Sunday, August 25, 1861.Washington, DC.
| President Lincoln, Secretary of State William Seward, and
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles join the Second New Hampshire Regiment for
Sunday services. Afterward, Lincoln inspects the rest of General Joseph
Hooker's Brigade. Lincoln also reviews the California Regiment, also known as
the Seventy-first Pennsylvania Regiment. Lincoln's long-time friend and U.S.
Senator from Oregon, Colonel Edward D. Baker, commands the Seventy-first
Pennsylvania. New York Times, 26 August
1861, 1:2; Charles H. Banes, History of the Philadelphia Brigade
(Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1876), 9; Martin A. Haynes,
A History of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in
the War of the Rebellion (Lakeport, NH: 1896), 42-43. |