The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace

by Frederick Morse Cutler

THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON CHICAGO
Copyright 1917
By FREDERICK MORSE CUTLER
First Edition, March 21, 1917
Second Edition, April 30, 1917
THE PILGRIM PRESS
BOSTON

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER			PAGE
I.		The Coast Artillery	[1]
II.		1784-1840	[12]
III.		1840-1861	[31]
IV.		Responding to the President’s Call	[46]
V.		The Fighting First	[58]
VI.		1866-1878	[80]
VII.		The Old “Tiger” First	[89]
VIII.		“The Cape”	[112]
IX.		Since 1878	[127]
X.		Finally	[152]
Appendix I.		Genealogy of the Coast Artillery—ThePresent Companies—Their Captains	[157]
Appendix II.		Bibliography	[174]
Index			[179]

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Our First State Camp, Neponset, 1849	[Frontispiece]
	OPPOSITE PAGE
The Train-Band, 1832. Why It Was Abolished?	[26]
Artillery in 1917	[34]
Artillery in 1784	[34]
Maj. Poore Pays His Bet	[40]
The South Armory, Boston	[70]
Fort Monroe in 1861	[70]
The Fusiliers About 1845	[90]
The Gray Uniform—The City Guards at Baltimore, 1844	[96]
The Author	[144]
Col. E. Dwight Fullerton	[144]
Col. George F. Quinby	[144]
Modern Battery	[154]
The Chaplain in Action, 1916	[154]

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