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aplain is made by the staff officers and captains of companies, so that I shall have no power to offer it, as from myself. The answer to this letter has not been preserved, but soon after the above was written, orders came from General Andrew to stop all recruiting and the proposed regiment was given up. These items are from the diary dated January 25, 1862: My last drill club disbanded last night, and so ends perhaps my special military training. First club formed under Captain Goodhue April 1 and lasted through April, till he left with Rifle Battalion. Then came our Rifle Club of which I was President, drilled by Wood in Lincoln House Block. This merged in the Old City Guard, so called (May 20), and began at beginning again. . . . We got some escort duty and outdoor drill and learned all the company movements and part of the manual. Read Hardee (vol. 1) slightly, with the actual exercises, and found all far easier than I expected.... No more drill through s