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| President Lincoln's Call for Volunteers New England's record in the history of the Civil War is too well known to need mention. It was a period of intense, subdued excitement. Local issues were forgotten; political factions were lost sight of in one common cause in which Church and State and every grade of society joined. War meetings were held in hall, and , church, and schoolhouse. The welfare of every volunteer was a matter of interest to his town as well as to his family. Women labored in preparations for camp and hospital, and children with sticks and toy drums marched the streets in mock parade. The tattered, shot-torn battle-flags preserved in State capitols tell the story of New England's response to President Lincoln's call for volunteers. - W. L. Taylor
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