thomas, and the rebel army, under General Hood, before Nashville, resulted yesterday in a great and decisive victory for the Union army. The rebel army has been broken and routed, a large portion of its artillery, and a great number of prisoners captured. This triumph has been achieved with small loss to our army: General Thomas reports