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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 3 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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an he be considered a part of the quota of Massachusetts, so that his family can receive the State aid? I answer, most unequivocally, yes. Brigadier-General Humphries, U. S. A., Army of the Potomac, wished Governor Andrew to commission Mr. Edward C. Rice, of Framingham, that he might appoint him on his staff. There was no place for him in the three years regiments. The Governor referred the matter to the Adjutant-General, who replied,— I presume that a staff appointment by one of ou an appointment upon the staff of General McDowell, upon a commission which he held as an officer on the staff of Major-General Sutton, Second Division M. V.M. There are four vacancies in the staff of Brigadier-General Peirce: if he will appoint Mr. Rice, I believe it will accomplish the purpose sought for by General Humphries. And it did. A colonel in a Massachusetts regiment having written to the Governor that great trouble had arisen, and officers had lost their pay, because the Adjuta
ied during the night, After the last shot Jones went up on the steps of a neighboring house, where he was captured by two citizens and handed over to the police, and ladged in the 24 station house. The Mayor said the accused had not committed a murder; on the contrary he was inclined to regard the act justifiable homicide. Jones was sent on for examination next Saturday before a called Court of Hastings, for killing Snow, and admitted to bail in the sum of $500 for his appearance. Edward C. Rice, a man in uniform, and professing to belong to Captain Louis J. Bossieuxis company, was fined $10, and required to give security in the sum of $500, for breaking a tray of dishes on a negro woman's head in the street, and after wards slapping her in the face. Mary Staphens, proprietress of a house rear Brook Avenue, having been sent for, appeared in Court, when she was arraigned for keeping her establishment open on Sunday, and allwing disorderly persons to assemble there, fight, dr