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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
field-officers of the Third were David W. Wardrop, of New Bedford, colonel; Charles Raymond, of Plymouth, lieutenant-colonel; John H. Jennings, of New Bedford, major; Austin S. Cushman, of New Bedfordephas Washburn, of Kingston, and Charles P. Lyon, of Halifax. Company B, Standish Guards, of Plymouth. Charles C. Doten, of Plymouth, captain; Otis Rogers, of Plymouth, and William B. Alexander, oPlymouth, captain; Otis Rogers, of Plymouth, and William B. Alexander, of Boston, lieutenants. Company B, Cambridge City Guards, of Cambridge. This company was the first company raised for the war in Massachusetts, and was organized in January, 1861, and attached tempPlymouth, and William B. Alexander, of Boston, lieutenants. Company B, Cambridge City Guards, of Cambridge. This company was the first company raised for the war in Massachusetts, and was organized in January, 1861, and attached temporarily to the Fifth Regiment. It was recruited out of the Cambridge Wide Awake Club. Its officers were James P. Richardson, captain; Samuel E. Chamberlain and Edwin F. Richardson, lieutenants,—all ent May 22; Company D, Captain Chipman, raised at Sandwich; Company E, Captain Doten, raised at Plymouth, for three years service. On this day, Major-General Butler assumed command of the Department
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
the regiment returned to its quiet routine until March 26, when, with the exception of two companies, it was sent to Plymouth, N. C., an important post on the Roanoke River, threatened by a force of the enemy. The whole land force was immediately as of the post. During the eighteen days siege of Washington, and always within hearing of its cannonading, the force at Plymouth, anxious for the result, and confidently waiting its turn, was occupied in constructing fortifications, and preparing for defence against a daily expected attack; but the defeated and discouraged enemy retired, and Plymouth was thoroughly fortified undisturbed. The regiment went into barracks on the Neuse River, May 8, and was employed in the construction of earthwemy's outposts at Dover Swamp, eight miles from Kinston, in which it took part. During the absence of the regiment at Plymouth, the detachment left at Newbern took active part in the defence of Newbern against the second threatened attack, and was
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
a letter to the proper department at Washington; but no attention was ever given to it, and the soldier suffered the loss. It was proposed by the selectmen of Plymouth, to call one of the earthwork forts, being erected in that town for the protection of the harbor, Fort Andrew, in honor of the Governor. On the 16th of March, he wrote to William T. Davis, chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Plymouth, as follows:— No fort as yet bears the name which your Board of Selectmen has so generously proposed for the larger fort now in progress in Plymouth harbor, nor had any ambition of my own ever suggested to my mind the possibility of becoming in that re fitting the occasion to connect the name of Edward Winslow, who was the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony, with one of the fortifications of the harbor of Plymouth, than the name you propose, even if I were a hundred times more worthy than I know myself to be. The two forts here referred to were subsequently named Fort