. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . tween loyal members and Cop-perheads; several of the leaders of the church were vio-lent Copperheads, and this feeling became so intensethat the meetings were finally suspended. On one Sun-day the pastor had made a prayer in which God was in-voked to help the Union cause and at the close of theprayer one of the members arose and said in a loud andpassionate voice,! call upon the choir to sing Dixie. The meeting was broken up and soon after the churchwas closed. 3^4 RE-ENLISTED VETERANS ON A FURLOUGH Crowds of loyal men and boys would org
. Reminiscences of the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865 . tween loyal members and Cop-perheads; several of the leaders of the church were vio-lent Copperheads, and this feeling became so intensethat the meetings were finally suspended. On one Sun-day the pastor had made a prayer in which God was in-voked to help the Union cause and at the close of theprayer one of the members arose and said in a loud andpassionate voice,! call upon the choir to sing Dixie. The meeting was broken up and soon after the churchwas closed. 3^4 RE-ENLISTED VETERANS ON A FURLOUGH Crowds of loyal men and boys would organize andgo to the homes of the most violent of the Copperheads,and demand that they throw out an American flag orcheer for the Union army and the old flag made its ap-pearance every time. A large crowd which soon took on the aspect of amob, appeared early one evening at the corner of Mainand Factory streets, in front of the Gazette office, theofiice being over the drug store upon the corner, and inthe upper part of the building. The Nashua Gazette was. BATTLE FLAGS OF 3RD N. H. VOLS. one of the most bitter Copperhead sheets in the wholeNorth; with surprising boldness the editor of that paperfollowed up, week after week, his tirade of abuse of theUnion soldiers, belittleing the skill of the Union Generals,giving all praise to General Lee and other leaders of therebel army and glorifying in the defeat of the Unioncause and the success of the Confederate forces; the pa- 325 REMINISCENCKS OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION triotic people of Nashua read these utterances with in-tense indignation and impatince, until vengeance brokeits bounds; a few leaders organized, and with a crowd offollowers, descended upon the office of that paper. Thecrowd appeared as if it sprang from the ground: hundredssoon multiplied into thousands: and the crowd surgedaround the building upon both Main and Factory streets,crying out, Tear down the building! Bring out theeditor and well hang him. Down with the G
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