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Wrentham. Only one has been guilty of any criminal act, but we must be under the painful necessity of saying that their experience in camp life has not appeared to increase in many of thein the habits of temperance and industry. JAMES T. FORD, Chairman Selectmen.
[The full reports, from which the above extracts are taken, may be found in the Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts for the year ending Dec. 31, 1865, pp. 141-218.]
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PERSONS SENDING REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS.
XIII. LIST OF PERSONS SENDING REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS FROM MASSACHUSETTS.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, HEADQUARTERS, BOSTON, July 1, 1864.
GENERAL ORDER, No. 23.
I. The following circular, received from the Provost-Marshal General of the United States, is promulgated by order of the Governor for public information, -
"CIRCULAR No. 25.
WAR DEPARTMENT, PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26, 1864.
Persons not fit for military duty, and not liable to draft, from age or other causes, have expressed a desire to be personally represented in the Army. In addition to the contributions they have made in the way of bounties, they propose to procure at their own expense, and present for enlistment, recruits to rep- resent them in the service. Such practical patriotisin is worthy of special commendation and encourage- ment. Provost-Marshals, and all other officers acting under this Burean, are ordered to furnish all the facilities in their power to enlist and muster promptly the acceptable representative recruits presented, in accordance with the design herein set forth.
The name of the person whom the recruit represents will be noted on the Enlistment and Descriptive Roll of the reeruit, and will be carried forward from those papers to the other official records which form bis Military history.
Suitably-prepared certificates of this personal representation in the service will be forwarded from this office, to be filled out and issued by Provost-Marshals to the persons who put in representative recruits. JAMES B. FRY, Provost-Marshal General."
The men enlisted under the provisions of the above circular, will be entitled to the bounty from the State ; and their families to the State Aid. These men are Representative Recruits, - that is to say, men induced to enlist, by the exertions of patriotic men who are not themselves liable to do military service, and not substitutes who are enlisted in the place of men either liable to military duty, or who have been drafted.
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By order of His Excellency,
JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. WILLIAM SCHOULER, Adjutant-General.
This list is transcribed, with a few obvious corrections, from that preserved in the Adjutant-General's office. There will be found on the list the names of persons who, having sent several sons to the war, furnished one or more representative recruits also. Other recruits were furnished in a similar manner, but more privately. I find, for instance, from the papers of the late Waldo Iligginson of Boston, that he furnished and fitted out three such recruits, at different times, he himself being then past the age of military service.
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PERSONS SENDING REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS.
Abercrombie, Mrs. Wyman, Quincy. Aborn, Josephi W., Boston. Adams, Mrs. Eben, Quincy. Adams, Paul, Boston. Adams, Mrs. Geo. S., Belmont. Agassiz, Alex., Cambridge. Alden, Dr. E., Randolph. Alden, E. G., Cambridge.' Aldrich, John H., Northbridge. Allen, Henry C., West Roxbury. Allen, W. C., Pittsfield.
Allen, Daniel, South Reading. Allen, Wm. E., Walthamn.
Allis, Justin W. C., Whately. Ames, N. S., Springfield. Ames, James T., Chicopee. Ames, Ezra, Rockport.
Amory, Col. Chas., Boston. Amory, Francis, Boston. Four reernits. Appleton, Wm., Brookline. Appleton, Henry D., Brookline. Apthorp, Rob't E., Boston. Apthrop, HI. O., Cambridge. Arms, William S., Springfield. Atkins, Elisha, Belmont. Atkins, Mrs. Elisha, Belmont. Atwell, Sam'l, Duxbury.
Babcock, Chas. A., Boston.
Bailey, Geo. H., Lawrence.
Baker, Henry II., Barnstable.
Bancroft, Henry, Lynnfield.
Bancroft, Thomas J., Boston.
Barker, Hiram, Brighton.
Barker, Otis B., Pittsfield.
Barker, Chas. T., Pittsfield.
Barker, John V., Pittsfield.
Barker, G. T., Pittsfield. Barnes, Mrs. Hiram, Goshen.
Barrows, Horatio, Middleboro. Barrus, Mrs. Hiram, Goshen.
Bascom, Gilbert, Southampton. Baseom, Geo. W., Holden. Bassett, Chas. C., Athol.
Batchelder, Dan'l W., Upton. Batchelder, Chandler, Upton. Bates, De Witt Clinton, Hingham. Bates, David HI., Braintree. Baxter, Dan'l, Brighton. Beal, Alex'r, Dorchester.
Beals, Elias S., Weymouth. Bearse, Chas. C., Barnstable. Beck, Charles, Cambridge. Belden, Elihu, Whately. Bemis, Chas. V., Medford. Benjamin, Mary, Shirley. Benjamin, S. D., Shirley. Bertram, John, Salem. Bertram, Mary Ann, Salem.
Bertram, Anna P., Salem. Bickford, Dan'l R., Charlestown. Bickford, Wm. D., Brighton. Bicknell, Z. L., Weymouth. Bigelow, J. C., Paxton.
Bigelow, Mrs. Henry W., Medford.
Billings, Joseph HI., West Roxbury.
Billings, Win. D., Hatfield. Billings, David, Hatfield. Billings, Joseph D., Hatfield.
Bird, F. W., Walpole. Blanchard, John A., Boston. Blaney, David H., Boston. Bowditch, Dr. H. I., Boston.
Bowditch, Mrs. W. I., Brookline.
Bowditch, Mrs. Olivia, Boston.
Bowditch, Miss Olivia Y., Boston.
Bowdlear, Sam'l G., Boston. Bowker, Albert, Boston. Boyd, Wm. B., Medway.
Boynton, Mrs. N., Chelsea. Boynton, N., Chelsea.
Braman, Isaac G., Brighton.
Breck, Joseph, Brighton.
Breed, H. A., Medford.
Bride, Wmn. J., Medford.
Bridge, N. W., Medford.
Briesler, Mrs. John, Quincy.
Briggs, Silas P., Dighton.
Bright, Wm. Ellery, Waltham.
Bright, Jonathan B., Waltham. Broad, Ira, Holden.
Brookhouse, Rob't, Salen.
Brooks, Geo. H., Brighton.
Brown, Willard, Worcester.
Brown, Zenas, Shirley.
Brown, Mrs. James, Belmont.
Brown, Benj., West Roxbury. Bruce, P. A., Boston.
Bryant, Dexter, Melrose. Bullard, Win. L., Boston.
Bullard, Wm. L. S., Stockbridge.
Burchard, Chas., West Cambridge.
Burgess, John A., Somerset. Burnham, John A., Brookline. Burnham, Miss Jennie D., Brookline.
Burnham, John A., Jr., Brookline.
Burnham, Mrs. Jolin A., Brookline.
Burnham, Win. A., Brookline.
Burnham, Miss Maria D , Brookline.
Burnham, Henry D., Brookline.
Burr, Lewis, Ashby.
Burr, Jackson, Ashby. Burr, John, Ashby. Bush, Warren T., Northborough.
Cabot, Samn'l, M.D., Boston.
Cabot, Mrs. Fred'k, Brookline. Cabot, Miss Sarah, Brookline. Cabot, Miss M. E., Brookline.
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PERSONS SENDING REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS.
Cady, Eli F., Huntington. Campbell, Geo., Pittsfield. Campbell, Geo. W., Pittsfield. Campbell, David, Pittsfield. Capen, Edw., Jr., West Bridgewater. Carey, Isaae HI., West Roxbury. Carnes, Geo. W., Brighton. Carney, James G., Lowell. Carter, Luke, Cambridge. Cary, Nath'l, West Roxbury. Chadbourne, P. A., Williamstown. Chadwick, C. C., Boston.
Champney, Win. R., Brighton. Chapin, Herman, Boston.
Chapin, Edward F., Boston. Chapin, Horace D., Boston. Chapin, Francis L., Cambridge. Chapman, Geo. R., Salem. Chapman, Gates, Jr., Holden.
Chapman, Faulkner, Cambridge.
Chapman, Francis L., Cambridge. Chiekering, Henry, Pittsfield. Child, W'm. C., Medford. Childs, Alex. C., Barnstable. Choate, Chas., Woburn. Church, Benj. B., Gosnold.
Church, Fred'k L., Andover. Church, Christopher A., Westport. Two reernits. Clapp, Edwin, Pittsfield.
Clapp, Col. Thaddens, Pittsfield.
Clark, James P., Medway. Clark, E. A. M., Boston. Clark, James F., Boston.
Clark, C. W., Boston. Clarke, Mrs. H. M., Belmont. Cobb, Wm. T., Dighton. Coburn, Geo. W., Draent.
Coburn, J. B. V , Dracut. Coggswell, Francis, Andover. Coggswell, James H., Brighton. Coggswell, Dr. Geo., Bradford. Colburn, Geo. W., Cambridge. Colby, H. J., Cambridge. Colby, Patrick, Brighton. Collamore, John, Springfield. Converse, James B., Salem. Coogan, Owen, Pittsfield. Coneh, Robert, Newburyport. Cowen, Susan II., Weymouth. Crane, Sam'l D., Boston. Crane, Joshua, Boston. Cross, Latham, New Bedford. Currier, Chas. G., Boston. Currier, Gilman, Boston. Cnrrier, C. Gilman, Boston. Curtis, Geo. S., West Roxbury. Curwen, James B., Salem. Cushing, Franklin K., Chelsea.
Damon, Warren, Cambridge. Damon, Dan'! E., Plymouth. Dana, Miss S. A., Cambridge. Dana, Miss E. E., Cambridge. Dana, Rich'd H., Cambridge. Daniell, Paul, Medway. Davenport, John, Cambridge. Davis, John, Ashby. Davis, Ethan, Holden. Davis, E. F., Cambridge. Dean, Chas , Cambridge. Dean, Theodore, Raynham. Dean, Benj. F., Raynham. Dennison, Miss C. A., Cambridge. Denton, Eben, Cambridge. Diekenson, Alex., Cambridge. Dillingham, Chas., Sandwich. Dix, Dr. John II., Boston. Dixwell, E. S., Cambridge. Donnison, Miss C. L., Cambridge. Dorr, Chas. H., Boston.
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Draper, Francis, Cambridge. Dudley, J. D., Brighton.
Dudley, P. W., Northbridge. Dunbar, E. M., Cambridge. Duncklee, Joseph, Brighton. Duneklee, Jolın, Brighton. Dunham, Henry J., Stockbridge. Durant, Thos., Pittsfield. Durfee, Walter C., Fall River. Dyer, E. C., Cambridge.
Eames, Ezra, Rockport. Eaton, Edw., Medway. Eaton, Wm. S., Boston. Edmands, Geo. D., Charlestown.
Eliott, Wm. P., Chicopee.
Ellis, Jonathan, Boston. Emerson, Jessup, Westfield. Emerson, Geo. B., Winthrop. Emerson, Thomas, South Reading. Emerson, Thos., South Reading.
Emerson, Betsy H., South Reading. Emery, Dan'l S., Boston. Emery, John S., Boston. Emmerton, Mrs. Ephraim, Salem. Evans, Alvah A., Salem. Everett, Edward, Boston.
Fairbanks, David, Melrose. Fairbanks, Sidney, Winehendon. Fairbanks, John H., Winchendon. Farnsworth, E., Boston. Farrar, A. W., Boston. Fay, Isaae, Cambridge. Fellows, Mrs. E. S., Quincy. Field, Miss Jennie I .. , Stockbridge. Field, John, West Cambridge.
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PERSONS SENDING REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS.
Fisher, Milton M., Medway. Fisher, Simeon, Medway. Fisher, Jabez, Boston. Fisher, Herbert G., Boston. Fisher, Arthur L., Boston. Fisher, Win. B., Boston. Fiske, Elisha B., Upton. Fiske, Mark, Somerville. Fitz, Chas., Gloucester. Flagg, Silas, Jr , Holden. Flagg, Austin, Hoklen. Fletcher, Sam'l, Northbridge.
Fletcher, Franklin, Reading. Fletcher, W. O , Westfield. Fletcher, Mrs. J. V., Belmont. Flint, J. D., Fall River. Flint, D. B., Cambridge. Follen, Chas., State at large. Folsom, Peter, S. Reading.
Forbes, Benj., Brighton. Fowler, Chas., Northbridge. French, Jona., Braintree. French, Mrs. Washington M., Quincy.
French, Mrs. F. O., Reading.
Frost, Morrill, Boston. Frost, Jonathan, Reading. Frothingham, N. L., Boston. Fuller, Granville, Brighton. Fuller, Richard F., Wayland.
Gage, Orrin, Ware. Gage, Addison, West Cambridge. Gale, Lydia S., Boston. Gardner, H. F., Boston.
Gardner, Peleg S., Somerset.
Gay, Phineas E., Boston. Gaylord, Sereno, Chicopee.
Gaylord, Emerson, Chicopee. Gerrish, Smith, Medford. Gibbs, Leonard, Raynham. Gibson, Joseph H., Somerville. Gilbert, Sam'l, Jr., Dorchester. Gillett, James R., Westfield. Glover, Mrs. John, Quincy. Goddard, Nathaniel, Boston. Goddard, Miss Louisa M., Boston. Goddard, Miss Mathilda, Boston. Going, John K., Shirley. Gooch, Joshua G., Watertown. Goodrich, J. Z., Stockbridge. Gordon, John, Brighton. Gore, Sam'l, Braintree. Gould, B. A., Cambridge. Greely, Joseph, Boston. Green, David R., New Bedford. Green, Reuben, Dorchester. Grew, Mrs. Henry, State. Grey, Jeremiah, Somerset. Grinnell, Chas. B., Boston. Gunn, E. F., Montague.
Hadley, David B., Cambridge. Hale, Charles, Boston. Ilall, Sanı'l, Jr., Boston. HIall, Thomas J., Upton.
Hall, Dudley, Medford.
Hall, Francis, Cambridge.
Hall, Chas., Boston. Hamblett, George, Dracut.
Hamblett, Chas. A., Dracut.
Hapgood, Asa, Worcester. Harding, Abram S., Medway.
Harding, Henry C., Hingham.
Harrington, W. A., Brighton.
Harris, J. W., Boston. Harris, James Winthrop, Cambridge.
Hathaway, Wm. L., Dighton. Head, Clas. D., Brookline.
Hersey, Reuben, Hingham.
Heywood, Paul, Ashby.
Hidden, David I. C., Andover.
Higginson, Geo., Boston.
Higginson, James P., Boston.
Higginson, Louisa G., Boston.
Hildreth, A. E., Cambridge.
Hill, W. R., Sutton.
Hill, Sylvester S., Billerica.
Hill, Asa, Athol. Hinckley, Nath'l, Barnstahle.
Hoadley, Maria G., New Bedford.
Hoadley, Mrs. C. G., New Bedford.
Hoadley, Miss C. E., New Bedford.
Hobart, Levi W , Braintree.
Holbrook, Abner, Weymouth.
Holbrook, J. E., Braintree. Holden, Jonas, Shirley.
Hollingsworth, John M., Groton.
Hollingsworth, E. A., Braintree.
Hollis, David N., Braintree.
Homer, Mrs. James B., Belmont.
Houghton, Wm. S., Boston.
Hovey, Geo. O., Boston.
Howard, Jason G., Braintree.
Howard, John E., West Bridgewater.
Howe, Estes, Cambridge.
Howe, N. Tracey, Cambridge.
Howland, Jonathan, New Bedford.
Howland, Ichabod, Boston. Hubbard, Geo. W., Hatfield. Humphrey, Benj., Boston. Humphrey, Francis J., Dorchester.
Humphrey, Albert, Weymouth. Humphrey, James, Weymouth. Hunt, Mrs. A. T., New Bedford.
Hunt, Nath'l H., Braintree. Hunt, Harriet K., Boston.
Inman, Wm. R., Boston.
Jackson, Mrs. Susan M., Boston. Jackson, Win. True, Andover.
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PERSONS SENDING REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS.
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Jackson, P. T., Boston. Jeffries, John, Jr., Boston. Jenkins, Win., Andover. Jones, Cyrus, Dracut.
Keith, Wm. H., Waltham. Kellogg, Lorenzo A., Westfield. Kellogg, Ensign H., Pittsfield. Kelton, Calvin, Athol.
Kendall, William, Northbridge. Kendrick, Rufus, Reading. Kidder, D. B., Boston. King, Putnam, Sutton. Knights, Sam'l, Charlestown. Knights, Francis H., Reading. Kingsley, Chester W., Cambridge. Kingsley, Daniel, Brighton. Knowlton, William, Upton.
Langdon, W. C., Monterey. Lawrence, Edw., Charlestown. Lawton, Geo., Waltham. Lee, Eliot, Dracut.
Leland, Horace, Sutton. Lewis, Willard, Walpole.
Lincoln, B., Boston.
Little, Geo. W., Charlestown.
Livermore, John, Cambridge.
Livermore, Caroline H., Cambridge. Livermore, Mary C., Cambridge. Livermore, Emma C., Cambridge.
Livermore, Isaac, Cambridge. Livermore, Geo., Cambridge.
Livermore, Eliz'th C., Cambridge. Livermore, Chas. C., Cambridge. Locke, Wm. F., Braintree. Longfellow, H. W., Cambridge. Loring, Chas. G., Boston. Three recruits. Loring, Mrs. Anna T., Boston. Loring, Miss Mary G., Boston. Loring, F. C., Boston. Loring, Miss Isa E., Boston. Lothrop, Rev. Chas. D., Norton. Loud, Henry, Weymouth. Lovejoy, Albert P., Bo-ton. Lovell, John P., Weymouth. Lovering, James, Medway. Lowell, John A., Boston. Lowell, Augustus, Boston. Lowell, Miss Rebecca A., Roxbury. Lowell, Miss Anna C., Roxbury. Lowell, J. Russell, Cambridge.
MeLean, Francis F., Ludlow. Mack, Dr. William, Salem. Mansfield, Warren, Braintree. Manson, Nath'l G., Cambridge. Marble, Bradford, Somerset. Marrett, Lorenzo, Cambridge.
Mason, Rev. Sam'l R., Cambridge. Mason, Rev. Sumner, Cambridge. Matthews, D. P., Winthrop. Matthews, Watson, Cambridge. May, Frederic, Medford. Miller, Josiah, Prescott. Milis, Isaac B., Boston. Moffat, Richardson, Boston. Morey, George, Boston. Morrison, Alvah, Braintree. Morrison, Alvah S., Braintree. Morse, Calvin, Cambridge. Morton, Erastus, Whately. Munson, Garry, Huntington. Murdock, Joseph, Roxbury.
Nash, Stephen G., South Reading. Neal, Sam'l, Boston.
Newton, Henry, Weymouth.
Nichols, Geo., Cambridge.
Nickerson, Seth, Barnstable.
Nowell, John A., Boston.
Noyes, H. S., Springfield.
Osborn, J., Brighton.
Osgood, Miss Lucy, Medford. Owen, Chas. M., Stockbridge. Owen, Mrs. Sarah B., Stockbridge.
Page, Henry A., Medford.
Palfrey, John G., Boston. Parker, David, 2d, Barnstable.
Parks, John, Huntington. Parsons, Theophilus, Cambridge.
Partridge, Clark, Medway. Peabody, Alfred, Salem.
Peabody, Edwin R., Salem. Peabody, Mrs. Jernsha, Salem. Peck, Jonas O., Lowell. Peck, Capt. Jabez, Pittsfield.
Peirce, Henry A., Boston. Peters, Edw. D., Cohasset.
Phillips, Thomas W., Dighton. Pierce, Hiram, Prescott. Pierce, Chas. F., Newton. Pierce, J. M., Brighton.
Pierce, Chas. W , Newton. Piper, Geo. C., Cambridge. Plummer, Israel, Northbridge. Plunkett, Thos. F., Pittsfield. Pomeroy, Theodore, Pittsfield. Pomeroy, Robert, Pittsfield. Porter, Miss Helen, Medford. Porter, Sam'l A., Worcester. Potter, John C., Newton. Potter, Henry, Cambridge. Putnam, L. B., Sutton.
Quincy, Mary Jane, Quiney.
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PERSONS SENDING REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS
Rand, Edw. S., Boston. Rand, H. C., Cambridge. Ray, Geo. W., Medway. Raymond, Z. L., Cambridge. Redman, St. Croix, Medford. Reed, Josiah, Weymouth. Reed, Isaiah, Weymouth. Rice, Edw. E., Dorchester. Richards, Elias, Weymouth. Richardson, Mrs. Thos , Belmont. Richardson, Wm. T., Cambridge. Richardson, Henry, Dracut. Richardson, James, Dracut. Richardson, Geo. P., Duxbury. Richardson, Albert, Winthrop. Robbins, Royal E., Walthamn. Roberts, John, Waltham. Robinson, Joseph C., Malden. Robinson, Enoch, Raynham. Robinson, Chas., Raynham. Rogers, Mary S., Southampton. Rogers, N. F., New Ashford. Rogers, John, Roxbury. Rogers, Miss A. P., Boston. Rogers, H. B., Boston. Rogers, Mrs. H. B., Boston. Ruggles, Miss Emily, Reading. Russell, Daniel, Melrose.
Sage, Orrin, Weymouth. Sanborn, A. C., Cambridge. Sargent, John, Cambridge. Saunders, Dan'I, Lawrence. Sawin, Nath'l D., Cambridge. Sawtelle, Andrew, Charlestown. Shapleigh, Mrs. Sam'l C., Boston. Shaw, Cassina, Raynham. Shaw, Miss M. L., Boston. Shaw, Mrs. Mary L., Boston. Shaw, Wm. F., Boston. Shaw, Thaxter, Montague. Shumway, Eliel, Groton. Shumway, Win. T., Webster. Silsbee, Benj. H., Salem. Silsbee, Francis H., Salem. Simmons, Noble S., Dighton. Slade, Wm. L., Somerset. Slade, Avery P., Somerset. Slade, Jonathan, 2d, Somerset. Smith, Martin L., Cambridge. Smith, G. A., South Hadley. Smith, De Witt S., Lee Southard, Chas. E., Brighton. Southworth, Sumner, Williamstown. Sparks, Jared, Cambridge. Spencer, Mrs. W. V., Cambridge. Spooner, Mrs. Win. B., Boston. Spooner, Win B., Boston. Stackpole, D. D., Boston. Stanton, Jabez, Huntington.
Stearns, Mrs. M. F., Pittsfield. Stearns, Henry, Pittsfield. Stearns, Mrs. M. B., Pittsfield. Stearns, Dan'l, Pittsfield. Stearns, Mrs. Mary E , Medford. Stearns, Geo. L., Medford. Stebbins, John B., Springfield. Stoddard, Chas., Boston. Stone, Amos, Charlestown.
Storrs, Rev. R. P., Braintree. Stowe, William, Springfield. Strong, Ew'd A., Boston. Swan, Daniel, Medford. Swan, Joseph, Medford. Swan, C. L., Clinton.
Taber, Henry, New Bedford.
Talbot, Cyrus, Dighton. Talbot, Dr. Chas., Dighton.
Talmadge, Henry, Williamstown. Tappan, John, Boston. Tappan, Chas., Brookline.
Taylor, W. O, Boston. Taylor, Mrs. E. B , Quincy. Taylor, Rev. John L., Andover.
Taylor, Edward, Andover. Temple, Mark M., Reading. Thayer, Wm. Sidney, Milton. Thorndike, James P., Braintree. Thorpe, Lewis, Athol. Thorpe, Walter, Atbol.
Titcomb, W. W., Boston.
Tower, L. L., Cambridge. Towne, Ebenezer B., Raynham. Train, Sam'l, Medford. True, Jackson Wm., Andover.
Tuckerman, Rob't, New Bedford. Tufts, Amos, Charlestown. Turner, Edw., Quincy.
Tweedy, Jolın H., Jr., Boston.
Tweedy, James F., Boston.
Upham, James H., Dorchester.
Varnum, A. O., Dracnt. Varnum, Dan'I, Dracut.
Wales, Atherton, Randolph. Wales, Mrs. T. C., Boston. Wales, Thos. C., Boston. Walker, Wm. L., Braintree. Walley, Stephen, Williamstown.
Ward, David F., Athol. Ward, Edward Everett, Boston. Ward, J. S., Montague. Warren, Edw., Commonwealth. Warren, Eli, Upton. Warren, J. Sullivan, State. Warren, Wm. Wilkins, Boston. Warren, Wm., Brighton.
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PERSONS SENDING REPRESENTATIVE RECRUITS.
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Washburn, Cyrus, Weymouth. Waters, Harvey, Northbridge. Wellington, Horatio, Charlestown. Wells, Parker, Middleton. Wells, Jerome, Chicopee.
Wenzell, Henry, Brookline.
Wenzell, Henry B., Brookline.
Weston, G. B., Duxbury.
Weston, Mrs. G. B., Duxbury, and 140 other ladies of Duxbury.
Wheelwright, W. D., Newbury.
Wheelwright, J. W., Newbury.
Willard, Ammi, Boston.
Whicher, Mrs. Jolm D., Quiney.
Williams, D. R., Stock bridge.
Whicher, Paul, Ashby.
Williams, Geo., Raynham. Williams, John M. S., Cambridge.
Whiteomb, Francis E., Somerville.
White, Ambrose H., Dorchester.
Williams, J. B., Cambridge.
White, Nelson D., Winchendon.
Williams, Miss Emily L., Cambridge.
White, James, Williamstown.
Williams, Miss Caroline T., Cambridge.
Whitin, Chas. P., Northbridge.
Williams, Mrs. E. L. M., Cambridge.
Witeher, Mrs. John, Quincy.
Whitin, Paul, Northbridge. Whitney, Edw., Belmont.
Wood, Caleb, Cambridge.
Whitney, Geo. D., Boston.
Wood, David F., Athol.
Whitney, Henry A., Boston.
Wood, Moses, Fitchburg.
Whitney, Mrs. Carrie F., Boston.
Worcester, Thomas, Boston.
Whitney, N. D., Boston.
Worcester, Joseph E , Cambridge.
Whitney, Theo. I)., Boston.
Wyman, Harvey, Winchendon.
Whitney; Thos., Shirley.
Wyman, Morrill, Cambridge.
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Whitney, Warren J., Boston. Whitten, John C., Northbridge. Wigglesworth, Edw., Boston. Wigglesworth, Geo., Boston. Wigglesworth, Miss Ann, Boston.
Wigglesworth, Miss Mary, State.
Wigglesworth, Thos., Boston. Wilbor, Wm., Somerset. Wilbur, Dan'l, Somerset. Wilcox, Marshall, Lee.
Wilbur, Seth D , Raynham.
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MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN IN TILE CIVIL WAR.
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XIV. MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR.
By MARY A. LIVERMORE.
Any description of the services rendered by Massachusetts women in the civil war must be introduced by a brief sketch of the national organization which mainly guided them. The United States Sanitary Commission was in the field almost as soon as the first soldiers, and it was the outgrowth of the patriotism of women. The great uprising in April, 1861, of men who forgot sectarian and political differences in their quickened love of country, was paralleled by a similar uprising of women. Men mustered for the battlefield at the call of the President, and women mustered in churches, school-houses and parlors, eagerly asking what they could do, and calling for instruction. Within fifteen days after the President's call for seventy-five thou- sand volunteers, scores of associations of women were formed, pledged to the ser- vice of the imperilled Republic, to supplement it in its care of sick and wounded soldiers, and to assist in the care of the dependent families they had left behind. These associations increased to hundreds in a very few months.
The most remarkable of these organizations was formed in the city of New York early in the war, and was known as "The Woman's Central Association of Relief." In connection with other similar organizations, it decided to send a com- mittee to Washington, to learn from the highest authorities " in what way the vol- untary offerings of the people could best be made available for the relief of the army." Dr. Bellows of New York was elected chairman of this committee, and before he returned from Washington a plan of the Sanitary Commission, drawn up by himself, received the sanction of the President and Secretary of War. Not heartily, however, for the very highest officials of the government regarded the whole plan as quixotic, and consented to it only because "it could do no harm." But for the zeal, intelligence and persistence of his women constituents, numbering thousands, it is more than probable that Dr. Bellows would have abandoned his humane efforts, so annoying were the rebuffs and hindrances which opposed him. In a few months, however, the baseless prejudice against the commission died, and the army surgeons, at first opposed to it, became enthusiastic in its praise.
The commission did a more extensive work than was at first contemplated. or is to-day generally known. It was an enterprise that sprang from the hearts of the people, and which planted itself firmly on their generosity, for it received no gov- ernment aid in money or sanitary stores. It depended wholly on the voluntary con- tributions of loyal men and women throughout the nation. The people honored the trust reposed in them, and sent to the army, through the commission, between
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MASSACHUSETTS WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR.
twenty-five and thirty million dollars in money and supplies. There was a resolute determination in their hearts that neither inexperience nor dogged adherence to army routine should cause such wholesale slaughter of their beloved citizen soldiers as lack of sanitary care and proper food had wrought among British soldiers in the war of the Crimea, only six years before.
Until our civil war, it was considered inevitable that for every soldier killed in battle four must die of disease, even when sanitary conditions were at their best. and the death rate was generally much heavier than this. In the Crimean war seven-eighths of the mortality of British troops were due to disease ; and in January, 1855, ninety-seven per cent. of the deaths was from the same cause. But during our national struggle, for every soldier who fell in battle only two died of disease, - the splendid result of the beneficent work of the commission, which knew neither sect nor section. parties nor nationalities, in its life-saving and life-preserving activities. What were the methods of the Sanitary Commission ? Only the briefest outline of them can be given here.
It was to be subordinate to army rules and regulations, to supplement and not supplant the government, to strengthen it by earnest co-operation and not weaken it by a divided authority. The railroads transported all its freight free of charge, the express companies carried its packages at half rate, and the telegraph com- panies remitted the usual charges on its messages.
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