Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia: Colonel Robert Cowdin, Commanding, in Service of the United States, in Answer to the President's First Call for Troops to Suppress the Rebellion, April 15, 1861
It need only be recalled here that this com mand was the first of the three years' regiments, armed and equipped, to report at Washington in the early and dark hours Of the Rebellion.
The few Officers and men Of the original militia regiment, whose Circumstances forbade their leav ing for the front with the volunteer command, nevertheless rendered patriotic service. As the Forty-second Infantry, M. V. M., their recruited ranks were mustered in for service in the Depart ment Of the Gulf in 1862 - 63, and again in 1864 the regiment entered the service for honorable duty in the defences Of Washington.
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