January 13, 1861, The New York Herald
SECOND MEETING OF THE UNION VOLUNTEERS.
ADOPTION OF A CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS – ELECTION OF A CAPTAIN AND ORDERLY SERGEANT, ETC., ETC., ETC.
The second meeting of the Union Volunteers–a corps of young men who have organized themselves into a military body, with the intent of offering their services to the President of the United States for the preservation of the Union–took place last evening, pursuant to adjournment, at the Mercer House, the Chairman, Mr. Allan Rutherford, presiding. Some sixty or seventy persons were in attendance, including a number who were not present at the previous meeting.