I have been buisey
in raising volunteers and swearing them in we have some 90 odd sworn in I got
Mr. J. Miller & L. Spooner to go in my buggy to fill my appointment at
Livingston
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 86
I have now over one
hundred volunteers Sworn in I have administered the oath to most of them I got
J Miller & Miller McCreary to take my horse & buggy & fill my
appointment at Unionville, evening I presided in our literary society we had a
pleasant time
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2,
October 1925, p. 86
a very raney one And
Lieutenant Lea and Sergeant Couvington and H. Rudd and Mr. Balden all started
home to day as recruiting officers.
SOURCE: Bartlett
Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 14
Quarters Cleaned up. Nothing of importance today. Capt Parkes left for home to-day for new recruits.
SOURCE: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1909, p. 223
THE ORGANIZATION.
On the evening of August 7th, 1862, the 4th Battalion Infantry (New England Guard) held a meeting at their Armory, Boylston Hall, Boston, Major Francis L. Lee presiding. It was resolved unanimously to respond to the order of Gen. Davis, and to accept the offer of Gov. Andrew for the battalion to recruit to a regiment. At the call for members to sign the new roll, there was a general rush, each being anxious to get his name on the list first between two and three hundred men enlisted. On the same day the battalion paraded the city, with Flagg’s band. This battalion was the nucleus of our regiment, our company being raised by Mr. Spencer W. Richardson, under the auspices of the Mercantile Library Association, of Boston (of which organization he was a prominent member), with the assistance of Messrs. James S. Newell and James S. Cumston. Our head-quarters being in the large hall of the Association on Summer Street.
SOURCE: John Jasper Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass. Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June 1863, p. 5
1 We have followed the punctuation,
capitalization, spelling, except proper names, etc., as they appear in the
original dairy.—Editor.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd
Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 85
I went in buggy with
Judge Tannyhill to see about getting Volunteers. Evening attended prayer
meeting.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd
Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 85
I was out soliciting
Volunteers took dinner at Brother James Robinson's
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd
Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 85
We had a meeting at
Centerville to raise Volunteers. Several joined Judges Harris & Tannyhill
& Joshua Miller I K Morey & I made speaches 2 Oc Our quarterly meeting
commenced 4 Oc I was at qr Conference Evening Brother Pendegast Locle preached
text 1st Corinthians 13 th & 13 v My license renewed MH Hare, P.E.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd
Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 85
At 9 Oc we had a
good Love feast 11 Oc M H Hare P. E. preached text Luke 16th 2nd had a glorious
time the Lord was with us in power I took dinner with Br Williams 3 Oc the
Sacrement was administered & the Shout of a King in the Camp evening Hare
preached text Romans 1st 16th I took tea at Brother Rummels
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd
Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 85
7 Oc we left in
Westley Campbells wagon to attend our meeting at Unionville Several of us made
war Speeches & evening returned home had some success. evening attended
& presided in our literary Society had a good time.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd
Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 85
Afternoon 7 Oc we
started to Moravia 12 miles North of Centerville to recruit Volunteers Mr J
Miller G Udell & I spoke evening returned Mr T Alexander took us with his
team
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd
Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 85
7 Oc we started in
Sol Fenton's waggon to Iconium to our appointment Mr. Tanneyhill G Udell &
I spoke evening we returned & I attended our prayer meeting I recd a
commission from N B Baker Adj't Genl of Iowa to raise a company of volunteers
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd
Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, p. 85
Cold rain; rained
all night.
Gen. Lee, urging
that his regiments from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, etc. etc. be
recruited from their respective States, concludes a recent letter thus: “I hope
immediate action will be taken upon this subject, as I think our success
depends much upon a speedy increase of our armies in every possible way.”
This dismal weather
casts a deeper gloom upon the spirits of the croakers. They fear Richmond
cannot be long defended.
Plymouth, N. C., has
been retaken by the enemy.
During this damp
weather the deep and sullen sounds of cannon can be heard at all hours, day and
night. The firing is mostly from our iron-clads.
The market was well
supplied this morning with abundance of good meat, vegetables, fruit, etc.; and
I was glad to see but few making purchases. The reason may have been that the
extortionate prices repelled the people; or it may have been the rain. I passed
on.
This morning Captain Ahern with two men from each company leave for Illinois to recruit for the regiment. The entire regiment is now making preparations to go home on furlough, which is one of the conditions in the veteran contract. All are now busy preparing for muster, making out rolls, filling up enlistment papers, &c.
SOURCE: Daniel Leib Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, p. 217
DEAR SIR: Your favor of the 6th instant is at hand.* I have done all in my power to get troops and transportation and means to advance into Tennessee. I believe General Sherman has done the same. Up to this time we have been unsuccessful.
Have you heard by authority that the troops at London were to fall back? because I have not, and shall not move any of them back unless ordered; because, if not interfered with, I can have them subsisted there as well as here. I am inclined to think that the rumor has grown out of the feverish excitement which seems to exist in the minds of some of the regiments that if we stop for a day that no further advance is contemplated. I can only say I am doing the best I can. Our commanding general is doing the same, and using all his influence to equip a force for the rescue of Tennessee.
If the Tenneseeans are not content and must go, then the risk of disaster will remain with them. Some of our troops are not yet clothed, and it seems impossible to get clothing.
For information respecting the organization of regiments, I inclose you General Orders, No. 70, from the War Department.
If the gentlemen you name can raise regiments agreeably to the conditions and instructions contained in said order, the Government will accept them, and I hope will have arms to place in their hands in the course of two or three months.
In conclusion I will add that I am here ready to obey orders, and earnestly hope that the troops at London will see the necessity of doing the same.
VISITORS.
We had been here only two days when our common sense and judgment were still further imposed upon by three of our former officers from the News, soliciting enlistments. They probably thought that a fifty mile march and being in a strange city had perhaps taken the stiffening out of us somewhat, but they were not long in finding out that that was a delusion. Capt. Parkhurst laughed at them, telling them they had come to the wrong market to peddle their wares; the boy's crowded around them, giving them scarcely breathing room, and jokingly told them they had picked some chickens the night before, but had got no tar, but perhaps molasses would answer for a substitute. Finding they had come on a fool's errand, they then wanted Surgeon Hoyt to put as many of us on the sick list is possible, thereby increasing the working force at the News. The surgeon told them that men who could make a fifty mile march, carrying heavy knapsacks, were not supposed to be very seriously indisposed. Finding the leopard hadn't changed his spots, they left, taking with them two captives.
SOURCE: David L. Day, My Diary of Rambles with the
25th Mass. Volunteer Infantry, p. 114
Genl, I have received
a letter from Washington stating that the Duncan estate has been visited by the
Press Gang or recruiting parties from your District, and their negroes carried
off. The Duncan's have been loyal from the beginning of the rebellion and as
loyal persons have had safe guard given them by myself and Admiral Porter; and
I have further received instructions from Washington to protect all loyal
persons found in the South and mentioning the family of Duncans in particular
as being entitled to protection. They have gone so far as to acknowledge the
freedom of their slaves, and made as I understand regular contracts with them
to pay wages and employ them, just as negroes are being employed on the leased
plantations, I want the matter fully investigated, and a report made to me.
Send some officer immediately to Duncans to inquire for the facts. If their
negroes have been carried off, find out where they are and who carried them
off. Return to them as far as possible everything that has been taken. Arrest
the parties engaged in this transaction, and all officers among them send to me
under guard.
SOURCE: John Y.
Simon, Editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 9, p.
39
The local municipal authorities of New York City are taking high-handed
ground in regard to naval enlistments in that city, — such as cannot be
permitted. They forbid the recruiting of any in the city unless they are
accredited to that locality.
A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of trade
regulations was got up by one who did not understand what he was writing about,
or else intended no one else should understand. There is great swindling and
rascality in carrying out these regulations.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 — December 31, 1866,
p. 240
ASHEBORO, May 28, ’61
* * * * * * *
I think there is no reliable date on which to base any opinion as to the continuance of the war. If Lincoln and his cabinet exhibited any marks of statesmanship, I should think there would be peace very soon. I think, however, that he and his advisers want common sense, and hence I can draw no conclusions as to what they will do. There seems to be no alternative to the South, only between independence and humiliation. I have feelings that we cannot be conquered—if Southern Democracy will permit the rest of us to co-operate with them on terms less humiliating than absolute vassalage to them. This is doubtful. Their unmanly course towards us thus far is only less galling than submission to Lincoln. The war, however, is so manifestly suicidal that I still hope that the good sense of the free States will get into the movement and arrest the war before rage and passion shall have ruined the land. I fear the incident at Alexandria will add fuel to the flame North and South.
Randolph, like myself, was slow to come to the conclusion that Abolitionism and Secession were the only Commanders in the field—both, as we believed, moved and instigated by the Devil. The moment we perceived that we had to be the followers of the one or the other we all enrolled ourselves as true and liege vassels of Secession. We now have at least 350 volunteers in fragments of companies. I think three or four companies will be made up within a few days.
B. F. Hoover, Doct. Lane, aided by others of like caliber, have lied so persistently as to make Tom. Waddell, Adgt. Genl. Hoke and other such fools believe that I was not true to the South and that Randolph concurred with me. It sometimes makes my blood boil a little when I know that men, having no connection with slaves, excepting with one sex, and that connection not that of master and slave, endeavoring to make the impression that I favor abolitionism. It is the privilege, however, of such poor devils and does me no permanent injury.
We are all well.
SOURCE: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Editor, The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth, Volume 1, p. 151-2
