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Frye - -Release Date: March 20, 2016 [EBook #51510] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIRST REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS *** - - - - -Produced by Richard Tonsing, The Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - - - The First Regiment - Massachusetts Heavy Artillery - - "Vigilantia" - - - By the Same Author - - FROM HEADQUARTERS - - Being Seven Odd Tales picked up during Service - in a Militia Regiment in Time of Peace. - - FABLES OF FIELD AND STAFF - - Being Seven Other Odd Tales concerning Certain - Happenings in the Same Regiment. - - Each volume, cloth, 12mo, mailed, postpaid, on - receipt of price, $1.00, by - - THE COLONIAL COMPANY - (P.O. Box 1612) - Boston - -[Illustration: - - Copyrighted photograph by T. E. Marr, Boston. - - COLONEL CHARLES PFAFF, U.S.V. - - Commanding Regiment. -] - - - - - THE - FIRST REGIMENT - Massachusetts Heavy Artillery - UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS - IN THE - SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR OF 1898 - - - BY - - COLONEL JAMES A. FRYE, A.I.G., MASS. - - (LATE MAJOR OF THE REGIMENT) - - Member Massachusetts Military Historical Society; Associate Member - United States Military Service Institution; Associate Member - United States Naval Institute; Late Secretary National - Defence Association - - WITH REGIMENTAL ROSTER AND MUSTER-ROLLS - - AND - - FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS - - - - - BOSTON - THE COLONIAL COMPANY - 1899 - - - - - Copyright, 1899, - - BY JAMES A. FRYE. - - - - - PRESS OF - - Rockwell and Churchill - - BOSTON, U.S.A. - - - - - TO - - My Father - - WHO ADVISED ME NOT TO ENTER THE SERVICE - AND WOULD HAVE DISINHERITED - ME HAD I HEEDED HIS - ADVICE - - - - - CONTENTS - - - PAGE - I. INTRODUCTORY 3 - II. THE COAST-DEFENCE PROBLEM IN MASSACHUSETTS 13 - III. MARCHING-ORDERS 21 - IV. OFF FOR ACTIVE SERVICE 31 - V. THE REGIMENT AT FORT WARREN 47 - VI. A PERIOD OF SUSPENSE 59 - VII. FROM "M.V.M." TO "U.S.V." 71 - VIII. PERSONNEL OF THE REGIMENT 87 - IX. THE SEASON OF RUMORS 99 - X. ASSIGNMENT TO STATIONS 115 - XI. FORT PICKERING AND THE "NORTH-SHORE" DEFENSES 129 - XII. FORT RODMAN AND ITS GARRISON 151 - XIII. THE THIRD BATTALION AT FORT WARREN 161 - XIV. FINAL DAYS IN THE SERVICE 171 - XV. AN HONORABLE REGIMENTAL RECORD 187 - ROSTER AND MUSTER-ROLLS 198 - CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 253 - - - - - LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - - - PAGE - COLONEL CHARLES PFAFF _Frontispiece_ - RESPONDING TO THE CALL, 26 APRIL, 1898 33 - BARBETTE BATTERY, 15-INCH RODMANS 49 - FIELD AND MACHINE GUN BATTERY 63 - LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CARLE A. WOODRUFF 79 - THE FIELD, STAFF, AND LINE 91 - CHANNEL BATTERY, 8-INCH RIFLES 103 - GARRISON ENCAMPMENT, FORT PICKERING 119 - MAJOR PERLIE A. DYAR 131 - MAJOR-SURGEON HOWARD S. DEARING 135 - MAJOR GEORGE F. QUINBY 141 - LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES B. WOODMAN 153 - MAJOR JAMES A. FRYE 163 - LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ERASMUS M. WEAVER 177 - THE LAST EVENING PARADE, 3 OCTOBER, 1898 189 - - - - - PREFACE - - -THIS book forms but a single chapter—the latest one—in the eventful and -ever-honorable history of the First Massachusetts Regiment. It has been -written in the hope that it may aid in maintaining the splendid _esprit -de corps_ which always has been characteristic of the command. - -Nor does this corps-pride lack warrant. Since 1844, under one -designation or another, the First Massachusetts, as a regimental -organization, has been continuously in the service either of the -Commonwealth or of the Nation; through long years of peace it faithfully -has held itself in trained and disciplined readiness against the hour of -need; in two wars it unhesitatingly has responded to the call of the -Government, returning from each with an untarnished record of duty well -done. Furthermore—in part, at least, if not as a whole—it has been -identified for over a century with the making of American history; for, -like the sturdy oak, the regiment may trace its growth from still -vigorous roots which reach far back into the historic past. "D" Battery -(Roxbury Train of Artillery) was chartered in 1784, bearing upon its -original muster-rolls the names of many veterans of the Revolution, and -first seeing active service in the Shay Rebellion of 1787; "G" Battery -(Boston Fusileers) dates its organization from 1786 and its record of -active service from the War of 1812; "K" Battery (Boston Light Infantry) -was first enrolled at the time of our brief naval war with France in -1798, and served with the coast-guard in 1812. - -The story of the heroic work of the regiment in the Civil War already -fills a volume by itself: Blackburn's Ford, First Bull Run, Yorktown, -Williamsburg, White Oak Swamp, Fair Oaks, Savage's Station, Glendale, -Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Fredericksburg, -Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Locust Grove, Spottsylvania—tremendous -names like these may hint at the regimental record which was written in -blood from 1861 to 1864. With an honor-roll of one hundred and -seventy-three dead, and with a grim list of six hundred and forty-three -discharges for wounds and disease, the First Massachusetts honestly -bought and dearly paid for its treasured place among the "Three Hundred -Fighting Regiments" of the Union Army. - -This latest chapter in the regimental history deals neither with battles -nor with foreign service—and yet it ill could be spared from the records -of the Old First. Nothing possibly could have been finer than the spirit -in which the young men of the regiment sprang to their places under its -colors at the call of 25th April, 1898, believing, as they most -sincerely did, that the very first of the fighting was to be theirs; -nothing could have been more honorable than the unvarying discipline -maintained during the dull months of garrison duty, when, day by day, -their hope for action waned. - -Half forgotten by the very citizens for whose protection the regiment -was assigned to its stations; wholly ignored by the press, which ever -has failed to comprehend the exacting requirements of efficient -coast-defence,—the men of the First Massachusetts, like their comrades -of the regular artillery, quietly stood to their guns during the time of -possible peril, and as quietly returned to the routine of peace when -that peril had passed. Time alone can fix the relative value of many -things, and while that final adjustment is taking place the regiment may -rest content with its own consciousness of having carried out well and -faithfully whatever orders came to it. - - JAMES A. FRYE. - - _Boston, 25 April, 1899._ - - - - - INTRODUCTORY - - - - - I. - - -THE Spanish-American War has passed into history. Regiment by regiment -the troops of the United States have been transported to Cuba and Porto -Rico, to take quiet possession of the stations relinquished by the -departing remnants of the Spanish colonial army, and now our flag flies -over even Havana itself. Of the six regiments—the First Heavy Artillery, -Second, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Infantry—sent out by -Massachusetts in response to the calls of the President, all now are -home again, while the officers and men of the gallant Naval Brigade have -returned from their service afloat on cruiser and monitor to rejoin the -command from which they volunteered. Gradually, but none the less -surely, the stirring events of the spring and summer of 1898 are -becoming but memories—memories to be recalled in years to come at the -reunions of those who served together in the war so happily brought to a -conclusion. - -Even today, after the lapse of but a year, it has become difficult, if -not impossible, to realize the state of public feeling in Boston on that -wet, raw day in April, 1898, when the First Massachusetts Heavy -Artillery, then a militia regiment, marched solidly and grimly through -the muddy streets on its way to Fort Warren. The sight of the long, blue -column—officers on foot, men in heavy marching order—told more plainly -than any telegraphic despatch that the long-expected war had come at -last. Day by day the feeling of uneasiness in the cities and towns along -the New England coast had been growing in intensity. Bombardment -insurance was being written, securities and valuables were being removed -from the safe-deposit vaults of shore cities to those of inland towns, -while letters by the hundred, and delegations by the score were coming -to the governors of coast States, praying for protection against naval -raids. As in 1812, and as again in 1861, the authorities at Washington -were overwhelmed with petitions for the naval protection of local -interests, and—even as in former wars—they were compelled to reply that -the few ships of war on the navy list could not be spared to do the work -of shore batteries. The entire fleet of battleships, modern monitors, -and cruisers barely sufficed for the composition of Dewey's squadron in -the far East, of Sampson's and Schley's in the West Indies. - -Nor was this wide-spread feeling of alarm entirely without foundation, -or due to unreasoning fear. More than one foreign service journal had -reckoned the opposing fleets as nearly of equal strength, and even our -own Captain Mahan now writes: "The force of the Spanish navy on paper, -as the expression goes, was so nearly equal to our own, that it was well -within the limits of possibility that an unlucky incident, the loss, for -example, of a battleship, might make the Spaniard superior in nominal, -or even in actual, available force. Where so much is at stake as the -result of a war, or even the unnecessary prolongation of war, with its -sufferings and anxieties, the only safe rule is to regard the apparent -as the actual, until its reality has been tested." We are looking -backward now; then we were looking forward. We now know, through the -supreme tests of May 1st and July 3d, that the paper strength and the -fighting strength of the Spanish navy were two widely differing -qualities; but late in April, 1898, all this yet remained to be -determined, and the memorable rush of the _Oregon_ from the far Pacific -bears witness that the Navy Department recognized the preponderance that -might be given by the addition of even a single fighting-ship to our -force on the threatened Atlantic sea-board. - -Of the result of a general fleet action the country had small doubt; it -was the possibility of sudden and unexpected naval raids that caused -concern. The words of the English naval critic, Steevens, applied with -tenfold force to our own case: "It is tolerably obvious that no -superiority in the world could guarantee our whole empire against raids -by hostile cruisers. A fast cruiser could break the closest blockade -possible in the days of torpedo boats, and though she would stand to -meet and be engaged by a cruiser or cruisers of our own, yet she would -also stand to elude them. She might then shell or lay under contribution -unprotected coast towns, destroy shipping lying in their harbors, or -making for or from them, besides landing small forces to do serious, if -not vital damage." And this fact was recognized no better by any one -than by Admiral Cervera himself, who, in a letter written in February, -1898, after deploring the lack of Spanish naval preparation, said: -"Under such conditions, a campaign would be disastrous, if not an -offensive one, and all that could be done in an offensive war would be -to make some raids with a few fast vessels." - -Reduced to its lowest terms, the situation confronting the authorities -was this: the Spanish naval list showed—either in commission or -building—nine 20-knot cruisers,[1] heavily armed and armored, and -theoretically able to run away easily from any armored ships in our -establishment save the _Brooklyn_ and _New York_, while (still -theoretically) capable of whipping without effort these two latter -cruisers, if brought to bay. Furthermore, the operations of the army and -navy, in the West Indies and the Philippines, imperatively required the -services of every modern fighting-ship at our disposal, and thus the -long stretch of Atlantic coast, with its teeming harbors and populous -cities, practically was left at the mercy of any chance squadron of -swift cruisers, or even—at least in the earlier days of the war—of -possible raids by privateers or wandering torpedo-gunboats. There was, -it is true, the hastily improvised and costly coast-patrol fleet, of -something over forty vessels—monitor relics of the '60's, armed yachts, -ferry-boats, and tugs—distributed along the coast at stations from -Eastport to New Orleans, but this heterogeneous outfit was brought into -existence rather for scouting than for fighting. As a factor in actual -resistance to determined naval attack it called for no serious -consideration, and as a matter of record its organization was not -complete until the 16th of June, when the dreaded _Vizcaya_, with her -sister ships, finally had been marked down and safely penned in the -harbor of Santiago. - -Footnote 1: - - _Almirante Oquendo_, _Cardenal Cisneros_, _Cataluna_, _Cristobal - Colon_, _Emperador Carlos V._, _Infanta Maria Teresa_, _Pedro - d'Aragon_, _Princesa de Asturias_, _Vizcaya_.—"Brassey's Naval - Annual," 1897. - -It was evident that the coast States, in the impending emergency, must -turn for comfort from the Navy to the War Department, and it soon became -most painfully evident that the prospect of obtaining any immediate aid -from this quarter was far from reassuring. This especially was true in -the case of the New England States, and notably so in that of -Massachusetts. To make a broad statement, modern defensive works, modern -sea-coast guns, and trained artillerymen to man them, were lacking. In -other words, the apathy of thirty years had borne its legitimate fruit: -the Congressmen of New England—with honorable exceptions, like Senators -Hawley and Lodge—while ever willing to exert themselves in favor of -"Protection" of the commercial variety, had been sublimely indifferent -to their duty in providing protection of another and very vital sort, -and their constituents, in consequence, were enabled to enjoy the -sensation of a war-scare which was far from being unwarranted. For it -did not require a high order of intellect to comprehend that thirty days -would not suffice for the accomplishment of the work of ten years—nor, -indeed, could any one furnish a satisfactory guarantee of even thirty -days' freedom from attack. - - - - - THE COAST-DEFENCE PROBLEM IN - MASSACHUSETTS - - - - - II. - - -EARLY in April, when war was imminent, Governor Wolcott, with two -officers of his staff, sat down to the study of a war-map of the -Massachusetts coast which had been prepared and carefully revised to -meet existing conditions. It is no exaggeration to say that this map -furnished material for the most serious thought. The map pitilessly -showed that from the Merrimac River, on the northern boundary, to the -Taunton River, on the southern, there were on navigable waters, open to -some of the many forms of naval attack—whether by fleet bombardment, -cruiser raid, or torpedo-boat dash—no less than forty-one cities and -towns, none with less than one thousand of population, whose inhabitants -aggregated one million seventy-seven thousand, or over forty-three per -cent. of the population of the State. Furthermore, it appeared that, at -a low estimate, the property interests exposed in these towns reached -the enormous sum of $1,586,775,000—surely a tempting bait for any -adventurous naval commander in the service of a desperate and bankrupt -enemy. - -But the map relentlessly showed more than this: it demonstrated the -absolutely defenceless condition of this rich strip of coast. At Boston -there were indications of a rudimentary defence; at New Bedford stood -the obsolete granite walls of old Fort Rodman; Fall River was protected -by the guns at Fort Adams and the batteries at Dutch Island; but -elsewhere along the coast there was not to be found even the pretence of -preparation for the surely coming war. - -The obsolete defenses, however, were not alone in giving cause for grave -concern. The question of manning them had to be considered. As a matter -of record, there were scattered along the coast from Fort Preble, Me., -to Fort Trumbull, Conn., eight batteries—one ("F") a light battery—of -the Second Artillery, whose duty-strength on the 16th of April may have -been approximately six hundred men. There were but three of these -batteries on duty on the Massachusetts coast—"C" (Schenck's) and "M" -(Richmond's) at Fort Warren; "G" (Niles') at the yet incomplete battery -at Long Island Head, Boston Harbor. Where more trained gunners were to -be had was problematical. The bill providing for the organization of the -Sixth and Seventh Regiments of regular artillery had been passed by -Congress as late as March 7th, and these new commands were only in -process of evolution. It was not until the 16th of May that the first of -the newly raised batteries took station in New England, and even then -its standard of efficiency was low, owing to the heavy percentage of -recruits in its ranks. - -The condition of affairs in Boston Harbor was most interesting. Here was -a city with an estimated population of five hundred and fifty thousand; -with an assessed valuation of $1,012,750,000; with business interests to -be reckoned by daily bank-clearings of $20,000,000; with annual exports -and imports of $189,879,839—in short, the second seaport of the country -in commercial rank. Naturally it would be expected that the general -Government, which hardly could be ignorant of the enormous interests -just shown, would have made some pretence at giving them adequate -protection. But what were the grim facts in the case? - -In 1886, the so-called Endicott Board on Fortifications—whose scheme of -defence, with some minor modifications, still remains the standard -project for the erection of our coast works—recommended an expenditure -of $10,910,250 for the defenses of Boston Harbor. This sum covered the -cost of guns, mounts, emplacements, submarine mines, and a flotilla of -eighteen torpedo-boats for local service. Large as it may seem, it yet -represents a levy of but one and seven-hundredths per cent. on the -assessed valuation of the property exposed at this port, and furthermore -it was intended that its expenditure should be distributed through a -period of ten years. How faithfully this programme was carried out by -the authorities at Washington may be shown by the following table, in -which the first column of figures indicates the number of breech-loading -rifles and mortars required by the complete scheme of defence, while the -second exhibits those actually mounted for service during the late war: - - Proposed Mounted - - 16-inch B. L. R. 8 0 - 12-inch B. L. R. 10 0 - 10-inch B. L. R. 15 8 - 8-inch B. L. R. 10 0 - 12-inch B. L. M. 132 16 - --- -- - Total of pieces 175 24 - -In other words, of the projected scheme of defence—so far as concerned -the main element, gun and mortar fire—there remained to be put into -operation the trifling matter of eighty-six per cent.! In twelve years -elapsing since the exhaustive report of the Endicott Board, the Congress -of the United States had doled out appropriations barely sufficient to -complete thirteen and seven-tenths per cent. of the required guns, -mounts, and emplacements. The essential matter of the torpedo-boat -flotilla had been put calmly aside without even the courtesy of -consideration. Funds at the disposal of the Engineers had enabled them, -as early as March 1st, to begin the work of submarine mining, but at no -time during the war was the complete system of mines installed. And, -last of all, when war actually had been declared, the garrisons of the -three main defensive positions of the harbor—Fort Warren, Long Island -Head, and the Mortar Battery at Winthrop—aggregated less than two -hundred and fifty officers and men for duty. - - - - - MARCHING ORDERS - - - - - III. - - -WELL aware of this condition of affairs, Governor Wolcott thought it -prudent—even before the actual declaration of war—to have his foot -batteries assembled in the vicinity of the guns at which it seemed more -than likely that their services soon might be required, and by his -direction permission was asked from Washington to send the First Heavy -Artillery to Fort Warren, under State orders. This request met with the -prompt approval of the Secretary of War, and on Sunday, April 24th, -there came to regimental headquarters orders from General Dalton -directing the command to "hold itself in readiness for immediate service -in the defenses of Boston Harbor." - -It hardly need be said that this order caused little surprise to the -officers of the regiment. From the day when the naval court of inquiry -reported the destruction of the _Maine_ as due to external explosion, -until the day that marching orders actually came, the command at any -time could have reported for duty with full ranks, and on three hours' -notice. It is a matter of official record that this regiment, for years, -has been held in constant readiness for field service; the "Vigilantia" -on the regimental badge has long stood for something more than an empty -boast. As a strict matter of fact, though the officers had been -convinced that war could not long be averted, there had been but little -extra effort made on that account, for but little remained to be done; -here and there battery rolls were judiciously weeded, all alarm-lists -received final and careful revision—and that substantially was all. On -the recommendation of the Military Advisory Board, to be sure, enough -recruits had been enrolled to bring the regimental strength up to twelve -hundred, and these new men had been faithfully drilled; but, as events -proved, this labor was to result in small benefit to the regiment -itself, though other commands ultimately profited by it. - -Matters now were moving swiftly enough to suit the most impatient, and -there were many impatient ones among the officers and men of the Old -First. On the 23rd of April, President McKinley had issued his call for -one hundred and twenty-five thousand volunteers; on the 24th, the -regiment had been ordered to hold itself ready for instant response to -marching orders; on the 25th, Congress resolved that a state of war then -existed—and late in the afternoon of that day came the long-awaited -summons to duty. - -"Colonel Charles Pfaff, commanding First Regiment Heavy Artillery, First -Brigade, M.V.M.," so ran the third paragraph of Special Orders, No. 42, -from the office of the Adjutant-General, "will report with his command, -fully armed and equipped, to the commanding officer at Fort Warren, for -eight days' duty in the defenses of Boston Harbor." An eight days' tour? -It was destined to be exactly two hundred and three days before the -regiment should be released from the service on which it started under -the order signed by General Dalton that afternoon. - -Colonel Pfaff was awaiting developments at the State House when the -decision was reached to call out the regiment, and the order was given -to him direct. Hastening at once back to the South Armory, he handed the -order to Adjutant Lake, who lost no time in putting in motion the -mobilization machinery which for years had been in readiness to meet -just such an emergency as this. Quietly and systematically the orders -for assembly went out over the telegraph and telephone wires, until, in -less than an hour, every officer of the command knew that the end of the -long waiting had come. And then the non-commissioned officers passed the -word to the men of their squads, while staff officers hurried by rail to -the stations of each of the out-lying batteries, to make sure that -nothing was omitted in the carrying out of the final orders. Long before -midnight, through their reports, the commanding officer knew that his -regiment would be ready to march out with full ranks on the following -morning. There was little sleep for officers or men; many passed the -night in their armories, while those who returned to their homes spent -the hours before daylight in making hurried arrangements for an -indefinite absence. It would be idle to say that there was no -excitement, for each armory was a seething whirlpool of enthusiasm; but -in spite of it all, matters moved on methodically, and morning found the -twelve batteries ready in every respect for the mobilization. - -With the early dawn, the batteries of the Third (Bristol-Plymouth) -Battalion—years ago christened the "Cape" Battalion—formed at their -armories for the march to the trains which were to transport them to -Boston. Their departure was the signal for the wildest enthusiasm in -their respective cities. In Fall River, Brockton, Taunton, and New -Bedford the same scenes were enacted: cheering crowds lined the streets, -and the Grand Army veterans, cadet corps of the schools, and civic -organizations turned out to escort the departing troops. Very much the -same sort of feeling prevailed in Cambridge and Chelsea; but in -Boston—though excited crowds gathered about the great South Armory—there -was no organized demonstration. - -By nine o'clock, the batteries of the First and Second Battalions were -assembled in the South Armory, where they were joined, a quarter of an -hour later, by those of the Third Battalion, just off their -troop-trains. Arms were stacked in the great drill-hall, knapsacks were -unslung, and ranks were broken for a brief rest, while a travel ration, -with hot coffee, was issued to the men, many of whom, in all -probability, had been too excited to do full justice to breakfast at -their homes. - -It was at this time that a fact developed which—though overlooked in the -rush of events at the time—must be placed on record now to the credit of -the regiment. It must be recalled that definite orders for assembly were -received late on the afternoon of the 25th, and that the men reported to -their commands almost at daybreak on the 26th; recalling this, it -certainly should give cause for just pride to the friends of the -regiment, as well as to those who in the past have labored long and -untiringly for the efficiency of the militia of Massachusetts, that in -this emergency over ninety-nine per cent. of the regimental strength -answered at morning roll-call, and reported for whatever service might -be forthcoming. The commissioned and enlisted strength, under the State -organization, aggregated seven hundred and ninety-three. The morning -reports handed to the adjutant, during the short rest before the -regiment took up its march towards the wharves, showed fifty officers -and seven hundred and thirty-six enlisted men present, with only seven -enlisted men absent—and of the latter, all were satisfactorily accounted -for by reason of sickness or absence from the State. Much has been said -during the past few months of the unreliability of militia in grave -national emergencies, and it unfortunately is too true that in many -States the records of the late war have tended to give force to such -charges, but let it be remembered in Massachusetts, so long as there -exists a First Regiment in its military establishment, that when a -sudden call came, to meet what was felt to be a very real danger, the -absentees when assembly was sounded numbered less than nine-tenths of -one per cent. of the strength borne upon the regimental rolls. - -Soon after ten o'clock, the regiment formed in line of masses. The -regimental colors were brought from the colonel's quarters, and were -received with three hearty cheers. Then the battalions stood at -attention while Chaplain Horton earnestly addressed the men on the -significance of the day's events. At the close of his remarks the -regiment broke into column of detachments, the heavy doors of the armory -swung wide, and the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery—literally the -first militia regiment in the country to come to the assistance of the -general Government—marched out for the war, with its band at the head of -the column playing the time-honored "March of The First." - - - - - OFF FOR ACTIVE SERVICE - - - - - IV. - - -IT was a raw, gloomy day. A drizzling rain fell at intervals, and the -pavements were slippery with mud. The batteries paraded in heavy -marching order—knapsack, haversack, canteen, and mess-kit—and wore -great-coats and leggings. The line of march was: Irvington Street, -Huntington Avenue, Copley Square, Boylston Street, Berkeley Street, -Beacon Street, School Street, Washington Street, State Street, Broad -Street, to Rowe's Wharf. In spite of the inclement weather, the streets -were crowded, and it seemed that the whole population of Boston had -turned out to give the regiment a fitting farewell. The women were -particularly enthusiastic. At one place on the line of march an elderly -woman leaned far out of a window, as the regimental colors were being -borne past, and cried to the men in the throng on the sidewalk below, -"Take off your hats; take off your hats! I'm ashamed of you!" The wide -granite steps of the Institute of Technology were densely packed with -students, who cheered lustily as the batteries, with not a few graduates -and undergraduates of the school in their ranks, swung by before them. - -At the State House there came another ovation. On the same spot where -Governor Andrew, on the 25th of May, 1864, had welcomed back the -regiment on its return from three glorious years of service with the -Army of the Potomac, stood Governor Wolcott, with the officers of his -staff, to speed the Old First on its way to yet another war. There was -little ceremony; there was no oratory—but the moment, none the less, was -impressive. On the one hand, as the long column took its way over the -hill, was the grand bronze memorial to Shaw and his heroic men, mutely -eloquent of duty done and history made; on the other, as mutely eloquent -of duty yet to be performed and history yet to be written, was the -Governor of the Commonwealth, erect and motionless, standing uncovered -under the lowering sky as his troops, with his own son a private in the -ranks, tramped steadily past in parting review. - -[Illustration: - - Copyrighted photograph by T. E. Marr, Boston. - - RESPONDING TO THE CALL. - - Governor Wolcott reviewing the Regiment, 26th April, 1898. -] - -On School Street, and again on State Street, the regiment was loyally -welcomed. In spite of slippery and treacherous pavements, alignments and -distances were well maintained, and the batteries marched with the long, -swinging step for which the command always has been noted, though the -unequal platoonfronts due to the detachment formation of foot artillery -gave an odd effect to the column. All through the business district the -applause and cheering were continuous, and it was almost with a sense of -relief that the regiment finally boarded its transport, the steamer -_General Lincoln_, and escaped from the patriotic uproar. But even here -a parting cheer was heard, for the men of the Naval Brigade, on board -the _Minnesota_, came swarming from below in their white uniforms, and -strained their throats in fraternal desire to start the regiment -fittingly on its way to the outer harbor-works. - -With the regimental staff paraded Colonel Richard H. Morgan, A.I.G. -(formerly major commanding the Third Battalion), who had been detailed -to accompany the command as inspecting officer, and Lieutenant Erasmus -M. Weaver, Second United States Artillery (later lieutenant-colonel, -Fifth Massachusetts Infantry, U.S.V., and now captain in the regular -artillery), who for the year previous had been attached to the regiment -as instructor in coast artillery work, and to whose untiring efforts the -regiment owed much for its efficiency. The field, staff, and line -officers of the command on this date were as noted in the following -roster—the sequence of battalions and batteries being that in which -column was formed for parade: - - COLONEL CHARLES PFAFF. - - LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES B. WOODMAN. - - _Staff._ - - 1ST LIEUT. CHARLES H. LAKE, Adjutant; 1ST LIEUT. JOHN S. KEENAN, - Quartermaster; MAJOR HOWARD S. DEARING, Surgeon; 1ST LIEUT. WILLIAM - A. ROLFE, Assistant Surgeon; 1ST LIEUT. HORACE B. PARKER, Paymaster; - 1ST LIEUT. JOHN B. PAINE, Inspector Rifle Practice; 1ST LIEUT. - HORATIO HATHAWAY, JR., Signal Officer; 1ST LIEUT. JOSEPH S. FRANCIS, - Range Officer; 1ST LIEUT. GEORGE S. STOCKWELL, Aide-de-Camp; REV. - EDWARD A. HORTON, Chaplain. - - - - FIRST BATTALION. - - MAJOR PERLIE A. DYAR. - - _"G" Battery._ (_Station, Boston._) - - CAPT. ALBERT B. CHICK. - FIRST LIEUT. FRANK S. WILSON. - SECOND LIEUT. JAMES H. GOWING. - - _"H" Battery._ (_Station, Chelsea._) - - CAPT. WALTER L. PRATT. - FIRST LIEUT. WILLIAM RENFREW. - SECOND LIEUT. BERTIE E. GRANT. - - _"A" Battery._ (_Station, Boston._) - - CAPT. JOHN BORDMAN, JR. - FIRST LIEUT. E. DWIGHT FULLERTON. - SECOND LIEUT. SUMNER PAINE. - - _"L" Battery._ (_Station, Boston._) - - CAPT. FREDERICK M. WHITING. - FIRST LIEUT. WILLIAM L. SWAN. - SECOND LIEUT. FREDERICK A. CHENEY. - - - SECOND BATTALION. - - MAJOR GEORGE F. QUINBY. - - _"D" Battery._ (_Station, Boston._) - - CAPT. JOSEPH H. FROTHINGHAM. - FIRST LIEUT. NORMAN P. CORMACK. - SECOND LIEUT. WILLIAM J. MCCULLOUGH. - - - _"C" Battery. Colors._ (_Station, Boston._) - - CAPT. CHARLES P. NUTTER. - FIRST LIEUT. CHARLES F. NOSTROM. - SECOND LIEUT. ARTHUR E. HALL. - - _"K" Battery._ (_Station, Boston._) - - CAPT. FREDERIC S. HOWES. - FIRST LIEUT. P. FRANK PACKARD. - SECOND LIEUT. ALBERT A. GLEASON. - - _"B" Battery._ (_Station, Cambridge._) - - CAPT. WALTER E. LOMBARD. - FIRST LIEUT. JOHN E. DAY. - SECOND LIEUT. MARSHALL UNDERWOOD. - - - THIRD BATTALION. - - MAJOR JAMES A. FRYE. - - _"M" Battery._ (_Station, Fall River._) - - CAPT. SIERRA L. BRALEY. - FIRST LIEUT. DAVID FULLER. - SECOND LIEUT. FREDERICK W. HARRISON. - - _"F" Battery._ (_Station, Taunton._) - - CAPT. NORRIS O. DANFORTH. - FIRST LIEUT. FERDINAND H. PHILLIPS. - SECOND LIEUT. WILLIAM J. MEEK. - - - _"E" Battery._ (_Station, New Bedford._) - - CAPT. JOSEPH L. GIBBS. - FIRST LIEUT. HAROLD C. WING. - SECOND LIEUT. (Vacancy.) - - _"I" Battery._ (_Station, Brockton._) - - CAPT. CHARLES WILLIAMSON. - FIRST LIEUT. GEORGE E. HORTON. - SECOND LIEUT. WELLINGTON H. NILSSON. - - The Non-Commissioned Staff and Headquarters' attachés - were the following: SERGEANT-MAJOR WILLIAM D. HUDDLESON; - QUARTERMASTER-SERGEANT EDWARD E. CHAPMAN; HOSPITAL STEWARD GEORGE Y. - SAWYER; PAYMASTER-SERGEANT GEORGE R. RUSSELL; DRUM MAJOR JAMES F. - CLARK; CHIEF BUGLER FREDERICK A. H. BENNETT; COLOR-SERGEANTS AXEL T. - TORNROSE AND HORACE N. CONN; ORDERLY SAMUEL WEISS; BANDMASTER FRANK - L. COLLINS. - -Almost exactly at noontide, and while the cheers of the artillerymen in -response to those of their brethren of the Naval Brigade still were -echoing across the water, the _General Lincoln_ cast off her lines, and, -amid ear-piercing salutes from every vessel provided with steam enough -to start a whistle-valve, ran down the channel between Forts Winthrop -and Independence, on her course for Fort Warren. In passing out of the -upper harbor, the transport ran close to the great British cable-steamer -_Minia_, whose crew swarmed at her rail and yelled their enthusiastic -approval of the proceedings, while high on her bridge her officers -lifted their caps in acknowledgment of the answering roar from the men -in blue. And then, at a sharp order from the bridge, a petty officer ran -aft on the _Minia_, and the red ensign of England was thrice dipped by -way of wishing luck to the Yankee volunteers. It was a pleasant -incident, as well as one not without significance, and the men of the -regiment promptly appropriated it as a good omen. - -Once more the Old First Regiment of Massachusetts was off for service. -Thirty-seven years earlier, on May 27th, 1861, it had completed its -muster into the volunteer army of the United States, leaving Boston on -June 15th, and proceeding at once to Washington, where it had the high -honor of being the first of the three-years' regiments to report, armed -and equipped, for duty. Since that time the changes had been many; -officers and men had come and gone; batteries had been transferred, -disbanded, or reorganized, until there remained but six out of the -twelve ("B," "D," "E," "G," "H," and "K") whose records showed service -in the previous war, while of these only three ("D," "G," and "H") had -campaigned with the old War First from '61 to '64. But through all the -vicissitudes of over a third of a century the traditions and spirit of -the early days had been reverently cherished and kept sacred, until now, -when the latest call had come, the young men whose pride it was that -they bore the veteran name and number were again first in ready response -to the summons. - -Sheltering themselves as best they could from the biting wind, for the -cabins could accommodate but a portion of the regiment, the men prepared -to make the best of their hour's trip down the harbor. They were in the -highest of spirits, for the orders to move had come as a relief to the -previous strain of waiting for the expected to happen. The singing men -promptly got to work, while the rest either listened, or, true to the -immemorial trait of the newly enrolled volunteer, started cheers for -every passing craft. Meanwhile the colonel had assembled his battalion -and battery commanders to receive their final instructions looking -towards the comfort of the men when the fort should be reached. - -The regiment had been hurriedly called out, and at an inclement season -of the year, but its officers felt that it was fairly ready, so far as -equipment went, for any service that might be expected in the immediate -future. In the matter of small-arms there was little to be desired, -since an issue of the latest model Springfield rifle—fresh from the -national armory, and in perfect condition—had been made during the -winter previous. Uniforms and great-coats, if lacking in smartness, were -at least serviceable. Many batteries owned their blankets, and in -addition to these there was on hand a full supply for the regiment, both -woolen and rubber, which only awaited issue. The medical department had -well-filled chests, with the necessary equipment and furniture for a -small field hospital. Each battery had started from its station with -full travel rations for forty-eight hours, which would tide over the -interval required to set in operation a consolidated regimental mess. -Several cases of heavy shoes had been ordered, to have at hand in case -delay should be experienced in filling requisitions for foot-gear. There -were on hand twelve thousand rounds of small-arm ammunition—not enough -to go far in an infantry fight, but sufficient for supplying the belts -of sentries and patrol-boat crews at a coast fort. - -Considered as a whole, and more especially in contrast with the -wretchedly found commands sent into the field by most other States, the -regiment certainly was in efficient and serviceable condition; it had -the material necessary for taking care of itself, and, better still, its -officers and men were self-reliant and capable. The only cause for -uneasiness lay in the matter of quarters. On the New England coast, and -at this time of year, the use of canvas for sheltering volunteer troops, -just called from their homes and yet unseasoned, seemed unadvisable; -arrangements, therefore, had been made by General Dalton for the use of -the portable houses owned by the City of Boston, and employed as -polling-booths at the municipal elections, and it was understood that -something over fifty of these had been erected on the parade at Fort -Warren, in readiness for the coming of the regiment. In this -expectation, however, the commanding officer was destined to meet -disappointment. - - - - - THE REGIMENT AT FORT WARREN - - - - - V. - - -SHORTLY after one o'clock, the transport drew alongside the pier at Fort -Warren, and the batteries disembarked and formed in column, with the -field music at the head. Then the regiment marched up from the pier, in -through the main sallyport, and on to the parade, where line of masses -was formed, arms were stacked and knapsacks unslung, preparatory to the -work of getting the baggage up from the transport and settling down in -quarters. And here the regiment was treated to an unwelcome surprise. -The rain-proof wooden village which it had expected to find waiting for -its occupancy had not yet come into existence; over by the main magazine -stood two or three lonely booths, but the rest of the cantonment still -remained piled in disjoined pieces on the lighters lying at the pier. To -be sure, a delegation from the institution at Deer Island was engaged in -giving a half-hearted imitation of a working detail, but it was obvious -to the most obtuse that the coming of night would find the task of -village-building hardly begun—and this led the seven hundred men -standing at ease behind the line of stacks on the soggy parade ground, -and lunching in the cold, drizzling rain, on hardtack and canned beef, -to make philosophical comments on the horrors of war in general, and of -this war in particular. - -But the time allowed for this innocent pastime was brief. Battery by -battery, details were told off for pack-train duty, and in a very short -time an endless chain of men circulated between the pier and the parade, -filing empty-handed through the little postern in the northwestern -bastion, and returning by way of the main sallyport, heavy laden with -roof and wall sections. Even the wearied men in brown from Deer -Island—who promptly had been christened by the batterymen the "Third -Corps of Cadets"—seemed to catch the spirit of the occasion, and showed -more animation in putting one foot before the other. And it was here -that the regiment added to its repertoire a new version of an old song, -with the merry refrain: - - "They broke our backs - A-luggin' shacks, - In the regular army-O!" - -[Illustration: - - Photograph by W. H. Caldwell, Brockton. - - 15-INCH RODMANS, FORT WARREN. - - Gun-laying Practice on Outward-bound Steamship. -] - -By night, there had been enough house-building accomplished for the -sheltering of four batteries. The rest of the men stowed themselves in -odd corners of the fort, large numbers bunking with their friends the -regulars, and many picking out soft spots on the floor of the post -recreation-room and gymnasium. As a matter of fact, it was four days -before the entire command was settled in quarters—wet, windy days at -that—lack of working tools for putting the houses together delaying the -completion of the task. But when the village finally stood finished, it -was a model village indeed—with a city hall, as exemplified by the -office of the adjutant; a city hospital, in the shape of the surgeon's -red cross shanty; eight straight, though narrow, streets, with six -houses in each; and last, if far from least, a fire department, -consisting of two hose-reels manned by detachments from "I" and "L" -Batteries, with Captains Williamson and Whiting serving as the Board of -Engineers. Later there was added a banquet hall, in the shape of a huge -mess-tent, which loomed up grandly in fair weather, but tumbled -ignominiously into the mud on the stormy days when it was most needed; -but in the early days, officers and men took their rations as best they -could, in the stuffy casemate of the gymnasium or amid the gloom of the -"Dark Arch." And it may be said here that the messing problem was not a -matter for easy solution, since the crowded condition of the fort made -it impossible for the batteries to cook with their Buzzacot outfits, -while the fixed kitchen appliances used by the regulars were inadequate -for rationing a garrison of over nine hundred men. The question was -finally settled, however, by employing a contractor to provide a general -mess for the regiment, and this method was followed in the rationing of -the command until it was broken up and sent to its various coast -stations, late in May. - -If the enlisted men were not luxuriously quartered in the early days at -Fort Warren, the commissioned officers certainly were not much better -off. The colonel, with his fourteen field and staff officers, went to -housekeeping in three rooms in the second casemate to the eastward of -the sallyport, while the first casemate to the westward found its eight -rooms well populated with the thirty-five officers of the line. The room -assigned to the lieutenant-colonel, the three majors, and the surgeon -was a type of garrison luxury. It was lighted and aired by three narrow -musketry loopholes, which afforded a somewhat monotonous view of the -main ditch and sodded slope of the northern cover-face, while its -contracted area was taken up in part by five cots, as many fieldchests, -and a variable number of camp-stools. But it had an open grate, in which -a coal fire was always glowing, and on the nights when the rain drove -down upon the muddy parade, or the impenetrable fog swept over the -ramparts, it was far from lacking in comfort. As a matter of fact, the -enlisted men were extremely well provided for, since each house in the -battery streets ultimately was equipped with a coal stove and with lamps -in plenty, while volunteer ingenuity was not long in providing bunks, -arm-racks, and cupboards. As a rule, there were about fifteen men, under -the proper non-commissioned officers, quartered in each shack, an -allowance which gave ample space. - -When the command reported at the fort, it was in excellent condition so -far as concerned its health, and its officers purposed to keep it so. It -is worth noting that on the day after its arrival, in spite of the -fatigue, exposure, and excitement attendant upon its departure from -home, there was not a single response at morning surgeon's call, which -was nothing less than remarkable when it is recalled that here were over -seven hundred and fifty men, fresh from office, shop, and factory, who -had slept in damp uniforms, and in most uncomfortable quarters. This -good record in the matter of health was maintained to the end of the -regiment's term of service, and that it was so maintained is due to more -than mere chance. Rigid rules, rigidly enforced, were laid down for camp -sanitary matters, and minute inspections were daily made by both -battalion and battery commanders, while the medical officers were alert -and untiring in looking to the welfare of the men. The trying and -unseasonable weather of late April and early May, together with the -heavy details brought under exposure on guard and patrol duty, resulted -in some sickness, but at no time was the hospital list unduly large. In -its service of over six months there was but one death in the regiment, -and this casualty occurred in the case of a man who contracted scarlet -fever, and died while on mustering-out furlough. All through the summer -the regiment improved in health and physique, and when finally it -returned from the field it was in the pink of condition for further -service. In justice to the officers of the command, this point cannot be -unduly emphasized: the general condemnation of volunteer officers, so -common since the close of the war, admits of certain sharply defined -qualifications. While no estimate yet can be made of the dimensions of -the pension bill for 1898, which finally will confront the country, it -may be stated as an assured fact that the taxpayers need worry little -over the item in the account chargeable to the First Massachusetts. - - - - - A PERIOD OF SUSPENSE - - - - - VI. - - -WHILE the work of settling the regiment at its new station was in -progress, its officers found themselves confronted by a new and serious -cause for apprehension. Up to the time of arriving at the fort, there -had been a marked lack of definite information as to the future service -of the command. Only two facts seemed assured: that the President had -called for one hundred and twenty-five thousand volunteers, and that the -hurried ordering out of the First had been in partial answer to that -call. Before the enthusiasm attending the prompt assembly of the -regiment had died away, there came to Fort Warren a bit of news which -literally dumbfounded its officers and men. Word was received from the -State House that General Corbin, in assigning the quota of -Massachusetts, had made requisition for four regiments of infantry, and -but three batteries of heavy artillery! - -The effect of this announcement may be better imagined than described. -Here was a regiment which since 1882 had received desultory instruction -in artillery work, and since 1892 had devoted itself seriously to the -study of the duties of this arm; year by year it had improved in -discipline and gained in efficiency until its officers and men, beyond -any doubt or question, were fully capable of serving intelligently and -well the secondary armament—even if not the most modern ordnance—in any -works on the coast; it had annually, in its encampments, been brought -into contact with regulars, and had become thoroughly familiar with the -surroundings of permanent fortifications; moreover, it was the only -regiment of militia heavy artillery in the entire country—and yet a -single telegram from Washington threatened to overthrow the work of long -years, and to destroy by a stroke of the pen an organization to whose -up-building patriotic men unselfishly had given their time, their money, -and their most earnest effort. - -It hardly need be said that on the receipt of this intelligence the -officers of the regiment, from the Chief to the last subaltern, passed -through the successive stages of astonishment, humiliation, and bitter -chagrin, to a final condition of supreme disgust. It seemed evident that -the First Massachusetts, after its half-century of honorable service in -peace and war, either had been forgotten, or else was destined to be -entirely ignored. The action of the War Department seemed inexplicable -under the circumstances. The country suddenly had become involved in a -war in which attacks on its coast cities were possible, if not imminent; -while wofully lacking in trained troops of all arms, it stood most -distressingly in need of garrison artillery; Massachusetts, alone among -the States, was ready and waiting to offer a regiment of fairly -disciplined and fairly trained artillerymen—and was called upon for but -three batteries! And this, it should be noted, in the face of an -exigency which compelled the Commanding Officer of the Department of the -East (General Orders, No. 21, 6th June, 1898) to issue such instructions -as these: "In case the regular artillery troops at any post are not -sufficient properly to man all the guns, the commanding officer will -apply for such officers, companies, or details from the infantry -supports, to be assigned to these duties, as may be necessary. At -fortifications where _no artillery troops are stationed_, the post -commander will select such companies or number of troops as shall be -necessary, and assign them to that duty." It is a matter of record that -such assignments had to be made, and that the raw troops used for the -purpose not only were absolutely useless as artillerists, but even, in -some instances, proved themselves incapable of properly caring for the -expensive artillery material placed under their control. - -[Illustration: - - Photograph by W. H. Caldwell, Brockton. - - FIELD AND MACHINE GUN BATTERY. - - For Defence of Submarine Mines, Fort Warren. -] - -The War Department should not have been in ignorance of the existence of -this regiment, or of its condition of comparative efficiency. Yearly, -from 1892 to 1897, reports upon its progress had been compiled by -Colonel Miller, of the Third United States Artillery, and by Colonel -Kline, of the Twenty-first United States Infantry—both of whom, to the -satisfaction of those in the Massachusetts service, since have become -general officers—and these reports had shown uniform commendation of the -conscientious work that was being done. In 1896 Colonel Kline reported: -"With this year's work, Massachusetts has a corps (the First Regiment) -for coast-defence. Should an emergency arise necessitating the immediate -reënforcement of Fort Warren, the whole of this fine regiment could in -twenty-four hours be sent to the post, and would _now_ be of _invaluable -service_." And in his report for 1897, submitted at a time when war was -almost in sight, he repeated with added emphasis his comment of the -preceding year: "The Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, -recognizing the advisability of a coast-defence reserve, promptly -legislated the transfer of one of the infantry regiments (First) for -this duty. The wisdom of this legislation cannot be questioned. Under -adverse conditions the regiment has labored; without the means of -receiving proper instruction, save such as could be given by officers -when released from their duties, given freely and unstintedly, yet they -have succeeded in fitting the organization as a reserve force that could -_now_ be of invaluable service." In both these extracts the italics are -those found in the original report, as printed by the Military -Information Division at Washington. - -Apparently the emergency requiring the immediate reënforcement of Fort -Warren had arrived; in less than _twenty_ hours from the time orders -reached the men, the regiment had reported at the post, armed, -uniformed, rationed, and equipped; officers and men stood ready to -render the invaluable services for which an inspecting officer of the -Government had declared them fit—and yet now, at a time when hastily -raised and untrained infantry was to be thrown headlong into artillery -posts, there came word from Washington that the First Massachusetts -Heavy Artillery, as an organization, would receive no consideration as a -part of the volunteer army of the United States. - -It was small wonder that this verdict was received with something very -like consternation. If it could not be reversed, the destruction of the -regiment was certain. For years the men had been schooled in the belief -that they were in fact, if not in name, essentially a part of the army -of the United States; every enlistment had been made on the -understanding that in time of peace faithful service was to be rendered -to Massachusetts, in time of war, to the United States. The splendid -_esprit de corps_ of the command had been carefully built up upon this -supposition, and the men had been taught to believe that the hard -training to which they were subjected was intended to fit them for -something more than mere parade and ceremony, for something beyond -possible riot duty—in short, for something no less serious than the -defence of their country in the hour of need. - -All this was at once made known to Governor Wolcott, who instantly -appreciated the disastrous effect of the proposed action, and set -himself to the task of finding a remedy. By his direction, Colonel -Sohier, A.D.C., of his staff, hurried on to Washington, where by -personal effort he succeeded in securing a reversal of the decision -first made by General Corbin, who not only accepted the regiment as then -organized, but even further directed that its term of service should -date from April 26th—thus officially recognizing the command as first in -the field for the war. The regimental pay-rolls subsequently were made -up from this date, and officers and men were paid accordingly. - -But though Colonel Sohier was successful in his mission so far as -concerned saving the regiment for the national service, it was found -impossible to secure permission to recruit the command to war strength, -for the absurd reason that to do so would exceed the quota of volunteers -allotted to Massachusetts. From a purely technical point of view, this -decision seems inexplicable. There was crying need, at the time, for -garrison artillery, while it was not expected that any serious demands -would be made upon the infantry of the army before autumn; why, then, -the proportion was not maintained by recruiting the First, and accepting -one of the regiments of Massachusetts infantry temporarily on its peace -strength, must always remain beyond the comprehension of those -unfortunate enough to have had a professional knowledge of the -coast-defence conditions prevailing at the opening of the late war. - - - - - FROM "M.V.M." TO "U.S.V." - - - - - VII. - - -THE regiment was saved. Furthermore, it was actually, if not legally, in -the service of the United States. But there yet remained certain complex -processes which had to be gone through with before the "U.S.V." should -supplant the "M.V.M." By a pleasant legal fiction, it had to be assumed -that the militia regiment which had set out for Fort Warren had been -lost somewhere _en route_, and that it had become imperatively necessary -to raise a new regiment to take its place in the volunteer service. All -this, of course, was but the most utter rubbish—and rubbish which under -easily supposable conditions might prove dangerous—yet the obsolete -militia laws which Congress has left upon the statute books, unaltered -for nearly a century, made its observance necessary. General Dalton -therefore (Special Orders, No. 45, 29th April) gravely issued -instructions for the formation of the new regiment, though oddly enough -he neglected the matter of making inquiries as to what had become of the -old one. These instructions were brief and to the point: "Colonel -Charles Pfaff, having been designated to command a volunteer regiment of -heavy artillery, under the call of the President of the United States, -will cause the enrolment of such officers and men as may volunteer in -such regiment, and will cause to be prepared the necessary papers for -muster into service of such volunteers, by Major Carle A. Woodruff, -commanding at Fort Warren." - -This order meant two things for the officers of the First. It required a -final and most careful revision of the battery rolls, and a last -searching scrutiny by the medical officers of the physical condition of -the rank and file. Of these two requirements, the first was by far the -most important. Had the regiment been formed in line, and the order been -given for volunteers to step to the front, there can be no question that -the command would have responded to the last man. But it was exactly -this sort of thing that the officers wished to avoid. The regiment was -about to enter upon a two-years' term of service, and its officers felt -it their duty to discourage the enlistment of all whose families or -dependents would suffer undue hardship should that term prove necessary. -It was felt that any public call for volunteers would place men in false -positions—as such procedure actually did in many States—and it was -decided quietly to inquire into the merits of each individual case, -refusing such men as could not show that their entry into the service -would not work material injury either to themselves or to others. By -adhering to this rule, the regiment lost a small percentage of the -strength with which it went out, but the drain was easily made good by -draft from the eager recruits who had been left behind. Better still, -the men rejected for these reasons were enabled to retain their -self-respect, and they left for their homes with the sympathy and -good-will of their late comrades. - -The task of the two medical officers was a trying one. Day after day -they labored at the monotonous physical examinations, until they -practically became worn out. Including recruits drafted to fill the -vacant places made by rejections for business and family reasons or -physical deficiencies, they were obliged to pass upon the qualifications -of nearly nine hundred officers and men. It should be recorded, to the -credit of the battery commanders as recruiting officers, that rejections -for physical causes were few and far between, the rigid examination -finding but one officer and fifteen men—a surprisingly small -number—unfit for duty. General sympathy was felt for those sent away by -the surgeons, for without exception they were men whose desire to go out -with the regiment was of the keenest. - -But during all the uncertainty as to the final disposition of the -regiment, as well as while the work of transferring it from the militia -to the volunteer service was in progress, the garrison duty for which it -had been so hastily summoned was not neglected for a moment. On the 27th -of April, the day after the command reported at the fort, the batteries -had been assigned to their fighting-stations, and steady drill at the -guns had begun. The drill was no light matter; excluding the ceremonies -of guard-mounting and evening parade, the regimental order called for -four hours and a half daily of solid work at the heavy guns, and that -work was performed with an energy never shown at the annual tours of -instruction in time of peace. On the many days when weather conditions -kept the men from the parapets, schools of instruction were held in -quarters, for the study of guard duty, of army regulations, and other -matters of the sort. By April 30th, the regimental signal corps, made up -of twelve non-commissioned officers and thirty-six privates, under the -signal officer with an assistant, had been fully organized, and was -steadily employed in wig-wagging. On May 1st, the light regimental guard -mounted during the first few days of the tour was replaced by a strong -guard of two officers with fifty-seven non-commissioned officers and -privates. From these, details were made for the patrol-boat crews, and -reliefs were furnished for the chain of posts by which the island was -surrounded. - -With the assignment to gun-stations, the organization of the garrison on -a fighting-basis stood completed. The two regular batteries—"C" -(Schenck's) and "M" (Richmond's)—were stationed at the 10-inch, -breech-loading, disappearing rifles mounted in Bastion B and in the -Ravelin Battery; with them, for purposes of instruction, and to furnish -reliefs if required, were four batteries of the volunteers, "A" -(Bordman's), "C" (Nutter's), "I" (Williamson's), and "L" (Whiting's). To -the 8-inch converted rifles on the eastern face of the fort, commanding -the main ship channel, were assigned four more batteries of the First, -"B" (Lombard's), "F" (Danforth's), "K" (Howes'), and "M" (Braley's). The -15-inch Rodman guns, mounted in barbette on Bastion A, were manned by -"G" (Chick's) and "H" (Pratt's) Batteries. "E" Battery (Gibbs') was told -off for the 8-inch converted rifles in the casemate battery of Bastion -A, while "D" Battery (Frothingham's) was assigned to the machine-gun -section, made up of Hotchkiss and Gatling guns. - -Variety in artillery work certainly was not lacking, for the men of the -regiment found themselves called upon to handle every type of ordnance, -from the ponderous modern rifle, on its complex mount, to the spiteful -Gatling, destined to spit its fire at prowling torpedo-boats or chance -landing parties. Nor was the drill in the manual of the piece all that -was required: attention had to be given to magazine-work, mechanical -manœuvres, and the use of cordage, while range and position finding were -not neglected. "K" and "L" Batteries also obtained a chance to -demonstrate their knowledge of the use of garrison-gin and sling-cart by -moving from the fort to the pier certain spare 8-inch converted rifles, -for shipment to other points on the coast—a task which they performed -promptly and with credit to their earlier training in the handling of -heavy weights. Infantry drill was not entirely neglected, and daily -marching manœuvres and setting-up exercises were relied upon to keep the -men in form, while steadiness under arms was taught at each evening -parade. - -Meanwhile progress in the preparations for the muster of the regiment -into the service of the United States had not been delayed. Colonel H. -E. Converse, A.Q.M.G., assisted by Colonel F. B. Stevens, A.D.C., had -been on duty at the post, representing the State in the final settlement -of property accountability on the part of the battery commanders, and as -the result of their labors the title to the arms and equipments of the -regiment was passed to the general Government. The physical examinations -had been concluded, and recruits had been received for all vacancies. -Muster-rolls and all other papers were ready on Saturday, May 7th, and -on the evening of that day Colonel Pfaff reported his command as -prepared for the mustering-in ceremony. It was first proposed to have -this take place on Sunday, but on second thought it was considered -better to defer it until the following day—which, as it proved, resulted -in giving to "K" Company, of the Second Massachusetts Infantry, the -honor of being the first command in the State to complete its actual -muster. - -[Illustration: - - BVT. LIEUT.-COL. CARLE A. WOODRUFF, U.S.A. - - (Major 2d Artillery.) - - Mustering-in Officer for the Regiment. -] - -Contrary to the prevailing rule, Monday, the 9th of May, proved to be a -sunny and pleasant day. Early in the morning, the regiment was formed in -its battery streets, in readiness for its entry into the volunteer army. -Promptly at eight o'clock, Major Carle A. Woodruff, Second United States -Artillery, commanding the post, and with it the other defenses of Boston -Harbor, took his station before regimental headquarters, in readiness -for the ceremony. The regiment felt itself honored by his detail as its -mustering-officer: a typical American soldier, he had received the -brevets of captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel for gallant and -meritorious services at Gettysburg, at Trevillian Station, and during -the Civil War as a whole, while he also had been decorated with the -medal of honor for distinguished gallantry in action at Newby's Cross -Roads. He had been closely identified with the regiment since its change -from the infantry to the artillery arm, and its officers held him in the -warmest esteem. - -It had been arranged that the batteries should be mustered in the order -of the seniority of their captains, and thus the first command to march -across the parade was "M" under veteran Captain Braley, who was -responding for the second time to the call of his country in time of -war. His appearance before the mustering officer was the signal for a -round of applause from the group of staff officers gathered at -headquarters. In a very few minutes both he and his command had ceased -to be militiamen, and had become United States Volunteers—to be followed -rapidly by the other eleven batteries of the regiment. As a matter of -record, it was exactly 9.34 A.M. when Colonel Woodruff finished -administering the oath to the field, staff, and non-commissioned staff -officers, thus completing the muster of the regiment. Everything had -moved with the regularity of clock-work, and in but little over an hour -and a half more than seven hundred and fifty officers and men had -answered to their names as called from the muster-rolls, and had sworn -to serve the United States faithfully and well for the two years to -come. - -In this connection the statement made in the newspaper history of the -Second Massachusetts Infantry must be corrected. It is but a minor -point, of course, yet soldiers are wont to be jealously tenacious on -minor points affecting their own records. "This regiment," writes the -historian of the Second, "was the first to be mustered into the service -of the United States, the first to leave Massachusetts, the first to -invade Cuba—the first of our regiments to enter the actualities of war." -As a strict matter of record, the Second Infantry was mobilized at -Framingham on May 3rd, where it completed its muster-in (though "K" -Company had been mustered on May 8th) on May 10th. The First Artillery -entered the United States service as militia on April 26th, dating its -pay-rolls from that day, and had been mustered complete before 10 -o'clock in the forenoon of May 9th. It was the first militia regiment in -the service; it became the first volunteer regiment in the service. In -contending for this recognition it certainly does not seek to rob the -Second of its hard-won laurels, for the First and Second, brigaded -together for long years, always have been firm friends, though strong -rivals. Chained in its posts along shore, the First yet watched with -interest and admiration the career of the men from western -Massachusetts, and in their trials and triumphs in far-away Cuba their -hearts would have warmed could they have heard the verdict of their -brethren of the First—"Well done, Second Massachusetts!" - - - - - PERSONNEL OF THE REGIMENT - - - - - VIII. - - -ON the completion of the mustering-in there came an incident which was -characteristic of the spirit of the First. Since all of the volunteer -commissions due the regiment would bear the same date, it was evident -that a decision must be made to settle questions of seniority. Army -regulations prescribe that lots shall be drawn in cases similar to this, -and, had this legalized lottery been held, there was a tempting chance -that the officer of less than a year's commissioned service might find -himself out-ranking another who had served faithfully in the militia for -years in a like grade. To the everlasting credit of the regiment, its -officers declined to avail themselves of this opportunity for unearned -advancement, and by their wish the first general order issued from -headquarters of the newly-made volunteer regiment published a roster of -the command, determining the rank and precedence in the several grades, -as established by previous service in the militia of Massachusetts. - -As mustered into the volunteer service, the regiment was officered as -follows: - - 1. Col. Charles Pfaff. - 2. Lt.-Col. Charles B. Woodman. - 3. Maj. Perlie A. Dyar. - 4. Maj. George F. Quinby. - 5. Maj. Howard S. Dearing Surgeon. - 6. Maj. James A. Frye. - 7. Capt. Sierra L. Braley "M" Battery. - 8. Capt. Joseph H. Frothingham "D" Battery. - 9. Capt. Charles Williamson "I" Battery. - 10. Capt. Norris O. Danforth "F" Battery. - 11. Capt. Albert B. Chick "G" Battery. - 12. Capt. Frederick M. Whiting "L" Battery. - 13. Capt. Walter E. Lombard "B" Battery. - 14. Capt. Charles P. Nutter "C" Battery. - 15. Capt. Walter L. Pratt "H" Battery. - 16. Capt. John Bordman, Jr. "A" Battery. - 17. Capt. Frederic S. Howes "K" Battery. - 18. Capt. Joseph L. Gibbs "E" Battery. - 19. 1st Lt. Horace B. Parker Adjutant. - 20. 1st Lt. Charles F. Nostrom "C" Battery. - 21. 1st Lt. John S. Keenan Quartermaster. - 22. 1st Lt. John E. Day "B" Battery. - 23. 1st Lt. David Fuller "M" Battery. - 24. 1st Lt. Ferdinand H. Phillips "F" Battery. - 25. 1st Lt. John B. Paine Range Officer. - 26. 1st Lt. William L. Swan "L" Battery. - 27. 1st Lt. William Renfrew "H" Battery. - 28. 1st Lt. Frank S. Wilson "G" Battery. - 29. 1st Lt. E. Dwight Fullerton "A" Battery. - 30. 1st Lt. P. Frank Packard "K" Battery. - 31. 1st Lt. William A. Rolfe Assistant Surgeon. - 32. 1st Lt. Norman P. Cormack "D" Battery. - 33. 1st Lt. Harold C. Wing "E" Battery. - 34. 1st Lt. George E. Horton "I" Battery. - 35. 1st Lt. George S. Stockwell Signal Officer. - 36. 1st Lt. William S. Bryant Assistant Surgeon. - 37. 2d Lt. Marshall Underwood "B" Battery. - 38. 2d Lt. Frederick A. Cheney "L" Battery. - 39. 2d Lt. Bertie E. Grant "H" Battery. - 40. 2d Lt. James H. Gowing "G" Battery. - 41. 2d Lt. Albert A. Gleason "K" Battery. - 42. 2d Lt. Frederick W. Harrison "M" Battery. - 43. 2d Lt. Wellington H. Nilsson "I" Battery. - 44. 2d Lt. William J. McCullough "D" Battery. - 45. 2d Lt. Sumner Paine "A" Battery. - 46. 2d Lt. Joseph S. Francis "C" Battery. - 47. 2d Lt. James E. Totten "F" Battery. - 48. 2d Lt. Charles H. Fuller "E" Battery. - -The non-commissioned staff, as finally mustered in, was made up of -Sergt.-Maj. William D. Huddleson, Q.M.-Sergt. Edward E. Chapman, -Hospital Stewards George Y. Sawyer, Ira B. Phillips, Thomas White, -Principal Musicians James F. Clark and Frederick A. H. Bennett. Of the -old non-commissioned staff, Paymaster-Sergt. George R. Russell and -Color-Sergt. Axel T. Tornrose, whose militia grades were not recognized -in the volunteer service, refused to be left behind, and proved their -devotion to the regiment by enlisting as privates. The regimental band, -as well as the corps of field musicians attached to headquarters under -the militia organization, could not be mustered, and until the close of -its term of service the regiment was obliged to rest satisfied with the -music of its battery buglers, save for the short period at Framingham -prior to going on furlough, when the thoughtfulness of the State -authorities allowed the band to rejoin. - -[Illustration: - - Photograph by T. E. Marr, Boston. - - FIELD, STAFF, AND LINE OFFICERS. -] - -Under the terms on which the mustering of the regiment had been ordered -by the War Department, it entered the service with forty-eight -commissioned officers and seven hundred and three enlisted men, an -aggregate for duty of seven hundred and fifty-one. In its _personnel_ -the command was exceptionally fortunate. Of its officers, twenty-five -per cent. were college bred, while in its ranks were to be found -representatives of nearly every college and technical school in New -England. In machinists, electricians, and skilled mechanics—the sort of -material without which an artillery command never can attain its full -efficiency—the regiment was encouragingly strong. A newspaper sketch of -the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, recently published, gives a roll of -twenty-one Harvard men who served in that command, and accompanies it -with this comment: "Harvard University contributed her quota to the army -last summer, and the Sixth had as many of her sons in the ranks as any -regiment in the service." It is perhaps worth noting, though it hardly -need be a matter for controversy, that no less than thirty-four -graduates and undergraduates of the Cambridge University went out with -the First, of whom nine were commissioned officers, while the remainder -served faithfully and with credit as enlisted men. It is a matter for -regret that statistics relating to men from other colleges who served in -the regiment are not available, but it may be of interest to record here -the Harvard roll, which may be considered approximately complete: - -Commissioned officers: James A. Frye (1886), major; John Bordman, Jr. -(1894), captain; John B. Paine (1891), first lieutenant and range -officer; E. Dwight Fullerton (1898), first lieutenant; William A. Rolfe -(M.S., 1890), first lieutenant and assistant surgeon; William S. Bryant -(1884), first lieutenant and assistant surgeon, later promoted major and -brigade surgeon, and assigned to Seventh Corps; Albert A. Gleason -(1886), second lieutenant; Sumner Paine (1890), second lieutenant; -Joseph S. Francis (1897), second lieutenant. - -Enlisted men: Louis H. Brittin (L.S.S., 1901), corporal, "A"; Arthur H. -Howard (1898), corporal, "A"; Edward D. Powers (1898), corporal, "A"; -Ralph W. Black (1886), private, "K"; Edward A. Bumpus (1898), private, -"A," later appointed second lieutenant, Twenty-first United States -Infantry; John Corbett (temporary student), private, "B"; Charles W. -Cutler (1898), private, "A"; Eugene H. Douglass (1898), private, "A"; -Howard B. Grose (1901), private, "K"; Frederick Heilig (1897), private, -"A"; Edwin B. Holt (1896), private, "A"; Benjamin Kaufman (1900), -private, "D"; Charles H. Keene (1898), private, "A"; James L. Knox -(1898), private, "A"; John F. McGrath (1895), private, "A"; Moses I. -Reuben (1889), private, "K"; George R. Russell (temporary student), -private, "K"; Francis R. Stoddard, Jr. (1899), private, "A"; Harry C. -Strong (1899), private, "K"; Edward A. Thurston (temporary student, -L.S.), private, "M"; Calvin S. Tilden (1898), private, "A"; John A. -White (1896), private, "B"; Charles H. Williams (L.S.S., 1900), private, -"A"; Francis C. Wilson (1898), private, "A"; Roger Wolcott, Jr. (1898), -private, "A." - - - - - THE SEASON OF RUMORS - - - - - IX. - - -THESE were stirring times for the regiment. It was the period of -rumors—of rumors that at any time might develop into realities. In order -to obtain an adequate idea of the atmosphere in which the command then -lived, it would be necessary to turn to the files of the newspapers for -the early spring of 1898, and make a classified list of the Spanish -naval bugaboos daily appearing in their columns. One odd coincidence is -well worth recalling, as showing that all the misapprehensions were not -confined to our own cities. On the evening of April 26th, the day on -which the regiment reported at Fort Warren, mass meetings were held at -Portsmouth and New Bedford, to protest against the utter disregard shown -by the Government for the defenses at those points—and on that very -night there was given in Havana a public banquet to celebrate the -bombardment of Boston, of which rumors had spread in that city! Spook -fleets were common in those days, and the men of the First, happily -forgetful of the fact that they were manning obsolete works, armed for -the most part with obsolete ordnance, and, worst of all, wofully short -of ammunition, daily hoped that the spook cruisers might materialize -into ships of steel. What little time was left from their duties they -employed in pitying their less fortunate comrades in inland camps, whom -they considered hopelessly out of the game of coastwise attack and -defence which was expected to begin at any time. - -And all this speculation, as a matter of fact, was not so wild as it now -may seem. It was known that the Spanish torpedo flotilla had -rendezvoused at the Cape Verde Islands on March 24th, where it was -joined on April 14th by the _Infanta Maria Teresa_ and _Cristobal -Colon_, and later, on the 20th, by the _Vizcaya_ and _Almirante -Oquendo_. On the 22d of April this formidable squadron was ordered to -sea, and on the 29th it sailed—to a destination then unknown to any one -on this side of the Atlantic. During the four anxious weeks that -followed, this threatening fleet was lost to sight; and throughout this -month of uncertainty, as Spears, the historian of the Navy in its latest -war, rightly says, "Not only was it a mysterious squadron in its -movements: to a large part of our along-shore population it was -positively fearsome. And there was good reason, when the makeup of the -squadron only is considered, for vigilance, if not for alarm, in our -more weakly fortified harbors. Where it would make a landfall was a -question, for the whole United States coast was, in a way, open to -attack." - -An added element of uncertainty was to be found in the announcement made -by Sagasta, on April 24th: "The Spanish Government, reserving its right -to grant letters of marque, will at present confine itself to -organizing, with the vessels of the mercantile marine, a force of -auxiliary cruisers, which will coöperate with the navy, according to the -needs of the campaign, and will be under naval control." It was believed -that Spain, in accordance with this policy, had taken and armed a number -of able, sea-going steamers, and the legitimate inference was that they -were to be employed in attacks on our commerce, or in sudden descents -upon our open ports, rather than in fights with our own cruisers. - -As a matter of fact, during the months of May and June, the people -dwelling along the coast were much in the condition of the small boy who -is troubled by "seein' things at night," and apparently the masters of -incoming vessels were laboring under a like affliction. A very careful -record of the Spanish apparitions by which the coast was haunted at this -time was kept by an officer of the First, and to read it at this late -day is to become convinced that the newspaper buyers of 1898 most -certainly got their money's worth. It is a weird catalogue of rumors, -from the tale of the mysterious cannonading heard at Eastport to the -reported sighting of the "three long, low, rakish craft, sailing in -column formation, and signalling by masthead lights as they steadily -held their course in the darkness"—which might have fitted a Spanish -squadron, but yet was equally applicable to the case of a tow of -coal-barges on its way around the Cape to Boston. - -[Illustration: - - Photograph by W. H. Caldwell, Brockton. - - 8-INCH RIFLE BATTERY, FORT WARREN. - - Covering Main Ship Channel, Boston Harbor. -] - -But in spite of the utter absurdity of many of the reports, the officers -of the First gave much careful consideration to the diagrams in -Brassey's "Naval Annual," and Jane's "Fighting Ships," with a view to -putting 8-inch shot in the spots where they would do the most good -should occasion arise; and nobody was unduly surprised when, shortly -after midnight of May 13th, the _Tourist_, the steamer employed by the -Engineers in their harbor-mining work, came puffing down from the city, -announcing her arrival at the fort by long blasts of her whistle, and -bringing word that at last the long-expected fleet had been sighted off -Nantucket, steering a course for Boston. Coming by way of the Navy -Department, this bit of intelligence seemed worthy of consideration, and -so in the early morning the officers of the regular garrison sent their -families away from the island and out of danger, while the volunteers -uncased the last of the small store of 8-inch projectiles for the guns -in their charge, gave a final look to their equipments, and then sat -themselves down on the parapets to await the first glimpse of Cervera's -armada. Fieldglasses were at a premium that day, and the wide expanse of -water towards Boston lightship became an object of much interest; but -Cervera failed to appear, and to the disgust of regulars and volunteers -alike it became evident, as the hours slipped away, that even official -warnings _via_ the Navy Yard must be received with proper and due -allowances. - -For some time now the port had been closed at night. Electric signal -lanterns had been rigged upon the flagstaff of the fort, and every -evening the officer of the guard was given the code signal for that -especial date, by which ships of our navy were to be recognized. The -orders of the post directed that any steamer failing to acknowledge -signals from the fort, or replying by wrong combinations, should be -fired on. But no steamers, either of the navy or of the merchant marine, -attempted to make port after dark, and the only firing required was that -done by patrol-boat crews, who were obliged at times to use their rifles -on the fishermen and coasters which, under cover of darkness, ignorantly -or wilfully persisted in blundering in among the mine-fields. - -On the 3rd of May all troops of the Atlantic States had been placed -under command of General Merritt, to be employed in coast-defence, and -to him Colonel Pfaff reported his regiment. Soon after, Lieutenant -Strother, (later major, U.S.V.), A.D.C. to General Merritt, was ordered -to Boston for the purpose of inspecting the regiment, so far as -concerned its equipment for service, and recommending stations for its -assignment in the general scheme of defence. Having visited Fort Warren, -where he made a careful inquiry into the condition of the command, -Lieutenant Strother held a consultation with the State authorities, and -returned to New York to report to his chief. On the 10th came -telegraphic orders from Headquarters, Department of the East, detaching -the Third Battalion ("E," "F," "I," and "M" Batteries, under Major -Frye), to report to Colonel Woodruff for duty as part of the garrison at -Fort Warren, and directing the remainder of the regiment to hold itself -in readiness for assignment under orders later to be issued. - -Changes which ultimately concerned the First had meanwhile been in -progress among the regular batteries stationed on the New England coast. -"K" Battery (Curtis'), of the Second Artillery, had been ordered on -April 28th from Fort Schuyler, N.Y., to the ungarrisoned defenses at -Portsmouth, N.H. On May 6th Colonel Woodruff, in addition to his duties -as commanding officer at Fort Warren, was assigned to the general -command of the defenses of Boston Harbor; Major Charles Morris, Seventh -Artillery, was placed in command of the Mortar Battery at Winthrop (up -to this time in charge of Lieutenant Ketcham, Second Artillery, with a -small detachment of about thirty men taken from the batteries at Warren) -with a garrison made up of "M" Battery (Richmond's), Second Artillery, -and "F" Battery (Anderson's), Seventh Artillery, from Schuyler; the gap -left in the garrison at Warren by the withdrawal of Richmond was filled -by the transfer of "G" Battery (Brown's), Seventh Artillery, from -Schuyler; and finally, Lieutenant Lyon, with a detachment of thirty men -from the batteries of the Second Artillery at Fort Adams, Newport, R.I., -was ordered to the fort at Clark's Point, New Bedford, later to be named -Fort Rodman. The shifting of regular batteries at Warren occurred on May -16th, and the officers of the First parted with regret from Captain -Richmond, who had made many friends among them. - -Most unexpectedly, on May 18th, a message was received at the fort -announcing the coming of Governor Wolcott, to present to the officers -their volunteer commissions. On his arrival the regiment formed for -review, and after the march-past stood closed in mass by battalions, -with the officers grouped at the centre, while the Governor spoke a few -words of farewell, saying, among other things: - -"It is your high privilege to have been summoned into the service of the -United States at a time when the clouds of war with a foreign Power -threatened the Republic. I know of no higher service that a citizen can -be called upon to render than to offer his life, if need be, in the -cause of his country. You enter this service not as raw recruits, but -with obedience and discipline acquired in the militia service of the -Commonwealth. Whether you are assigned the honorable duty of guarding -the sea-coast of the Commonwealth of your birth, or are summoned to some -distant point in other lands or within the confines of your own country, -see to it that no act of yours shall bring aught but added glory to the -colors you bear. Be of high courage and good cheer; the great heart of -the Commonwealth will follow you with pride and affection, whatever the -duty you may be called upon to perform." - -Receiving the commissions from the hands of Colonel Bradley of his -staff, who had served through the Civil War in the First Massachusetts -Heavy Artillery of 1861, the Governor then presented them to the -officers of the regiment in the order of their rank, finally turning to -Colonel Pfaff to say, "I congratulate you, Colonel, upon the regiment -you have the honor to command, and upon the service you now enter." - -On the conclusion of this very simple yet impressive ceremony, the -regiment was dismissed. The Governor then made an informal inspection of -battery quarters, and afterwards was conducted over the works in order -that he might see for himself whatever of progress was being made -towards installing modern armament in the main fortification of his -capital city. Later, with the members of his staff, he was the guest of -the officers' mess at luncheon; and early in the afternoon he took final -leave of the regiment, which always had considered it an honor to serve -under him as commander-in-chief, but now—though not without a touch of -regret—had passed for a time beyond his authority. - - - - - ASSIGNMENT TO STATIONS - - - - - X. - - -THE day now had come when, after the custom of the artillery service, -the regiment must be broken up and scattered in its isolated posts along -shore. General Merritt was relieved of the command of the Department of -the East on May 20th, to go to the far East as commanding officer of the -Philippine expedition. His successor was General Frank, U.S.V., promoted -from the colonelcy of the First United States Artillery, who lost no -time in issuing orders (S.O., 112, H.Q., D.E., 23rd May) for the final -distribution of the regiment to its stations. The text of this order -read: - -"The following assignment to stations of the First Regiment -Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, now at Fort Warren—Colonel Pfaff, -commanding—is hereby ordered: Colonel Pfaff, with headquarters and two -batteries, to Salem, and to command the various fortifications and -points on the North Shore of Massachusetts where batteries of his -regiment are placed. The Lieutenant-Colonel, and two batteries, to -Clark's Point, Mass. Major Frye, with 'E,' 'F,' 'I,' and 'M' Batteries, -will remain on duty at Fort Warren, as heretofore designated by -telegraphic orders. The four remaining batteries, one each to -Gloucester, Marblehead, Nahant, and Plum Island, Mass. Colonel Pfaff -will designate the unassigned field officers and batteries for stations -to the points other than Fort Warren, as he shall deem advisable, -notifying these headquarters of the letters of batteries, and the -officers so assigned, to the respective stations. The troops will take -tents, camp equipage, and ten days' rations." - -This order ended for the time being all speculation as to the -destination of the regiment in the immediate future, and though it -certainly failed to please everybody, it yet was received with little -comment by those whom it concerned. It was recognized that artillery -posts must vary from good to indifferent, or even from indifferent to -bad, and the officers spent their leisure moments in pleasant -conjectures as to undesirability of the assignments which were destined -to fall to their lot. - -On May 30th Colonel Pfaff issued the orders for the distribution of the -First and Second Battalions. "G" (Chick's) and "L" (Whiting's) -Batteries, with Lieutenant Paine, range officer, and Lieutenant Bryant, -assistant surgeon, were ordered to report to Lieutenant-Colonel Woodman, -to take station at New Bedford. For the garrison at Salem, "C" -(Nutter's) and "D" (Frothingham's) Batteries were designated, under -Major Dyar as commanding officer of the post, to whom was to report -Lieutenant Rolfe, assistant surgeon, so soon as relieved from his detail -as post surgeon at Fort Warren. Major Quinby, with "K" (Howes') Battery, -and Hospital Steward White, were assigned to the defenses at Gloucester. -Captain Lombard, with "B" Battery, and Hospital Steward Phillips, were -ordered to Newburyport, to establish a post at the entrance of the -harbor. Captain Pratt, with "H" Battery, was assigned to the works at -Marblehead. Captain Bordman, with "A" Battery, was directed to take -station at Nahant, for the protection of the mining casemate at that -point. - -Preparation for these movements began promptly, but stormy weather and -delay in securing transportation made it over a week before the last of -the departing batteries was able to leave Fort Warren. Meanwhile the -posts for which these detachments from the regiment were destined had -been garrisoned temporarily by the militia—commanded at first by General -Mathews, and later by General Bancroft. Influenced by the prevailing -uneasiness, Governor Wolcott, on May 7th, had prudently ordered his -remaining State troops into the field for the protection of the coast -until such time as the general Government should assume the -responsibility, and the Fifth Infantry, the First and Second Battalions -of Cadets, with the three light batteries, had been rendering valuable -service at exposed points, from Hull to the mouth of the Merrimac. -Unable to enter the volunteer service, under the limits imposed by the -call of the President, these commands eagerly had responded to the call -of the Commonwealth, and they most certainly are entitled to recognition -for the faithful work performed, under most trying conditions as to -weather, during the thirty days of their tour. - -[Illustration: - - Photograph by T. E. Marr, Boston. - - GARRISON ENCAMPMENT, FORT PICKERING. -] - -On June 1st, Lieutenant-Colonel Woodman and his command left for New -Bedford, proceeding from Boston by rail; while, on the 3rd, Colonel -Pfaff and the officers of his staff established regimental headquarters -at Salem. On the 6th, Major Quinby and "A," "C," "D," and "H" Batteries -left for their stations, followed on the 7th by "B" and "K" Batteries. -All these latter commands were furnished with transportation by water, -and it may be noted that the small steamers employed for the purpose -were well loaded down by the troops and their baggage. It so happened -that the departure of the detachments took place during a period of very -heavy weather, and more than one anxious watcher stood on the parapet at -Warren, to follow through field-glasses the course of the receding -transports, as they rolled and pitched across the bay and towards the -North Shore. - -The widely scattered detachments of the First now settled themselves as -best they might at their respective coast-guard stations, and prepared -to make the most of the scanty materials for defence which they found at -hand. Under the final assignments, the distribution of the regimental -strength was as follows: - - STATION. Officers. Men. Total. - - Defenses of Newburyport 3 59 62 - Stage Fort, Gloucester 4 59 63 - Fort Sewall, Marblehead 3 58 61 - Fort Pickering, Salem 13 121 134 - Mining Casemate, Nahant 3 58 61 - Fort Warren, Boston 13 232 245 - Fort Rodman, New Bedford 9 116 125 - -- --- --- - Aggregate for duty 48 703 751 - -Hardly had the regiment begun to adapt itself to the new conditions, -when telegraphic orders from the War Department arrived directing that -the batteries be at once recruited to full artillery strength, two -hundred enlisted men each—or an aggregate of sixty officers and -twenty-four hundred men for the entire command, since an additional -second lieutenant would be appointed to each battery when on a war -footing. It is needless to say that this order was hailed with delight -by both officers and men: to the former it gave promise of more active -service, while to the latter it meant unlimited promotion, since over -two hundred and fifty additional sergeants and corporals would be -required in the expanded batteries. No time was lost in preparing to -comply with this order. Major Dyar was detailed as chief recruiting -officer, with Captains Williamson and Nutter as assistants, and plans -were made for opening recruiting offices in Boston, New Bedford, -Brockton, and Salem. Battery commanders immediately attempted to get -into communication with the men whom they had left behind, under former -conditions, in the hope of finding that not all of them had yet enlisted -in the regulars or in other volunteer regiments. Everything was ready -for beginning the work of recruiting—when word came by telegraph from -Washington that the whole matter was a mistake, and that the recruiting -order had been meant to apply alone to the Massachusetts infantry -regiments. It was a bitter disappointment. The regiment stood sadly in -need of recruits, since its strength as organized barely sufficed for -the performance of routine garrison duty, and when the President, on May -25th, issued his call for seventy-five thousand additional volunteers, -the officers of the First felt that from the allotment of Massachusetts -they should at least secure enough men to bring the regimental enrolment -up to twelve hundred. But for a second time they were destined to see -their command passed by without consideration. The pressure exerted to -bring the Fifth Infantry into the volunteer service, or it may be some -other cause yet remaining to be explained, left the faithful First still -serving with skeleton ranks. - -In spite of all disappointments, however, the command never slackened in -the performance of its appointed work. There were many problems to be -solved, and of these the most perplexing was how to evolve an efficient -defence from ridiculously inadequate materials. In his command on the -North Shore Colonel Pfaff found himself confronted by a grave situation -of affairs. To him had been entrusted the defence of five important -points, among them four towns aggregating over eighty-five thousand -inhabitants, and with property interests to be reckoned by tens of -millions; and, to state unpleasant facts with relentless exactness, -every modern and effective appliance for defensive operations had been -denied him. Newburyport, Gloucester, Marblehead, and Salem were all -liable to bombardment from the open sea, and the fire of heavy guns -alone could give even a promise of immunity from that form of attack; -but there were no heavy guns mounted at any of these points. Eight -3-inch, muzzle-loading rifles (type of 1862) had been brought to the -coast by two of the militia light batteries, and these had been turned -over to the volunteers relieving them, while sixteen Driggs-Schroeder -rapid-fire guns, ranging in calibre from one-to six-pounders, hastily -purchased by the State from its war emergency appropriation, also had -been placed in the hands of the batteries of the First. Beyond these -there was nothing in the way of ordnance—not a gun, not a round of -ammunition was supplied by the general Government for these five posts -to which it had seen fit to order artillery garrisons! - -After making a rapid study of the situation, it became apparent that -serious resistance to anything like a resolute fleet attack could not be -made, but it was confidently believed that, with the means at hand, at -least three other forms of naval attack might be successfully parried. -Dispositions accordingly were made to meet sudden descents by Spanish -auxiliary cruisers, dashes into harbors by torpedo-boats, or any -attempts at operations by landing parties; and it should be said here -that nothing was left undone towards providing, with the material -available, all possible protection to the points garrisoned by these -volunteer batteries. - - - - - FORT PICKERING AND THE "NORTH - SHORE" DEFENSES - - - - - XI. - - -FROM this time until the assembly of the command at Framingham, -preparatory to going on mustering-out furlough, the regimental history -becomes that of the widely dispersed fractions, while the record of -events is but a dull story of garrison duty, faithfully performed in the -face of every discouragement. For administrative purposes the regiment -now formed three distinct divisions—that under Colonel Pfaff, with -headquarters at Salem, and sub-posts at the points on the North Shore -already noted; the garrison at New Bedford, under Lieutenant-Colonel -Woodman, reporting directly to the commanding officer at Fort Adams, -R.I.; and the battalion commanded by Major Frye, at Fort Warren, under -the immediate orders of the commanding officer of the defenses of Boston -Harbor. The record of these divisions, in their order, may briefly be -given: - -Colonel Pfaff, with his staff and attachés, reached Salem on June 3d. -Headquarters at once were established at Fort Pickering, situated on -Winter Island, at the entrance of the inner harbor. On the 6th, "C" and -"D" Batteries arrived at the post, reporting to Major Dyar, who had been -detailed as post commander. The batteries at once pitched camp on the -glacis outside the wet ditch surrounding the old fort, while the -headquarters tents were located inside the parapet of an outwork -covering the landward approach. The fort itself was but a ruin. Since -the earliest colonial days the site had been occupied by defensive -works, and the present Fort Pickering had been rebuilt and garrisoned in -1861; but from that time on it had been allowed, through the storms of a -third of a century, to crumble into decay. There were no quarters for -troops, there was no armament of heavy guns; and, worst of all, the -location of the work was such that bombardment under modern long-range -conditions could not be prevented. - -[Illustration: - - MAJOR PERLIE A. DYAR, U.S.V. - - Commanding First Battalion. -] - -But Salem, with its heavy property interests, its large coastwise trade, -and its enormous coal-pockets—so tempting to a coal-hungry enemy—had to -be protected as best might be; and, as soon as the camp had been -settled, Captains Frothingham and Nutter, under the supervision of Major -Dyar, set their men at work, with shovel, pick, and barrow, on the -feeble defenses. Time was lacking for the remodelling of the entire -work, even if the numerical strength of the working details had -permitted, and work was confined to strengthening the weak channel face -of the fort. Here, from plane drawn by Lieutenant Francis, a civil -engineer by profession, an earthen parapet of strong profile, with stone -revetment, was constructed. The working tools and derricks required in -the undertaking were supplied by the city authorities of Salem, who in -this, as in many other ways, showed a desire to be of every assistance -to the garrison. Guns of at least medium calibre were urgently needed, -and Colonel Pfaff endeavored, through the department commander, to -obtain a battery of six 8-inch converted rifles. In this attempt he was -unsuccessful, though a number of guns of this type lay idle at Fort -Warren, where they had been dismounted and removed from the casemates. -While the carriages of these guns were not properly adapted for use in a -barbette battery, they yet might have served the purpose after a -fashion; especially since this war, it always must be borne in mind, was -from first to last a war of makeshifts. As the event proved, however, -the garrison at Fort Pickering was forced to remain content with the -armament of small-calibre, rapid-fire guns supplied through the -enterprise of the State of Massachusetts. It so happened that both -Captains Frothingham and Nutter, prior to the war, had been conspicuous -for their devotion to the study of modern artillery work; their men were -well grounded in the principles of sea-coast gunnery, and their being -thus stationed at a post absolutely destitute of modern heavy ordnance -seemed no light hardship. - -[Illustration: - - MAJOR HOWARD S. DEARING, U.S.V. - - Regimental Surgeon. -] - -When such engineering work as was imperatively required had been brought -to completion, both officers and men settled down to the monotony of -garrison routine. Lieutenant Stockwell was appointed post adjutant, -while Lieutenant Keenan served in the triple capacity of post -quartermaster, commissary, and ordnance officer. Though the health of -the command was uniformly good, the medical officers yet found their -time amply occupied, since in addition to their duties at Pickering they -were required to visit the sub-posts at Gloucester, Marblehead, and -Nahant. On June 24th, Lieutenant Rolfe, assistant surgeon, was relieved -from duty at Fort Warren, reporting immediately at regimental -headquarters; but in July, failing to recover from a severe illness -contracted during the earlier service of the regiment, he found himself -compelled to resign, thus depriving the command of the services of an -efficient and popular officer. Later in the same month, Assistant -Surgeon Bryant received promotion which took him from the First, and -from this time until the close of its volunteer service the regiment had -but one medical officer, Major Dearing, senior surgeon, whose unflagging -devotion to the welfare of the command won for him the gratitude and -esteem of every officer and man. On July 26th, Captain Frothingham, with -Lieutenants Nostrom, McCullough, and Francis, proceeded to Fort Preble, -Me., for duty on a general court martial, making several visits -thereafter to that post before the final adjournment of the court. - -For lack of opportunity at artillery drill, attention was turned to -infantry work, and the garrison was hardened into condition for field -service by a succession of practice marches and field manœuvres over the -country in the vicinity of the post. The garrison evening parade, held -outside the main work, was a never-failing source of interest to the -people of Salem, and on every pleasant afternoon crowds came out from -the city to attend the ceremony. On July 25th, "A" Battery changed -station from Nahant to Pickering, marching in over the road with its -field guns and wagon train. Late in August, "B" Battery was ordered to -rejoin at Salem from its station at Portsmouth, N.H., thus bringing the -garrison strength up to a battalion of four batteries. Such officers as -could be spared from this post, with many from the other posts -garrisoned by the regiment, were present, on August 12th, at the funeral -of the lamented Colonel Bogan, of the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry, who -long had been a friend of the First, and had been detailed as its -inspecting officer while serving on the staff of Governor Russell; and -again, on August 30th, the battalion at Pickering performed a sad duty -by parading as escort, under command of Major Dyar, at the funeral of -Major O'Connor, of the Ninth. No further event of especial moment -appears on the records of the post until its abandonment on September -19th. - -Major Quinby, with "K" Battery, under command of Captain Howes, reached -his station at Stage Fort, Gloucester, on the 7th of June. This post, -though admirable as a camping site, hardly could be considered desirable -from an artillery point of view. The old fort itself, an earthen battery -commanding the inner harbor and its approaches, had lain abandoned since -the close of the Civil War, and this long period of neglect had brought -the inevitable results. Under the action of wind and weather its -parapets gradually had worn away, and its magazine was in a ruinous -condition. For armament there were rapid-fire guns, supplemented by -3-inch, muzzle-loading field guns turned over by the departing militia -garrison. Fortunately for the peace of mind of the people of Gloucester, -the fort was not the sole defence of the harbor; for the historic old -monitor _Catskill_, manned by volunteer seamen recruited from the ranks -of the Massachusetts Naval Brigade, lay there at anchor during the -greater part of the summer. With the two 15-inch Dahlgren guns in its -battered turret, this relic of 1862 might still have been a factor in -any dispute with privateers or unarmored cruisers of the enemy. It was -the intention of Colonel Pfaff to secure for this post two 8-inch -converted rifles, but his request for the guns was not complied with. - -There were no barracks at Stage Fort, and the garrison went into camp -under canvas. After settling the matter of quarters, work was begun -without delay, and the ravages of time on the old fort were repaired as -thoroughly as possible. When everything had been put into condition for -action, the command quietly took up the customary post routine. -Lieutenant Packard was detailed as post adjutant, performing the duties -of the position until July 18th, when he was ordered to Fort Columbus, -New York Harbor, where he remained on detached service until relieved on -September 12th. After his departure from the post, the adjutant's duties -fell to Lieutenant Gleason, who already had been acting as post -quartermaster and commissary. On September 15th, at the request of the -city whose name she bore, the famous little auxiliary cruiser -_Gloucester_, with laurels fresh from her victorious fight with the -Spanish torpedo-gunboats _Pluton_ and _Furor_, made a visit to the -harbor. As she came to her anchorage, the garrison at Stage Fort fired a -salute in her honor; and on the following day, at the reception given by -the city, the battery paraded as escort to Captain Wainwright and the -men of his crew. - -[Illustration: - - MAJOR GEORGE F. QUINBY, U.S.V. - - Commanding Second Battalion. -] - -Captain Lombard, with "B" Battery, had drawn what was perhaps the least -desirable of all the posts falling to the regiment, that at Plum Island, -covering Newburyport and the entrance to the Merrimac. After a rough -passage around Cape Ann, he arrived with his command at this station on -June 7th. The island is a low, sandy formation, ten miles in length, -commanding at its northern extremity the channel leading into the harbor -of Newburyport. At this point, lying but three miles and a half from the -railway bridge marking the centre of the city, the command pitched its -camp, and threw up an earthwork of slight profile for the reception of -its field guns. Shallow waters and a treacherous bar deter vessels of -any considerable draft from attempting to enter this harbor; but the -city offers a tempting and easy mark for torpedo-boat raids, and it was -to discourage any enterprise of this sort that "B" Battery was condemned -to a month of dreary duty among the sand dunes. The order of July 2nd, -directing the command to change station to Fort McClary, Maine, was -received at the post with delight, and little time was lost in preparing -to leave behind the brackish water, mosquitoes, and monotony of Plum -Island. - -Before this order could be executed, it was amended. These were the days -when ugly rumors were coming from before Santiago, and the Government -was making hurried efforts to meet a possible disaster on land. Captain -Curtis, with his battery ("K") of the Second Artillery, was garrisoning -the defenses at Portsmouth, of which McClary was a subpost, and to him -on July 6th came rush orders to hasten with his battery to Tampa, to -join the siege train there organizing, while Captain Lombard was -directed to relieve him in the command of the Portsmouth defenses. On -the 8th, "B" Battery reached its new station, taking post at Fort -Constitution, and placing detachments at Fort McClary, on the Maine -shore opposite, and at Jerry's Point, in the outer line of defenses. The -command now occupied a most responsible position, with more than enough -work for its small enlisted strength, for here there was much modern -artillery material to be cared for, while the guard duty of the -scattered posts made heavy drafts on the endurance of the men. These -important defenses, covering not only the city of Portsmouth, but also -the Kittery Navy Yard, were now added to the other posts under command -of Colonel Pfaff, who on the last day of July visited the station, and -inspected the works and the garrison. After becoming settled in -quarters, details were made for post administration, Lieutenant Day -being appointed post adjutant and Lieutenant Underwood post -quartermaster and commissary. On August 19th, the Santiago campaign -having turned out luckily after all, Captain Curtis was ordered with his -battery back from Tampa, arriving a few days later to relieve Captain -Lombard. At this time Major Crozier, A.I.G., reached the post on his -tour of inspection, and by his direction "B" Battery demonstrated its -ability to handle modern ordnance by conducting the test-firing of the -newly mounted 8-inch breech-loading rifles, on their disappearing -carriages. Shortly afterwards, Captain Lombard and his command changed -station to Pickering, reporting to Colonel Pfaff on August 27th. - -The garrison for Marblehead, "H" Battery, under command of Captain -Pratt, arrived on June 6th at its station at Fort Sewall. This old -fortification, which properly should be classed as a mere field work, -not only commands the entrance to the harbor of Marblehead, but also -plays an important part in the outer line of defence for Salem. Having -been ungarrisoned for more than thirty years, it naturally was in a -dilapidated condition, and on the arrival of "H" Battery it was without -armament. As in the case of Stage Fort, the request of Colonel Pfaff for -two 8-inch converted rifles was ignored, and reliance had to be placed -upon the rapid-fire guns brought to the post by the incoming troops. -After pitching its camp and making the required repairs on the works, -the garrison settled itself for what proved to be an uneventful tour of -occupation. At this post Lieutenant Renfrew acted as adjutant, with -Lieutenant Grant as quartermaster and commissary. The only break in the -monotony of the summer came when a battalion from Pickering, after a -forced march from Salem, feigned an attack on the post by a landing -party, which was met and repulsed in a workmanlike manner by Captain -Pratt and his command. - -The mining-casemate at Nahant, from which the mine-fields in Broad -Sound, Boston Harbor, were to have been controlled, was placed in charge -of Captain Bordman, who arrived with his command ("A" Battery) at this -station on June 6th, and at once laid out his camp near the work to be -guarded. Rapid-fire field guns were issued to this post, but infantry -guard duty was practically all that was required of its garrison. -Lieutenant Fullerton served as post adjutant until ordered to Fort -Columbus, New York Harbor, on July 18th, where he remained on detached -service until the muster-out of the regiment. The quartermaster and -commissary duties were performed by Lieutenant Sumner Paine. Lacking the -material for artillery work, Captain Bordman turned to infantry drill, -and by constant road marches and field exercises brought his command -into prime physical condition. The tour of the battery at this station -was not destined to be a long one. In the rush of emergency harbor-work -during the early days of the war, the Engineers first gave their -attention to the mining of the main ship channel and Nantasket Roads, -leaving Broad Sound—the water area for bombardment of Boston, Lynn, and -Chelsea—for later consideration; but with the destruction of Cervera's -fleet, all active mining operations came abruptly to a close, and the -Broad Sound system remained uninstalled. The post at Nahant, therefore, -was ordered to be abandoned on July 25th, its garrison reporting at Fort -Pickering on that date. - - - - - FORT RODMAN AND ITS GARRISON - - - - - XII. - - -THE second of the three general divisions into which the regiment had -been separated—Lieutenant-Colonel Woodman's command, "G" (Chick's) and -"L" (Whiting's) Batteries—arrived at its destination at New Bedford on -June 1st, reporting to Lieutenant-Colonel Haskin, Second United States -Artillery, commanding officer at Fort Adams, R.I. The post to be -garrisoned was then borne on the army register as the "Fort at Clark's -Point," the designation by which it had been known since 1857, when -ground first was broken for its construction. The fort is an excellent -type of the clever military engineering for which this country was noted -at the middle of the century. It is an enclosed work of granite, with -two tiers of casemate guns and provisions for a third tier in barbette, -though the guns of the latter battery never have been mounted. In June -last its armament was made up of 8- and 10-inch Rodmans, 100-pounder -(6.4-inch) Parrott rifles, and 24-pounder (5.8-inch) flank-casemate -howitzers. All through the summer and fall months the Engineers were -steadily at work on exterior emplacements for 8-inch breech-loading -rifles, on disappearing mounts, while mortar and rapid-fire batteries -also were projected for the post; but during its occupation by its -volunteer garrison the only available ordnance was that of the types of -the Civil War. - -The site of the works is at the extremity of Clark's Point, three miles -and a half from the centre of New Bedford, at a point commanding not -only the channel entering the harbor, but also all water areas for -bombardment to the southward of the city. Prior to the war with Spain, a -solitary ordnance sergeant formed the garrison at the post, but on May -6th a detachment of thirty men from the Second Artillery, under command -of Lieutenant Lyon (later relieved, on May 27th, by Lieutenant Connor), -had been ordered over from Fort Adams for guard duty. The casemates on -the landward face of the fort, originally intended for use as quarters, -never had been placed in condition for occupancy, and the detachment of -regulars therefore was quartered in an old building standing on the -reservation, while the battalion of volunteers pitched camp in an open -field to the northwest of the fort. It would have been difficult to find -a more desirable site for the encampment. Lying on dry and level ground, -between two arms of the sea, it not only afforded a pleasant outlook, -but also was constantly swept by cool breezes from off the water. Under -such circumstances, camp sanitation afforded an easy problem, and during -its tour at this post the health of the command remained excellent. - -[Illustration: - - LIEUT.-COL. CHARLES B. WOODMAN, U.S.V. - - Second-in-Command. -] - -At this station the post administrative staff was made up of Lieutenant -J. B. Paine, adjutant; Lieutenant Gowing, quartermaster and commissary; -and Lieutenant Bryant, surgeon. In addition to his duties as battery -commander, Captain Whiting also performed those of ordnance officer, an -assignment for which he was eminently well fitted by previous study and -training. There was much work to be done in the early days at the post, -for its armament, after long years of neglect, was in horrible -condition. Both batteries turned to with a will, however, and in a -creditably short time the fort itself was cleaned and swept until it -would have satisfied the most exacting inspector, while guns and -carriages were freed from rust, scraped, painted, and put into condition -for immediate action. It is due to the command to say that when it -marched out, on September 19th, it left behind it a post which, in point -of absolute neatness and readiness for action, might well have served as -a model for any artillery garrison, regular or volunteer. - -There was little to be recorded beyond the ordinary garrison routine. -One incident, which occurred during the work of preparing the fort for -emergencies, is worth relating. There were found one or two guns in -which, at some forgotten period, priming wires had been broken off in -the vents, eventually becoming firmly fixed there by rust. With this -fact as a foundation, an enterprising New Bedford reporter built up a -lurid story of spiked guns and Spanish spies, which went the rounds of -the newspapers, causing infinite disgust to the garrison and endless -amusement to the rest of the regiment. The choked vents were drilled out -as soon as discovered, and the guns at once made available; but to this -day the mention of spiked guns will provoke an explosion if made in the -presence of any Fort Rodman artilleryman. - -On June 15th, Lieutenant Connor and his detachment of regulars were -relieved and ordered back to Fort Adams, which meanwhile had been -reinforced by the Forty-seventh New York Infantry, a fact mentioned to -show the straits in which the Government found itself in obtaining -garrisons for its artillery posts. On the 9th of June, Lieutenants -Wilson and Cheney served as members of a general court martial at Adams. -Having been promoted major and brigade-surgeon, Lieutenant Bryant left -the post on July 8th, to report for duty with Lee's Seventh Corps, then -at Jacksonville, and from this date the affairs of the medical -department were placed in charge of a contract surgeon from New Bedford. -At one time during the summer certain turbulent spirits among the -engineer employees at the post required attention from the garrison, but -firm and prompt action by the artillerymen put an instant end to the -trouble, and effectually discouraged any further outbreaks of a like -sort. By general order from army headquarters, dated July 23rd, the post -officially was named "Fort Rodman," in honor of the memory of -Lieutenant-Colonel William Logan Rodman, Thirty-eighth Massachusetts -Infantry, who fell at the head of his regiment in the assault on Port -Hudson in 1863. Thus, after waiting forty-one years for a name, the old -fort at last received that of a Massachusetts soldier, while a garrison -of Massachusetts volunteers was on duty to assist at its christening. - - - - - THE THIRD BATTALION AT FORT - WARREN - - - - - XIII. - - -THE last of the three regimental subdivisions—the Third Battalion, under -Major Frye—meanwhile quietly had been going on with its artillery work -at Fort Warren. Other than the ordering of Major Morris, Seventh -Artillery, from Winthrop to Fort Schuyler, N.Y., on May 27th, leaving -Captain Richmond the ranking officer at the mortar battery, there had -been no changes in the garrisons of the sub-posts about the harbor. The -departure of Colonel Pfaff and Lieutenant-Colonel Woodman, with their -commands, had rendered necessary a reassignment of battery duties at -Fort Warren, and Colonel Woodruff issued orders accordingly on June -13th. Of the regular batteries, "C" (Schenck's), Second Artillery, took -charge of the 10-inch rifle and 4-inch rapid-fire guns—at that time in -process of being mounted—in Bastion B, while "G" (Brown's), Seventh -Artillery, had its station at the 10-inch rifles of the ravelin battery. -Surplus men from these two batteries, as the daily recruiting swelled -their ranks, were told off for manning various groups of the older type -guns in the fort. Of the volunteer batteries, "M" (Braley's) was -assigned to the field and machine gun sections for the protection of the -channel mine-lines, Nantasket Roads mine-field, and the cable chute -through which the entire system was controlled; "I" (Williamson's) went -to the 15-inch Rodman guns in Bastion A; "F" (Danforth's) drew the -battery of 10-inch Rodmans on the channel face of the fort; while to "E" -(Gibbs') fell the barbette and casemate batteries of 8-inch rifles at -the southeastern angle. These assignments were made for a very definite -purpose, and they remained in effect until after the destruction of the -Spanish fleet at Santiago, when, to break the monotony of gun-drill on -one type of gun, the volunteer batteries interchanged at their stations. - -[Illustration: - - MAJOR JAMES A. FRYE, U.S.V. - - Commanding Third Battalion. -] - -Since this battalion was a complete tactical unit, under command of its -own field officer, it did not lose its identity on becoming a part of -the garrison at the fort. Both its officers and men, sharing tours with -the regulars, were carried on the rosters of the post for guard and -fatigue duty; but for purposes of discipline and administration the -battalion organization remained intact. The acting battalion staff was -composed of Lieutenant D. Fuller, adjutant; Lieutenant Phillips, -quartermaster; Lieutenant Horton, signal officer; Lieutenant Wing, -commissary; and, until relieved on June 23rd, Lieutenant Rolfe, -assistant surgeon. The officers of the volunteers also were called upon -for the performance of many duties under post details: Major Frye served -as president of the post council of administration, as presiding officer -at garrison courts martial, and later as trial officer of the summary -court; Lieutenant D. Fuller was appointed post treasurer and librarian; -Lieutenant Totten was detailed as post adjutant and recruiting officer, -as well as mustering officer for the regiment at large, the latter -detail requiring many visits to the scattered stations of the command; -for much of the time the signal system of the works was under the -supervision of Lieutenant Horton, owing to the absence on detached -service of Lieutenant Catlin, the regular signal officer; Captains -Braley and Williamson, with Lieutenants D. Fuller, Phillips, Wing, -Harrison, Nilsson, and Totten also served as members of general courts -martial. - -As at the other posts of the regiment, the earlier days of the detached -tour at this station found much work requiring immediate attention: -range charts for each gun-group were plotted; guns, carriages, and -equipments were overhauled and made ready for action; ammunition was -prepared and stored at hand in the service magazines. Department orders -called for three hours' gun-drill daily, and in addition to this—in -order that the command might be ready for any kind of service required -by later developments—an hour more was devoted to battalion drill as -infantry. Evening parade was held daily by the volunteers, though the -regular batteries at the post omitted this ceremony. Aside from its -record of steady and faithful work there were but few events during the -summer which concerned this portion of the regiment. On August 16th it -was presented a battalion color by its friends in Boston, which it -carried so long as on its detached service. Beginning on August 20th, -there was test firing of all the recently mounted guns—12-inch mortars, -10-inch rifles, and 4.7- and 4-inch rapid-fire guns—under the -supervision of Major Crozier, A.I.G., who visited all the posts in the -harbor on this duty. It may here be noted, as a curious matter of -record, that poverty in ammunition had forbidden the expenditure of even -a single round from these modern guns until after the suspension of -hostilities. On September 2nd, the men of the garrison lined the -parapets and cheered lustily when the squadron of nine warships, led by -the grim _Massachusetts_, steamed into the harbor for the naval parade. -On the following day the Third Battalion paraded in Boston as escort to -Captain Higginson, and the officers, seamen, and marines of the vessels -under his command—the _Massachusetts_, _Machias_, _Detroit_, _Castine_, -_Wilmington_, _Helena_, _Marietta_, _Topeka_, and _Bancroft_. Orders for -change of station now arrived. On the 17th of September the battalion -tendered a final review to Colonel Woodruff, and on the 19th marched out -from the fort, taking transport on the _City_ _of Philadelphia_ for -Boston, and thence proceeding by rail to rejoin the regiment in camp at -Framingham. Officers and men alike left the post with feelings of -sincere regret, since their relations with the regulars of the garrison -had been most pleasant. On relieving the battalion from duty under his -orders, Colonel Woodruff took occasion officially to compliment it on -its uniform state of efficiency and discipline. - - - - - FINAL DAYS IN THE SERVICE - - - - - XIV. - - -SO through the long and weary summer months the scattered batteries of -the regiment served faithfully at their posts along the coast, patiently -enduring the dull monotony of garrison life, and hoping against hope -that the fortunes of war yet might bring them their own chance for -training their guns upon an enemy. For a time rumor still busied itself -with the movements of the Spanish fleet, while spook cruisers still held -the seas—as the men on Shafter's crowded troopships could have testified -to their sorrow—but, as the final event proved, Spain either was too -blind or too feeble to improve her one possible opportunity of -inflicting injury on her adversary by striking a sharp and sudden blow -at some point on our long and weakly defended coast line. The national -salute fired on the Fourth of July at all the posts along-shore answered -a double purpose, since, while complying with army regulations for the -observance of the holiday, it also served to celebrate the victorious -fighting on land and sea at Santiago. But the men of the coast -artillery, regulars and volunteers alike, listened with heavy hearts to -the booming of their unshotted guns; rejoicing with their brethren of -the Navy over the signal victory that had been won, they yet felt that -the destruction of Cervera's squadron had deprived them of the one -chance to which they had trusted for obtaining distinction. Like all -thinking men, they had to face the fact that the events at Santiago -marked the beginning of the end. - -On July 11th, Governor Wolcott informed the authorities at Washington -that the people of Massachusetts no longer were in uneasiness regarding -the safety of the cities and towns on the coast, and requested that the -First might be relieved from its present stations and assigned to more -active duty. Colonel Pfaff also urged that his command be retained in -service for any work that yet might remain to be done, while General -Lee, who had heard of the efficient condition of the regiment through -Lieutenant-Colonel Curtis Guild of his staff, made strong efforts to -secure its transfer to his Seventh Corps, then completing its -organization for the occupation of Havana. - -But the time had not yet arrived when conditions would permit any -further depletion of our already weak artillery garrisons. It is true -that Spain, after the utter annihilation of her sea power, had been -humbled into asking terms on July 26th, and that, with the signing of -the peace protocol on August 12th, hostilities had been suspended; but -there yet remained possible complications with Germany over the long and -ugly succession of unfriendly acts of which the vessels of her fleet in -Philippine waters had been guilty. Within a very recent period Berlin -has seen fit officially to disavow any intention of interfering at that -time with our naval representatives at Manila, but in spite of this -disavowal it still remains a fact that such interference occurred, and -it was not until early in the fall that our military and naval -authorities could feel assured that the immediate future might not find -this country called upon to face a fresh and really powerful adversary. -Under these circumstances, all our available artillery troops, both -regulars and volunteers, wisely were held at their stations until, on -the final passing of the German war-cloud, there remained no further -hope for active service against Spain. - -On September 4th, telegraphic orders from the War Department were -received at all the posts garrisoned by fractions of the regiment, -directing preparations to be made for the assembly of the command for -furlough and ultimate muster-out; and on the 17th, Colonel Pfaff issued -his orders for the concentration of his widely scattered batteries at -Framingham. On the 19th, the regiment was again reunited at the State -camp ground, the batteries from the posts on the North Shore, under -command of Colonel Pfaff, being first to arrive, followed at short -intervals by the battalion from Fort Warren, under Major Frye, and the -garrison from Fort Rodman, under Lieutenant-Colonel Woodman. It was -found that camp already had been pitched by Captain Landy and his men, -under direction of Colonel Converse, and all that remained to be done by -the command was to settle in quarters and start in operation the battery -messes. - -After over three months of detached service at isolated points along the -coast the twelve batteries again were welded together in the regimental -organization. For the time being, all artillery drill and formations -were dropped, and the command easily and quickly settled into the -routine of an infantry encampment. Regimental and battalion drills daily -were held on the broad field which, prior to 1896, had been familiar -territory to the command, and in a surprisingly short time the regiment -again developed the snap and precision in infantry work for which it had -been distinguished before its transfer to the artillery arm of the -service. Here, through the thoughtfulness and generosity of the State -authorities, the regiment was rejoined by its band. None save those who -have learned by actual experience in service how much may be done by -music towards alleviating the wearing monotony of camp and garrison life -can appreciate the welcome given by the men of the regiment to -Bandmaster Collins and his musicians, on their return after their long -absence. - -Meanwhile preparations for leaving the service were pushed forward. The -work was done under supervision of Lieutenant-Colonel Weaver, U.S.V. -(captain First United States Artillery), detailed as mustering officer -for Massachusetts, to whom had been assigned as assistants Lieutenants -C. C. Hearn, Third United States Artillery, and O. Edwards, Eleventh -United States Infantry. Slowly but steadily the absurdly cumbersome and -complex tangle of "paper-work" was unravelled, final muster and pay -rolls were completed, and the thousand-and-one accounts with ordnance, -quartermaster, medical, commissary, and signal departments were closed. -On October 5th this work substantially was finished, and shortly after -noon on that day, in a drizzling rain, the batteries for the last time -formed line as a regiment of United States Volunteers. Marching across -the soaked parade, the regiment stood at attention while the garrison -flag slowly was lowered, in token of the abandonment of the post, and -then swung out through the main gate of the reservation for the muddy -march to the waiting troop-train. - -[Illustration: - - LIEUT.-COL. ERASMUS M. WEAVER, U.S.V. - - (Captain 1st U.S. Artillery.) - - Mustering-out Officer for Regiment. -] - -Reaching Boston at two o'clock, the command formed in column for its -final parade. By this time the drizzle of the forenoon had become a -drenching downpour, but the men now were thoroughly wet through, and no -attention was paid to the muddy streets. The regiment had gone out under -like conditions, and was disposed to accept them as part of the -established order of things. Without waiting for the rear-most batteries -to emerge from the station, the command for marching was given, the band -struck up the stirring strains of the "Stars and Stripes," and the -regiment started over its route to the State House. Here Governor -Wolcott, with the officers of his staff, reviewed the returning -artillerymen. On reaching the foot of Beacon Hill, the Third Battalion -halted, while the leading battalions marched on and formed line on -Charles Street. Then the Bristol-Plymouth batteries, with arms at port, -tramped past their Boston comrades, forming line on their right and -presenting arms as they, in their turn, marched by—and with this brief -ceremony the twelve batteries, as volunteers of 1898, separated forever. -Colonel Pfaff, with his staff, the band, and "A," "C," "D," "G," "K," -and "L" Batteries, proceeded to the South Armory, where, after cheering -their commanding officer, the men broke ranks and scattered to their -homes. Major Frye, with the Third Battalion, marched to the Park Square -station, where "I" Battery was detached to entrain at Kneeland Street, -and "E," "F," and "M" Batteries took their special train for their home -stations. "B" and "H" Batteries proceeded by the most direct routes to -their armories at Cambridge and Chelsea. The thirty days' furlough had -begun, and all active service for the regiment now was at an end. - -On November 4th, the officers and men of the twelve batteries reported -back from leave and furlough at the armories at their home stations, and -the final formality of physical examination for discharge was begun. In -the First and Second Battalions this work was carried on under direction -of Captain Newgarden, assistant surgeon, United States Army, assisted by -Lieutenants Gates and Hitchcock, of the medical department, Second -Massachusetts Infantry, while in the Third Battalion the examining -surgeons were Major Magurn and Lieutenant Shea, Ninth Massachusetts -Infantry. Owing to the small enlisted strength of the command, as well -as to its magnificent physical condition, the examinations were -concluded in a comparatively short time, and the regiment was given a -clean bill of health by the board of surgeons through whose hands it had -just passed. - -The last detail now had been attended to, and on November 14th the First -was ready for the final step towards leaving the volunteer service. -Early in the forenoon of that day Majors Dyar and Quinby assembled their -batteries at the South Armory, where, with the field, staff, and -non-commissioned staff, they formally were mustered out of the service -of the United States by Lieutenant-Colonel Weaver. At the same time -Major Frye had accompanied Lieutenant J. P. Hains, Third United States -Artillery, to the stations of the "Cape" batteries on a like mission. -Lieutenant Hains enjoyed the distinction of having received almost the -last wound in the Porto Rican campaign, having intercepted a Mauser -bullet in the action at Aibonito, almost at the time when the peace -protocol was being signed. He had become very popular among the officers -of the First, and his selection as mustering out officer was much to the -satisfaction of the Third Battalion. - -Of the seven hundred and fifty-seven officers and men whose names had -been borne on the rolls of the regiment during its term of service, -there were mustered out at this time seven hundred and eleven. The -regiment had lost two commissioned officers—Major Bryant by promotion, -and Lieutenant Rolfe by resignation—and forty-three enlisted men, of -whom Private Henry A. Williams, "F" Battery, had died while on furlough, -one had received promotion, six had been discharged for physical -disability contracted in the line of duty, and the remainder had been -transferred to the regular service, the greater number of these -enlisting in the Second United States Artillery. Major Dearing was not -mustered out with the other officers of the staff, remaining in the -service until Jan. 28th, 1899, for duty as examining surgeon with other -returning Massachusetts regiments. - -At this time what had threatened to be a serious complication was -averted through the thoughtfulness of the regimental commander. Though -the final muster and pay rolls of the command had been prepared in ample -time, the pay department, through inadequate clerical equipment at this -station, found itself unable to make the final settlements with the men -at the time of their muster-out. In addition to money for clothing -allowances and commutation of furlough rations, there was due to the -batteries over six weeks' pay, a very considerable sum in the aggregate. -As in all other volunteer regiments, not a few of the men had returned -from service only to find their patriotism rewarded by the loss of their -situations in civil life, and cases were not infrequent in which delay -in final payment meant serious hardship. Fully understanding these -conditions, Colonel Pfaff relieved the stress of the situation by -unhesitatingly drawing his personal check for $10,000, thus making it -possible on the day of mustering out to advance to each enlisted man $15 -with which to tide over the interval before the final appearance of the -paymaster. This thoughtful act met with the appreciation which it -merited, and it hardly need be added that the trust shown in the -integrity of the men proved not to have been misplaced. On November 18th -the batteries of the Third Battalion were paid off, and on the following -day the remainder of the regiment received its money—the last dollar -advanced by Colonel Pfaff being repaid at the time the Government -fulfilled its obligations. This, from every point of view, was a -pleasant incident and one that reflected equal credit on the commanding -officer and his men. - - - - - AN HONORABLE REGIMENTAL - RECORD - - - - - XV. - - -AFTER bringing to its conclusion another eventful chapter in its already -long and honorable history, the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery -again has left the service of the United States to reënter that of the -Commonwealth. In addition to the jealously cherished "White Diamond" -badge, eloquent of its campaigning from 1861 to 1864 with the old Second -Division, Third Corps, Army of the Potomac, it now has won the right to -bear the device emblematic of service in the Artillery Corps of the War -of 1898—the crossed conical projectiles, surmounted by the spherical -shot. The record of the regiment in this, its latest war, is in every -way worthy of its proud traditions. During its term of service there -were no desertions from its ranks, no dishonorable discharges blemish -its rolls, and the records show that its men, in conduct and discipline, -steadily maintained the high standard for which the command long has -been noted. The work allotted to the regiment was intelligently and well -performed, and it is a most significant fact that of the seven hundred -and eleven discharge papers issued to its officers and men on Nov. 14th, -1898, there was not one which failed to bear the endorsement coveted by -every true soldier: "Service honorable and faithful." - -It is much to be regretted that certain enlisted men of the regiment, -and even a few among its officers, since their return from the service, -have felt constrained to apologize for the nature of the duty which it -fell to their lot to perform. It equally is a matter for regret that -some of their civilian friends, unquestionably through honest ignorance, -have made the absurd mistake of commiserating the command on its failure -to reach what they are pleased to term "the front." While it seems -almost a waste of energy, it yet may be worth while to note here a few -facts concerning the functions of the coast artillery in the late war, -as well as to emphasize the point that any probable foreign war of the -future will demand precisely the same sort of service from troops of -this arm. - -[Illustration: - - Photograph by T. E. Marr, Boston - - THE LAST EVENING PARADE. - - Framingham, 3 October, 1898. -] - -In the first place—and so long as the term "front," in its accepted -military sense, shall continue to mean the point of expected or probable -contact with an enemy's forces—it requires no argument to prove that the -First Heavy Artillery was at its post, _at the front_, on the 26th day -of April, 1898. This, to be exact, was fifty-seven days before the -Second Infantry disembarked at Baiquiri, sixty-six days before the Ninth -Infantry landed at Siboney, and ninety days before the Sixth Infantry -left its transport at Guanica, at which points respectively these three -Massachusetts commands for the first time found it possible to gain -tactical touch with the Spaniards. In other words, in a war with a -maritime power, every strategic point on navigable waters accessible to -an enemy's ships of war is of necessity at "the front," so long as the -hostile fleet remains undestroyed, and the First therefore justly may -claim actual service at the front from the day following that on which -Congress declared war to exist, until the 3rd of July, when the -annihilation of Cervera's squadron finally and definitely relieved the -coast from the threat of Spanish attack. While the five Massachusetts -regiments of infantry were passing their earlier weeks of service at -inland camps of instruction, absolutely beyond the reach of any possible -fighting, the First Artillery—from the very day on which it left its -home stations—was continuously on duty at vital points open to attack at -any hour of day or night. This claim, it should be well understood, is -made only in simple justice to the regiment and in the interests of -historical accuracy, for not an officer or a man in the First would -detract from the hard-won honors of the Second, the Sixth, or the -Ninth—honors in which, as Massachusetts soldiers, they ever will feel an -honest pride. - -The earlier portion of this narrative may have served to show roughly -the condition of our harbor defenses at the outbreak of the last war, as -well as the imperative need of heavy artillery troops with which to -garrison them. The time has not yet arrived when the whole truth may be -told safely, or even with propriety, but since the actual artillery -strength on duty during the war is a matter of easily accessible record, -it may here receive momentary attention. Briefly summarized, there were -in service for the protection of our four thousand miles of sea-coast -but ninety-three heavy batteries, of which seventy were in the regular -establishment and twenty-three were in the volunteers. Over one-half of -the latter were contributed by Massachusetts alone, in her First Heavy -Artillery, and it seems fitting again to refer to the fact that her -twelve trained and disciplined batteries were the only ones obtainable -from the militia of the entire country at the outbreak of hostilities. -Of the remaining volunteer heavy batteries, four each were hastily -recruited in California and Maine, two in Connecticut, and one in South -Carolina. The event proved that but six of the entire ninety-three -batteries were destined to take part in any actual fighting. These were -four from the Third United States Artillery and two from the California -volunteers, which—when the destruction of Montojo's fleet had allayed -all fears for the safety of the Pacific coast—were relieved from duty in -the fortifications and ordered to report to General Merritt, under whom -they saw service as infantry in the land operations around Manila. - -After what already has been said, it would seem that no elaborate -explanation should be required to show why the heavy artillery arm -failed to obtain more brilliant service in the last war. It must be -borne in mind that its first and most important function is the defence -of coast fortifications; its second, operations with the siege train in -the reduction of fortified places; its third—and this only in rarely -occurring emergencies—service as infantry. In the late war with Spain, -as in any future European war, it was a matter of vital necessity to man -our coast defenses, and to keep them manned until the threatening fleet -had been swept from the seas; that once accomplished, and the -artillerymen might reasonably have hoped for further service in the -expected final operations at Havana. But with the naval victory off -Santiago came the collapse of the war—and the ending of hope for the -artillery. - -By the legislation which transferred the First from the infantry to the -artillery arm, the regiment was deprived of its opportunity of foreign -service. Entrusted with the defence of the coast, it quietly accepted -the responsibilities devolving upon it, and met them in a way that -entitles it to the gratitude of the Commonwealth. First in the field, it -had the mortification of finding itself soonest forgotten, for no -correspondents followed it in its faithful service, and no newspaper -filled its columns with the daily gossip of its camps. Accepting the -situation, it faithfully went on with its duties until the end came, and -then returned quietly to its place in the militia, content to apply to -its own case the words of its commander-in-chief, President McKinley, -"The highest tribute that can be paid to the soldier is to say that he -performed his full duty. The field of duty is determined by his -Government, and wherever that chances to be, there is the place of -honor. All have helped in the great cause, whether in camp or in battle, -and when peace comes, all alike will be entitled to the Nation's -gratitude." - - THE END. - - - - - ROSTER OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS - - - Regimental Roster. - - FIELD OFFICERS. - - ───────────────────┬──────────┬────┬──────────┬────────────┬─────────── - NAME AND RANK. │Residence.│Age.│ Earliest │Commissioned│ Remarks - │ │ │Commission│ in U.S. │ - │ │ │ in Mass. │ Vols. │ - │ │ │ Militia. │ │ - ───────────────────┼──────────┼────┼──────────┼────────────┼─────────── - COLONEL. │ │ │ │ │ - Charles Pfaff │Boston │ 38│ 12 Feb.,│ 9 May, 1898│Hon. must. - │ │ │ 1890│ │ out, 14 - │ │ │ │ │ Nov., - │ │ │ │ │ 1898. - │ │ │ │ │ - LIEUTENANT-COLONEL.│ │ │ │ │ - Charles B. Woodman │Fall River│ 42│ 29 Aug.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1882│ │ - │ │ │ │ │ - MAJORS. │ │ │ │ │ - Perlie A. Dyar │Boston │ 41│ 23 May,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1887│ │ - George F. Quinby │Boston │ 39│ 20 July,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1887│ │ - James A. Frye │Boston │ 35│ 1 Apr.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1891│ │ - ───────────────────┴──────────┴────┴──────────┴────────────┴─────────── - STAFF OFFICERS. - ───────────────────┬──────────┬────┬──────────┬────────────┬─────────── - SURGEON (MAJOR). │ │ │ │ │ - Howard S. Dearing │Boston │ 40│ 1 Apr.,│ 9 May, 1898│Hon. must. - │ │ │ 1887│ │ out, 28 - │ │ │ │ │ Jan., - │ │ │ │ │ 1899. - │ │ │ │ │ - ADJUTANT (1ST LT.).│ │ │ │ │ - Horace B. Parker │Newton │ 48│ 26 May,│ 9 May, 1898│Hon. must. - │ │ │ 1886│ │ out, 14 - │ │ │ │ │ Nov., - │ │ │ │ │ 1898. - │ │ │ │ │ - QUARTERMASTER (1ST │ │ │ │ │ - LT.). │ │ │ │ │ - John S. Keenan │Dorchester│ 37│ 6 Apr.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1891│ │ - │ │ │ │ │ - RANGE OFFICER (1ST │ │ │ │ │ - LT.). │ │ │ │ │ - John B. Paine │Newton │ 28│ 20 June,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1894│ │ - │ │ │ │ │ - ASST. SURGEON (1ST │ │ │ │ │ - LT.). │ │ │ │ │ - William A. Rolfe │Boston │ 29│ 21 Feb.,│ 9 May, 1898│Res. and - │ │ │ 1894│ │ hon. - │ │ │ │ │ dis., 13 - │ │ │ │ │ Jul., - │ │ │ │ │ 1898. - │ │ │ │ │ - SIGNAL OFFICER (1ST│ │ │ │ │ - LT.). │ │ │ │ │ - George S. Stockwell│Boston │ 39│ 23 Apr.,│ 9 May, 1898│Hon. must. - │ │ │ 1898│ │ out, 14 - │ │ │ │ │ Nov., - │ │ │ │ │ 1898. - │ │ │ │ │ - ASST. SURGEON (1ST │ │ │ │ │ - LT.). │ │ │ │ │ - William S. Bryant │Cohasset │ 37│ [2]│11 May, 1898│Pro. maj. - │ │ │ │ │ and - │ │ │ │ │ surg., - │ │ │ │ │ U.S.V., - │ │ │ │ │ 7th - │ │ │ │ │ Corps, 8 - │ │ │ │ │ July, - │ │ │ │ │ 1898. - ───────────────────┴──────────┴────┴──────────┴────────────┴─────────── - LINE OFFICERS. - ───────────────────┬──────────┬────┬──────────┬────────────┬─────────── - CAPTAINS. │ │ │ │ │ - Sierra L. Braley │Fall River│ 54│ 16 Dec,│ [3]9 May,│Hon. must. - │ │ │ 1866│ 1898│ out, 14 - │ │ │ │ │ Nov., - │ │ │ │ │ 1898. - Joseph H. │Roxbury │ 48│ 5 July,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - Frothingham │ │ │ 1882│ │ - Charles Williamson │Brockton │ 45│ 15 Aug.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1887│ │ - Norris O. Danforth │Raynham │ 35│ 11 Jan.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1886│ │ - Albert B. Chick │Boston │ 46│ 8 May,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1890│ │ - Frederick M. │Chelsea │ 42│ 19 Nov.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - Whiting │ │ │ 1888│ │ - Walter E. Lombard │Arlington │ 37│ 16 Aug.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1886│ │ - Charles P. Nutter │Malden │ 34│ 11 May,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1891│ │ - Walter L. Pratt │Chelsea │ 31│ 16 June,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1892│ │ - John Bordman, Jr. │Boston │ 26│ 17 Jan.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1894│ │ - Frederic S. Howes │Cambridge │ 30│ 14 May,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1891│ │ - Joseph L. Gibbs │New │ 31│ 23 Dec.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ Bedford │ │ 1895│ │ - │ │ │ │ │ - FIRST LIEUTENANTS. │ │ │ │ │ - Charles F. Nostrom │Boston │ 38│ 18 Mar.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1891│ │ - John E. Day │Brighton │ 38│ 21 Sep.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1891│ │ - David Fuller │Fall River│ 50│ 10 Dec.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1889│ │ - Ferdinand H. │Readville │ 30│ 20 Feb.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - Phillips │ │ │ 1893│ │ - William L. Swan │Chelsea │ 31│ 9 Mar.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1894│ │ - William Renfrew │Chelsea │ 31│ 14 May,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1894│ │ - Frank S. Wilson │Brighton │ 31│ 8 Jan.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1896│ │ - E. Dwight Fullerton│Brockton │ 21│ 27 Jan.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1896│ │ - Philo F. Packard │Salem │ 32│ 23 May,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1893│ │ - Norman P. Cormack │Boston │ 32│ 17 Jan.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1898│ │ - Harold C. Wing │New │ 29│ 24 Jan.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ Bedford │ │ 1898│ │ - George E. Horton │Brockton │ 33│ 20 June,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1892│ │ - │ │ │ │ │ - SECOND LIEUTENANTS.│ │ │ │ │ - Marshall Underwood │Melrose │ 39│ 21 Sep.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1891│ │ - Fred A. Cheney │Chelsea │ 28│ 1 May,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1895│ │ - Bertie E. Grant │Chelsea │ 30│ 16 Dec.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1895│ │ - James H. Gowing │Everett │ 42│ 17 Feb.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1897│ │ - Albert A. Gleason │Boston │ 34│ 29 Nov.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1897│ │ - Frederick W. │Fall River│ 31│ 21 Dec.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - Harrison │ │ │ 1897│ │ - Wellington H. │Brockton │ 23│ 14 Feb.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - Nilsson │ │ │ 1898│ │ - William J. │Boston │ 29│ 14 Mar.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - McCullough │ │ │ 1898│ │ - Sumner Paine │Weston │ 29│ 15 Feb.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1893│ │ - Joseph S. Francis │Cambridge │ 22│ 23 Apr.,│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ │ │ 1898│ │ - James E. Totten │Taunton │ 25│ [4]│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - Charles H. Fuller │New │ 33│ [5]│ 9 May, 1898│ " " " - │ Bedford │ │ │ │ - ───────────────────┴──────────┴────┴──────────┴────────────┴─────────── - -Footnote 2: - - From civil life, to fill original vacancy. - -Footnote 3: - - 2nd Lieut., U.S. Vols., 3 June, 1865. - -Footnote 4: - - From 1st Sergeant, "F" Battery. - -Footnote 5: - - From 1st Sergeant, "E" Battery. - - NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF. - - ────────────────────────────────┬────┬───────────────────────────────── - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - │ │ - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - SERGEANT-MAJOR. │ │ - Huddleson, William D. │ 38│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - QUARTERMASTER-SERGEANT. │ │ - Chapman, Edward E. │ 37│ " " " - │ │ - HOSPITAL STEWARDS. │ │ - Sawyer, George Y. │ 25│ " " " - White, Thomas │ 23│ " " " - Phillips, Ira B. │ 36│Transf. Hosp. Cps, U.S.A., 8 - │ │ Sept., 1898. - │ │ - PRINCIPAL MUSICIANS. │ │ - Clark, James F. │ 45│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - Bennett, Frederick A. H. │ 30│ " " " - ────────────────────────────────┴────┴───────────────────────────────── - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "A" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, BOSTON.) - - CAPTAIN JOHN BORDMAN, JR. - FIRST LIEUTENANT E. DWIGHT FULLERTON. - SECOND LIEUTENANT SUMNER PAINE. - - "A" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Claupein, William │ 38│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Dunbar, George M. │ 31│ " " " - Russell, George H. │ 26│ " " " - Murphy, Frank │ 24│ " " " - Field, George P. │ 26│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Smyth, James H. │ 24│ " " " - Powers, Edward D. │ 23│ " " " - Andrews, George W. │ 24│ " " " - Howard, Arthur H. │ 21│ " " " - Osthues, Benjamin B. │ 26│ " " " - Brittin, Louis H. │ 21│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Blair, Arnold │ 20│ " " " - Block, Bernhard │ 25│ " " " - Blodgett, Walter P. │ 19│ " " " - Bohm, Frederick A. │ 19│ " " " - Buxbaum, Harry H. │ 21│ " " " - Cobb, Frank E. │ 28│ " " " - Cobb, Marston I. │ 21│ " " " - Cook, Thomas A. │ 19│ " " " - Cook, William E. │ 21│ " " " - Cutter, Charles W. │ 23│ " " " - Dickerman, Olin D. │ 22│ " " " - Douglass, Eugene H. │ 18│ " " " - Duggan, William J. │ 23│ " " " - Faber, George │ 27│ " " " - Goodwin, Frank I. │ 20│ " " " - Heilig, Frederick │ 22│ " " " - Holt, Edwin B. │ 24│ " " " - Hurley, James F. │ 22│ " " " - Jennings, William │ 19│ " " " - Kane, Harry J. │ 21│ " " " - Keene, Charles H. │ 23│ " " " - Kiley, Charles J. │ 20│ " " " - Long, Michael J. │ 21│ " " " - Loring, Alfred O. L. │ 27│ " " " - Loring, John E. │ 22│ " " " - McGrath, John F. │ 25│ " " " - Riddell, William A. │ 23│ " " " - Sanders, Charles E. │ 21│ " " " - Smith, Fred J. │ 24│ " " " - Stephenson, Charles E. │ 21│ " " " - Stoddard, Francis R., Jr. │ 20│ " " " - Talcott, Norman R. │ 20│ " " " - Tilden, Calvin S. │ 23│ " " " - Treadwell, Thomas P. │ 24│ " " " - Waters, Robert J. │ 21│ " " " - White, John W. │ 27│ " " " - Williams, Charles H. │ 21│ " " " - Wilson, Francis C. │ 21│ " " " - Wishman, Herbert G. │ 20│ " " " - Wolcott, Roger, Jr. │ 20│ " " " - │ │ - PROMOTED. │ │ - Bumpus, Edward A., private. │ 23│2d Lieut., 21st U. S. Inf., 7 - │ │ Aug., 1898. - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Kelley, Willard S., mess corp. │ 23│Hon. dis., 28 Oct., 1898. - Lewis, Irven J., musician │ 21│ " 12 Oct., 1898. - Gilbert, Edward J., private │ 20│ " 31 Oct., 1898. - Knox, James L., private │ 22│ " 2 Nov., 1898. - Ladd, James A., private │ 22│ " 22 Oct., 1898. - Quinn, James F., private │ 23│ " 22 Oct., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "B" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, CAMBRIDGE.) - - CAPTAIN WALTER E. LOMBARD. - FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN E. DAY. - SECOND LIEUTENANT MARSHALL UNDERWOOD. - - "B" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Prior, Percy H. │ 28│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Beaumont, Hartford │ 26│ " " " - Pancoast, Fred L. │ 21│ " " " - Litchfield, Allen J. │ 33│ " " " - Brown, Lewis F. │ 37│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Jacobs, Edwin C. │ 24│ " " " - Montgomery, William │ 23│ " " " - Anderton, Thomas │ 33│ " " " - Cole, George W. │ 28│ " " " - Lombard, Herbert E. │ 42│ " " " - Pritzkow, Emil A. │ 24│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Ralph, William T. │ 26│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Coles, Herbert B. │ 20│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Backus, Simeon S. │ 31│ " " " - Blenerhassett, Roland T. │ 21│ " " " - Brown, Joseph C. │ 19│ " " " - Burditt, Algernon L. │ 26│ " " " - Collins, James C. │ 27│ " " " - Cooley, George P. │ 32│ " " " - Corbett, John │ 28│ " " " - Craigie, James A. │ 23│ " " " - Davies, George H. │ 28│ " " " - Dearborn, Josiah │ 29│ " " " - Drummond, Thomas J. │ 20│ " " " - Eldridge, Joseph H. │ 21│ " " " - Fairclough, William A. │ 27│ " " " - Gilkey, Frank J. │ 25│ " " " - Goddard, William H. │ 21│ " " " - Gove, Elliott A. │ 22│ " " " - Higgins, Walter E. │ 19│ " " " - Higgins, Walter G. │ 22│ " " " - Jackson, George M. │ 25│ " " " - Johansen, Howard R. │ 21│ " " " - Kensel, Frederic │ 20│ " " " - Lincoln, Charles G. │ 34│ " " " - Littig, Henry G. │ 20│ " " " - Lutz, Oren C. │ 18│ " " " - McDonald, John F. │ 22│ " " " - McGilvray, John H. │ 24│ " " " - Morse, Melvin G. │ 25│ " " " - Nay, Frank W. │ 22│ " " " - Phaneuf, Edward J. │ 24│ " " " - Reynolds, William A. │ 26│ " " " - Rohrbacher, Fritz A. │ 20│ " " " - Ruddock, Frederick T. │ 21│ " " " - Rugg, Harry M. │ 19│ " " " - Sawyer, Elbridge F. │ 24│ " " " - Thresher, Edwin A. │ 20│ " " " - Thurston, Charles E. │ 31│ " " " - Tukey, Charles W., 3d. │ 19│ " " " - White, Frank Le R. │ 19│ " " " - White, John A. │ 24│ " " " - Waddell, Le Roy │ 19│ " " " - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Woodside, Alonzo F., 1st Sgt. │ 28│Hon. dis., 22 Oct., 1898. - Cook, Walter F., private │ 20│ " 19 Oct., 1898. - Darling, Silas, private │ 32│ " 31 Oct., 1898. - Newton, Andrew R., private │ 25│ " 22 Oct., 1898. - Robertson, William N., private. │ 23│ " 19 Oct., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "C" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, BOSTON.) - - CAPTAIN CHARLES P. NUTTER. - FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES F. NOSTROM. - SECOND LIEUTENANT JOSEPH S. FRANCIS. - - "C" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Smith, Herbert L. │ 23│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Ives, Henry │ 29│ " " " - Wilkinson, George M. │ 22│ " " " - Wheeler, H. Edson │ 37│ " " " - Oakes, Walter E. │ 21│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Eastman, Ralph B. │ 24│ " " " - Leach, C. Warren │ 34│ " " " - Hetherington, George W. │ 21│ " " " - Dawson, Charles A. │ 29│ " " " - Stevens, Percy │ 32│ " " " - Seavey, Fred H. │ 22│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Oliver, John B. │ 28│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Hooper, William H., Jr. │ 19│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Abbot, Charles E. │ 23│ " " " - Ballentine, Harold A. │ 18│ " " " - Bazin, Harry H. │ 22│ " " " - Blackman, Harold K. │ 24│ " " " - Bodemer, Earnest F. │ 25│ " " " - Booth, Frederick L. │ 28│ " " " - Bourne, Osgood I. │ 23│ " " " - Burns, Malachi G. │ 19│ " " " - Cain, Gordon A. │ 20│ " " " - Capen, Charles E. │ 27│ " " " - Cobb, George H. │ 23│ " " " - Conn, Wallace T. │ 20│ " " " - Cowling, Edward J. │ 21│ " " " - Danahy, John H. │ 40│ " " " - Darling, Norval F. │ 21│ " " " - Doane, Eugene C. │ 23│ " " " - Donlon, Dennis F. │ 23│ " " " - Fallon, Winthrop │ 18│ " " " - Fitch, Charles L. │ 21│ " " " - Fossett, Charles R. │ 21│ " " " - Gibbs, F. Alton │ 27│ " " " - Hanley, William H. │ 25│ " " " - Hudson, Edward │ 26│ " " " - Kelley, George T. │ 21│ " " " - Kennedy, Robert J. │ 29│ " " " - Kimball, Clement L. │ 20│ " " " - Knox, Herbert │ 21│ " " " - Land, Lawrence P. │ 34│ " " " - Lane, Edgar │ 22│ " " " - Leman, James O. │ 25│ " " " - Lewis, Charles F. │ 32│ " " " - Martikke, Ernest │ 19│ " " " - Otis, James D. │ 20│ " " " - Sewell, John F. │ 21│ " " " - Shattuck, Charles E. │ 20│ " " " - Smith, Herbert H. │ 21│ " " " - Wheeler, Charles E. │ 41│ " " " - Williams, Frank J. │ 36│ " " " - Wilson, Frank E. │ 19│ " " " - Wright, Henry H. │ 32│ " " " - Yuill, Hugh S. │ 24│ " " " - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Hudson, Henry W., private │ 27│Hon. dis., 11 Oct., 1898. - Rink, Frederick W., private │ 26│ " 8 Oct., 1898. - Thompson, Elwyn W., private │ 22│ " 8 Oct., 1898. - Wisnesky, Gustave M., private │ 23│ " 8 Oct., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "D" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, BOSTON.) - - CAPTAIN JOSEPH H. FROTHINGHAM. - FIRST LIEUTENANT NORMAN P. CORMACK. - SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM J. McCULLOUGH. - - "D" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Fogg, David H. │ 34│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Dobbins, Halburton │ 24│ " " " - Blaikie, Duncan S. │ 19│ " " " - Galway, John │ 21│ " " " - Hanson, Albert A. │ 25│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Martens, Frederick H. │ 20│ " " " - Hill, Charles F. │ 23│ " " " - Peyton, William H. │ 30│ " " " - Brown, Frank H. │ 21│ " " " - Gile, Alfred D. │ 19│ " " " - Sargeant, William G. │ 19│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Young, Calvin E. │ 38│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Wyatt, Claude E. │ 21│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Adams, Samuel L. │ 22│ " " " - Ashley, Eugene W. │ 19│ " " " - Brazier, Ernest E. │ 20│ " " " - Brown, Benjamin H. │ 18│ " " " - Childs, Frank H. │ 20│ " " " - Choate, Louis D. │ 27│ " " " - Clark, George F. │ 26│ " " " - Clary, Dwight H. │ 22│ " " " - Clary, George R. │ 21│ " " " - Corser, Frederick H. │ 21│ " " " - Dalton, Arthur T. │ —│ " " " - Ellis, Vaughn M. │ 19│ " " " - Faulkner, Edward P. │ 20│ " " " - Finnerty, Daniel G., Jr. │ 22│ " " " - Frost, Arthur F. │ 21│ " " " - Galway, James │ 22│ " " " - Handy, William B. │ 25│ " " " - Hatch, Herbert L. │ 24│ " " " - Hatt, Frederick V. McF. │ 29│ " " " - Holmes, Edwin A. │ 21│ " " " - Howland, Albert S. │ 20│ " " " - Hudson, William │ 21│ " " " - Josselyn, Abbott C. │ 20│ " " " - Kaufman, Benjamin │ 21│ " " " - Laws, William B. │ 22│ " " " - Lewis, Charles F. │ 19│ " " " - Mateer, William │ 23│ " " " - Metcalf, Frank L. │ 19│ " " " - Neale, Robert A. │ 25│ " " " - Otis, George E. │ 24│ " " " - Ridgeway, Joseph T. │ 21│ " " " - Robertson, George │ 20│ " " " - Saunders, Edward B. │ 20│ " " " - Spenceley, Frederick │ 26│ " " " - Stacy, Clifford E. │ 20│ " " " - Stewart, George F. │ 20│ " " " - Stockemer, Charles H. │ 44│ " " " - Timson, John E. │ 19│ " " " - Tinker, Clifford A. │ 20│ " " " - Wells, Roy T. │ 24│ " " " - Wood, Herbert R. │ 26│ " " " - Woodbury, Clarence P. │ 19│ " " " - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Levy, Henry S., private │ 22│Hon. dis., 20 Oct., 1898. - Marsh, Henry M., private │ 27│ " 20 Oct., 1898. - Scherer, August L., private │ 24│ " 26 July, 1898. - Swansburg, Jasper, private │ 23│ " 13 Oct., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "E" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, NEW BEDFORD.) - - CAPTAIN JOSEPH L. GIBBS. - FIRST LIEUTENANT HAROLD C. WING. - SECOND LIEUTENANT CHARLES H. FULLER. - - "E" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Anthony, Charles E. │ 30│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Peck, Herbert N. │ 32│ " " " - Soule, Ernest L. │ 35│ " " " - Spooner, John C. │ 25│ " " " - Merchant, Ambrose F. │ 22│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - De Wolf, John C. │ 22│ " " " - Burt, Edwin H. │ 24│ " " " - Gelette, Charles E. │ 28│ " " " - Wood, William G. │ 27│ " " " - Adams, John Q. │ 27│ " " " - Aikin, James. │ 31│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Lafferty, John A. │ 33│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Price, David J. │ 29│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Aikin, Alexander J. │ 36│ " " " - Almond, William, Jr. │ 25│ " " " - Ames, Howard M. │ 29│ " " " - Aurelio, Frank L. │ 26│ " " " - Baker, Edward A. │ 23│ " " " - Barneby, Eugene │ 32│ " " " - Brown, James A. │ 22│ " " " - Brownell, Herbert N. │ 25│ " " " - Brownell, Oliver M. │ 23│ " " " - Christopher, Charles W. │ —│ " " " - Conroy, Michael │ 27│ " " " - Devlin, Bernard │ —│ " " " - Ellis, Harry C. │ 23│ " " " - Fay, Miles H. │ 25│ " " " - Fury, Bartholomew P. │ 35│ " " " - Garvin, Patrick F. │ 24│ " " " - Gelette, Walter C. │ 27│ " " " - Gibbs, Melatiah T. │ 21│ " " " - Green, William H. │ 20│ " " " - Hersey, Clinton T. │ 24│ " " " - Hill, Albert R. │ 24│ " " " - Hunt, Raymond │ 22│ " " " - Jenney, Nathan G. │ 21│ " " " - Kennedy, John P. │ 30│ " " " - Lagasse, Arthur J. │ 24│ " " " - McCann, James L. │ 33│ " " " - Merchant, Walter H., Jr. │ 20│ " " " - Murphy, D. William │ 27│ " " " - Murphy, William H. │ 30│ " " " - Nelson, William │ 27│ " " " - Rourke, Edward J. │ 27│ " " " - Shiels, James J. │ 23│ " " " - Smith, James │ 28│ " " " - Smith, William, Jr. │ 34│ " " " - Soule, Charles E. │ 32│ " " " - Spencer, John W. │ 30│ " " " - Sullivan, James H. │ 33│ " " " - Swain, George W. │ 28│ " " " - Thompson, Michael H. │ 25│ " " " - Tripp, Norris H. │ 26│ " " " - Turner, Samuel, Jr. │ 22│ " " " - Wade, Waldo A. │ 28│ " " " - Walsh, John R. │ 23│ " " " - Welch, Robert R. │ 21│ " " " - Winn, John F. │ 23│ " " " - │ │ - TRANSFERRED. │ │ - Gifford, Edward A., private │ 23│To U.S. Hospital Corps, 20 July, - │ │ 1898. - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Crapo, Jesse F. │ 22│Hon. dis., 23 July, 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "F" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, TAUNTON.) - - CAPTAIN NORRIS O. DANFORTH. - FIRST LIEUTENANT FERDINAND H. PHILLIPS. - SECOND LIEUTENANT JAMES E. TOTTEN. - - "F" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Totten, Samuel P. │ 24│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Grigor, George │ 26│ " " " - Crowell, Alonzo K. │ 24│ " " " - Potter, William N. │ 29│ " " " - Seekell, George T. │ 32│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Bullard, Frank A. D. │ 29│ " " " - Hathaway, Homer C. │ 23│ " " " - King, Charles O. │ 28│ " " " - Dean, Frank O. │ 35│ " " " - Brown, James W. │ 35│ " " " - Miller, Ernest F. │ 28│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Dansrow, Frank H. │ 43│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Shaw, Eben H. │ 25│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Albro, Andrew B. │ 25│ " " " - Bagge, John J. │ 19│ " " " - Barnes, Benjamin S. │ 20│ " " " - Beaulieu, Sinare │ 21│ " " " - Brissette, Peter │ 22│ " " " - Broadhurst, James, Jr. │ 23│ " " " - Bryant, Charles C. │ 42│ " " " - Butterworth, Joseph │ 22│ " " " - Chandler, William F. │ 20│ " " " - Cobbett, Willard A. │ 25│ " " " - Creamer, George W. │ 40│ " " " - Davis, Frederick L. │ 21│ " " " - Dean, Alton L. │ 20│ " " " - Devereaux, James A. │ 21│ " " " - Dodge, Elmer J. │ 19│ " " " - Dorgan, Michael L. │ 20│ " " " - Eager, Charles F. │ 21│ " " " - Eaton, George F. │ 19│ " " " - Gibson, Charles M. │ 29│ " " " - Gorey, Ambrose J. │ 22│ " " " - Holmes, Charles A. │ 21│ " " " - Holmes, William M │ 22│ " " " - King, Edward H. │ 19│ " " " - King, Frederick D. │ 20│ " " " - Lovell, Benjamin L. │ 21│ " " " - Lovell, Horace C. │ 21│ " " " - McVay, Alfred W. │ 22│ " " " - Parlow, William S. │ 29│ " " " - Peirce, Pembroke │ 20│ " " " - Pidgeon, Norman H. │ 22│ " " " - Robinson, George H. │ 23│ " " " - Roby, Henry W. │ 29│ " " " - Scanlon, Joseph │ 23│ " " " - Seekell, Charles H. │ 30│ " " " - Shaftoe, Thomas R. │ 45│ " " " - Smith, Charles I. │ 20│ " " " - Thacher, William D. │ 20│ " " " - Timms, Ernest H. │ 25│ " " " - Wedmore, Arthur │ 22│ " " " - Welch, James A. │ 27│ " " " - White, Darius E. │ 18│ " " " - │ │ - DIED. │ │ - Williams, Henry A., private │ 28│Boston, 24 Oct., 1898. - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Baker, Arthur H., private │ 22│Hon. dis., 25 Oct., 1898. - Baker, Charles H., private │ —│ " 25 Oct., 1898. - Dobson, William A., private │ 22│ " 25 Oct., 1898. - King, James D., private │ 23│ " 25 Aug., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "G" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, BOSTON.) - - CAPTAIN ALBERT B. CHICK. - FIRST LIEUTENANT FRANK S. WILSON. - SECOND LIEUTENANT JAMES H. GOWING. - - "G" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Mudge, William J. │ 28│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Earle, William J. │ 31│ " " " - Treuthardt, Frank L. │ 22│ " " " - Morrill, Charles F. │ 28│ " " " - Fiske, Arthur P. │ 21│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Cullen, Charles V. │ 23│ " " " - Treuthardt, Henry A. │ 23│ " " " - Kelley, Joseph L. │ 27│ " " " - Keefe, John J. │ 22│ " " " - Pendoley, John J. │ 22│ " " " - Stevenson, William J. │ 23│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Estabrook, Herbert W. │ 21│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Morgan, James A. │ 20│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Adams, Fred J. │ 19│ " " " - Allard, David │ 31│ " " " - Anderson, Luther F. │ 19│ " " " - Baker, Benjamin L. │ 18│ " " " - Ball, Charles H. │ 21│ " " " - Barry, Patrick T. │ 24│ " " " - Buettner, Louis C. │ 21│ " " " - Buswell, John A. │ 18│ " " " - Buttery, William F. │ 22│ " " " - Connor, John J. │ —│ " " " - Craig, Samuel A. │ 20│ " " " - Driscoll, Frank │ 20│ " " " - Emerson, George W., Jr. │ 19│ " " " - Grimwood, Arthur C. │ 25│ " " " - Haynes, Clifton M. │ 19│ " " " - Houston, John J. │ 22│ " " " - Kaiser, Edward C. │ 22│ " " " - Killen, Andrew F. │ 28│ " " " - Lewis, Alexander S. │ 20│ " " " - Mason, Walter I. │ 21│ " " " - McCann, James T. │ 19│ " " " - McCarthy, Patrick J. │ 18│ " " " - McDonald, Ernest D. │ 18│ " " " - McGrath, Frank │ 20│ " " " - McKenna, John T. │ 19│ " " " - McLaughlin, Thomas B., Jr. │ 20│ " " " - McPherson, John H. │ 23│ " " " - Merry, Howard L. │ 20│ " " " - Monahan, John W. │ 19│ " " " - Moran, James F. │ 22│ " " " - Nagle, Frank J. │ 21│ " " " - Odenweller, Charles J., Jr. │ 21│ " " " - Pendoley, Frank C. │ 21│ " " " - Reed, Harry J. │ 21│ " " " - Rogers, George E. │ 21│ " " " - Sauer, Fred A. │ 22│ " " " - Scott, Thomas A. │ 18│ " " " - Snelling, Theodore L. │ 25│ " " " - Sprague, Thomas E. │ 26│ " " " - Taylor, Fred S. │ 21│ " " " - Todhunter, John, Jr. │ 21│ " " " - Westman, Leroy L. │ 21│ " " " - Whitney, Roy F. . │ 19│ " " " - Williams, Benjamin F. │ 19│ " " " - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Hutchinson, Benj. W., private │ 22│Hon. dis., 17 July, 1898. - Jones, Walter F., private │ 22│ " 26 July, 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "H" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, CHELSEA.) - - CAPTAIN WALTER L. PRATT. - FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM RENFREW. - SECOND LIEUTENANT BERTIE E. GRANT. - - "H" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Meek, Warren L. │ 34│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - McGilvray, Joseph G. H. │ 25│ " " " - Flint, Herbert S. │ 26│ " " " - Brosseau, John F. │ 27│ " " " - Smith, Walter E. │ 26│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Brewer, John E. │ 23│ " " " - Lennox, William W. │ 24│ " " " - Reid, Thomas J. │ 24│ " " " - Grant, Nathan A. │ 20│ " " " - Vowles, Herbert E. │ 30│ " " " - Wells, Carl B. │ 23│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Newman, William G. │ 35│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Burns, William │ 20│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Adgate, William │ 32│ " " " - Bearce, Charles F. │ 21│ " " " - Bird, Joseph F. │ 19│ " " " - Bradley, James T. │ 22│ " " " - Brown, Gordon D. W. │ 30│ " " " - Card, Herbert W. │ 24│ " " " - Chadbourne, Walter I. │ 22│ " " " - Cutcliffe, Lawrence H. │ 24│ " " " - Dolliver, Thomas H. │ 20│ " " " - Durgin, Charles F. │ 19│ " " " - Farrell, Edgar G. │ 31│ " " " - Fletcher, John │ 25│ " " " - Gardner, George O. │ 23│ " " " - Hesse, Frederick R. │ 20│ " " " - Hinckley, Charles A. │ 26│ " " " - Holland, William J. │ 24│ " " " - Hunt, Charles D. │ 22│ " " " - Hurd, Thomas E. │ 20│ " " " - Hutchins, Frederick S. │ 23│ " " " - Jones, Harry E. │ 21│ " " " - King, Joseph C. │ 21│ " " " - Kirk, Walter R. │ 19│ " " " - Knowlton, Chester P. │ 23│ " " " - Leuchter, Fred A. │ 21│ " " " - Macdonald, Alexander A. E. │ 21│ " " " - McCann, Peter F. │ 20│ " " " - McDonald, Frank │ 28│ " " " - Osborn, John W. │ 26│ " " " - Pendleton, Clarence A. │ 22│ " " " - Phelps, Charles H. │ 25│ " " " - Phillips, Fred V. │ 20│ " " " - Pierce, Frank J. │ 26│ " " " - Quimby, Roland F. │ 22│ " " " - Rice, Harry E. │ 19│ " " " - Rice, Walter L. │ 18│ " " " - Rogers, George D. │ 24│ " " " - Smith, Charlie O. │ 23│ " " " - Sullivan, Eugene F. │ 22│ " " " - Taylor, Jeremiah │ 21│ " " " - Tuttle, Adderson F. │ 20│ " " " - Webber, George C. │ 20│ " " " - Young, Roderick B. │ 35│ " " " - Young, William L. │ 18│ " " " - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Forbush, Charles F., private │ 22│Hon. dis., 1 Aug., 1898. - Langill, Robert W., private │ 21│ " 18 Aug., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "I" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, BROCKTON.) - - CAPTAIN CHARLES WILLIAMSON. - FIRST LIEUTENANT GEORGE E. HORTON. - SECOND LIEUTENANT WELLINGTON H. NILSSON. - - "I" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Rowley, Charles │ 39│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Allen, William S. │ 29│ " " " - Allen, Herbert │ 31│ " " " - Sampson, Samuel B. │ 32│ " " " - Burgess, George B. │ 45│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Marshall, William J. │ 26│ " " " - Reed, Harry S. │ 29│ " " " - Morse, Esrom J. │ 24│ " " " - Abercrombie, George A. │ 41│ " " " - Varney, George A. │ 23│ " " " - Foye, Frederic E. │ 21│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Winslow, Enos B. │ 24│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Abbott, Frank H. │ 27│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Alger, Sanford │ 19│ " " " - Amadon, Edwin T. │ 26│ " " " - Angevine, Edgar │ 20│ " " " - Billington, Edward N. │ 23│ " " " - Burt, Fred E. │ 22│ " " " - Chamberlain, Henry F. │ 29│ " " " - Churchill, Edwin R. │ 30│ " " " - Churchill, William F. │ 18│ " " " - Cobb, Arthur L. │ 21│ " " " - Cook, Samuel W. │ 22│ " " " - Corser, Frank L. │ 21│ " " " - Darby, Frank B. │ 19│ " " " - Edson, Charles H. │ 25│ " " " - Foye, Lewis M. │ 25│ " " " - Gould, Charles A. │ 25│ " " " - Hallamore, Spurgeon W. │ 19│ " " " - Hamilton, William F. │ 26│ " " " - Hammond, Horace B. │ 18│ " " " - Higgins, Franklin R. │ 20│ " " " - Holmes, David C. │ 20│ " " " - Holmes, George N. │ 20│ " " " - Jackson, William G. │ 19│ " " " - Johnson, Clarence H. │ 21│ " " " - Kendall, Thomas L. │ 30│ " " " - Loud, Harry M. │ 23│ " " " - Marshall, Walter W. │ 19│ " " " - Maxwell, Harold E. │ 20│ " " " - McDonald, Robert H. │ 22│ " " " - Merry, Hortence E. │ 22│ " " " - Morrill, Joseph R. │ 26│ " " " - Osborn, Chester W. │ 21│ " " " - Packard, Harold E. │ 21│ " " " - Pierce, Charles N. │ 22│ " " " - Provost, Ferdinand. │ 22│ " " " - Reed, Augustus S. │ 18│ " " " - Shaw, Harry W. │ 22│ " " " - Shurtleff, Fred L. │ 22│ " " " - Slack, William J. │ 23│ " " " - Snow, Harry A. │ 20│ " " " - Stokes, Fred D. │ 23│ " " " - Turner, James I. │ 20│ " " " - Waugh, Prince E. │ 23│ " " " - West, Lybia F. │ 21│ " " " - Williamson, Charles A. │ 19│ " " " - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Loud, Harry W., private │ 26│Hon. dis., 17 Oct., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "K" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, BOSTON.) - - CAPTAIN FREDERIC S. HOWES. - FIRST LIEUTENANT P. FRANK PACKARD. - SECOND LIEUTENANT ALBERT A. GLEASON. - - "K" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Moore, Freeman R. │ 26│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Chaffin, Walter B. │ 24│ " " " - Atton, William C. │ 28│ " " " - Ready, Frank L. │ 23│ " " " - Horton, Joseph G. │ 35│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Davis, Irving J. │ 24│ " " " - Graves, Elmer A. │ 21│ " " " - Kenny, Horace L. │ 20│ " " " - Farwell, Frank F. │ 20│ " " " - Donovan, Thomas J. │ 22│ " " " - Spear, Oscar A. │ 22│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Barker, Edward, Jr. │ 23│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Ripley, Winfield S., Jr. │ 29│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Adams, Alonzo │ 25│ " " " - Banchor, George Y. │ 31│ " " " - Black, Ralph W. │ 35│ " " " - Bond, Alonzo C. │ 22│ " " " - Carle, Edward M. │ 29│ " " " - Conant, Lewis W. │ 30│ " " " - Cook, Angus │ 25│ " " " - Eaton, Phillips │ 21│ " " " - Eaton, Pitt E. │ 23│ " " " - Grose, Howard B. │ 19│ " " " - Hally, Edmund S. │ 22│ " " " - Hally, William J. │ 28│ " " " - Hanscom, Alpheus P. │ 24│ " " " - Hazlett, George S. │ 20│ " " " - Jackson, William T. │ 21│ " " " - Jones, Clarence F. │ 21│ " " " - Keith, Phineas │ 20│ " " " - Kingsley, Charles L. │ 22│ " " " - Krebs, Charles A. │ 35│ " " " - Lambert, Clarence E. │ 19│ " " " - Martikke, Frederick W. │ 24│ " " " - McIntosh, Willey J. │ 26│ " " " - McKinnon, William C. │ 25│ " " " - McPhee, George W. │ 22│ " " " - Merrifield, Albert F. │ 28│ " " " - Rache, James A. │ 20│ " " " - Reuben, Moses │ 34│ " " " - Richards, Frank L. │ 29│ " " " - Ricker, William E. │ 24│ " " " - Rittenhouse, Ralph W. E. │ 20│ " " " - Russell, George R. │ 45│ " " " - Smith, Asa N. │ 29│ " " " - Smith, Clifford E. │ 21│ " " " - Smith, Daniel │ —│ " " " - Smith, Frederick D. │ 21│ " " " - Stock, Charles H. │ 26│ " " " - Strong, Harry C. │ 22│ " " " - Studdert, Edward F. G. │ 24│ " " " - Tornrose, Axel T. │ 26│ " " " - Weiler, Stephen │ 20│ " " " - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Canfield, Charles E., private │ 24│Hon. dis., 10 Aug., 1898. - Chase, Paul D., private │ 40│ " 12 Nov., 1898. - Moulton, Fred H., private │ 20│ " 16 Aug., 1898. - O'Brien, John J., private │ 21│ " 4 Oct., 1898. - Webster, Daniel L., private │ 33│ " 4 Oct., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "L" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, BOSTON.) - - CAPTAIN FREDERICK M. WHITING. - FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM L. SWAN. - SECOND LIEUTENANT FRED A. CHENEY. - - "L" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Graves, William R. │ 23│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Naumann, Louis │ 33│ " " " - Harris, Clifford L. │ 23│ " " " - Gage, George R. │ 26│ " " " - Colburn, Alvin │ 21│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - French, Alton L. │ 23│ " " " - Burrill, William F. │ 21│ " " " - Paré, Thomas O. │ 24│ " " " - Barrett, John C. │ 25│ " " " - Hill, William B. │ 21│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Foster, Maurice F. │ 28│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Barrett, William H. │ —│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Anderson, John E. │ 27│ " " " - Babb, Charles H. │ 18│ " " " - Bartlett, David H. │ 19│ " " " - Blanchard, Benjamin B. │ 24│ " " " - Brown, Charles H. │ 21│ " " " - Ellis, Henry J. │ 19│ " " " - Ellsworth, Walter F. │ 24│ " " " - Fitzwilliam, Edward C. │ 25│ " " " - Fitzwilliam, Frank M. │ 20│ " " " - Flagg, George A. │ 27│ " " " - Frank, Harry M. │ 23│ " " " - Frank, Maurice A. │ 20│ " " " - Fruean, George H. │ 19│ " " " - Gage, Frank A. │ 22│ " " " - Gillespie, Edwin S. │ 20│ " " " - Goode, James C. │ 19│ " " " - Greenfield, Joseph │ 23│ " " " - Henius, Walter A. │ 19│ " " " - Hill, Arthur G. │ 19│ " " " - Knight, Harry │ 20│ " " " - McLeod, Alton D. │ 19│ " " " - Meader, Joseph B. │ 20│ " " " - Mitchell, Ralph L. │ 20│ " " " - Neagle, Richard J. J. │ 20│ " " " - Osborne, Roy L. │ 20│ " " " - Osborne, William A. │ 20│ " " " - Porter, Wilfred H. │ 21│ " " " - Reynolds, Harry L. │ 23│ " " " - Richardson, Charles H. │ 24│ " " " - Rueter, Karl │ 20│ " " " - Rymill, Joseph A. │ 23│ " " " - Sanford, Herman I. │ 19│ " " " - Scruton, Edwin H. │ 20│ " " " - Simmons, John │ 22│ " " " - Smith, Harold F. │ 21│ " " " - Soule, Melzer H. │ 25│ " " " - Spinney, William A. │ 19│ " " " - Swartout, Eugene D. │ 21│ " " " - Trask, Harry A. │ 23│ " " " - Warner, Harry A. │ 21│ " " " - Wells, Jarvis A. │ 24│ " " " - Wight, William A. │ 19│ " " " - │ │ - DISCHARGED. │ │ - Jansson, John G., corporal │ 23│Hon. dis., 20 Oct., 1898. - Ackiss, Ivy W., private │ 21│ " 25 Oct., 1898. - Johnson, George A., private │ 20│ " 20 Oct., 1898. - Lewisson, Clarence P., private │ 19│ " 16 June, 1898. - Miller, William T., private │ 20│ " 20 Oct., 1898. - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - MUSTER-ROLL OF "M" BATTERY - - (HOME-STATION, FALL RIVER.) - - CAPTAIN SIERRA L. BRALEY. - FIRST LIEUTENANT DAVID FULLER. - SECOND LIEUTENANT FREDERICK W. HARRISON. - - "M" BATTERY. - - ════════════════════════════════╤════╤═════════════════════════════════ - NAME AND RANK. │Age.│ Remarks. - ────────────────────────────────┼────┼───────────────────────────────── - │ │ - FIRST SERGEANT. │ │ - Potter, George E. │ 34│Hon. must. out, 14 Nov., 1898. - │ │ - SERGEANTS. │ │ - Sanford, Arnold B., 2d. │ 28│ " " " - McAdams, James F. │ 27│ " " " - Booth, Richard H. │ 29│ " " " - s, Arthur F. │ 25│ " " " - │ │ - CORPORALS. │ │ - Pilkington, Edward H. │ 27│ " " " - Whitehead, James M. │ 28│ " " " - Bentley, James H. │ 29│ " " " - Durfee, Frederick E. │ 30│ " " " - Wilcox, William B. │ 25│ " " " - Mitchell, Elmer W. │ 25│ " " " - │ │ - MESS CORPORAL. │ │ - Marsden, George │ 27│ " " " - │ │ - MUSICIAN. │ │ - Lee, John │ 33│ " " " - │ │ - PRIVATES. │ │ - Almond, James H. │ 23│ " " " - Bailey, James E. │ 30│ " " " - Bradbury, George │ 25│ " " " - Bridges, Charles │ 24│ " " " - Broughton, Thomas │ 35│ " " " - Buckley, John │ 19│ " " " - Buckley, Zedekiah │ 31│ " " " - Chippendale, Thomas J. │ 19│ " " " - Dale, Hugh │ 25│ " " " - Darke, William H. │ 38│ " " " - Davis, Elmer F. │ 25│ " " " - Destremps, Henry A. │ 21│ " " " - Durfee, Nelson B. │ 28│ " " " - Eldredge, Myron O. │ 23│ " " " - Ely, Ernest E. │ 21│ " " " - Fish, Edwin B. │ 28│ " " " - Fiske, Frank R. │ 23│ " " " - Graham, Henry │ 34│ " " " - Harrison, Paul │ 40│ " " " - Henshaw, John E. │ 23│ " " " - Heywood, Joseph A. │ 35│ " " " - Horan, James H. │ 27│ " " " - Horsman, Frederick │ 38│ " " " - Hughes, John F. │ 31│ " " " - Lindsey, John J. │ 23│ " " " - Linley, Frederick R. H. │ 25│ " " " - Littlefield, Frank W. C. │ 28│ " " " - McGlynn, Thomas J. │ 25│ " " " - McGraw, Jerome G. │ 27│ " " " - Murphy, Thomas │ 34│ " " " - Rigby, John │ 22│ " " " - Robinson, John T. │ 25│ " " " - Sanford, Alvin C. │ 19│ " " " - Sanford, Frank R. │ 21│ " " " - Sharples, Joseph H. M. │ 27│ " " " - Simmons, Ernest L. │ 19│ " " " - Skinner, Harry A. │ 22│ " " " - Smolensky, Hyman │ 24│ " " " - Smolensky, Lester H. │ 21│ " " " - Squire, William B. │ 19│ " " " - Stevens, Theodore F. │ 19│ " " " - Thurston, Edward A. │ 26│ " " " - Waterworth, William │ 25│ " " " - Wiseman, William A. │ 21│ " " " - Wood, Richard │ 36│ " " " - ════════════════════════════════╧════╧═════════════════════════════════ - - - - - CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR - - - - - CHRONOLOGY. - - -It will be observed that in the following table all regimental and -battery notes refer to the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery: - - FEBRUARY, 1898. - - 15th.—U.S.S. _Maine_ destroyed in harbor of Havana. - - MARCH. - - 9th.—Congress appropriates $50,000,000 for national defence. - - 12th.—U.S.S. _Oregon_ starts from San Francisco on the memorable - voyage to the Atlantic coast. - - 24th.—Spanish torpedo-gunboat flotilla assembles at Cape Verde - Islands. - - 28th.—Congress receives report of naval board of inquiry declaring - _Maine_ to have been destroyed by exterior explosion. - - APRIL. - - 9th.—General Lee leaves Havana. - - 14th.—Flotilla at Cape Verde Islands joined by _Infanta Maria - Teresa_ and _Cristobal Colon_. - - 15th.—Legislature of Massachusetts appropriates $500,000 for local - defence and equipment of troops. - - 20th.—Cape Verde squadron augmented by _Almirante Oquendo_ and - _Vizcaya_. - - 21st.—Spanish Government sends passports to Minister Woodford. - - 22d.—Admiral Sampson sails from Key West to establish Cuban - blockade. - - 23d.—President McKinley calls for one hundred and twenty-five - thousand volunteers. - - 24th.—Spanish Government announces its intention of organizing a - fleet of auxiliary cruisers. - - Regiment receives orders to hold itself in readiness for - service in defenses of Boston Harbor. - - 25th.—Congress declares war to have existed since 21 April. - - Admiral Dewey sails from Hong Kong for Manila. - - Orders issued directing regiment to report at Fort Warren, - Boston Harbor, on following day. - - 26th.—Regiment assembles in Boston—ninety-nine per cent. present - for duty—passes in review before Governor Wolcott, and at noon - reaches its station. - - 29th.—Spanish fleet, under Admiral Cervera, sails from Cape Verde - Islands—destination unknown. - - MAY. - - 1st.—Destruction of Admiral Montojo's fleet in Manila Bay. - - 9th.—Regiment mustered into volunteer service of United States by - Brevet Lieut.-Col. C. A. Woodruff, Second United States Artillery; - muster-in completed at 9.34 A.M. - - 10th.—Orders received detaching Third Battalion, to report to - Colonel Woodruff. - - 13th.—Reported sighting of Spanish fleet off Nantucket; night - alarm at Fort Warren. - - 18th.—Governor Wolcott visits post, inspects regiment, and - presents volunteer commissions to officers. - - 20th.—General Merritt, commanding Department of the East, relieved - by General Frank. - - 23d.—Orders received assigning Headquarters, First and Second - Battalions to stations. - - 24th.—U.S.S. _Oregon_ reaches coast of Florida. - - 25th.—President McKinley calls for seventy-five thousand - additional volunteers. - - First military expedition starts from San Francisco for - Manila. - - 30th.—Admiral Cervera's fleet definitely located and blockaded in - harbor of Santiago. - - JUNE. - - 1st.—"G" and "L" Batteries take station at Fort Rodman, New - Bedford Harbor. - - 3d.—U.S.S. _Merrimac_ sunk in harbor of Santiago. - - Regimental Headquarters established at Fort Pickering, Salem - Harbor. - - 6th.—Changes of station: "A" Battery to Mining Casemate, Nahant; - "C" and "D" Batteries to Fort Pickering; "H" Battery to Fort - Sewall, Marblehead Harbor. - - 7th.—"B" Battery takes station in defenses of Newburyport Harbor; - "K" Battery at Stage Fort, Gloucester Harbor. - - 11th.—Landing of United States Marines at Guantanamo. - - 12th.—Embarkation of General Shafter's corps at Tampa. - - 15th.—Admiral Camara's squadron sails from Cadiz. - - 20th.—General Shafter's expedition lands at Baiquiri. - - 24th.—Action at Las Guasimas. - - 28th.—General Merritt's expedition sails for Philippines. - - 30th.—General Frank, commanding Department of the East, relieved - by General Gillespie. - - JULY. - - 1st-2d.—Actions at El Caney and San Juan Hill. - - 3d.—Annihilation of Admiral Cervera's fleet off Santiago. - - 8th.—Admiral Camara's fleet turns back to Cadiz. - - "B" Battery changes station from defenses of Newburyport to - Port Constitution, Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire. - - 11th.—General Miles arrives at Santiago. - - Governor Wolcott requests foreign service for regiment, - informing War Department that apprehension no longer is felt - for coast-towns of Massachusetts. - - 17th.—Surrender of Santiago. - - 25th.—General Miles lands with his expedition in Porto Rico. - - "A" Battery changes station from Nahant to Fort Pickering. - - 26th.—Spain asks terms of peace. - - 29th.—General Merritt's expedition reaches Manila. - - 31st.—United States forces at Manila repulse Spanish attack. - - AUGUST. - - 12th.—Peace protocol signed; hostilities suspended. - - 27th.—"B" Battery changes station from Fort Constitution to Fort - Pickering. - - SEPTEMBER. - - 19th.—Regiment withdrawn from coast-works and assembled in camp at - South Framingham. - - OCTOBER. - - 4th.—General Gillespie, commanding Department of the East, - relieved by General Shafter. - - 5th.—Regiment breaks camp at Framingham, takes transportation for - Boston, marches in review before Governor Wolcott, and is - furloughed for thirty days. - - NOVEMBER. - - 4th.—Batteries report at home stations from furlough. - - 14th.—Regiment mustered out of service of United States by - Lieut.-Col. E. M. Weaver, U.S.V., and Lieut. J. P. Hains, U.S.A. - - DECEMBER. - - 10th.—Treaty of peace signed by Commissioners at Paris. - - APRIL, 1899. - - 11th.—Proclamation by President McKinley of ratification of treaty - officially terminates the war. - - - - - TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES - - - 1. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical - errors. - 2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. - 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. - 4. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The First regiment Massachusetts heavy -artillery, United States volunteers, -in the Spanish-American War of 1898 by James A. 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