The next group I am to write about is one that I have very little information about so far, but research is an ongoing process: The twenty-four men of the Nineth Regiments band. When the rest of the regiment left Massachusetts for the war, the band was not ready. (The rest of the regiment did not train at Camp Cameron.) At the beginning of the war, every regiment had its own band. Later this practice would be stopped. I do not know the exact dates of their stay. What I do know is that on Wednesday, July 3, 1861 the Boston Evening Transcript reported that Lieut. P. W. Black had been ordered to stay behind and organize the band. As of that date he had already recruited all 24 men, under the leadership of a Michael O'Connor, Band Master. The story also reports that they would leave on Monday, July 8th. There was a delay after this though because in The Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, Vol. II, a Patrick Burns of Biddeford Me. deserted from Camp Cameron on July 18th. This would be a stay of at least two weeks. Of the 24 men in the band, half lived in either Lynn, Mass. or Biddeford, Maine. Eleven of them where born in Ireland. The regimental roster shows that the members of the band had been mustered into service on June 17. This is not proof of when they occupied Camp Cameron. The band may have begun their history with the rest of the regiment.