. History of the Seventh Massachusetts volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion of the southern states against constitutional authority. 1861-1865. With description of battles, army movements, hospital life, and incidents of the camp, by officers and privates; and a comprehensive introduction of the moral and political forces which precipitated the war of secession upon the people of the United States . ife for a higher civilization, and is now hand inhand with the onward march of the nineteenth century, —a noble people in a beautiful land, — • A land of supernatural powers, —Their lakes
. History of the Seventh Massachusetts volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion of the southern states against constitutional authority. 1861-1865. With description of battles, army movements, hospital life, and incidents of the camp, by officers and privates; and a comprehensive introduction of the moral and political forces which precipitated the war of secession upon the people of the United States . ife for a higher civilization, and is now hand inhand with the onward march of the nineteenth century, —a noble people in a beautiful land, — • A land of supernatural powers, —Their lakes adorned with flowers;Like seas their rivers run; and will soon be the home of a people noted for their educa-tion and loyalty, — a people of kindness and wealth, theresults of a great moral and civil revolution. And the North can find many lessons of instruction, andmuch to profit by, as we look back and review the causes ofthe great rebellion; the same principles of revolution beingfound in the huge corporations and monopolies raised upsince the rebellion, and which corrupt the halls of legislation. Thus I have set as a frontispiece to the opening page ofthe Regimental History these preliminary remarks on thegreat moral, political, and revolutionary causes which havemade such a history possible; the fruitage of which will befound in the succeeding pages a monument to the Volunteersof DARIUS N. COUCH,Colonel. CHAPTER II. ORGANIZATION AND MOVEMENT TO WASHINGTON, THE Seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantrywas recruited and organized at Taunton, Mass., by Col.,now Major-Gen., Couch, and was a Bristol-County regiment; all except E and K Companies having been recruitedin that county. It was sworn into the United-States ser-vice, June 15, 1861. Eight companies were recruited in FallRiver, Taunton, Raynham, Easton, Mansfield, Attleborough,Dighton; while Companies E and K were recruited inAbington and Dorchester. It remained in camp at Tauntonuntil the twelfth day of
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