. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, during the great Civil War, 1862-63 [electronic resource] . petition forpermission to raise men for the nine-months service. We waitedanxiously in the armory in the Square, until after midnight, whena note from Mayor Fay was received, granting the prayer ofthe petitioners. We immediately obtained an express-wagon, andwent to Boston, procuring a new Sibley tent. Returning, webroke ground in the Square, — so hard that crowbars had to beemployed to make holes for guy-pins. On sabbath morning wedisplayed the f
. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, during the great Civil War, 1862-63 [electronic resource] . petition forpermission to raise men for the nine-months service. We waitedanxiously in the armory in the Square, until after midnight, whena note from Mayor Fay was received, granting the prayer ofthe petitioners. We immediately obtained an express-wagon, andwent to Boston, procuring a new Sibley tent. Returning, webroke ground in the Square, — so hard that crowbars had to beemployed to make holes for guy-pins. On sabbath morning wedisplayed the first tent pitched in Chelsea for war purposes, show-ing to city government and citizens that we meant business. Geo. B. Hanover. Perhaps there is no way in which I can more vividly recallthe influences and scenes of those times than by reprintinga local flier which was distributed throughout the city some 16 HISTORY OF THE FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT, time during the month of August, 1862. It was the firstof several which I have (the last dated 1864), forming very-conspicuous guides to the development of the war-spiritamong us. WAR This (Thursday) Evening, at 7 oclock. RALLY FOR YOUR COUNTRY! And show that you are in earnest in bringing this unholyRebellion to a close by immediately re-enforcing the Armyof the Potomac. Remember ! if the city has to resort to draft, that no Bountyor State Aid will be paid! RALLY ONE AND ALL! jUgf3 Let the Chelsea boys in the Army of the Potomacknow that you are ready to sustain them at any cost! I should also have associated with the above the circula-tion and singing of spirited ballads, one of which I will senddown to posterity. The six hundred thousand morerefers to the levy of the three hundred thousand three-yearsmen of 1862 and our own contingent of the same numberof nine-months men, which followed immediately. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE. We are coming, Father Abraham, six hundred thousand more, — From Mississippis winding str
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