Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, Headquarters, BosToN,
Apr. 17, 1861
SPECIAL ORDER No 21
HIS Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief, orders that Brigadier General Benjamin
F. Butler of the Third Brigade Second Division M.V.M. assume the command of
the Third, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth regiments, which have been
ordered into service, and are now at Quarters in the City of Boston, and also
of such other regiments and companies as may be attached thereto. The corps composing
said regiments shall be known and designated as the Third Brigade, Second
Division until otherwise ordered by the Commander-in-Chief. This Order is
to be promulgated forthwith to the regiments designated herein, — waiving the
usual forms.
By Order of his
Excellency,
JoHN A. ANDREw
SOURCE: Jessie Ames Marshall, Editor, Private and
Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the
Civil War, Volume 1: April 1860 – June 1862, p. 15-6
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