regiments at a cost of $10,000 per regiment.

The committee founded a camp, and named it "Camp William Penn," at
Shelton Hill, near Philadelphia. On the 26th of June, 1863, the first
squad of eighty men went into camp. On the 3d of February, 1864, the
committee made the following statement, in reference to the raising of
regiments:

"On the 24th July, 1863, the First (3d United States) regiment
was full.

"On the 13th September, 1863, the Second (6th United States)
regiment was full.

"On the 4th December, 1863, the Third (8th United States)
regiment was full.

"On the 6th January, 1864, the Fourth (22d United States)
regiment was full.

"On the 3d February, 1864, the Fifth (25th United States)
regiment was full.

"August 13th, 1863, the Third United States regiment left Camp
William Penn, and was in front of Fort Wagner when it
surrendered.

"October 14th, 1863, the Sixth United States regiment left for
Yorktown.

"January 16th, 1864, the Eighth United States regiment left for
Hilton Head.

"The 22d and 25th regiments are now at Camp William Penn, waiting
orders from the Government."

The duty of recruiting "Colored troops" in the Department of the
Cumberland was committed by Secretary Stanton to an able, honest, and
patriotic man, Mr. George L. Stearns, of Massachusetts. Mr. Stearns
had devoted his energies, wealth, and time to the cause of the slave
during the holy anti-slavery agitation. He was a wealthy merchant of
Boston; dwelt, with a noble wife and beautiful children, at Medford.
He had been, from the commencement of the agitation, an ultra
Abolitionist. He regarded slavery as a gigantic system of complicated
evils, at war with all the known laws of civilized society; inimical
to the fundamental principles of political economy; destructive to
republican institutions; hateful in the sight of God, and ever
abhorrent to all honest men. He hated slavery. He hated truckling,
obsequious, cringing hypocrites. He put his feelings into vigorous
English, and keyed his deeds and actions to the sublime notes of
charity that filled his heart and adorned a long and eminently useful
life. He gave shelter to the majestic and heroic John Brown. His door
was--like the heavenly gates--ajar to every fugitive from slavery, and
his fiery earnestness kindled the flagging zeal of many a conservative
friend of God's poor.