The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . roops from Massachusetts was on its wayto the defence of Washington. Recruiting began instantly andregiment after regiment was organized. This great fratricidalwar lasted until 1865, and during that time Boston sent intoservice over twenty-six thousand men, and gave immensesums of monev to aid the government in carrying on thewar. When in 1865 the news came of the surrender ofLee to Gen. Grant at Appomattox, the rejoicings o
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . roops from Massachusetts was on its wayto the defence of Washington. Recruiting began instantly andregiment after regiment was organized. This great fratricidalwar lasted until 1865, and during that time Boston sent intoservice over twenty-six thousand men, and gave immensesums of monev to aid the government in carrying on thewar. When in 1865 the news came of the surrender ofLee to Gen. Grant at Appomattox, the rejoicings over thevictory and the knowledge that now and forever the greatEmancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln would besustained, and that slavery as an institution had passed intohistory, were great, but soon turned into mourning when thedeath by assassination of President Lincoln was grief of New England was of the same depth as it wasall over the country, and expression of this feeling was givenby all the great orators. In 1869 there was inaugurated thegreatest musical festival that was ever held in America. A 117 Iinute Man Statue, Lexington, huge coliseum was erected and under the direction of Mr. P. , ten thousand vocahsts and musicians for five daysin June gave a musical feast that was indescribable. On the 9th day of November, 1872, at quarter after sevenin the evening, a fire started in the building at the corner ofSummer and Kingston streets and spread with fearful fire department was unable to cope with it, and as itspread northeasterly into the very heart of the great com-mercial district, aid was summoned from cities as far awayas Portland, Maine, and special trains upon all the railroadsbrought engines and men to the citys aid Buildings wereblown up in the effort to stay the flames, hoping that theirdestruction would leave the fire fiend nothing to prey the fire finally stopped, it had burned over sixty-fiveacres
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