. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . respondedto the call of thePresident for company wasthe first to enterFaneuil Hall on themorning of the mem-orable i6th ofApril, 1861. InMarch, 1862, he waspromoted first lieu-tenant ; in Septem-ber, 1862, adjutant;in February, 1863,detailed acting assis-tant adjutant-general,and in July, 1864,promoted the expirationof his term of servicehe remained in com-mand of the EighthRegiment of Militiauntil February, 1882,when he was com-mis
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . respondedto the call of thePresident for company wasthe first to enterFaneuil Hall on themorning of the mem-orable i6th ofApril, 1861. InMarch, 1862, he waspromoted first lieu-tenant ; in Septem-ber, 1862, adjutant;in February, 1863,detailed acting assis-tant adjutant-general,and in July, 1864,promoted the expirationof his term of servicehe remained in com-mand of the EighthRegiment of Militiauntil February, 1882,when he was com-missioned brigadier-general. GeneralPeach is one of themost experienced ofBcers in the State, a man of soundjudgment, and one to be relied on with perfect confidenceat all times. He is looked upon as a perfect soldier,and is very popular in his command and throughout theentire State force. Always exacting in the performanceof duty, and yet e\er watchful of the interests and wel-fare of his troops, he is an officer of the best Peach was married in 1870 to Miss Adelaide L.,daughter of Colonel F. J. Coffin, of Newburyport. XO. GREATNESS in cities in America is too otten associated with jirodigious commercial activity, miles of businessblocks, fine new sixteen-story buildings, the ceaseless strife of toiling thousands, and other features of aboom. Rome was not built in a day; nor has the greatness of any city of ancient or modern times beendue to its mere material achievements, piled fast one upon another. In cities, as in men, there is a far higherand a nobler attribute of greatness, — the impress they make upon the thought, welfare, and progress of the nationof which they form a part. Athens was (Ireece, Rome was the Em])ire, London is England, Paris is France, andin a narrower but no less truthful sense, Boston is the Inited States. Her greatness is all her own : it nevercan be taken from her, never surpassed or imitated. New York might disajji^ear in a night, and Ch
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