. History and complete roster of the Massachusetts regiments, minute men of '61 who responded to the first call of President Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861, to defend the flag and Constitution of the United States ... and biographical sketches of minute men of Massachuetts . rent com-manders of State Troops, ordering themto report with their commands at Bostonready for immediate departure and duty. Midnight with orders in hand, foundCaptain William S. McFarlin hustling hislittle company of men together, to proceedto the nearest railroad station about sixmiles away — thence to be conveyed toBo
. History and complete roster of the Massachusetts regiments, minute men of '61 who responded to the first call of President Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861, to defend the flag and Constitution of the United States ... and biographical sketches of minute men of Massachuetts . rent com-manders of State Troops, ordering themto report with their commands at Bostonready for immediate departure and duty. Midnight with orders in hand, foundCaptain William S. McFarlin hustling hislittle company of men together, to proceedto the nearest railroad station about sixmiles away — thence to be conveyed toBoston by the earliest morning train, asthey were, and reported on Boston Com-mon at ten oclock. After a term of service at the front, andthe performance of duties as MinuteMen that to-day is acknowledged asamong the most important of the McFarlin and his company re-turned home to Massachusetts, only toreturn again to the front a little later, asthe nucleus of a full company of one hun-dred and one men and offices, as CompanyC, of the Eighteenth Regiment Massachu-setts Volunteers, later becoming as dis-tinguished a company of men and officersas served in the war from Massachusettsas history justly records. Citizen Thomas March 14, 1910. MiNiTK Men of 61 41. iKA>. M. IJOBLE, Boston, Jlass. Minute Men of 61 Third Massachusetts Regiment Captain Francis Marion Doble was bornin Ivowell, Massachusetts, on the 17th ofAugust, 1838, but while in infancy withhis parents moved to the town of Sumner,Oxford County, State of Maine. In thespring of 1846 the family moved again tothe town of Lincoln, Penobscot County,Maine, and settled on a farm. The boj-was educated in the public schools ofMassachusetts and Maine, in the academyat Lincoln Village, and later took a courseat Comers Commercial College in Boston. He came to Boston in the winter of1856-7. In April, 1861, when PresidentLincoln issued his first call for 75,000 vol-unteers for three months service hewas enrolled in
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