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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 43 (search)
e heart. Rebellion's steel Pierced the fair bosom of imperial Rome By foreign foes unconquered; and the land Of God's own people drank the fatal cup Which dark dissension pressed upon her lips. As midnight's bell proclaims with double tongue One year departed and another born, Swift throng around me with imperial mien And god-like brow, and eyes of sad reproach, As angels look in sorrow, the great dead Who walked Mount Vernon's shades, and Marshfield's plains, And Monticello's height, and Ashland's groves Still vocal with unearthly eloquence-- Statesmen and Chiefs who loved their native land And led her up to fame. With solemn air And thrilling voice they point to freedom's flag, War-rent and laced with sacrificial blood By noble martyrs shed; and thus they speak-- “O sons once named Americans, but now The world-mocked orphans of a nameless land, Why rush ye to destruction? Happier far Than ye the tawny tribes your fathers drove From the primeval forests — the red chiefs Who bra
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
urell Tufts, Esq., was expended, according to his directions, in planting ornamental trees on the roadsides. May this growing charity of a good friend of Medford be imitated by many hereafter! Others, from motives of taste and profit, have adorned our highways with forest-trees, whose summer shade will soon shelter the fashionable lady in her morning promenade, and the weary animals in their noonday labor. Streets in Medford have received the following names: High, Main, Forest, Salem, Ashland, Oakland, Washington, Fountain, Fulton, Court, Cross, Park, Pleasant, Purchase, South, Middlesex, Water, Ship, Canal, Cherry, Webster, Almont, Cottage, Ash, Oak, Chestnut, Grove, Garden, Paris, Chaplin, Mystic, Brooks, Allston, Vernon, Irving, Auburn, Prescott, West, Laurel. Appropriation for highways from Feb. 1, 1850, to Feb. 1, 1851$1,500.00 Appropriation for highways from Feb. 15, 1854, to Feb. 15, 1855$1,800.00 Expenses of street lamps for the same times$323.75 Bridges. Th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thayer, William Makepeace 1820-1898 (search)
Thayer, William Makepeace 1820-1898 Author; born in Franklin, Mass., Feb. 23, 1820; graduated at Brown University in 1843; later studied theology; was in charge of the Orthodox Congregational Church, Ashland, Mass., in 1849-57; and subsequently applied himself to literary work; returned to Franklin in 1858; member of the legislature in 1857 and 1863; and secretary of the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance in 1860-76. He was author of Character and public service of Abraham Lincoln; Marvels of the New West; Youth's history of the rebellion; From Tannery to the White House; From log cabin to the White House, etc. He died in Franklin, Mass., April 7, 1898.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 10: Middlesex County. (search)
ages containing hospital stores and under-clothing for the soldiers, to the value of several hundred dollars, at intervals during the entire period of the war. Ashland Incorporated March 16, 1846. Population in 1860, 1,554; in 1865, 1,702. Valuation in 1860, $577,860; in 1865, $632,632. The selectmen in 1861 were Elias Gional. 1863. March 2d, Voted, to appropriate two thousand dollars in aid of the families of soldiers, and five hundred dollars to bring home the dead bodies of Ashland volunteers who had died in the service. December 11th, Voted, to appropriate five hundred dollars for recruiting purposes. 1864. June 29th, The town voted three thousand dollars to pay bounties to volunteers enlisting to the credit of the town. Ashland furnished one hundred and eighty-four men for the war, which was a surplus of eleven over and above all demands. None were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town for war purposes, excl
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Index. (search)
Index. A. Abington 536 Acton 367 Acushnet 116 Adams 60 Agawam 294 Alford 62 Amesbury 172 Amherst 331 Andover 175 Arlington (see West Cambridge) 467 Ashburnham 603 Ashby 369 Ashfield 254 Ashland 371 Athol 604 Attleborough 118 Auburn 606 B. Barnstable 27 Barre 607 Becket 65 Bedford 372 Belchertown 332 Bellingham 482 Belmont 373 Berkley 122 Berlin 609 Bernardston 256 Beverly 177 Billerica 375 Blackstone 611 Blandford 296 Bolton 613 Boston 582 Boxborough 377 Boxford 180 Boylston 616 Bradford 182 Braintree 483 Brewster 31 Bridgewater 538 Brighton 378 Brimfield 298 Brookfield 616 Brookline 485 Buckland 267 Burlington 381 C. Cambridge 382 Canton 490 Carlisle 391 Carver 540 Charlestown 393 Charlemont 259 Charlton 618 Chatham 33 Chelmsford 399 Chelsea 591 Che
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1854. (search)
r since I left you, and making myself generally miserable thereby. I have not the health for such study, if I had the taste, which is also wanting. As you may guess, I have taken to farming. The last two weeks have been spent in looking for a farm near Boston. I have not yet fully decided on the spot; and to-morrow I have a farm to visit in Weston and one in Concord, but the situation I like best of those I have seep is one on the Blue Hill. The spot at length selected was in Ashland, Massachusetts. In his eagerness to become a farmer he attached no importance to the absence of congenial companions. Perhaps his thoughts turned to the solitude of nature with the anticipation of freedom and relief from the painful pressure of social forms. He selected the place he thought best adapted to farming, and began his new enterprise with earnestness. He liked work, and took no exception to its quality. He was ready for whatever was to be done, and found a continual and varied pleasu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
Resigned.1st Asst. Engr. May 13, 1861.2d Asst. Engr. May 20, 1863.1st Asst. Engr. Tallman, William, Jr.,-Mass.Mass.Aug. 30, 1861.Actg. Master.Wyoming; Catskill.Special Cruise; South Atlantic.Dec. 18, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Master. Tarbell, John F., Transferred to regular service. See Navy Register.Mass.Mass.Mass.Jan. 28, 1862.Actg. Asst. Paymr.Kensington; Neptune; Marble head.W Gulf;E. Gulf; Special Service.Dec. 11, 1865.Mustered out.Actg. Asst. Paymr. Tarr, Robert, Credit, Ashland.Mass.Mass.Mass.Jan. 25, 1862.Actg. Master.Sachem; Isaac Smith; Queen.West Gulf; North Atlantic; Ordnance Transport.Oct. 12, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Apr. 13, 1864.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy—Continued. name.Where Born.State of which a Citizen.State from which Appointed.appointment.Vessels on which Served.Squadron.Termination of service. Date.RankDate.Discharged or Otherwise.Rank. Taylor, Albert, Credit, Williamsburg.Mass.Mas
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 4 (search)
B. Second Lieutenant, 21st Mass. Infantry, Aug. 21, 1861. Resigned, Mar. 2, 1862. Williams, Monroe F. Second Lieutenant, 7th Mass. Infantry, June 15, 1861. First Lieutenant, Nov. 1, 1862. Resigned, Aug. 14, 1863. Williams, Philander. Second Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Sept. 23, 1862. Mustered out, Aug. 28, 1863. Williams, Robert. Second Lieutenant, 39th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 26, 1862. Discharged (disability), Feb. 2, 1863. Died at Ashland, Mass., Nov. 12, 1894. Williams, S. Alonzo. First Lieutenant, 52d Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Oct. 11, 1862. Mustered out, Aug. 14, 1863. Williams, William B. Captain, 2d Mass. Infantry, Nov. 1, 1861. Killed in action at Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862. Williamson, David H. C. Second Lieutenant, 11th Mass. Infantry, Mar. 5, 1863. First Lieutenant, Oct. 29, 1863. Mustered out, June 24, 1864. Willis, Henry Augustus. First Lieutenant, Adjutant, 53d Inf
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 12 (search)
. G. Freeland, Selectmen. Amherst. I think there would be no risk in my saying that most of our men have been more industrious since their return than before, and would say, as respects our younger portion of soldiers, there is a great reform. Ezra Ingram, Chairman Selectmen. Ashburnham. Most of our men who have returned from the war are better and steadier than they were before enlisting, and attend to their daily duties better. Charles F. Rocxwood, Chairman Selectmen. Ashland. To-day, as a body, they are better men than when they enlisted in the service of their country. J. N. Pike, Chairman Selectmen. Andover. The men, as a body, are better citizens than they were before enlisting into the service. William S. Jenkins, Chairman Selectmen. Bedford. Those who have returned to their homes in this town are as good men, if not better, than when they volunteered. William A. Stearns, Chairman Selectmen. Becket. As a whole, they are more in
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
ern sanitary fair in Chicago, which yielded nearly $100,000 for the association; and it was she who obtained from President Lincoln the original draft of his Emancipation Proclamation, which was sold for $3,000 at this fair. T. W. H. Names of cities and towns of Massachusetts where soldiers' aid societies were organized that Contributed to the Sanitary Commission. Abington. Abington Centre. Acton. Amesbury. Andover. Arlington. Ashburnham. Ashby. Ashfield. Ashland. Assabet. Assonet. Athol. Athol Depot. Attleborough. Auburndale. Baldwinsville. Barnstable. Barre. Bellingham. Belmont. Belvedere. Berkley. Berlin. Bernardston. Beverly. Billerica. Blackstone. Bolton. Boston. Boylston. Braintree. Brewster. Bridgewater. Brighton. Brimfield. Brookfield. Brookline. Burlington. Cambridge. Cambridgeport. Canton. Carver. Centre Northbridge. Centreville. Chath
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