. Massachusetts in the rebellion. A record of the historical position of the commonwealth, and the services of the leading statesmen, the military, the colleges, and the people, in the civil war of 1861-65 . ■T-^i5u=3r ;ju iS\51S1515XSL^Lr7\ST_S\5\5TErLS. ^ -> <, \sr^^ A PART 11. MASSACHUSETTS IN THE FIELD. CHAPTER I. THE STATE PREPARES FOR WAR. I The Signs of the coming Conflict. — JIassachusetts takes the Alarm. — The PropheticWords of Adjutant-Gen. Schouler. — The Action of the Governor and Legislature. —The Volunteer Militia. THE threatening agitation at the South early in the winter
. Massachusetts in the rebellion. A record of the historical position of the commonwealth, and the services of the leading statesmen, the military, the colleges, and the people, in the civil war of 1861-65 . ■T-^i5u=3r ;ju iS\51S1515XSL^Lr7\ST_S\5\5TErLS. ^ -> <, \sr^^ A PART 11. MASSACHUSETTS IN THE FIELD. CHAPTER I. THE STATE PREPARES FOR WAR. I The Signs of the coming Conflict. — JIassachusetts takes the Alarm. — The PropheticWords of Adjutant-Gen. Schouler. — The Action of the Governor and Legislature. —The Volunteer Militia. THE threatening agitation at the South early in the winter of1860, ridiculed by many at the North as a transient ebulli-tion of feeling, was regarded in Massachusetts with serious appre-hension. With the vigilance and the promptness of her youthfuldays, she began to gird herself for the conflict. An incident illustrative of Massachusetts loyalty, unknown tothe public at the time, which places her quite in advance of allother States in the offer of her sons to confront the armed foesof our nationality, occurred just before the evacuation of FortMoultrie. The first mention of it in a popular assembly wasmade by the hero of Sumter on July 4, 1865. With the peerlessnaval commander, Vice-Admiral Farra
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