...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 abo...