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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 6: Essex County. (search)
s, James Payne, William Thomas, Alfred Lang, John Q. A. Burridge, aldermen. The city-clerk during all these years was George R. Rowe. The city-treasurer during the years 1861, 1862, and 1863, was Nathaniel Wilson; during 1864 and 1865, Robert H. Tewksbury. 1861. The first meeting of the city council, to act upon matters connected with the war, was a special meeting held April 16th, at which the following preamble and resolutions were adopted:— Whereas the President of the United Statll attend the funeral in a body; that we invite our fellow-citizens generally to join in paying a last tribute of respect to the departed, and we recommend the closing of all places of business in our city on the occasion of his interment. Mr. Tewksbury, the city-treasurer, writes: In accordance with the resolves, the city government attended the funeral in a body, with distinguished State officials, and a countless throng of citizens. He was buried from the city hall, all business being su
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 10: Middlesex County. (search)
were authorized to pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars during the year to each volunteer for three years service when mustered in and credited to the quota of the town. Many public meetings were held in the town during the Rebellion, at which patriotic resolutions were passed and speeches made in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war. The two clergymen, Rev. Richard Tolman, and Rev. Clifton Fletcher, were indefatigable in their efforts in behalf of the good cause. Tewksbury furnished one hundred and eighty men for the war, which was a surplus of eleven over and above all demands. Three were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was thirteen thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars ($13,387.00). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861,
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Index. (search)
Somerville 447 Somerset 154 Southampton 357 Southbridge 675 Southborough 673 South Scituate 576 South Danvers (Peabody) 243 South Hadley 356 South Reading (Wakefield) 450 Southwick 316 Spencer 678 Springfield 318 Sterling 679 Stockbridge 104 Stoneham 452 Stoughton 522 Stow 454 Sturbridge 681 Sudbury 455 Sunderland 286 Sutton 682 Swampscott 245 Swanzey 156 T. Taunton 158 Templeton 684 Tewksbury 457 Tisbury 168 Tolland 320 Topsfield 246 Townsend 458 Truro 51 Tyngsborough 460 Tyringham 106 U. Upton 686 Uxbridge 687 W. Wakefield 450 Wales 321 Walpole 524 Waltham 461 Ware 359 Wareham 577 Warren 689 Warwick 288 Washington 108 Watertown 463 Wayland 466 Webster 690 Wellfleet 54 Wendell 289 Wenham 249 West Bridgewater 578 West Brookfield 695 Westborough 692 West Boylston