COLONEL CHARLES H. RAYMOND. 83 



succeed the Hon. James W. Husted as deputy superin- 

 tendent of the department. While thus engaged he be- 

 came a member of the Albany Zouave Cadets, a fine body 

 of citizen soldiers, which was afterward merged into the 

 Tenth Regiment New York State National Guard, as 

 Company A. Then came the war, when men left the 

 farm, the store and the workshop to hasten to preserve the 

 Union. The Tenth Regiment volunteered, was recruited 

 to the full standard and mustered into the U. S. service as 

 the 1 77th N. Y. Volunteers, and on its rolls was "Charles 

 H. Raymond, first lieutenant, Company A." The regi- 

 ment was assigned to the Department of the Gulf, under 

 General N. P. Banks. Just before the siege of Port Hud- 

 son he was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of General 

 F. S. Nickerson, and later was made Assistant Adjutant- 

 General on the brigade staff. 



All through that weary siege, lying in the trenches in 

 a swampy country which filled the hospitals with mias- 

 matic patients, Colonel Raymond was at his post of duty, 

 even when, as his comrade, Colonel David A. Teller, told 

 me, he had been positively ordered to the hospital ; and in 

 the first assault on the works, May 27, 1863, was again at 

 his post, although hardly able to stand. Looking over 

 one of his war-time letters this sentence is found: "This 

 campaigning with field men and field guns, but without 

 field dogs, Inter arma silent canes, which, being inter- 

 preted, means that when men go afield to shoot each other 

 pointers are. no longer to the point, and setters get a set- 

 back. These are not the dogs of war." 



While in the field Colonel Raymond could not entirely 

 sink the sportsman in the soldier, for in writing to me of 

 the second assault on Port Hudson he said: "You cannot 

 think how sad and strange sounded the whistling of the 

 quail in the fields over which our brigade charged on that 



