History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

Cleveland; anthem, St. Anne's Choir; discourse,
Rev. W. E. Clark ; original hymn by Eev. G. W.
Homer, read by Rev. J. J. Twiss, sung by St.
Anne's Choir; prayer. Rev. D. ilott; benediction,
Eev. Frederick Hinckley.
The pall-bearers were Lieutenant W. E. Farrar,
G. E. Dana, Edward S. Hunt, Surgeon W. H.
Bradley, James Francis, H. H. Fuller, David Hyde,
and Captain Temple Tebbetts.
May 11, the Abbott Light Guard, Captain E. G.
Abbott, left the city for Camp Andrew, Brook Farm,
Eoxbury. This company was attached to Colonel
Gordon's regiment.
May 15, Sergeant John E. Ames, Company D,
Corporal Daniel B. Tyler, Company D, privates
Edward Coburn, Company D, and Michael Green,
Company I, — the soldiers wounded at Balti-
more, — arrived in Lowell. They were received
by the Richardson and tlie Lowell Light Infantry.
May 21, the Richardson Light Infantry, Captain
Phineas A. Davis, left Lowell via Boston for Fort-
ress Monroe.
July 4, Hon. George S. Boutwell delivered the
oration.
July 8, the Butler Eiiles, Captain Ebeu James,
and the Hill Cadets, Captain S. Proctor, left Lowell
for Camp Cameron, Cambridge, and were attached
to the 16th Massachusetts regiment.
September 5, General B. F. Butler returned to
Lowell after the affair at Hatteras Inlet. He was
received by the mayor, and escorted by the military
to his home. September 10, he obtained an order
from the Secretary of War, countersigned by the
President of the United States, to raise a force not
exceeding six regiments, and organized a camp at
the fair-grounds of the North Middlesex Agricul-
tural Society. It was named Camp Chase.
September 24, the Prince Jerome Napoleon
visited Lowell, accompanied by Princess Clotilde
and the Duchess d'Abrantes.
January 2, 1862, the Bay State and Elaine regi-
ments left Camp Chase for Boston, where they
embarked on board the ship Constitution for Ship
Island.
January 5, the Eev. J. P. Cleveland was appointed
chaplain of the 26th regiment. On the 13th lie
was presented with a sword and belt ; on the
15th he was dismissed as pastor of the Appleton
Street Church, and went to Ship Island. He was
discharged from his chaplaincy May 2, and returned
to Lowell May 24. He died'March 7, 1873.
February 6, the Maine, Vermont, and 4th Massa- I
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chusetts batteries and the Gloucester Liglit Infan-
try, Captain Cook, left Cam]) Chase for Sliip Island.
February 20, the 31st Massachusetts regiment left
Camp Chase.
April 22, John A. Andrew, governor of Massa-
chusetts, transmitted to the General Court a copy
of " an Act for the relief of the families of those of
the Massaclmsetts 6th Begiment of Yolunteers ^ho
were killed or wounded in the riot of the 19th of
April, 1861," passed by the General Assembly of
Maryland. This Act appropriated seven thousand
dollars for this object.
May 26, a call for troops to defend the capital,
endangered by the near approach of the enemy,
fired anew the patriotism and zeal of the 6th regi-
ment. Proceeding to Boston, it remained in readi-
ness two days, when intelligence was received tliat
the apparent danger had been averted, and it re-
turned home.
July 1, President Lincoln issued a call for
300,000 volunteers. The cpiota for Lowell was
397. The city council authorized the payment of
" a bounty of $110 to all such men as should come
immediately forward, enlist, and be mustered into
the United States service for the term of three
years, or the war." Lowell was the first city in
the commonwealth to raise her quota.
August 4, the President issued a call for troops
to serve for nine months. The 6th regiment was
among the first to respond. September 9, the regiment
departed from Lowell ; arrived in Washing-
ton on the lltb ; on the morning of the 12th was
ordered to Fortress Monroe, and on the 13th Gen-
eral Dix ordered the regiment to Suffolk, on the
Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad. Suffolk was an
outpost of Norfolk occupied by a force of about
5,000 men under the command of General 0. F.
Terry.
Tlie field and staff officers of the 6th regiment
were: colonel, Albert S. Follansbee, Lowell ; lieu-
tenant-colonel, Melvin Beal, Lawrence ; major, C.
A. Stott, Lowell ; surgeon, Walter Burnham,
Lowell ; chaplain, John W, Hanson, Haverhill
adjutant, Thomas 0. Allen, Lowell; quartermasters,
William G. Wise, Charles H. Coburn, Lowell;
assistant-surgeons, Otis M. Humphrey and George
E. Pinkham, Lowell.
List of the companies : Company
A, Lowell, Cap-
tains Andrew C. Wright, Alfred J. Hall, 97 men;
Company B, Groton, Captain George F. Shattuck,
75 men ; Company C, Lowell, Captain John C.
Jepson, 100 men; Company D, Lowell, Captain
;