Boys from the Mass 28th get into trouble in Dedham Ma.

A letter from the Adjutant General's Office to Gov. Andrew, dated 1/13/62.
"In compliance with orders, I went on Saturday morning to Dedham and gave to the officer in charge of the county jail the pardons of Patrick Gaines (CO. F & Roxbury) & Thomas Moriarty (CO H & Chicopee), privates in the 28th Regiment, M. V. who had been confined for felony crimes. 
The men were taken to the Camp in Cambridge & delivered to Lieut. Moore. "
The second page of the letter is missing so it is not signed and  no mention is made of what the crimes were. The events in the letter would have been 1/11/62. Who knows how much time these two men would have spent in jail if the regiment was not leaving the state?


DAN SULLIVAN

Woburn, MA recruits for the 28th Regiment.

The Oct. 11, 1861 Woburn Budget reported that a recruiting office for the 28th Irish Regiment had been opened in Mrs. Leathe's building. Mrs. Leathe owned several buildings on the corner of what is now Main St. and Montvale Ave, (Then Rail Road St). She lived in the one right on the corner, with businesses also in it, downstairs. Since it is refereed to as Mrs. Lathes building I would give that one the best odds. (The one with the red awning) The current building went up in 1979. It is right across the street from the Civil War monument.

DAN SULLIVAN