Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. THE OLD FIRST [Illustration: OUR FIRST STATE CAMP, NEPONSET, 1849] THE OLD FIRST Massachusetts Coast Artillery IN War and Peace By FREDERICK MORSE CUTLER, B.D. First Lieutenant, Chaplain [Illustration] THE PILGRIM PRESS BOSTON CHICAGO COPYRIGHT 1917 BY FREDERICK MORSE CUTLER _First Edition, March 21, 1917_ _Second Edition, April 30, 1917_ THE PILGRIM PRESS BOSTON CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Coast Artillery 1 II. 1784-1840 12 III. 1840-1861 31 IV. Responding to the President’s Call 46 V. The Fighting First 58 VI. 1866-1878 80 VII. The Old “Tiger” First 89 VIII. “The Cape” 112 IX. Since 1878 127 X. Finally 152 APPENDIX I. Genealogy of the Coast Artillery--The Present Companies--Their Captains 157 APPENDIX II. Bibliography 174 INDEX 179 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Our First State Camp, Neponset, 1849 _Frontispiece_ OPPOSITE PAGE The Train-Band, 1832. Why It Was Abolished? 26 Artillery in 1917 34 Artillery in 1784 34 Maj. Poore Pays His Bet 40 The South Armory, Boston 70 Fort Monroe in 1861 70 The Fusiliers About 1845 90 The Gray Uniform--The City Guards at Baltimore, 1844 96 The Author 144 Col. E. Dwight Fullerton 144 Col. George F. Quinby 144 Modern Battery 154 The Chaplain in Action, 1916 154 THE OLD FIRST THE OLD FIRST CHAPTER I THE COAST ARTILLERY