further authorized to pay one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each and every recruit they may obtain, in order that our full quota may be kept up."

One month later, "It was voted that the town pay one hundred and twenty-five dollars in gold to each and every volunteer who will enlist, or to any enrolled man who will furnish a substitute, to fill this town's quota under the call of the President for five hundred thousand men."

On the 8th of the subsequent November, an expected call for army recruits having been rumored in town, the following action thereon was taken: "Voted, that the Selectmen be constituted a committee, and authorized immediately to borrow a sum not to exceed two thousand dollars, and procure recruits to fill an anticipated call for three hundred thousand men."

Then, at a meeting convened January 24, 1865, it was voted, "That the Selectmen be authorized to procure and put into the service of the United States fifteen men, in addition to those already in. Also that they be authorized to borrow a sum of money sufficient to pay the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each of the men who have been put in—or may be put in before the 18th of March, 1865-who have not been paid according to a previous vote of the town."

In addition to all these legal appropriations of money for army support, one constant stream of private charity was in motion to supply the wants of the sick and wounded, and for the general comfort of those engaged in the hardship and peril of this war of emancipation. Nobly did the people of Shirley-in common with their fellow-citizens of the State and country-labor in the great work of securing the perfect freedom of this and future generations of the American people.

A town history would seem to be a proper place to make a record of the names of those who perilled their lives in defending the federal government against the rebellious arms of southern slave-holders. A few of the persons named in the following catalogue were from

abroad, and but little known in the town,-yet all are given, in alphabetical order.

SHIRLEY MEN IN THE ARMY OF THE REBELLION.

John H. Alger, private,
Michael T. Ames, private,
James Armstrong, private,
Octave Anedette, private,
George W. Baker, private,
Oliver Balcom, private,
Horace A. Balcom, private,
Frank Balcom, private,
Thomas Baley, private,
George V. Barrett, 1st lieutenant,
George H. Beard, private,
Frank M. Boynton, private,
Andrew Blood, private,
Christoff Brockennan, private,
Joseph Brooker, private,
Charles H. Brown, private,
Norman H. Bruce, private,
Henry Bunnell, private,
Henry S. Butler, musician,
Medard Bourcard, private,
Edward E. Carr, private,
Norton E. Chamberlain, corporal,
Charles P. Chandler, private,
Andrew J. Clough, captain,
Philip Conners, private,
Charles H. Cowdrey, private,
Moses Cram, private,
John R. Cram, private,
Thomas Daley, private,
Michael Danlon, private,
Granville C. W. Davis, corporal,
Charles B. Davis, private,
Henry A. Dixon, colored, private,
Edward Donahue, private,
Percy H. Dunkins, private,
Joseph Duprey, private,
Estis Elliott, private,
Henry Elmore, private,
Owen Elmore, private,
George A. Farmer, private,
W. H. Farmer, private,
Joseph A. Farnsworth, private,
John W. Farren, private,
Simon Fields, private,

Jeremiah Flynn, private,
George F. Fuller, private,
Patrick Gately, private,
John Gately, private,
Rock St. Goah, private,
John Goodhue, private,
John Goss, private,
William Greenalgh, private,
Benjamin Grovner, private,
James Haley, private,
William L. Harris, private,
Albert L. Hartwell, private,
James Hawksworth, private,
George Haynes, private,
Alvin Henry, private,
George C. Hill, captain,
William Hodgman, private,
Charles Hoffman, private,
Robertus F. Holden, private,
Stephen Howard, private,
Henry Johnson, private,

Josephus Jones, colored, private,
Albert Kilburn, private,
Charles E. Kilburn, private,
Clesson Kenney, sergeant,
Daniel L. King, sergeant,
Peter King, private,
Thomas Kittridge, private,
Thomas Kelley, private,
Carle Lamerlain, private,
Samuel Lane, private,
George A. Lancey, private,
John B. Lapine, private,
Joseph Lasier, private,
Peter Lavily, private,

George F. Lawrence, private,
James H. Little, musician,
John H. Linnehan, private,
Stephen W. Longley, 2d lieutenant,
Harriman Longley, musician,
Frank Lovely, private,
William McGill, private,
Phelix McGovern, private,
Isaac A. McDaniels, private,

John McCarty, private,
James McGill, private,
George H. Mason, private,
William McLelland, private,
Daniel Mahony, private,
Walter Mitchell, private,
David Morrell, private,
William M. Moses, private,
Emery Munyon, private,
George Munyon, private,
Thomas McGovern, private,
Joel C. Neat, private,
Harrison Nelson, private,
Alexander Nelson, private,
Abel Nickless, private,
Daniel O'Hern, private,
Michael O'Neal, private,
George F. Parker, private,
Marcus M. Parmenter, private,
Sidney Parris, colored, private,
John Peterson, colored, private,
Charles W. Richards, private,
John Roach, private,
Charles F. Robbins, private,

Harrington W. Sanders, private,
Otis Sartell, private,
Charles P. Sartell, private,
James Sawtell, private,
E. M. Smith, private,
Marcus M. Spaulding, private,
Lorenzo Spaulding, private,
Henry B. Story, private,
Henry Taylor, private,
Walter Taylor, private,
Granville P. Travis, private,
James Taylor, private,
Walter Underwood, private,
William W. Underwood, private,
William F. Warren, musician,
Henry A. Waters, private,
Stephen Wheeler, corporal,
John Wheeler, corporal,
John G. White, private,
Henry K. White, private,
Wellington S. White, private,
Walter Wright, private,
Frederick Wilson, private,
John Zimmerman, private.

NAVAL VOLUNTEERS.

Charles Love,

Charles E. Richards.

The whole number mustered into the federal service from Shirley was one hundred and thirty-eight; two of whom belonged to the navy. Of this number twentyone were killed, or died in camp, hospital, or at home of disease engendered by the hardships of army life. The bodies of those that could be recovered from abroad,— and one who died after his return,-lie buried in our two cemeteries; and each year, since 1868, their places of rest have been visited by their comrades of the "Grand Army, ̈ who, joined by the citizens of the town, have scattered flowers over their graves, accompanying the act by offerings of prayer and praise.

At this delightful service in 1871 the minister of the First Congregational Parish gave an address in the Centre Church, and the next year the same appropriate service

was performed in the Village Hall, by the minister of the Universalist Church. A few of the closing paragraphs of the first-named discourse will be a fitting close to the chapter which relates the action of the people of Shirley in connection with the wars of the American Republic.

After a brief allusion to the character and sacrifices of the deceased soldiers who had volunteered from Shirley, the speaker addressed their living comrades, who had assembled to honor and perpetuate the memory of departed worth, in the following language:

"FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE GRAND ARMY:-I rejoice in the wisdom and goodness which have united you in an associated body,—I rejoice in your association as the repository of sacred memories which lead you annually to gather yourselves around the dust of your departed comrades, to drop the emblem of your regard for their worth upon their fast-sinking graves. You have been joined with them in the fatiguing march of war, in the privations of its camp experience, and in the horrors of its battlestrife. You have seen them fall, through wounds and disease, and you rejoice that a few of them have been interred within your neighborhood, that you may present the offering for which you are here to-day. How delightfully appropriate the tender act! Flowers are the most beautiful, as they are the most transient, of nature's gifts. They meet the senses to ravish them with delight; so in the moral world do actions, faithfully executed. What can be more beautifully sublime, than for men to offer their lives a sacrifice to the good of their country? Such an offering your comrades have made, and their sacrifice calls for this response from you, their compeers. Thus you would preserve, in memory ever green, the record of their virtues, the lustre of which must long survive the tomb. Lay on their mounds the blue, red and green, the colors in which Nature herself weaves the emblem of faith, hope and love. There is a fitness in crowning their graves with flowers. There is a language in flowers, we say ;

they speak of that which cannot be put in words, fragrant memories and blossoming hopes. True, they soon wilt and perish; and yet they leave behind a grateful odor which we cherish as we do the memories of our benefactors who died in serving us.

"You may break, you may scatter the vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still!'

"FRIENDS AND BRETHREN :-We will

go with you to

the resting place of our honored dead, with hearts of sympathy and words of condolence; with prayer and with praise, we will sanction your emblematic act; and we will try to realize the sentiments expressed by a noble bard in the following beautiful stanzas:

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blessed!
When Spring with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.

"By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honor comes, a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there.'"