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Title: Field, camp, hospital and prison in the civil war, 1863-1865; Charles A. Humphreys, chaplain, Second Massachusetts cavalry volunteers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Humphreys, Charles Alfred, 1838-
Subjects: United States. Army Massachuesetts Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons
Publisher: Boston, Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ipation, the London Timessaid: We hold the opinion that the cause ofthe South gallantly fighting against the crueland desolating invasion of the North, is thecause of freedom. Two months later a prom-inent member of Parliament said publicly:We cannot help seeing that while AbrahamLincoln is an incapable pretender, JeffersonDavis is a bold statesman. We may well wishto see the American States peacefully separate,we may well wish to see bloodshed cease andpeace restored, but I contend—and I knowthat the majority of thinking men in Englandagree with me—that the best method towardsthat end will be the establishment of the com-plete independence of the Confederate States.It was a time when every one who loved hiscountry and believed in its free institutionsmust do what he could to sustain its armies inthe field; and, feeling that I might be of someservice in the line of my chosen profession, I THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY n ASTOH, Lr.NOX AND tild»:n founda:ionsK L ^\ .OJ3>103 f^M s^D
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o > IN THE CIVIL WAR, 1863-1865 3 accepted, while I was yet in the DivinitySchool at Cambridge, the offer of a Chaplainscommission from Governor Andrew, and as soonas I could be ordained (Note i) joined the SecondMassachusetts Cavalry, a regiment composed oftwo battalions recruited in Massachusetts, andone recruited in California chiefly of nativesof Massachusetts. Our Colonel was CharlesRussell Lowell of Cambridge, a graduate ofHarvard in the Class of 1854. He was anephew of the poet James Russell Lowell, andhad already seen two years of service. Assoon as he reached the field with his regimentof Massachusetts Cavalry, he was put in com-mand of the brigade with which it was con-nected, leaving our men under the directleadership of Lieut. Col. Caspar Crowninshieldof Boston. When I joined the regiment inAugust, 1863, it was brigaded with the 13thand i6th New York Cavalry regiments, andwas, with them, doing service as an outpostpicket before Washington, guarding thirty orforty miles

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