Our state capitol illustrated . ANTE-ROOM OF THE EXECUTIVE THE EXECUTIVE CHAMIER. MEMENTOES OF THE REBELLION. Three of these flags were the regimental colors of the old Sixth Massachusetts, the other,surmounted by an eagle, was the gift to Massachusetts of three hundred citizens of Baltimore. The portrait beneath the flags is that of the famous war Governor of Massachusetts, JohnA. Andrew. THIS DRUM Was carried and beat by Henry J. White, a drummer in Co. i when the 6th Regt. Mass. Vol. through Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1861. At nearly eighty years of age, having be
Our state capitol illustrated . ANTE-ROOM OF THE EXECUTIVE THE EXECUTIVE CHAMIER. MEMENTOES OF THE REBELLION. Three of these flags were the regimental colors of the old Sixth Massachusetts, the other,surmounted by an eagle, was the gift to Massachusetts of three hundred citizens of Baltimore. The portrait beneath the flags is that of the famous war Governor of Massachusetts, JohnA. Andrew. THIS DRUM Was carried and beat by Henry J. White, a drummer in Co. i when the 6th Regt. Mass. Vol. through Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1861. At nearly eighty years of age, having beena drummer in the Massachusetts militia sixty-seven years, he came, Nov. 17, 1882, from Haverhillto the State House and presented it to the Governor to be hung in the executive chamber with the flagsof the 6th Regt. This musket was carried by CHARLES A. TAYLOR, Co. D, Sixth Mass. Inf., who fell in the march through Baltimore, April 19, 1861. It had been fired andthe ramrod was lost, probably while reloading. It was found in an adjacent house, given to Wilsonpost
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