New Colors For the Fighting Ninth at Camp Dewey
At Camp Dewey South Framingham 15 000 spectators welcomed the Massachusetts Ninth with a flag ceremony uniting Erin and Old Glory. Chaplain Murphy received a gelding and $1000 purse as officers and dignitaries praised the regiment for heroic service and promised continued loyalty.
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Dewey
South
Framingham
Fred B. Bogan
Erin
Camp Dewey
Suffolk County
South Framingham
Order of Hibernians
Ninth
Boston
Ninth Regiment
U. Ss. W
Massachusetts
Ireland
Gettysburg
Gallant Ninth remembered in Charlestown colors ceremony
The event honors the Gallant Ninth of Massachusetts as Dr. J. T. Gallagher reads lines titled Our Soggarth Aroon. Cadet bands, speeches by Congressman Fitzgerald and others, and gifts to Chaplain Murphy accompany the flag presentation to the Ninth Regiment. A $1900 purse and a black charger are presented, with widespread donor support from local clubs, newspapers, and civic groups.
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Murphy
Hayes
Sheridan Guards
Congressman Fitzgerald
President Slattery
The
Mother Erin
Maine
Bogan
Ireland
J. F. Fitzgerald
Manila
Father Murphy
J. T. Gallagher
Camp Dewey
the Murphys
Dennis M. Cronan
Suffolk County Societies
Edward J. Slattery
Massachusetts A. O. H
John F Fitzgerald
John E. Kelcher
John Crohan
Roger Scannell
John H. Sullivan
P. J. Kennedy
Charles McCarthy
John B. O'Higgins
William J. Cronin
Martin J. Roche
John A. Ryan
Thomas Arthur
Boston
Charles J. Foster
John Dolan
T. J. Dillon
Jamesl. Punch
P. J. Griffin
Edmund Phelan
C. J. O'Leary
Roger I. Scannell
Erin
J. E. Sullivan
McCarthy
Charlestown
Massachusetts
Freedom
Mother Brin
Colonel Bogan
Fitzgerald
Ninth Regiment
William Belfield
Goleys
Dr. Gallagher
Soggarth
D. J. Maguire
Saxonville
John C. Ryan
James A. McDonald
Boston Post
Globe
Traveler
Pilot and
Republic
P. J. Flatley
Michael McManus
P. A. Collins
Thomas J. Gargan
Homas RB
Fitzpatrick
A. Shuman
Flynn & Mahony
Markier
Callanan & Co
James D. Crady
John M. Grainey
Roger F. Scannell
Patrick J. Sergin
Edmond L. Grimes
John D. Colbert
Garrett J. Barry
Charles H. Taylor
John R. Murphy
James S. Murphy
Michael Roneghan
Thomas O
Ninth Regiment Delays Departure To Tuesday May 29
The Ninth Regiment likely postpones departure to Tuesday due to lack of transportation. Officers say no transport details have been received and departure cannot occur before Tuesday unless arranged by tomorrow morning. Soldiers and families dislike the uncertainty of the hour, though preparations are complete.
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Dewey
Framingham
Dunn-Loring
Goodbys
Runaway Boys From Angel Guardian Take $25
Four youths fled the House of the Angel Guardian last night with $25. Charles Donovan 15 Bert Shiebbells 15 Edward Fitzpatrick 15 and George Dionni 15 are sought by police from Station 10 after lapsing from the institution.
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Good Brothers
House of the Angel Guardian
Charles Donovan
Kymerald Street
Bert Shiebbells
Thatcher Street
Edward Fitzpatrick
Connecticut
George Dionni
Lawrence
Parade in Jamaica Plain Aids Deaf Children Hospital
A parade in Jamaica Plain last evening accompanied a lecture by Hon Thomas J Gargan to raise funds for the Home for Deaf and Dumb Children in St Thomas parish Jamaica Plain. Over 109 uniformed AOH members from Roxbury Boston South Boston and Charlestown took part under the patronage of Division 41 AOH Jamaica Plain.
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Jamaica Plain
Thomas J. Gargan
Home For
St. Thomas's Parish
Roxbury
Boston
South Oston
Charlestown
Private Burnham is Dead at Camp Thomas
Lynn soldier Herbert O Burnham of Lynn Massachusetts died at Camp Thomas from pneumonia. He will be buried at home. May 29 at Chickamauga National Park. Memorial services were held and many men received leave to attend churches in the city. Lieutenant-Colonel Hartsuff endorsed relief efforts for sick soldiers. Three deaths noted: Burnham, Pierce Collyer aged 18 Minnesota, and Ludwig Bonhert of Illinois. Grigsby cowboys arrived to aid, supplies to be distributed tomorrow.
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Chickamauga National Park
Camp Thomas
Hartsuff
Brooke
National Relief Committee
National Committee
Chattanooga
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Herbert O. Burnham
Lynn
Mass
Massachusetts
Rn Pierce Collyer
Chickamauga
Ludwig Bonhert
Springfield
Mspany
Bioca
Tomorro
Grigsby
J. S. Gregory
Fargo, Dak
Bride heartbroken as soldier dies in camp funeral planned
TaVIN May 29 Major Ramsdell received a telegram from Captain Williams of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment announcing Private Burnham of this city died of pneumonia at Camp Thomas Chickamauga. His body will be sent home for burial and a military funeral is arranged. Burnham’s bride, married in Camp Dewey before deployment, mourns in the western part of the city.
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Tavin
Ramsdell
Williams
Eighth Massachusetts Regiment
Burnham
Camp Thomas
Chickamauga
Camp Dewey
Memorial Sunday at Camp Alger Inspires Sixth Massachusetts
Special to the Post reports at Camp Alger Virginia on Memorial Sunday May 29 visitors arrived as mist lifted under a hot southern sun. No drills occurred. services guard mount and evening parade proceeded. Chaplain Dusseault led Sixth Massachusetts in a sermon urging reverence for the nation’s heritage and resolve to endure the coming trials with American spirit.
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Camp
Alger
Dusseault
Massachusetts
Lieutenant Colonel Bailey Reports Eighth Massachusetts Regiment Enviable State
Acting commander of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment at Camp George H. Thomas sends Governor Wolcott a morale and logistics update. Bailey praises the regiment for its equipment balance, adaptability with mule transport, and compares favorably to other regiments, noting Colonel Pew’s brigade command and the diligent use of staff officers.
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The
Eighth
Wolcott
Pew
E. W. M. Bailey
Massachusetts Volunteers
Lytte Post Office
Georgia
Bourget Attacks the Four Hundred at Newport Dinner
French novelist Paul Bourget ridicules New York society in Voyageuses, portraying Mrs Harris as an animated doll and Cornelius Vanderbilt as a broken down financier. He meets Tennyson Harris at a lavish Newport dinner hosted by W. K. Vanderbilt, noting opulent decor, diamonds, and a table of twenty four people valued at a thousand million dollars. Bourget questions the purpose of Harris and the luxury surrounding the event.
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New York
Paul Bourget
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Yennyson R. Harris
Bourget
Tennyson
Harris
France
Newport
Europe
Second Massachusetts Volunteers Break Camp for Tampa Move
The Second Massachusetts Volunteers, encamped at Lakeland, and the Seventy-first New York, with one exception, are ordered to break camp per General Shatter and move to Tampa. They will form camp near the Eighth and Twenty-second Infantry Regiments in the first brigade under Brigadier-General Adna R. Chaffee.
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Tampa
Fla
Second
Massachusetts Volunteers
Lakeland
Seventy-first New York
Fifth Army Corps
Gener Shatter
Eighth
Massachusetts
Adna_ R. Chaffee
Oben
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John Dunn
Company I
James Cully
Johnny
Gurine
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Iny
Ninth Massachusetts Regiment
Columbia and
Ieabe
Malvern Heleht
Cass
Guiney
Mr. Fitzgerald
Old Ninth
Rae
Mublin Green
Mullen
O'Keefe
Washington
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Jackson
New Orleans
Scott
Mexico
Grant
Appomattox
Crittenden
Kentucky
Mr. Slattery
Alther
Sullivan
E. J. Slattery
Chaplain Murphy
Captain Hayes
Company H
East Boston
Company FE
St. James Y. M. C. T. A. Society
William A. H. Crowley
John J.barry
W. J. Cassidy
Frank J. Donahue
P. J. Fleming
T. F. McCarthy
John J. Shaughnessy
Division 82
Frank Daly
Company B
M. J. Jordan
William ©. S. Hennigan
Division 46
Revere
James J. Reardon
Division 20
Michael O’donovan
Lynn Cadet Band
Murray
Clark
Foley
John F. Fitzgerald
John J. Hayes
Co.h
Ancient Order of
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Suffolk CO
John F. Hayes
Eal Se
Beecham
T. J. Gargan
Essex County
America
Sixth
Congressman Weymouth
Fitchburg
J. Frank Supplee
Maryland
Baltimore
Louis Howe
Stevens
Marlboro
Tappan
Virginia
Bailey
Governor Wolcott
W. M. Bailey
George H. Thomas
Eighth Regiment Infantry
Roger Wolcott
State House
Toston
Park
Wes
Sat
Earls
Derbrus
First Brigade
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