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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
d men that were ever commissioned or enlisted in the second Massachusetts regiment of Infantry, see The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, by Rev. A. H. Quint, pp. 298, 514. That Messrs. Wheaton and Motley were very early applicants in April, and that all the others were actively engaged in recruiting companies early in May, there is abundant proof. Among the first to offer aid, person, counsel, and energetic assistance was Wilder Dwight, of Brookline. It was on the eighteenth day of April, 1861, that he first made known, in lines written hastily on a scrap of paper, his desire to go with me. The following is a copy of the paper:-- I simply want to say, that if you see any chance to get a berth to go with the first volunteers from Massachusetts, keep me in mind, and give me an early opportunity. That's what I want, Captain Gordon. Yours, (Signed) W. D. And it was on the same day, though later, in an interview with Dwight, that I informed him of the Governor's