A New England Boyhood And Other Bits of Autobiography
A New England Boyhood And Other Bits of Autobiography
Edward E Hale
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But 138 A New England Boyhood my whole personal recollection of the Broad Street Riot is that, of a sudden, the bell of Brattle Street Church struck " backward, " and the gentlemen who were of the First Regiment rose and left their seats, and went down to the armory at Faneuil Hall to join their companies, not to say lead them. It was said, and I believe truly, that a sergeant formed the first men who arrived in skeletons of companies, and in a skeleton of a regiment. George Tyler Bigelow, afte...rwards chief justice of the Supreme Court, was the first commissioned officer who arrived. He was a lieutenant in the New England Guards or the Light Infantry. He ordered the regiment out of the armory, and com- manded it till he met a superior officer. The story was that the command changed half a dozen times before the regiment reached Broad Street, where firemen and Irishmen were fighting. Of which I saw and remember nothing. But the departure of those gentlemen from church, whom we would have joined so gladly, fixed the whole afTair in our memories.
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