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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, June (search)
c. 44.) A flag was raised upon the flagstaff on North Hill, Needham, Mass. It was run up by Newell Smith, Esq., one of the oldest inhabitants of the town, and saluted by the firing of cannon on a neighboring hill, the Star-Spangled Banner by Flagg's Band, and the cheers of the spectators. A public meeting was organized, and addresses were made by Rev. Messrs. Green, Atwood, and Emerson, all of Needham, and by Major Wright and Solomon Flagg, Esq. An original poem was delivered by Benjamin Solomon Flagg, Esq. An original poem was delivered by Benjamin G. Kimball, Esq., and an ode, written for the occasion, by lion. E. W. B. Canning, of Stockbridge, was sung by the people to the air of America. --Boston Transcript, June 28. The First Minnesota Regiment of Infantry, commanded by Colonel Willis A. Gorman, passed through Baltimore on its way to Washington. The full regiment makes an aggregate of 1,046 men all told, but only nine companies were on the march. This is accounted for by the fact that Company A was left at Fort Snelling, and t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, February (search)
frown on him, brand him as a traitor. Is he in your churches? turn him out. Is he in your Assembly? put him out. Is he in your family? shut the door in his face. [Cheers.] We want it understood as the voice of this meeting, that the Government is to hang all guilty traitors; and that if England continues to threaten, we will next pay our respects to her. Speeches were also made by Mr. Thomas Ewing, Lieut.-Governor Stanton, Mr. Delano, Col. B. McCook, Messrs. Groesbeck, Fink, Monroe, Flagg and Galloway. Senators, Representatives, State officers and the people, had a refreshing season, and adjourned after three cheers for the Union. A battle took place at Sugar Creek, Arkansas, this day. The rebels were concealed in the woods on both sides of the road. The country was broken, hilly woodland. The First Missouri cavalry, while charging up the hill, were fired upon by the ambushed foe, concealed behind the trees. After receiving a murderous fire, in which thirteen of th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, April (search)
for Gordonsville by the mountain road. He encamped last night at McGaugeytown, eleven miles from Harrisonburgh. The anniversary of the attack upon and massacre of Massachusetts troops in Baltimore was noticed in Boston by a grand Promenade Concert given in Music Hall in the evening, for the benefit of the soldiers. In Worcester, the day was noticed as a commemoration of the marching of the Minute Men for Lexington on the nineteenth of April, 1775, under command of Capts. Bigelow and Flagg, of the passing of the Worcester Light Infantry through Baltimore on the nineteenth of April, 1861, and also of the dedication of the Bigelow Monument. The Tatnuck Fremont Guards, and other volunteers, paraded as the Minute Men of 1775, and the McClellan Guards and Highland Cadets as the Minute Men of 1862. At Baltimore, the anniversary was also commemorated in an appropriate manner by the loyal citizens of that place.--Boston Traveller. The rebel schooner Wave was captured this day
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Norfolk County. (search)
y Commission, through which their contributions were chiefly sent to the front, and through the Soldiers-Aid Depot in Boston, under the charge of Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis. Needham Incorporated Nov. 5, 1711. Population in 1860, 2,658; in 1865, 2,793. Valuation in 1860, $1,604,985; in 1865, $1,798,498. The selectmen during the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865 were Galen Orr, Silas G. Williams, Augustus Stevens. The town-clerk and town-treasurer during the same years was Solomon Flagg. 1861. The first legal town-meeting to consider matters relating to the war was held on the 29th of April, at which it was voted to pay each citizen who shall enlist in the military service fifteen dollars a month for six months, or such part of that term as he shall continue in the service, the payment to begin when he shall be mustered into the service. A military committee of four persons was chosen to take the general supervision in all matters of detail in relation to forming a