Category: History - American
At the time (August 4th, 1862) a draft was ordered by President Lincoln for three hundred thousand militia to serve for a period of nine months, Colonel Isaac S. Burrell was in command of the Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia--an old militia organization of the...
At the time (August 4th, 1862) a draft was ordered by President Lincoln for three hundred thousand militia to serve for a period of nine months, Colonel Isaac S. Burrell was in...
8. CHAPTER II.On arrival at Groton, the men were immediately marched aboard the steamer _Commodore_, owned by Commodore Vanderbilt, exclusively used for transport service since the war commen...
9. CHAPTER III.“Headquarters” transport _Saxon_, so called because the colonel with a majority of his staff were on board, was commanded by Captain Lavender, and remained in the harbor until t...
10. CHAPTER IV.Companies D, G and I went into camp at Carrollton on the afternoon of December 18th, 1862. A telegraphic order was received from New Orleans on the nineteenth, sent by General B...
11. CHAPTER V.Brigadier-General T. W. Sherman was in command of all United States forces assembled at several camps in and about Carrollton, a suburb of New Orleans, distant a few miles north...
12. CHAPTER VI.That part of Bayou Gentilly where a portion of the Forty-Second was to remain in camp for nearly five months was, at the time of arrival, a most desolate looking place. The Gent...
13. CHAPTER VII.The rank and file of the Forty-Second, with captured sailors of the _Harriet Lane_, were confined in a cotton press, situated in close proximity to Buffalo Bayou. The officers w...
14. CHAPTER VIII.The month of March was dull enough to suit an epicure or sluggard. Additional details from the regiment for service elsewhere was the order of the day. In response to a call by...
15. CHAPTER IX.After hot weather fairly set in not much time was occupied in drill at Gentilly Camp. When the many details for regular camp and extra duty had been provided, there were few men...
16. CHAPTER X.The month of May passed rapidly without the occurrence of any event of importance to the regiment. With the commencement of June affairs in the Department began to assume such a...
17. CHAPTER XI.Colonel Cahill, Ninth Connecticut Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps, issued, June 9th, 1863, Special Orders No. 97, for Lieutenant-Colo...
18. CHAPTER XII.About six o’clock Saturday morning, twentieth June, 1863, the train which left Brashear City for La-Fourche a few hours before, arrived at the railroad bridge crossing Bayou La-...
19. CHAPTER XIII.New Orleans on a Sunday during the summer of 1863 would have shocked those staid old New Englanders who believed in a proper observance of the day. Army and navy officers, soldi...
20. CHAPTER XIV.Special Orders No. 16, issued from headquarters Defences of New Orleans, January 15th, 1863, detailed Companies C and H for duty in the Department engineer service. The two comp...
21. CHAPTER XV.Company K, under command of Lieutenant Henry A. Harding, a talented young officer, twenty-one years old, in obedience to Division Special Orders No. 51, issued February 16th, pr...
22. CHAPTER XVI.Major-General Banks having decided to send the regiment home in a few days, July 29th was devoted to cleaning guns and equipments, and turning over material to the regimental qu...
23. CHAPTER XVII.Corporal David L. Wentworth, Company G, Private Samuel R. Hersey, Company C, and Frank Veazie, officers’ cook, with about three hundred men (including Lieutenant Hamilton, Maste...
24. CHAPTER XVIII.Soon after the enlisted men (Galveston prisoners of war) were paroled and left for the Federal lines, the officers retained at Houston were joined (January 25th) by one hundred...
25. CHAPTER XIX.A scare existed in Washington, caused by Confederate operations under General Jubal Early, who threatened an invasion of Pennsylvania in order to mask a contemplated dash on Bal...