. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, during the great Civil War, 1862-63 [electronic resource] . s avoided bodiesof newly enlisted men as they passed through our cities underthe care of officers who marched by their sides with theirrevolvers in their hands. The reason was obvious: pistol-balls are no respecters of persons; and a citizen was quite aslikely to be hit as a bolting recruit. The change for the worse in the public mind, as the warprogressed, will be evident on comparing the following flier,bearing date July 30,1864, with the one da
. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, during the great Civil War, 1862-63 [electronic resource] . s avoided bodiesof newly enlisted men as they passed through our cities underthe care of officers who marched by their sides with theirrevolvers in their hands. The reason was obvious: pistol-balls are no respecters of persons; and a citizen was quite aslikely to be hit as a bolting recruit. The change for the worse in the public mind, as the warprogressed, will be evident on comparing the following flier,bearing date July 30,1864, with the one dated August, 1862,already quoted in my opening statements. 190 HISTORY OF THE FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT, WAR MEETING No. 3, TO FINISH UP THE WORK, WILL BE HELD IN THE CITY HALL,On Saturday Evening, July 30 [64], AT 8 OCLOCK. $2,500 yet to be raised. One grand, united effort will do it. There are 1,800 legal voters in this city who have not yetcontributed. Come in, Enrolled Men, pay $10 each, and make upthis balance. Subscribers to the recruiting-fund are requested to pay inthe amount of their subscriptions at this meeting. STAND BY THE FLAG!. Another flier, dated a month later, calls upon all citizensto contribute five dollars each. A noticeable feature of bothof the circulars of 1864 is the fact that no appeal is madeto volunteer. It is money that is wanted at these last gather-ings ; whereas at the former ones it was men. In these remarks I do not mean to discredit the whole-souled patriotism of many who enlisted during the last yearof the war, and took the bounties then offered, which insome cases amounted to nine hundred dollars. My opinionis, that every man who did his duty to the best of his abilityearned every cent he received. It was unfortunate that thelast war-meetings took such a mercenarj aspect. The tongue THE RETURN HOME. 191 should not have been divorced from the sword: the stirringappeals to the patriotic sense of the community ought tohave been continued to th
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