engaged the Governor's attention.
The letters on file in the Adjutant-General's office, embracing the same period, also disclose much that is of interest, though in a more limited and local sense.
They are chiefly confined to answering inquiries made by selectmen of towns, and applications made by young men to raise new companies, many of whom were afterwards officers in the volunteer service, and rose to high commands.
On the 25th of April, the Adjutant-General received a letter from Addison Gage & Co., of Boston, tendering to the Massachusetts soldiers a ship-load of ice. The letter says,—
The Massachusetts troops who have so nobly responded to the call of our Government for the defence of the capital, being, for the most part, in the habit of using ice, and now called to a warm climate, where it is more a necessity than a luxury, we shall be happy to contribute a cargo for their use, the time to be at your disposal, whenever you deem it expedient to send it. In case there
field.
Fletcher, Mrs. J. V., Belmont.
Flint, J. D., Fall River.
Flint, D. B., Cambridge.
Follen, Chas., State at large.
Folsom, Peter, S. Reading.
Forbes, Benj., Brighton.
Fowler, Chas., Northbridge.
French, Jona., Braintree.
French, Mrs. Washington M., Quincy.
French, Mrs. F. O., Reading.
Frost, Morrill, Boston.
Frost, Jonathan, Reading.
Frothingham, N. L., Boston.
Fuller, Granville, Brighton.
Fuller, Richard F., Wayland.
Gage, Orrin, Ware.
Gage, Addison, West Cambridge.
Gale, Lydia S., Boston.
Gardner, H. F., Boston.
Gardner, Peleg S., Somerset.
Gay, Phineas E., Boston.
Gaylord, Sereno, Chicopee.
Gaylord, Emerson, Chicopee.
Gerrish, Smith, Medford.
Gibbs, Leonard, Raynham.
Gibson, Joseph H., Somerville.
Gilbert, Samuel, Jr., Dorchester.
Gillett, James R., Westfield.
Glover, Mrs. John, Quincy.
Goddard, Nathaniel, Boston.
Goddard, Miss Louisa M., Boston.
Goddard, Miss Mathilda, Boston.
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ller, G. W., 56
Fuller, Granville, 582
Fuller, H. A., 282
Fuller, I. C., 56
Fuller, I. P., 282
Fuller, J. C., 282
Fuller, J. G., 282, 417
Fuller, J. M., 282
Fuller, J. W., 56
Fuller, Joseph, 56
Fuller, L. O., 282
Fuller, N. P., 213
Fuller, R. F., 582
Fuller, R. F., 606
Fuller, W. A., 56
Fuller, W. A., 282
Fuller, W. G., 417, 526
Fullerton, J. S., 652
Fullerton, William, 467
Fulton, D. W., 381
Furness, Helen K., 652
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Gaffney, Harrison, 282
Gaffney, J. C., 282
Gage, Addison, 582
Gage, D. P., 381
Gage, Orrin, 582
Gage, Rodney, 417
Gale, B. B., 467
Gale (or Gales), C. L., 467
Gale, Lydia S., 582
Gale, Walter, 282
Gallagher, J. E., 282
Gallagher, J. G., 56
Gallagher, J. P., 56
Galloupe, I. F., 381, 526
Galloupe, J. L., 56
Galloway, G. N., 652
Galucia, W. B., 282
Galvin, E. I., 282
Gambell, O. W., 467
Gammel, A. M., 282
Gammell, S. D., 282
Gammons, J. G., 282
Gamwell, Harlow, 381
Gannett, C. C., 652
Gannett, Wyllys, 283, 526
Garabedian,