The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-27

We have rect iyed the closing war report of
Adj. Gen. Hodsdon, embraced in two noble
volumes OF l32o and 1878 pages respectively.
Ii Is undoubtedly the most complete and COM
prehensiye report issued by any State.
The second volume was prepare ed and pub
lished first. Ii was distributed during the
session OF the legislature last winter and con-
tanned what is known in Gen. Hodsdon's re-
ports all through the war as Appendix ID, be-
ing complete roll of all men connected with
each regiment, company and battery during
the Two years, the age, social condition, date
OF muster-in, and remarks showing promo
tions, transfers, desertions wounds, deaths,
&c., and copy OF the morning report for the
day 10 which the history was made up In this
condensed history OF every man in the service
from the State, Gen. Hodsdon was the pion-
eer, having begun it with the report for 1861,
and continued it from the time the lst reg-
ment OF three months men under Col. jack
son left Portland, until the last organization
of Maine soldiers finally broke ranks on Harris
Island. ..
Following Appendix ID are two tables giving
for each organized regiment or corps the
name of its last commanding officer, the
place OF rendezvous for mastering in, the
dates of entering the service and OF leaving
the State, the period of service, by whom
mustered in and when mustered out; also,
| for each corps the number klllt d in action,
| died OF wounds, died OF disease, deserted, dis
| charged by order and by expiration of term
| OF service, dismissed, cashiered, resigned, dis
honorably discharged, transferred to V. Il. e..
to navy, to regular army, missing in action,
absent, sick, dropped from rolls, discharged
for re enlistment in the field, and
discharged TOR disability. The sec
ond article concludes with an alphabetical
roster OF commissioned officers, showing rank,
company, regiment AID remarks. That these
facts could not be obtained by an officer in
| this State from constantly moving army
and from all corps in all parts OF the South,
without almost incredible labor, may easily be
believed. Yet it is undoubtedly as correct as
it is possible for any rolls TO be-
The first volume just completed is a gener-
al gathering up of the elraements, and viii rem
der writing the history oil Names connection
with the war as easy as it viii be supeIfluous
| First we have condensed history OF each
regiment and corps; list of those remaining
in the service at the date oithe report (Jan.
1860 the calls upon Maine for troops; list
| of credits to the state by the general govern
ment; arranged by counties and towns foot
ing up ", 945, the calls amounting to 70, 1861
| brief statement of the amount of bounties
| paid by the State and by towns as
| nearly as can be ascertained, the same
being arranged by towns and counties,
and tabulated for the different calls 1.-THE
/ State bounties amounted to S4,3S4 1876,
and the town bounties from Ais towns S9,G95-
500 93,-12S towns having made nc retumsJ !;
Driet histories OF the State militia the seizure
| OF the Chesapeake, the raid ON our border;
sketch OF the benevolent agencies of our State
| and contributions to the national cOmmiS-
sions, with table OF our gifts by towns, loot
| ing up $751; l34;) the reports of the State
| agents at New York, Philadelphia and Wash
mgton; Mrs, SIMPSONS tnurse) report;
| notices and statistics OF hospitals in Maine
| and elsewhere, with lists OF soldiers who died
| therein; the State-aid to families enterprise,
with an exhibit of the amount disburs-
ed by each town to be repaid by
the State, by towns and by years.
grand total of S1,945, ,96177; interments OF
Maine soldiers upon battleiields, at rebel pris-
ons and hospitals, alsp our own hospitals and
elsewhere, with lists; a full history Of Maine
| regiments for 1864 and 1865, prepared princi-
pally by the commanding officer of each; biz
ographical notices OF the living and dead, dis
tinguished for bravery and eminent services,
comprising nearly 200 pages, sketches of Bow
doin College students and graduates in the
war; table of nativity and occupation OF
Maine troops; a list of brevet promotions; "a
| list of citizens OF Maine commissioned by the
| President; a copy OF all acts OF the Legisla-
| ture, orders, circulars, &C., relating TO troops;
| a statement OF the draft of 1864, With names
OF those held to ser vice, those furnishing sub
| stitutes, with the names OF the latter, and a
recapitulation Tor each district and sub-dis-
trict; recruits mustered by provost-marshais,
| giving all facts in regard to each; assignments
| at general draft rendezvous, alphabetically by
| regiments; alphabetical lists OF all re-enlst-
ments, enlistments in the navy and the regu-
lar army; a regimental roster of commission
ed officers from the opening to the close of
the war (Appendlx Al an alphabetical list of
deceased Maine soldiers (Appendix b.; and
an alphabetical list of substitutes and represen-
| tative recruits from June, 1868. A lew pages
at the close of this volume are occupied with
Gen. HodsdoH's reports as quartermaster gen.
| eral and paymaster-general