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Maine History Volume 30 Number 2 Article 3 9-1-1990 "A Class of Men”: United States Army Recruits in Maine, 1822-1860 Dale R. Steinhaurer Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal Part of the Military History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Steinhaurer, Dale R.. ""A Class of Men”: United States Army Recruits in Maine, 1822-1860." Maine History 30, 2 (1990): 92-119. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol30/iss2/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Dale R. Steinhauer "A CLASS OF MEN'S”: UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITS IN MAINE, 182201860 “For the Army. From 45 to 50 Able-bodied American citizens, from 18 to 35 years o f age, are required to complete the four companies o f the army which are destined to constitute the Garrison at Houlton Planta­ tion. With this advertisement in the Eastern Argus in the spring of 1828, Capt ain Greenleaf Dearborn announced the opening of a recruiting rendezvous on Union Street in Portland. Recent incidents zilong Maine’s disputed border with New Brunswick had angered many Downeasters, who felt that protecting the state against external aggression was a matter of honor. The establishment in 1928 of a military post on the northeastern frontier manned by Captain Dearborn’s Second Infantry Regi­ ment meant that the army needed a substantial number of Maine recruits. With a crisis threatening on the northeastern border, Dearborn probably hoped to attract spirited patriots anxious to serve and not the usual class of men who enlisted during peacetime. Officers had come to set their expectations low when they sought soldiers for the peacetime army. Those who offered to serve seemed to be shiftless, signing up because they could find no other employment. Americans elevated the man who took up arms during wartime, yet disparaged the one who joined the ranks in times of peace. Addressing his fellow United States senators in 1826, Maine’s General John Chandler expressed this attitude when he described wartime citizen-soldiers as ‘‘men who have families and properly to defend, men of correct habits.” But, to the veteran of die War of Independence and the War of 1812, peacetime soldiers just wanted to earn enough to “supply them with something to drink.” With such an abundance of land in the new republic, Chandler believed that only the least ambitious and most unenterprising would be attracted to serve 92 General John Chandler, hero of Monmouth and member of the U. S. Senate Military Affairs Committee, believed that in a nation blessed with opportunity only the most unenter­ prising would be attracted to the regular army during peacetime. Cochrane, History of Monouth and. Walts (1894) in the ranks of the regular army. Peacetime service would always draw “a class of men” who had “habits and morals not the most correct.”2 People listened when Chandler spoke. Since 1821 he had served on the five-member Senate Military Affairs Commit­ tee where he had rubbed shoulders with Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Thomas Hart Benton in discussing and making recommendations relating to the nation’s tiny standing army of less than six thousand officers and men.3 Would Captain Dearborn’s recruits in Maine fit General Chandler's description, or would they prove more patriotic than men who enlislcd elsewhere in the nation? Records of the regular army, preserved at the National Archives, best answer this question. A systematic search of enlistment registers, muster rolls, and other documents revealed 1,927 Mainers joined the army between 1822 and 1860. An analysis of the information drawn from the registers of enlist­ ment and other army records does not answer all questions about the behavior of men in the rank and file, but it goes far beyond the simple notions of General Chandler.4 The means by which the military recruited reveals several characteristics of the average enlisted man. In Maine and elsewhere, the army pursued two kinds of recruitment, one passive in nature and the other active. Passively, military base 93 Table I New Recruits Enlisted at Maine Posts: 1822-1860 Post Regiment 1822- 1827- 1838- 1848- 1854- Total 1827 1838 1848 1853 1860 Fort Preble First Artillery 67 13 80 Third Artillery 75 29 104 Fort Sullivan First Artillery 75 63 138 Third Artillery 1 69 73 143 Hancock Second Infantry 104 104 Barracks First Artillery 87 87 Fort Kent First Artillery 5 5 Kennebec Ordnance 21 26 19 11 77 A rsenal Total 143 269 194 121 11 738 commanders within the state expected a certain number of walk- in volunteers. (See Table 1.) Posts near the state’s most populated urban areas could sometimes meet all of their man­ power requirements in this manner. A remote garrison, like Table II New Recruits Enlisted at Rendezvous: 1826-1855 Recruiting 1826- 1837- 1845- 1853- Total Percent Station 1832 1841 1848 1855 B angor 96 137 306 31 570 47.9% Portland 132 31 74 9 246 20.7 Eastport 0 36 54 20 110 9.2 Houlton 0 0 50 0 50 4.2 Augusta 12 1 36 0 49 4.1 Other 4 8 153 0 165 13.9 Total 244 213 673 60 1190 Percent 20.5% 17.9% 56.6% 5.0% 94 ARMY RECRUITS Hancock Barracks in Houlton, could expect few men from the thinly populated countryside of northern Maine.5 The army recruited actively by opening short-term recruit­ ing stations, called rendezvous, in the cities of the state. (See Table 2.) Sometimes the General Recruiting Service operated Table III Recruiting Stations and Officers in Maine: 1825-1860 General Recruiting Service (G) - Regimental Recruiting Service (R) • Maine-born Recruiting Officers Period of R endezvous Recruiting Service M en Recruitment Location O fficer E nlisted July 1826-Jan. 1827 A ugusta Bainbridge, 2Lt Flenry G 12 Apr. 1828-Jan. 1829 P ortland •Dearborn, Capt Green leaf G 84 June - Sep. 1828 B angor Russell, 1 Lt John B. F. G 25 Oct. 1829-Nov. 1830 B angor Gallagher, 1 Lt Joseph S. G 69 May 1831-Feb. 1832 P ortland W orth, 1 Lt Joseph S G 48 July-Aug. 1837 P ortland McClintock, Capt William G 11 Dec. 1837-Feb. 1838 Eastport Childs, Brev Maj Thomas G 43 Apr. 1839 B angor McDowell, 2Lt Irvin R 11 May-Dec. 1839 B angor Hill, 1 Lt Bennett R 49 Oct.-Dec. 1839 P ortland Hill, 1 Lt Bennett R 20 Mar.-Apr. 1840 B angor McDowell, 2Lt Irvin R 23 May-Aug. 1840 B angor Magruder, 1 Lt John R 43 Sep 1840-Feb. 1841 B angor misc. officers R 1 1 Apr.-July 1845 B angor Bowen, 2Lt Isaac R 25 June-Aug. 1846 P ortland Stevens, 1 Lt Isaac I. R 12 July-Nov. 1846 B angor Henry 2Lt Jam es M. G 50 July-Aug. 1846 Eastport Rains, Capt Gabriel J. G 11 July-Dee. 1846 P ortland Hayman, 2Lt Samuel B. G 16 Aug. 1846 A ugusta Scott, 1 Lt James R. G 8 Dec. 1846-May 1847 B angor Van Bokkelen, 2Lt William G 64 June-July 1846 B angor •Carlisle, 2Lt Josiah H. G 16 Mar.-May 1847 A ugusta •Simmons, 2Lt Charles R 28 Mar.-May 1847 B angor •Thompson, LtCol Abner R 38 Mar.-May 1847 Belfast •Palmer, 2Lt Alpheus T. R 31 Mar.-May 1847 C alais •Swett, 2Lt Nathaniel R 17 Mar.-May 1847 Eastport •Morrow, 1 Lt Alexander R 16 Mar.-May 1847 E. Thomaston Tracy, 1 Lt Albert R 14 Mar.-May 1847 G ardiner •Bodfish, Capt Charles R 34 Mar.-Apr. 1847 Norridgewock •Crosby, 2Lt Thompson R 9 Apr. 1847 Porter, etc. •Whitten, 2Lt Edwin A. R 6 Mar.-Apr. 1847 S aco •Woodman, Capt Stephen R 24 May 1847 P ortland Archer, 2Lt James R 9 June-Oct. 1847 P ortland •Simmons, 2Lt Charles R 34 Aug. 1847-June 1848 B angor Patten, Brev Maj George W. G 169 July - Aug. 1848 B a ngor •Carpenter, 1 Lt Stephen D. G 18 Apr. 1848-Sep. 1848 Eastport •Prince, Capt Henry G 27 May-Dec. 1853 Eastport Dawson, Capt Samuel G 20 Apr.-June 1855 B a ngor •Palmer, 1 Lt Alpheus T. R 31 Apr.-June 1855 P ortland Tracy, Capt Albert R 9 95 ARMY RECRUITS these rendezvous; otherwise they were run by the recruiting services of individual regiments, ordinarily for service within the same region. Between the 1820s and the 1850s, seventeen General Recruiting Service officers and more than twenty regi­ mental service officers enlisted more than one thousand men, roughly three-fifths of all new recruits in Maine.6 (See Table 3.) Recruiters were most successful during the Mexican War, when their men were bound for service in that foreign conflict. They also brought in a considerable number of men during two short spans of time following the arrival of new regiments at Hancock Barracks: the first after the Second Infantry Regiment arrived in Maine in 1828; the second after the First Artillery Regiment replaced the Second Infantry in 1838. The army sometimes selected an officer to recruit in Maine on the basis of his connections in the state. Adjutant General Roger Jones, who was responsible for army recruiting, recog­ nized that Captain Dearborn’s ties to the state of Maine made him “the most suitable person” for the job.7 A native of Monmouth, Dearborn was the most senior of the handful of Maine-born officers then serving in the regular army.8 His wife was the daughter of Allen Gilman, who would later serve as Bangor's first mayor; her mother was Pamela Augusta Dearborn, for whom Maine’s present capital was named.9 The captain and his wife shared a common kinsman in General Henry Dearborn, who was his great-uncle and her grandfather.
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