| THE FIGHT AT BALTIMORE. |
| To the Editor of Harper's Weekly:
Washington, D.C.April 20, 1861. |
| In a late issue [4 May 1861] of your valuable sheet you are
laboring under a mistake in making the statement
that the Acton Company was engaged in the fight
at Baltimore on the 19th inst. The whole of the
Sixth regiment of the Massachusetts volunteer
militia was not engaged in the fight. The only
companies that participated in the fight were Company C, Mechanic Phalanx of Lowell, Company
J, Light Infantry of Lawrence, Company D, City
Guards of Lowell, and Company L, Light Infantry
from Stoneham. There are eleven companies comprising the regiment; but seven of them, together
with all the regimental officers, had passed through
and were on the opposite side of the city - a mile
and a half from the fight; and in fact knew nothing of it until the four companies in question
fought their way through the mob and rejoined
them. This you may rely on as being a correct
statement of the case.
Yours, etc.C.P.L. |