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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
r superintendent of the State agencies, so far as they related to the care of sick and wounded soldiers; and the agents were directed to correspond directly with him on those subjects, and to forward to him from time to time their accounts of disbursements, expenses, &c., to be audited and adjusted at his office. This arrangement relieved the Governor of considerable labor and care, and, at the same time, added materially to the duties and responsibilities of the Surgeon-General. On the 2d of March, the Governor wrote to the Surgeon-General thus:— There are three couriers employed under my authority, to have personal care and charge of our soldiers, particularly those sick and wounded, en route between Washington and New York. This system was established by me some time ago, on consultation with our various State agents, particularly those at New York and Washington. The compensation allowed by the State to these men was one hundred dollars a month; a sum most wisely and
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 12: (search)
o the credit of Massachusetts. I pray you to read these papers, and protect the right as occasion may offer. The protection of Boston Harbor, as the readers of this volume may know, was one of the darling objects of the Governor from the beginning of the war. Through the agency of John M. Forbes and Colonel Ritchie, Massachusetts had received from England a number of heavy guns, which the Governor wished to have placed in position, with proper earthworks, on Long Island Head. On the 2d of March, the Governor wrote to John M. Forbes, who was then in Washington, inclosing him a copy of some memoranda made by Colonel Browne, of a conversation had with General Totten, in Boston, in September, 1863, which bore directly on the point of the construction of a work on Long Island Head to receive our guns. The Governor asked Mr. Forbes to consider the propriety of getting the Engineer Bureau to design an earthwork for us to erect there at our own cost, with an estimate of the necessary o