Bancroft, Lieut. George C.
South Danvers Wizard, 6/8/1864, p. 2/3
WAR ITEMS under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.

South Danvers Wizard, 6/15/1864, p. 2/5
LIEUT. GEORGE C. BANCROFT – “The following resolutions unanimously adopted by the Irving Literary Association, at a special meeting held Monday evening, June 13th, 1864 – ‘In Memoriam’…”

Bancroft, Robert B.
South Danvers Wizard, 5/25/1864, p. 2/1
WOUNDED under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.

South Danvers Wizard, 6/22/1864, p. 2/2
MILITARY ITEMS under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.

Bancroft, Capt. Sidney C.
South Danvers Wizard, 1/20/1864, p. 2/3
LADIES SOLDIERS’ AID SOCIETY under [Ladies] Soldiers' Aid Society,  People & Places L.

South Danvers Wizard, 3/9/1864, p. 2/2
HORSE RAIL ROAD HEARING.

Banks, Gen. Nathaniel
South Danvers Wizard, 5/4/1864, p.2/3
LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD [Editorial] under United States - History - 1861-1865, War of Rebellion.

Beckett, George A.
South Danvers Wizard, 2/3/1864, p. 2/3
DEATH OF A SOLDIER – “Under our obituary head last week we announced the death of Mr. George A. Beckett, of this town, son of Benjamin and Mary B. Beckett, aged 21 years.  Mr. B. was a member of Co. B 17th Mass Regiment, being one of its first recruits, and had earned the worthy title of a good soldier.  His disease was consumption.”

Bickford, John
South Danvers Wizard,  6/8/1864, p. 1/ 4-5
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

Blaisdell, Srgt. John A. 
South Danvers Wizard, 5/25/1864, p. 2/4-5
SERGEANT BLAISDELL SAFE!

South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/6-7
WAR CORRESPONDENCE

Blaisdell, L. M.
South Danvers Wizard, 6/8/1864, p. 1/ 4-5
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON .

Bly, D. M.
South Danvers Wizard, 2/24/1864, p. 2/2.
RE-ENLISTED in Massachusetts 4th Battery Light Artillery.

Bond, Samuel B.
South Danvers Wizard,  6/8/1864, p. 1/ 4-5
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

Boynton, James A.
South Danvers Wizard, 5/18/1864, p.2/3
THE DRAFT  under Conscription. 

South Danvers Wizard, 6/1/1864, p.2/1
THE DRAFT under Conscription.

Boynton, John W.
South Danvers Wizard, 5/18/1864, p. 2/2
“Killed on Monday, May 9th, near Spottsylvania Court House.  He belonged to the Fifth Massachusetts Battery, Capt. Phillips, and was one of our newly enlisted men.  The news of his death was received by letter, from which we take extracts:
       May 10th, 1864, Near Spottsylvania
 The enemy threw a few shells into the battery yesterday.  Killed one man belonging to the 148th Pennsylvania and severely wounded a man named Boynton belonging to South Danvers.
       From letter dated May 18th, 1864
 “Our loss so far has been one killed – one died of wounds (Boynton of South Danvers) and four wounded.”
     Mr. Boynton is a son of James Boynton.  At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the navy on board the ship Ino.  After his discharge from the naval service, he enlisted in the nine months service under Capt. Daniels – served out his term faithfully and subsequently enlisted in this battery.”

South Danvers Wizard, 5/25/1864, p. 2/1
FAMILY AFFLICTION – “Our attention has been called to a case of accumulated family affliction, resulting from the casualties of war, so marked in its hardships as to be worthy of public notice.
    Mr. James Boynton of this town, an industrious and worthy citizen, has suffered as follows:  At the late battles in Virginia his son, John W. Boynton, of the 5th Battery, was killed.  His son-in-law, Major Gray, of the Maine 4th, was killed in the same campaign.  He has another son, Leverett S, now in the service, having enlisted early in the war.  And at the recent draft, another son, James A., was conscripted; and although he was rejected last summer when previously drafted, he has this time passed the examination.  He has still another son, formerly in the service, but now discharged for physical disability.”

South Danvers Wizard, 5/25/1864, p. 2/1
HALF MAST under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.

Bray, Samuel R.
South Danvers Wizard, 5/18/1864, p. 2/3
THE DRAFT under Conscription.

South Danvers Wizard, 6/1/1864, p. 2/1
THE DRAFT under Conscription.

Bridges, John Henry
South Danvers Wizard, 1/27/1864, p. 2/3
DANVERS – “On Sunday Afternoon last, the body of John Henry Bridges, late seamen on the U.S. Gunboat Ceres, was interred at Beverly – the funeral services taking place at his father’s residence in Danversport.  Mr. Bridges was killed by a rebel sharpshooter at Hamilton, in North Carolina, at the time of the taking of a fort there, July 9, 1862.  He was 24 years of age.  As soon as the news of his death was received at home, a short time after the event, his father forwarded a metallic burial case for the purpose of having the remains returned to its friends.  The officer to whom it was sent, however, was away at the time it was received, and it was consequently stored in a custom-house, and never came again to light till a relative of the deceased investigated the matter a short time since.  The body had been interred at the cemetery at Plymouth, N.C. and with it the likeness of a little sister, which circumstances was a means of making certain the identity of the body – another being the discovery, in the grass, of a board placed there for the purpose of future identification, by a shipmate residing in Salem.
     The body was originally buried by the Hawkins Zouaves, the crews of the gunboats attending the funeral.  The burial service at Danversport was performed by Rev. J. W. Putnam, the Universalist minister, and was attended by a large number of neighbors and friends.” Reprinted from the Salem Gazette, 22d inst.

Brown, Rufus
South Danvers Wizard, 1/27/1864, p. 2/7
THE CURRIER’S STRIKE: MEETING OF THE EMPLOYERS

Brown, Samuel
South Danvers Wizard, 2/17/1864, p. 2/7
AN OLD BARREL – “A correspondent of the Salem Gazette, from Danvers Centre, furnished that paper with the following:
     Not long since I had occasion to go to Mr. Samuel Brown’s, who lives in South Danvers, near Brown’s Pond.  Mr. B. is now 87 years old and still hale and hearty, his mind strong, and his memory good.  While speaking of the reminiscences of his youth, he asked me to go into his cellar and see a curiosity – a pork barrel made more than 80 years ago, by Mr. Walter Smith, who was a cooper and lived in the house now owned by Mr. Elijah Hutchinson, Danvers Centre.  At the time his father bought it, he was 7 years old; it rained and he got into the barrel, and they covered him up and he rode home in it.  He says the barrel has been filled with pork almost every year since. It looked to me as though it might last another generation if it has a good care as it has had thus far. 
     I call this an old settler.  Only think of the pots of baked beans that been seasoned from that old pork barrel, enough to give a portion of Uncle Sam’s army a good heavy meal!”

Brown, Col. William
South Danvers Wizard, 4/27/1864, p. 2/2
MILITARY REPORT - Regarding the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts.

Browne, Maj. A. P.
South Danvers Wizard, 1/20/1864. p. 2/4

Buffum, James N.
South Danvers Wizard, 5/11/864, p. 2/2
ALMOST A MOB

Buford, Gen. John
South Danvers Wizard, 1/16/1864, p. 2/5
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

Burnham, Maj. A. P.
South Danvers Wizard, 6/8/1864, p. 1/ 4-5
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

Burnham, Daniel
South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/6-7
WAR CORRESPONDENCE

Burnham, F.
South Danvers Wizard, 6/1/1864, p. 2/3
SEVERE FIRE under Fires.

Butler, Gen. Benjamin F.
South Danvers Wizard, 1/6/1864, p. 2/5
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

South Danvers Wizard, 5/11/1864, p. 2/7
THE LATEST NEWS LAST NIGHT under Army Correspondence. 

South Danvers Wizard, 5/25/1864, p. 4-5
SERGEANT BLASIDELL SAVED! . 

Buxton, Philip O.
South Danvers Wizard, 1/27/1864, p. 2/1
BUXTON AND TUCKER [Editorial] – “The remains of two more of our brave soldiers have been brought to the homes of their kindred and committed to the silent earth, amidst the lamentations of their friends.  One of them, Mr. Philip O. Buxton, fell at the famous battlefield of Lookout Mountain, which was fought by the gallant Horner  ‘above the clouds’.  The other, Mr. George H. Tucker, after having performed his duty faithfully with his regiment, and being taken prisoner three times, was taken to the hospital at Annapolis and there died, no less a martyr to the good cause than if he had fallen by the bullet or shell of the enemy.
      Both these young men have gone down and their names will be held in perpetual remembrance by their townsmen when they count up their lost jewels at the end of the strife.  The time will come, if it is not now, when great honor will be awarded to every one who falls in the struggle to save the life of the nation.
     When the war is ended, the time will have come to take measures to raise a monument to the memory of those of our soldiers who nobly sacrificed their lives for the best interests of our country.”