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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface (search)
Association in Philadelphia addressed a circular letter to all the associations in the Union, inviting them to send delegates to a convention at the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York, on the 14th of the following month. This letter was signed by George H. Stuart, Chairman, John Wanamaker, Corresponding Secretary, James Grant, John W. Sexton, and George Cookman. The letter met with immediate response, and at the convention George H. Stuart was chosen President, Edward S. Tobey, Vice-President, Cephas Brainard and William Ballantyne, Secretaries. Messrs. Desmond, Vernon, Wanamaker, Masiurre, Baird, Colyer, and Stuart were appointed on the Business Committee. Thus was organized the Christian Commission. John Wanamaker in 1861 One of the wartime merchants who raised many millions for the relief of the soldiers at the front through the Christian commission and other civil agencies Confederate Armies, an invaluable mine of material, heretofore little worke
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
e of the tax act, we very much more than paid our share of it by heavy expenditures, made at Mr. Cameron's request, and on which we are losing the interest. I ask, therefore, that at least as much as the amount of the tax assessed on Massachusetts should be paid to us before we pay this tax. This is safe for the United States, and only just to Massachusetts. On the same day, the Governor wrote to the Secretary of the Navy, introducing Hon. Joel Hayden, of the Executive Council, and Edward S. Tobey, President of the Boston Board of Trade, who were deputed to confer with him in relation to iron-clad ships. These gentlemen had a plan for iron-plating four steamers, belonging to the Government, at Charlestown and the Kittery Navy Yards, which, the Governor said, would render them invulnerable, and present them ready for action and in sea-going trim in fifty days. If those vessels belonged to us, he continues, we would undertake to prepare some of them for service in this way; but th
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
canals and trenches before Vicksburg. On the eighteenth day of March, the Governor telegraphed to Senator Sumner,— I earnestly entreat your immediate attention to mine of Feb. 12, about war steamers. See the President and Fox, to whom I wrote same date. Nobody answered. Boston is very earnest and solicitous. Can we do any thing by visiting Washington? This telegram was also signed by Mr. Lincoln, Mayor of Boston. On the twentieth day of March, the Governor wrote to Edward S. Tobey and Samuel H. Walley,— I have yours of the 14th inst., and I assure you of the cordiality with which we shall endeavor to co-operate with our citizens and municipalities in defending our coast. He also refers to the bill for coast defences, then before the Legislature, which he had no doubt would pass, appropriating a million and a half of dollars for that object. On the twenty-third day of March, the Governor wrote to George T. Downing, a well-known and highly respected co
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 12: (search)
, of which William Gray, of Boston, was chairman, and who himself contributed ten thousand dollars at one time. Of this fund, there remains about thirteen thousand dollars unexpended. Another organization of gentlemen was formed in Boston, at a later period, to raise money for the benefit of soldiers' families living in Boston. The fund thus raised amounted to about seventy-five thousand dollars. It was called the Boston Soldiers' Fund. The association organized by the election of Edward S. Tobey, of Boston, as president. Two trustees were chosen from each of the wards of the city. There was also an executive committee, of which George W. Messenger, an alderman of Boston, was chairman. The money which was raised was put at interest, and there remains an unexpended balance of about thirty thousand dollars. The remains of these funds are still used for the benefit of soldiers and their families, and will be until they are exhausted. In April, 1862, the Surgeon-General of
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 1: introductory and explanatory. (search)
ninety-one dollars and three cents ($878,991.03). These large sums were not received from fairs and other similar appliances, but were free — will offerings made by the people of the Commonwealth in response to appeals through the newspapers and by public addresses from members and friends of the cause. On three several occasions,—after the battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863, after the battle of the Wilderness in May, 1864, and after the fall of Richmond in April, 1865,—Mr. Demond, Mr. Edward S. Tobey, and some other members of the Army Committee of the Christian Commission, sat in the Merchants' Exchange, in Boston, and received the voluntary offerings of the people. No one was asked to give; every cent received was a free gift. And the result was as follows: on the first occasion, thirty-five thousand dollars; on the second, sixty thousand dollars; and on the third, thirty thousand dollars,— making an aggregate of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. This large amount
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
6,279; for Moses Kimball, 4,449, Dec. 13, 1858 For Fred. W. Lincoln, Jr., 5,932; for Joseph M. Wightman, 4,208, Dec. 12, 1859 For Joseph M. Wightman, 8,934; for Moses Kimball, 5,074, Dec. 13, 1860 For Joseph M. Wightman, 6,765; for Edward S. Tobey, 5,795, Dec. 9, 1861 For Fred. W. Lincoln, Jr., 5,932; for Joseph M. Wightman, 5,289, Dec. 8, 1862 For Fred. W. Lincoln, Jr., 6,206; for Otis Rich, 2,142, Dec. 14, 1863 For Fred. W. Lincoln, Jr., 6,877; for Thomas C. Amory, 3,732, DW. Gordon, appointed, 1841 William Hayden, appointed, 1849 George W. Gordon, appointed, 1850 Edwin C. Bailey, appointed, 1853 Nahum Capen, appointed, 1857 John G. Palfrey, appointed, 1861 William L. Burt, appointed, 1867 Edward S. Tobey, appointed, 1876 Post office Law passed for North America, 1710 Located in Cornhill (Washington street), 1714 Removed from Cambridge back to Boston, Apr. 25, 1776 Located corner Congress and Water streets, Jan. 1, 1816 Kept