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A.
Allen, John L. Allen, William H.
Atwood, Sullivan C.
Alden, David A. Astle, James Anderson, John H. L.
Babb, Walter
B. Bishop, Daniel H.
Banfield, Addison W.
Blaisdell, Charles H.
Barrett, Henry W.
Brackett, Gilbert A.
Barrett, James A.
Brown, George E.
Barrett, Jonathan
Brown, Laroy
Bartlett, Nathaniel J.
Browne, Orrin
Biathrow, Franklin Biffin, James
Bryant, Dexter
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Chase, Daniel L. Chase, Sanford W. Cheever, Augustus L. Coburn, Lucius
C.
Cook, William Corson, George G. Crocker, John H.
Davis, Edmund W. Dodge, James W.
D.
Donalavy, William
E.
Edmonds, Artemas B.
Emerson, George W.
Emerson, Joseph S.
Fairbanks, Joseph A.
Fargo, Charles O.
Farnsworth, George W.
Fernald, James H.
French, Alonzo
Fuller, William A.
Furneaux, Charles
G.
Gould, Levi S.
Greene, Benjamin F.
Grover, Andrew J.
Grover, George W. Jr.
Grundy, William
H.
Hollahan, Lawrence Hopkins, James S.
Howard, Caleb G.
Howard, Otis
Howe, Francis E.
Howes, Jonathan C.
Emerson, Richard W. Emery, Joshua Jr.
F. Finnegan, William
Fennerty, Thomas
Freeman, Leander T.
Finnegan, Dennis Finnegan, Edward
Gilmore, William M.
Goodwin, Joseph
Gordon, Curtis S.
Gordon, William F. Goss, Elbridge H.
Hammond, George Harris, Augustine Hawkins, John Hayward, Daniel E. Hemmenway, William Henderson, John H. B. Hill, William L.
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I.
Irvine, Fayette J.
J.
Jackson, William P.
K.
Keating, Thomas Keith, Charles E. Keyes, Silas
Knight, Edwin F. Knights, Edward R. Knowles, Theodore L.
L.
Lynch, John B. Lynde, Charles A. Lynde, Daniel A. Lynde, James O.
Lynde, Leonard
M.
Magoon, Sylvanus McCafferty, Michael A.
McLenathan, Charles
Merrick, Theodore B.
Murray, John
Munn, Lawrence K.
Newhall, Edward B. Newhall, Henry B.
Parker, Edward Page, Moses S. Patterson, Alonzo Paul, William F. Peck, Oren H. Pierce, Ansel B.
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N.
Norton, John R.
P. Pierce, Robert W. Pollock, George W. Porter, Lucius L. D. . Pratt, Dexter Prentice, George
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Leonard, Henry A. Littlehale, Henry A. Lord, Samuel Lyall, David S. Lunt, George G.
Morcomb, Henry P.
Moseley, Randolph L. Morse, William Morse, William F.
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Q.
Quinn, Thomas
R.
Rankin, Frederick W. A. Jr.
Richards, Aaron H.
Richardson, Lewis H.
Robbins, Charles
Richardson, William H.
Robinson, Samuel A.
Sanford, Joseph B.
S. Stantial, George C.
Sears, Elisha F.
Stantial, Thomas B.
Shelton, Albert F.
Stevens, Henry A.
Shelton, Richard H.
Stone, George F.
Shelton, Stephen W.
Stone, William H.
Skinner, Glover
Stratton, William D,
Small, James M.
Smith, Rufus
Spinney, William K.
Sutton, Joseph P. B.
Tainter, George A.
Tay, Aaron
Tourtellot, Samuel M.
Towner, Levi C.
Trask, Albert
Trott, Andrew P.
Upham, Albert Upham, Charles F.
U. Upham. Sylvanus Upham, Timothy
Upham, Osgood W.
V.
Vaughn, William W.
Waitt, Charles A. Warren, William Watson, Frank Wells, William H.
W. Wilcox, Daniel W. Wilde, Joseph D. Woodward, George Wyman, William
T. Tower, John W.
Taylor, Marcus C. Taylor, William Thompson, John
Ripley, Augustus Roberts, Joseph L.
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CLASS II.
Adams, John Q.
A. Avery, John Q. A. B. Brooks, Augustus
Baldwin, John
Barker, Samuel
Brown, Benjamin
Barrett, Augustus
Bradford, Erastus F.
Bartlett, George W.
Brown, Increase H. Jr.
Bickford, Ira H.
Brown, John
Bird, Henry S.
Boardman, George A.
Bugbee, Samuel S. Bryant, Napoleon B. Buffum, Carlon
Chapin, Calvin N.
C. Coolidge, Charles G. Courriea, Charles M.
Clark, William
Cleaveland, Nathan S.
Crowley, Jeremiah
Cobb, John W.
Curtis, Samuel
Cobb, Elisha W.
Chase, Daniel G.
Coburn, Lewis G.
Coffin, Galen
Conway, Daniel
Connell, James
D.
Davie, George Dow, Milo
Dyer, John A.
Edgerly, Obadiah S. Edgerly, Peter
Emerson, George 2d. Emerson, Isaac Jr.
F.
Fessenden, George F.
Gateley, John Gilman, Tristram Gooch, Daniel W.
E.
Foster, Daniel W. G. Goss, Allen C. Gould, Albert A. Greeley, William P.
Boardman, William W.
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H.
Haley, Reuben F.
Hicks, Walter
Hamblet, James Jr.
Hill, David
Hart, George
Hodges, James D.
Hawkins, Thomas
Hoeffner, Lewis G.
Hayward, Jabez G.
Holbrook, Joseph
Heath, George W.
Horn, James
Hemmenway, George
Hudson, Jarvis P.
I.
Isburgh, Charles H.
Jefferson, Daniel
Kelley, Farnsworth Kendall, Samuel E. Kent, Elisha V.
K. Kimball, Thomas J. Kirmes, Christopher
L.
Littlefield, Walter Jr. Loring, Martin B. Lynde, Alonzo V. Lynde, William O.
M.
Messenger, Charles A. Messenger, Frank A. Morton, Daniel O.
N.
Newhall, George Newhall, John
Norton, Daniel Jr.
P. Perkins, John Jr. Poole, William F.
Parker, Moses Pemberton, Calvin Perkins, Albert P.
J.
Lane, Addison Lamson, William A. Leavitt, Rufus Little, Edmund B.
Mansfield, George A. McCoubry, Thomas McIntyre, Joseph
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R.
Russell, Daniel
S.
Sewall, John S. Simonds, Charles H. Spaulding, Henry H Sprague, Alfred W. Stevens, Edgar M.
T. Trowbridge, Henry E Turner, Henry
U Upham, Orne
V.
Vinton, Gray
Varney, Cyrus Vinton, Aaron Jr.
Warren, Ralph West, John Wheeler, Gardner
Wheeler, George G.
W. Wheeler, Robert Whowell, John Whyte, Oliver Woodward, David R.
Y.
Young, Isaiah A.
H. G. HERRICK, Captain and Provost-Marshal, Sixth Dist. Mass.
E.
EXEMPTION PAPERS.
Those citizens who had the pleasure of reading their names in the afternoon papers of July 13, 1863, as among the drafted, received soon afterwards a letter from the Provost-Marshal,
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Robbins, Charles G. Roberts, John K.
Sales, Ephraim Sargent, Wingate P. Severence, Sargent F. Severy, Solomon Shepard, Thomas
Taylor, Fernando C. Terwillager, Lyell S.
Upham, Benjamin R.
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notifying them of the fact, and to appear before the Board of Enrollment at Lawrence, for examination. If not exempted for any cause, a choice was given the accepted person to furnish a substitute, or pay commutation money. The following is the form of receipt and certificate given in the latter case.
SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS COLLECTION DISTRICT. No. 121.
Received at Haverhill, on the fourteenth day of August, 1863, from Osgood W. Upham, of Melrose, who was drafted into the service of the United States, on the thirteenth day of July, 1863, from the Sixth Congressional District of the State of Massa- chusetts, the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300), to obtain, under Section 13 of the "Act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes - approved March 3, 1863," a discharge from further liability under the draft.
Signed in triplicate.
GEO. COGGSWELL, Receiver of Commutation Money.
CERTIFICATE OF NON-LIABILITY TO BE GIVEN BY THE BOARD OF ENROLLMENT.
We, the subscribers, composing the Board of Enrollment of the Sixth District of the State of Massachusetts, provided for in Section 8, Act of Congress "for enrolling and calling out the national forces," approved March 3, 1863, hereby certify that Osgood W. Upham, of Melrose, Middlesex County, State of Massachusetts, having given satisfactory evidence that he is not properly subject to do military duty, as required by said act, by reason of having paid Three Hundred Dollars, is exempt from all liability to military duty for the term of the present draft.
H. G. HERRICK, Provost- Marshal and Pres. Board of Enrollment. P. E. DAVIS, Member of Board of Enrollment.
J. L. SULLIVAN, JR., Surgeon of Board of Enrollment. Dated at Lawrence, this twentieth day of August, 1863.
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When a substitute was furnished, or when exemption was granted for the various causes, except disability, the same kind of certificate was used, differing only in the reason given for exemption. For exemption from disability the following was the form.
CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION FOR A DRAFTED PERSON ON ACCOUNT OF DISABILITY.
This is to certify, That - of Melrose, Middlesex County, State of Massachusetts, having been drafted, and claiming exemption on account of disability, has been carefully exam- ined, and is found to be unfit for military duty by reason of - and, in consequence thereof, he is exempt from service under the present draft.
H. G. HERRICK, Provost-Marshal and Pres. Board of Enrollment.
P. E. DAVIS,
Member of Board of Enrollment.
J. L. SULLIVAN, JR., Surgeon of Board of Enrollment.
Dated at Lawrence, this thirty-first of July, 1863.
F.
CERTIFICATE OF NON-LIABILITY TO BE GIVEN BY THE BOARD OF ENROLLMENT.
We, the subscribers, composing the Board of Enrollment of the Sixth District of the State of Massachusetts, provided for in Section 8, Act of Congress, "for enrolling and calling out the national forces," approved March 3, 1863, hereby certify that George Emerson, 2d, of Melrose, of Middlesex County, State of Massachusetts, having given satisfactory evidence that he is not properly subject to do military duty, as required by said Act, and the Act approved Feb. 24, 1864, and July 4, 1864, by reason of having furnished an acceptable substitute, is
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exempt from all liability to draft, not exceeding the time for which his substitute was enlisted, viz., three years.
H. G. HERRICK, Provost-Marshal and Pres. Board of Enrollment.
S. W. HOPKINSON, Member of Board of Enrollment. JOHN L. SULLIVAN, JR., Surgeon of Board of Enrollment.
Dated at Lawrence, Mass., this twenty-third day of July, 1864.
CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION OF THE SUBSTITUTE FURNISHED BY THE ABOVE.
I, Samuel Wilson, of Nova Scotia, do hereby certify that I am not legally subject to enrollment or draft, under the Acts of Congress for enrolling and calling out the national forces of the United States, and for the following reasons: That I am an alien and subject to the British Government. That I have never voted in, or declared my intention of becoming a citizen of the United States.
SAMUEL WILSON.
We, the subscribers, do hereby certify that we have such knowledge of said Samuel Wilson as to leave no doubt in our minds of the truth of his statement.
JAMES KUHN, of Boston, 11 Clark Street. W. M. I. BOTHAM, of Boston, 9 F. H. Square.
SUFFOLK, SS.
Personally appeared the above named Samuel Wilson, James Kuhn, and W. M. I. Botham, and severally made oath that the above Certificate is correct and true, according to the best of their knowledge and belief.
Dated at Boston, Mass., this twentieth day of July, 1864. [STAMP.]
THATCHER C. HATCH, Justice of the Peace.
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G.
RECEIPT AND CERTIFICATE FOR REPRESENTATIVE RECRUIT.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
TREASURER'S OFFICE, Boston, Aug. 1, 1864.
Received of Daniel Russell of Melrose, One Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars, for account of the Provost-Marshal-General of the State of Massachusetts, to be used for recruiting purposes under General Order No. 27, 1864, such recruit to be credited to the quota of Melrose. Representative Recruit.
HENRY K. OLIVER, Treasurer.
LEVI REED, Auditor.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
This is to certify that Daniel Russell of Melrose, in said Commonwealth, a citizen not liable to be drafted into the mili- tary service of the United States, has paid the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars into the State Treasury, under General Order of Commonwealth, No. 27, dated July 14, A. D. 1864, to assist in recruiting the national armies, and has had assigned to him as his Representative Recruit, Private Davis Jones, Fifty-Eighth U. S. Colored Infantry. Enlisted under the Act of Congress providing for the recruitment of volunteers in the Rebellious States, approved July 4, A.D. 1864.
Given under my hand, at the Head-Quarters of said Com- monwealth at Boston, this fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JOHN A. ANDREW, Governor of Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
J. M. DAY, Colonel and Provost-Marshal of Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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H. PROVOST-MARSHAL'S OFFICE, 6TH DISTRICT, MASS., LAWRENCE, May 6, 1864.
You are hereby informed that the Board of Enrollment of the Sixth District Massachusetts has appointed you an Enrolling Officer for the Sub-District, as follows, viz : No. 9, being the town of Melrose, at a compensation of three dollars per diem, for the time actually employed.
You will immediately enter upon your duties, and complete the enrollment required under the amended Enrollment Act of Feb. 24, 1864, without the least delay.
You will enroll,
Ist. All persons liable to draft whose names have been omitted in the former enrollment. These omissions you will learn by reference to the accompanying printed lists.
2d. All persons who, since the former enrollment, and prior to this, shall have arrived at the age of twenty years.
3d. All aliens who have declared their intention of becom- ing citizens, and not heretofore enrolled.
4th. All persons discharged from the military or naval service of the United States, who have not been in such service two years during the present war, whether heretofore enrolled or not; except those borne upon the printed lists.
5th. You will enroll, upon separate sheets, the names of any and all persons whose names are borne on the printed lists, who shall have arrived at the age of forty-five at the time of the com- pletion of your enrollment.
6th. You will return, on a separate sheet, the names of all persons borne on the printed list, who are now in the service, stating as far as you are able, their regiment and company, and all who have died.
H. G. HERRICK, Capt. and Pro .- Mar., ) Board S. W. HOPKINSON, Com'r, of
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, JR., Surgeon, Enrollment. To Mr. STEPHEN SHELTON, Melrose, Mass.
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I.
DISCHARGE PAPERS.
ARMY.
To all whom it may concern.
[Vignette : Eagle standing on shield, surrounded with flags and stars. ] .
KNOW YE, That Moses S. Page, a Private of Captain Frank H. Whitcomb's Company (E) Sixth Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteers, who was enrolled on the fifteenth day of July, 1864, to serve one hundred days, is hereby dis- charged from the service of the United States, this twenty. seventh day of October, 1864, at Readville, Massachusetts, by reason of term of enlistment having expired. (No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist.)
Said Moses S. Page was born in Haverhill, in the State of New Hampshire, is twenty-six years of age, five feet eight and one-half inches high, light complexion, blue eyes, brown hair. and by occupation, when enrolled, a Broker.
Given at Readville, this twenty-seventh day of October, 1864.
J. W. MEANS, First Lieutenant Eighth Infantry, U. S. M. O. FRANK H. WHITCOMB, Captain Comd'g. Co. E, Sixth Mass. Reg't.
NAVY.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. [Vignette : War vessels at sea.] Navy Department.
The war for the preservation of the Union having, under the beneficent guidance of Almighty God, been brought to a successful termination, a reduction of the naval force becomes necessary.
Having served with fidelity in the United States Navy from the fourteenth day of November, 1862, to the present date, you
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are hereby honorably discharged with the thanks of the Depart- ment.
Given under my hand and seal of the Navy Department, at the City of Washington, this twentieth day of September, 1865. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy.
SEAL OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
JAMES F. PERKINS, Acting Ensign U. S. Navy, Melrose, Mass.
J. ACTION OF THE TOWN, NOV. 3, 1868.
Hon. Samuel E Sewall offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted :
That the Selectmen be authorized to subscribe and pay for a sufficient number of copies of Mr. Elbridge H. Goss' work, entitled " The Melrose Memorial : The Annals of Melrose, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, during the Great Rebellion of 1861 -5," to furnish a copy to every inhab- itant of this town who served as a soldier or sailor in the Rebellion, now living, and a copy for the family of each of said soldiers and sailors as have deceased ; also for twenty-five additional copies for the town, any of which may be given to public libraries at the discretion of the Selectmen.
And on motion of Hon. Daniel W. Gooch, it was voted that the following inscription be embossed in gilt letters on the cover of each copy thus given :
Presented to - (name of soldier or sailor) - by the Town of Melrose, in recognition of his services during the Great Rebellion of 1861 ₸ 5.
ERRATA.
Page 100 - For Bodwell, Daniel A., read Henry A.
" 175 - For James S. Macey, read John S. Macey. " 243 - Omitted in List of Officers in the Navy : SMITH W. NICHOLS, Jr. Midshipman, Sept. 27, 1858; Lieutenant, Feb. 21, 1863 ; Lieutenant Commander, July 25, 1866.
Page 256 - Omitted in Alphabetical Roll :
Jones, J. Wesley, 12th U. S. Inf. Ist Lieut.
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