Henry Wilson
From The New-York Times September 30, 1861:
COL WILSON’S REGIMENT.
The following telegram has just been received by assistant Quartermaster-General FRANK E. HOWE:
BOSTON, Saturday, Sept. 28.
We must postpone our departure forty-eight hours. We will leave Boston at 6 o’clock Thursday morning, and arrive in New-York the same night, and receive your reception Friday instead of Wednesday.
HENRY WILSON,
Col. Twenty-second Massachusetts Reg’t.
Puritan's Progress - Charles C. Winthrop
More news involving the same regiment:
From The New-York Times September 30, 1861:
ITEMS FROM BOSTON.
BOSTON, Sunday, Sept. 29.
Gov. ANDREW has promoted Capt. FRANK E. HOWE, Assistant-Quartermaster in New-York, to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy.
A beautiful banner will be presented to Senator WILSON’s Regiment at the review in Boston. ROBERT C. WINTHROP is to make the presentation speech.
Henry Wilson was a shoemaker from Natick, Massachusetts, who eventually served as U.S. senator from 1855-1873. He did organize the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry but resigned as colonel in October, 1861. The 22nd fought with the Army of the Potomac throughout the regiment’s three-year term.
Henry Wilson became a Republican and was a strong abolitionist. He wrote the three volume History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. Wilson served as U.S. Grant’s Vice President from 1873 until his death in November 1875.
Robert Charles Winthrop served as Speaker of the U.S. House from 1847-1849 and was descended from John Winthrop, who was the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony at its founding in 1630.
Henry Wilson Shoe Shop is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. You can see some more photos of the shop at the Library of Congress.
Little Red Shoehouse
Working on the voters - 1872 style
The photo of the shoe shop is licensed by Creative Commons.
