The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-23
From the Nashville Union.
What has Massachusetts done for
the Union Army?---The Testimony
Of 1915 on the Influence Of Sla-

tHS thiUH Army ."-'lHC iCStlHiUKl
Of 1915 on the Influence Of Sla-
very.
The question which forms part of the
heading of this article, has been asked,
in various forms, by those mercenary pol
iticians, and newspapers, in the North
western and Border Slave States, who,
although protesting to be loyal, let pass
no opportunity, for reviling Massachu-
sets. These men charge her with bring
ing the war upon the country, and then,
like coward, stunning its burdens and
its dangers. These accusations repeated
like a parrots phrases, without cessation,
have had their effect, and thousands Of
honest people, couple the names of South
Carolina and Massachusetts together,
and blame them equally for the. exist
ence of civil war. A letter recently
written by Gov. Andrew, of Massachu-
sets, TO Mr.. Wetmore of indianapolis, in
reply to some inquiries made by that
gentleman, states some facts in this con-
nection with which the people should be
acquainted. Mr. Wetmore stated in his
letter that
"A committee has been raised by the
popular branch of the Legislature Of In
diana, to inquire and report, Why Mas
Sachusetts has not sent to the field dur-
ing tie present sc0r as many men as hare
been sent by IndidnG?"
To this question Gov Andrew re-
plies:
do not know how many men have
been furnished to the Union army hith-
erto by the State of Indiana. | am un-
able, therefore, to present you the facts
sought for in the form of a comparative
statement. And | am not sorry, for the
purposes of the present moment, that
am thus ignorant, since the testimony
shall give you viii be relieved of the
moral disadvantages which would attend
the effort Of reciting facts and present
ing an argumentative comparison at the
same time. | may be allowed to re-
mark, however, that while we in Massa-
chusetts have devoted ourselves to the
business Of the national defense with an
earnestness, zeal, and success which have
aroused the hatred of every enemy of the
Union, scarcely less apparent on the lips
of Northern sympathizers with treason,
than of Southern traitors and rebels
themselves, | have always believed that
the Government and people of Indiana
have been alike distinguished from the
beginning of the struggle by the fidelity
of their exertions, and the valor of their
troops. He says:
Allow me to present statement pre-
pared by the Adjutant-General of the
Commonwealth:
Whole number of three-months men...... J, 1856
fruf pffb fbraa- man
ported up to November 10, 1SG2.....56,2l4
Whole number of three-years men
ported mustered in since Novem-
Der 10 (perhaps 100 short) ............ 21Si
Whole number of niHe-months men. S96
Total three-years and nne-months
men 1921
Total, also including the three-months
men 19,o3O
Permit me to add, though I am an
swering now only for my own Common
| wealth, that I do not pretend for a
moment that our sister States of New
England would at all suffer by a COM
parison with Massachusetts. They would
not.
Since the beginning of 1863 two more
batteries of light artillery have marched
from the State leaving still two others
now in progress of recruitment, and a
second regiment of cavalry, of which
one battalion is now ready to march
A third company of sharpshooters and a
sixth company Of heavy artillery are also
in process of recruitment. 1t should be
added that one of the regiments origin.
ally raised in 1861, composed of ten
companies of infantry, was subsequently
enlarged to a regiment of heavy artil
lery.
The extended sea-caost line of Massa-
chusetts has naturally engaged a large
number of able-bodied men in the bust
ness of navigation, whaling, and the fish.
cries. These men, from their training
have been attracted in large numbers to
the naval service, in preference to that
of any military arm upon the land. The
number thus drawn into the navy | am
unable to declare with exact precision
From The best sources of information
sought for among gentlemen connected
with commerce and navigation, 1 All
brought to the opinion that about 2,00C
men are or have been engaged in the
naval service on the ocean, or in gun
boat service on the rivers, whose homes
were in Massachusetts, Besides thi:
number, about 5000 more are believed
to be occupied as seamen, engineers, ol
otherwise, in the transport service on the
sea-"
This statement would sum up over
$4,000 men, citizens of Massachusetts,