Deaths and funerals of Boston soldiers and allies
Obituary notices detail Private Michael M Burke orderly for Major Grady who died at Massachusetts General Hospital after illness. Funeral planned at Most Holy Redeemer East Boston with military escort and Catholic rites. Other notices: Corporal Thomas Costello of South Boston died of malaria in Santiago. Leo J Brady of South Boston also listed among fallen with hometown details.
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Michael M. Burke
Company
H. Ninth Regiment
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Burke
Grady
Mathew
Father Shea
St. Joseph's Church
Olivette
Joseph F. Hickey
Ward 2
Thomas J. Giblin
Hickey
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Father McCarthy
Bremen Street
Armory
Bremen
Maverick Streets
John A. Hawes
Hooker
G.A.R
East Boston Cadet Band
Thurman and
Owl Clubs
Lewis Social and Athletic Club
Holy Cross Cemetery
Malden
Joseph Killion
J. ‘Edward Harrington
John Cross
Martin Mooney
John Jackson
Frank Johnson
Thomas Clark
Clark
Dalton
Fifth Regiment
H. A
Thomas A. Costello
Boston to greet visiting fleet with parades and feasts
The Navy fleet visit triggers city planning for a Friday naval parade up to the navy yard and a possible land parade on Saturday. Aldermen push a three committee plan to entertain officers, with Mayor Quincy and Governor Wolcott to host. The 1891 precedent guides a grand civic reception, aiming to honor jack tars and stokers with public cheers and organized processions.
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New York
Gotham
Hudson
Jackies
Washington
Navy Yard
Boston
Navy Department
Quincy
Alderman Presho
Board of Aldermen
Committee of Public Improvements
O’kane
Connolly
McIsaac
Ward 15
Common Council
Shaw
Lee
Farmer
Flood
Galvin
Post
Mechanics’ Building
Grand Hall
Russell
Matthews
Ple
K Xowven
Bay State Brings Us Sick Soldiers Returns Home
A Bay State hospital ship delivered 98 sick soldiers to Boston. Officers and medical staff aided evacuees as families and crowds watched in quiet sorrow. Sixty four went to City Hospital, twenty five to Massachusetts General, nine to Carney Hospital with several listed as dangerous but hopeful for recovery.
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Bay State
P. Smithwicker
Will Bearker
Free 10 Our Sick Soldiers Food Delivery
Murdock Liquid Food Co of Boston will deliver one case of Murdock's Liquid Food to any sick soldier. It boasts rapid absorption without digestion and claims to speed blood production. The note cites its use in Civil War hospitals and ships and in Egyptian Japanese and Grecian wars.
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Murdock Liquid Food Co. of
Boston
The
Express
Murdock
Ople
Upt
Neipal
Comer
Pington St
Prominent Temperance Unionist Dies in War Service
The obituary notes a St. Augustine Temperance Union leader who enlisted on May 11 after the Maine incident. A letter dated August 14 said he felt well and would soon return, but reports confirmed his death. Also mentioned is John A. Boyd of Company B Ninth Regiment who died at Fort Meyer Virginia of typhoid fever at 28, living at 78 Centre Street, Quincy as a car conductor.
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Lawrence School
Framingham
Post
St. Augustine
John A. Boyd
Government Hospital
Fort Meyer
Virginia
Centre Street
Quincy
Admiral Schley Dines Before Departure for Porto Rico
Westport Conn Aug 30 Rear Admiral Schley attended a farewell dinner at the home of his son in law R M Wortley in Sagatuck He appeared well and cheerful and spoke of future plans He will leave for New York at 7:10 a m tomorrow and sail for Porto Rico on the Seneca at noon accompanied by General Gordon a member of the Porto Rican commission
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Westport
Conn
Schley
R. M
Wortley
Saugatuck
New York
Porto Rico
Merritt Heads to Paris for Spanish American Peace Conference
United States transport China carries Major-General Merritt and staff to Paris for the peace conference. Otis acts as Manila governor while Greene and Babcock head to Washington. Insurgent leaders Opacible and Aguinaldo allies set plans in Hong Kong and Washington. Dewey blocks coastwise ships awaiting settlement. Rios proclaims himself Governor-General of Spanish Philippine territories.
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Manila
United States
China
Merritt
Paris
Otis
Greene
Babcock
Washington
Opacible
Hong Kong
Aguinaldo
Agoncillo
Bakoor
Dewey
Philippine
General Rios
Visayas Islands
Philippine Islands
Spain
Llolle
Eighth Has Many Sick at Camp Hamilton
Lexington Ky August 30 The health of the regiment improves slowly with about 300 patients at the division hospital Forty typhoid cases and fifteen measles all from the Second Missouri The canteen now opens selling beer soft drinks and milk milk priced at 20 cents a gallon Major Eldridge ensures regimental funds cover redemptions A milk egg and butter shortage plagues Lexington due to the large troop presence Furloughs include Corporals Young Finnett and Private Garrett of Company H with Garrett accompanied by his father Pratt nominated for corporal
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Camp Hamilton
Lexington
Second Missouri
Bennett Burnhill
George A. Woods
Fiske
Punchfid
Hospital Corps
Fuller
Burdett
Eldridge
Young and Finnett
Garrett
Company H
R. T. Pratt
Monthly inspection prep at Camp Dalton Fifth Brigade
At Camp Dalton South Framingham August 1880 the Fifth Battalion trains for the monthly inspection. Rifles are cleaned uniforms prepared while payrolls muster rolls and returns are organized. Major Perrin hosts officers and staff for supper as a potential marksman match looms.
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Camp Dalton
South Framingham
Perrin
Cavalry
Whitney
Clark
Wallace. B. Cooper
Adjutant’s Office
Boys Adrift Saved by Tug Fannie Ward Crew
Three boys aged 14 and 11 were drifting in a torn catboat toward the Atlantic after launching from City Point. Tug Fannie Ward of Ward Fertilizer Co. spotted them and towed the craft to Spectacle Island, reuniting the youngsters with their parents.
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City Point
Fannie Ward
John Kelly
K Street
Boston
Frank O’brien
City Point Court
Maurice Sinvin
O Street
Fanny Ward
Ward Fertilizer Company
Broad Sound
Atlantic
Queenstown
Ward
Spectacle Island
Deaths posted at camp details missing soldiers and hospital care
A 4 PM list on Major Brown's desk records dead soldiers from multiple regiments including Private Walter Hickey and Private William H. Newcomb among others plus an unknown man. Transports Specialist, Berlin and San Marcus arrived with troops horses and staff. furloughs issued to various Massachusetts and Illinois volunteers in Boston residents.
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Brown
Charles E. Chapin
Comepany L
Second
Massachusetts
Fred Snetter
Company NI
Eighth Infantry
Murphy
Second Cavalry
Walter Hickey
William H. Newcomb
Twenty-first Infantry
John G. Trenthardt
Eighth Ohio
Earl Immler
Highth Ohio
Berlin
San Marcus
General Bates
Illinois Volunteers
Merchants Association Reports Food Shortage for Camp Wikoff Troops
The Merchants' Association heard a report by assistant secretary C. Mead and William R. Corwine on food cargoes sent to Camp Wikoff Montauk Point for regular army soldiers. They say rations are not enough for the sick and demand more nutritious provisions including eggs beef extract soups and some whiskey for medical use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Merchants’ Association
5. C. Mead
William R. Corwine
Association
Camp Wikoff
Montauk Point
Messrs. Mead and Corwine
Charges against Dr Tabor set in New York shell
Private William Moore reports to Roosevelt Hospital that Dr Tabor neglected wounded soldiers at Camp Wikoff. He recalls Driscoll of Company B begging for relief before dying of starvation, and Tabor telling others to shovel graves as men waited for medicine. Moore says he suffered heat and fever and was refused medicine with a remark about stopping the sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William Moore
Camp Wikoff
Roosevelt Hospital
Dr. Tabor
Driscoll
Company B
Eighth Infantry
Tabor
Nurses Leave Boston for Montauk Camp
Mrs Grace Tafft Anderson former head nurse at Somerville Hospital leads a party of nurses from Boston to New London en route to Montauk Point New York. Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Society greeted them in New London and the group set sail about ten o clock for the association camp to join Ninth Massachusetts men arriving. Anderson remains well known in Somerville for her private practice since resigning from the hospital.
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Grace Tafft Anderson
Somerville Hospital
Boston
New London
Montauk Point
N. Y
Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Society
Montauk
Ninth Massachusetts
Wringer and Sweeper Repairs Offered by American Wringer Co
For repair work wringer rolls stamped American Wringer Company warranted are best. All kinds of wringers and sweepers repaired. Write or call and we will call for and deliver without extra charge. The Ame Wringer Co.
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American Wringer Company
Ame
Wringer Co
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Bigelow School
J. J. Brady
Albany
Costello
Boston Habor
Detroit
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Castine
Wilmington
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George Murray
Sawyer
W. H. Woods, Jr
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Healey
A. Kelly
Kelly
Frank Smesdy
Elmer Willey
F. D. Murphy
John F. Conneally
Will F. Kelly
W. F. Terrill
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H. L. Chapin
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J. E. Fogerty
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James McGuire
William O’connell
Albert L. Potter
William H. Wood
Edward B. Fish
Bartholomew J. Haley
William Bond
David P. Sawyer
Myron W. Maynard
Thomas J. Loftus
Charles A. Fischer
Mitchell L. King
Corporal J. B. Fulton
Thomas P. Murray
John A. Creney
W. N. Stephenson
Jeremiah J. Donahoe
Walter F. McCauley
R. H. Pitts
W. Donnelley
F. W. Kew
John J. Smith
Francis X. Rivers
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Clair P. Chainey
Bartholomew Connolley
Lewis P. Fanning
James F.cGimm
Robert J. Judd
Michael O’donovan
Thomas F. Powers
Richard Tobin
John T. Murphy
William F. Coakley
George T. Jones
James H. Campbell
Charles Percy Wilson
Massachusetts General
Tobin
Ninth Regiment
Peter A. Bowler
Regular Infantry
City Hospital
George Thenode
Company L
Sixth
Thenode
Zuver
Nelson
Carney Hospital
Marine Hospital
Chelsea
Tommy—Paw
Figg
Indianapolis Journal
Aroostook
AM. Smith & CO
Prosque
Isie
Robinson's
Cook Sq
Washington St
Sen
U LP
Powers & Johns N
Boylston St
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Luzon
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Bestgen
Elena
Chicago
Andrew JI Lloydi
Revi
Old
South Back Bay
Torr
Berkeley
Gail Borden Eagle
Best Opticians
Hanover St
S Am Wilson's
Tremont Row
Wilson Brothers
James A. Field
J. M. Young
J. J. Kennedy
V. Morse
F. L. Fairbanks
Fred C. Hale
Massachusetts Regiment
John E. Monroe
Thomas F. McCarthy
George ¥. Wilson
Seventh
United States Regular Infantry
H. C. McAllister
Octave Gardner
Twelfth Infantry
Wikoff
Moore
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