THE BEGINNING.
Pursuant to a call from President Lincoln for more troops in
suppression of the great rebellion, a regiment is now being recruited in the
city of Worcester for that service, and a company is being recruited here for
that regiment. Believing that it is too soon to divide the estate, and that too
many different administrations running at the same time might run amuck, and
believing I should never feel quite satisfied with myself if I do not go, and
believing with President Jackson, that the Union must and shall be preserved, I
have this day enlisted in the company now being raised here. It would be
useless for me to claim that I have enlisted from purely patriotic motives, as
no one would believe it; and surely none would believe that I would enlist for
the plain thirteen dollars a month. So I may as well call it that I have
enlisted partly from a love of adventure; for the other part, people are at
liberty to draw their own inferences.
The formation of this company was suggested by Mr. George
Draper, a patriotic and public spirited citizen of the town, who has given
liberally of his means for its success; his son also enlisting in the company.
It has also received the aid and patronage of several other patriotic citizens
of the town.
SOURCE: David L. Day, My
Diary of Rambles with the 25th Mass. Volunteer Infantry, p. 5
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