The Sixteenth left Cambridge on Aug. 17. At eight o’clock in the morning, of the day of departure , the troops were drawn up in line on the parade ground, and their arms and equipments carefully inspected, after which they left the camp shortly before noon, in heavy marching order. Each soldier had forty rounds of cartridges in his cartridge-box, and two days rations in his haversack; altogether they took seven days’ cooked rations and 60,000 cartridges. “The streets of Cambridge and Boston were occupied by many people to see them off. “ Soon after three o’clock, the train of twenty-one cars started, leaving Boston and home behind.” (1) June saw three different regiments in the camp. The regimental chaplain was Arthur Buckminster Fuller (2) who gave his service every Sunday at 5:00 P.M. both here and at the front. (3)
(1) Massachusetts Register, 1862 serial Number, Ninety-Four, Adams, Sampson, & Co. Boston. Pg. 314
(2) Harvard Memorial Biographies, Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Sever & Francis, Cambridge, 1866, pg. 85
(3) Chaplain Fuller: Being a Life Sketch of a New England Clergyman and Army Chaplain, Fuller, Richard F., Walker, Wise, and Company, 1863, Boston. Pg 175.
DAN SULLIVAN
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