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also worthy of note, that, on the nineteenth of the month, Governor Andrew, in the following letter, became himself, for his friend, an applicant for a commission in our regiment.
The letter is as follows:--
At later dates, and on four other occasions, did Governor Andrew make personal application to me in writing, suggesting appointments, or applying for places for men; thus most emphatically indorsing his promise to aid me in raising a regiment, in which all the officers were to 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
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