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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
It threw an immense weight of responsibility upon the Adjutant-General, whose duties were already extremely arduous, and increased in a great degree the labors of the office. This was so apparent to the Governor, that he appointed, on the 23d of August, William Rogers, Esq., of Boston, second Assistant Adjutant-General, with the rank of major, who was specially intrusted with the superintendence of all matters connected with the enrolment and allotment of the quotas which each city and town were young men of great promise, born and reared in the city of Lowell, graduates of Harvard College, and both now lie beneath a soldiers' monument in the cemetery of their native city. These were all the sons of the family. On the twenty-third day of August, an executive order was issued, of which the following is a copy:— In order to promote the recruitment of the Massachusetts quotas, both of volunteers and militia, I respectfully recommend that throughout the Commonwealth, and esp
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
hared all the exposure and hardships of the siege of Port Hudson. In the engagement at Donaldsville on the 13th July, the Third Brigade, under command of Colonel Dudley, suffered considerably. The loss in the Forty-eighth was three killed, seven wounded, twenty-three taken prisoners. On Aug. 1, the regiment returned to its camp at Baton Rouge, having left it seventy-four days previous, in light marching order. Aug. 9.—The Forty-eighth started for Boston via Cairo, where it arrived Aug. 23, and was mustered out of service Sept. 3, at Camp Lander. The Forty-ninth Regiment was in the Department of the Gulf. It left New York Jan. 24, 1863, by transport for New Orleans, where it arrived about Feb. 3. From thence it was sent to Carrollton, and then to Baton Rouge, where it was attached to the First Brigade, Colonel Chapin commanding, and Auger's division. March 14.—The regiment participated in the feigned advance of General Banks's forces on Port Hudson, and, in the retre