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Title: Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts, in the revolutionary war, the war of 1812 and the Civil war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Wright, Henry Parks, 1839-1918
Subjects: Oakham (Mass.) -- History, Military Oakham (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: New Haven, Conn., The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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id of the men from thetown in the other regiments: They were equal to the best in all respects. No better lot of menever v/ore the Union Blue. The most of them were of the very higheststandard of moral and physical worth; the most of them religious inthe best sense. Not a man of them failed to do his full duty, and tomaintain the best traditions of New England manhood. The following citizens held the important town offices duringthe Civil War: Selectmen: Alexander Crawford, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864.Washington Stone, 1861, 1862.Page Austin, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864.James Packard, 1863, 1864. THE CIVIL WAR—SUMMARY 267 Treasurers: Washington Stone, 1861, 1862.James C. Bemis, 1863, 1864. Town Clerk: Mark Haskell, 1861. 1862, 1863, 1864. Alexander Crawford was Chairman of the Selectmen duringthe four years of the war. Washington Stone was Selectman,Treasurer and Collector till his death in 1862, when JamesPackard was elected Selectman in his place, and James C. Bemis,Treasurer and Collector.
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ADDENDA. The Addenda include exact copies of several manuscripts of historicvalue discovered, after this book was in type, in the possession of MissMary A. French of North Brookfield, Mass. The Roll of Captain AbnerHows company is one of the supposedly lost Revolutionary Pay Rollsof the year 1776 (M. S. R., i, p. V). The affidavits, taken over half acentury later at the time of Lieut. Frenchs application for a pension,reveal how the Pay Roll came to be in the possession of the descendantsof Second Lieut. Asa French, rather than in that of the families ofCaptain How or of First Lieut. Packard. They also add new factsof interest regarding the campaigns of the years 1775, 1776 and 1777.Great care has been taken in the transcribing and analysis of thedocuments. On page 277 will be found a summary of the new materialwhich the Pay Roll adds to what had already been published in Massa-chusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution. Through the gift ofMiss French, this Pay Roll is now in the

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