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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
be of my own designation and appointment; the rank and file to be enlisted in such manner as I might elect. The application next in time to the preceding was on the eighth of May, when the Governor applied to me to receive the Andrew Light guard, --a company raised in Salem by the then Captain Cogswell; as it will add, writes the Governor, to the completion of your command, to aid which I shall always be happy. On the ninth of May the Governor applied to me for an appointment for Dr. R. H. Salter, as surgeon; adding, If I were selecting a regiment, he is the man of all others I should choose as surgeon of a regiment; and again, May 16, in a letter to me introducing Mr. Fisher and Major Ayer, of Medway, the latter of whom had seventyone men on his rolls. This company, discarding their own elected officers, took those I designated, and became Company E of the Second Regiment. And again, on the same day, May 16, I received another letter written for the Governor by an officer of