WHO ADVISED ME NOT TO ENTER THE SERVICE
AND WOULD HAVE DISINHERITED
ME HAD I HEEDED HIS
ADVICE
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
|---|---|---|
| I. | Introductory | [3] |
| II. | The Coast-Defence Problem in Massachusetts | [13] |
| III. | Marching-Orders | [21] |
| IV. | Off for Active Service | [31] |
| V. | The Regiment at Fort Warren | [47] |
| VI. | A Period of Suspense | [59] |
| VII. | From "M.V.M." to "U.S.V." | [71] |
| VIII. | Personnel of the Regiment | [87] |
| IX. | The Season of Rumors | [99] |
| X. | Assignment to Stations | [115] |
| XI. | Fort Pickering and the "North-Shore" Defenses | [129] |
| XII. | Fort Rodman and its Garrison | [151] |
| XIII. | The Third Battalion at Fort Warren | [161] |
| XIV. | Final Days in the Service | [171] |
| XV. | An Honorable Regimental Record | [187] |
| Roster and Muster-Rolls | [198] | |
| Chronology of the War | [253] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Colonel Charles Pfaff | [Frontispiece] |
| Responding to the Call, 26 April, 1898 | [33] |
| Barbette Battery, 15-inch Rodmans | [49] |
| Field and Machine Gun Battery | [63] |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Carle A. Woodruff | [79] |
| The Field, Staff, and Line | [91] |
| Channel Battery, 8-inch Rifles | [103] |
| Garrison Encampment, Fort Pickering | [119] |
| Major Perlie A. Dyar | [131] |
| Major-Surgeon Howard S. Dearing | [135] |
| Major George F. Quinby | [141] |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Charles B. Woodman | [153] |
| Major James A. Frye | [163] |
| Lieutenant-Colonel Erasmus M. Weaver | [177] |
| The Last Evening Parade, 3 October, 1898 | [189] |
PREFACE
This book forms but a single chapter—the latest one—in the eventful and ever-honorable history of the First Massachusetts Regiment. It has been written in the hope that it may aid in maintaining the splendid esprit de corps which always has been characteristic of the command.