Boston School Committee in 1861 and 1862. By that time the Civil War was disrupting all the processes of peace. The First Corps of Cadets, with Captain Codman, like the true Bostonian he was, in its number, was mustered into the service of the United States in May, 1862, and ordered to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. Here he displayed such abilities in the performance of his military duties that when the Forty-Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers was organized — and dubbed the 'Cadet Regiment' for the reason that its officers were drawn from the Cadets - he was elected its colonel. For the nine months of its enlistment, in 1862 and 1863, he commanded this regiment, which took part in minor battles in North Carolina and made itself a record creditable alike to officers and to men. A memorandum of a talk about this period of Colonel Codman's life, made by Dr. Emerson, has its significance: 'In the early part of the war, when bitterness and dissension broke out in the Somerset Club over politics, many members severed their connection and joined the Union Club. Codman joined the Union, yet remained a member of the Somerset. He went to the War as Colonel of the "Cadet Regiment," the Forty-Fifth Massachusetts Infantry, for nine months. When, on their return, he rode up Beacon Street at the head of his command, the Somerset Club men turned out and cheered him heartily. This memory evidently gave the Colonel great pleasure.' Dr. Emerson is responsible also for the memorandum that 'in 1864 Codman was placed in command of a battalion raised under the auspices of the Boston Rifle Club, to be in training for a new regiment when the demand should come, and three members of the Saturday Club, then juniors in college, Moorfield Storey, Robert S. Peabody, and Edward W. Emerson, "trailed the puissant pike" (Springfield Musket) under his command in Boylston Hall or on the Common.'

In 1864 and 1865, while the War was coming to an end, Colonel Codman served two terms as a member of the Massachusetts Senate. In the next decade, from 1872 to 1875, inclusive, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he excelled in vigorous debate and as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. The secretary of this committee at the time was that acute observer and biographer, Mr. John T. Morse, Jr., who has