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Title: The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Fifty years a city
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Rice, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1852-1919, ed
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- Description and travel Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: Worcester, Mass., F. S. Blanchard & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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thisvolume. The following references to printed authorities on this subjectmay, however, properly appear here: Reverend Abijah P. Marvins Worcester in the War of the Rebellionis an interesting and valuable book, which gives a very full account ofWorcesters part in sustaining the Union. Histories of the Fifteenth,Twenty-first, Twenty-fifth, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-sixth Regimentshave been published. The Story of Company A, Twenty-fifth Regi-ment, by Samuel H. Putnam, has been widely noticed and muchcommended as a true picture of the daily life of a soldier; and thenarrative of Amos E. Stearns, an Andersonville prisoner, has more thanlocal interest. In the list of Worcesters martvrs in the Rebellion, the names of JohnWilliam Grout, who fell at Balls Blufl:: General George H. Ward, whofell at Gettysburg, and for whom the local Grand Army post was named;Thomas J. Spurr; S. F. Hayden, Jr.; Dexter F. Parker; Reverend SamuelSouther; the Wellingtons; the Bacons; Thomas ONeil, and Henry Mc-
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SOLDIERS MONUMENT. The Worcester of 1898. 277 Conville, are prominent. Of those who gained distinction in the conflict,Charles Devens, Josiah Pickett, William S. Lincoln and A. B. R.vSprague are well known. Worcester sent 3,927 men, counting eachenlistment as one, to the war for the Union, at a total direct money costof $586,054. Of this amount, $245,653 was paid for bounties andexpense of recruiting; $93,650, commutation and substitutes; $246,751,state aid for families. Of Worcester military companies of to-day, the Light Infantry is theoldest, having been organized in 1804. The City Guards, organized in1840, is now attached to the militia. A history of this company hasrecently been prepared by Lieutenant Samuel Hathaway. The EmmetGuards were formed in i860. The Chamberlain Light Battery, BatteryB, M. V. M., is of more recent organization, and the Wellington Riflesis a militia company formed in 1894. The new Armory building,at the junction of Salisbury and Grove streets, was complete

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