Daniels, Eben S.
South Danvers Wizard, 2/17/1864, p. 2/3
FURLOUGHS under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.

Danvers Bleachery
South Danvers Wizard, 2/3/1864, p. 2/4
“We learn that Mr. H. A. Snow, the new superintendent of the Danvers Bleachery, has retired, and that Mr. Jonas Reed (former Superintendent) has been appointed in his stand…”

South Danvers Wizard, 3/2/1864, p. 2/2
ACCIDENT AT THE BLEACHERY – “On Wednesday last, as a son of Michael Murray was putting a belt on a pulley at the Bleachery, he was caught by his clothes and carried over a pulley and through a space a few inches wide, tearing his scalp so as to leave a portion of his skull bare, and otherwise bruising him; he then fell some twenty feet and his clothes were torn off.  His wounds were dressed by Dr. Kittredge and the patient will probably recover.  Truly a very wonderful escape from a dreadful death.”

South Danvers Wizard, 3/9/1864, p. 2/3
NEW DYE HOUSE –“The new dyeing establishment connected with the Bleachery is fast approaching completion.  The buildings are finished and the machinery is mostly set up.  In the course of a few weeks, operations will commence.  We are gratified to hear of such cases of business enterprise in our town.  Every new establishment that gives additional employment to the laboring class, adds to the general prosperity of the town.”

South Danvers Wizard, 4/6/1864, p. 2/2
DYE HOUSE – “We hear that the new Dye Works of the Bleachery Company will commence this week.  The capital expended in introducing this branch of business is roughly estimated at about $75,000.  About 50 additional workers will be employed.”

South Danvers Wizard, 4/27/1864, p.2/4
RESIGNATION – “Old patrons will deeply regret that Mr. Samuel Quiner White, who has so long and faithfully served them, has resigned his situation as Carrier of the Wizard.  Since his elegant and graceful performance of the part of the ‘White Wizard’ his services have been in great demand.  The new management of the Bleachery, always ready to recognize distinguished talent, has had command of his services in their coal department, which he has rendered with great acceptance,  The public will greet with satisfaction that his connection with the Wizard will not wholly cease, as he will continue at the wheel and print, as before so that it will be likely to be well done and free from typographical errors.”

South Danvers Wizard, 6/1/1864, p. 2/2
IMPROVEMENT – “We see that the Bleachery Company are erecting a new structure at their works, in front of their main building.  It is to be 130 feet by 32, one and a half stories high, and is to contain 16 napping machines.  This is a branch of the business recently adopted by them.”

Danvers, Massachusetts
South Danvers Wizard, 1/20/1864, p. 2/3
SHOPKEEPING IN DANVERS - “On Thursday night last some thieves broke and entered the shoe manufactory of Ira P. Pope of Danvers and stole a case of shoes.  A search warrant was issued the next morning and certain houses searched…”

South Danvers Wizard, 1/20/1864, p. 2/3
PUBLIC MEETING OF THE BOWDITCH CLUB – Held in Town Hall in Danvers. The question for discussion: “Resolved that Abraham Lincoln should be re-elected to the Presidency of the United States.” Most who volunteered to speak, spoke in favor of Lincoln.

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.

South Danvers Wizard, 1/27/1864, p. 2/2
THE LATE FAIR OF THE SOLDIER’S AID SOCIETY IN DANVERS [Editorial]– “The net income of this Fair was not, until recently, uncertained.  It is found to be $550.  We believe, considering the short time in which the young ladies, who were foremost in this enterprise, had to work, and also that Danvers is not a very wealthy town, their success in this work of charity, is worthy of the highest praise and commendation.  The citizens of Danvers, like those of South Danvers, deserve much credit for their exertions and liberality, in contributing to the wants of our brave soldiers in the field.  Their example in this respect, and more especially that of the Ladies is worthy of imitation by all the loyal people throughout the free states. From the time when the first companies were being recruited until the present, the ladies in this vicinity have spent much of their time in the preparation of such things as our soldiers have most needed. No one, save the soldiers themselves, who have been the recipients of the warm socks, shirts, drawers, mittens, and other like articles, which are the work of their hands, can estimate the good they have done in this direction.  We hope that Soldiers’ Aid Societies may become more numerous, and their good works more extensive, for the day is coming, and is not far distant, when all will be proud to have been identified with a cause so just, so noble, and so humane, as that which has for its object the amelioration of those who have gone forth to fight the battles of our country.”

South Danvers Wizard, 2/10/1864, p. 2/2
FROM DANVERS – Reports on the Bowditch Club, Farmer’s Club and Horse Railroad.

South Danvers Wizard, 2/17/1864, p. 2/1
SURPRISE PARTY – Describes surprise party for Rev. Mr. Chase, Rector of the Episcopal Church in Danvers.

South Danvers Wizard, 2/17/1864, p. 2/1
BURGLARY AND ARSON IN DANVERS under Crime.

South Danvers Wizard, 3/9/1864, p. 2/4
DANVERS TOWN OFFICERS – Lists officers elected on 3/7/1864.

South Danvers Wizard, 3/23/8164, p. 2/4
THE SCHOOLS OF DANVERS – Report from District No. 1.

South Danvers Wizard, 3/23/1864, p. 2/5
DANVERS SCHOOL MATTERS – Lists persons admitted to Holten High School.

South Danvers Wizard, 4/6/1864, p. 2/3
DANVERS – “Grand Dramatic Entertainment – By particular request of many citizens, the play of the ‘Honeymoon’ will be repeated, with the addition of a laughable farce, entitled the ‘Irish Tutor’, at Gothic Hall, Danvers, on Fast Evening, April 7.  Tickets twenty-five cents.
     Lecture – The eloquent John B. Gough will deliver a lecture on Temperance, at Gothic Hall, next Friday evening, April 8.  Tickets twenty-five cents.”

South Danvers Wizard, 4/6/1864, p. 2/5
MOOT COURT IN DANVERS [Letter to the Editor] – “Mr. Editor, - For some  weeks past there has been but little to excite or interest the good citizens of our town, except the Moot Court, which was held under the auspices of the Bowditch Club…”

South Danvers Wizard, 4/20/1864, p. 2/2
JOHN B. GOUGH – “This world renowned orator lectured at Gothic Hall in Danvers, on Friday evening, the 8th inst., before an audience of about six hundred persons.  His subject was Temperance, and though he did not do well as we have sometimes heard him, yet so persuasive, so pathetic, and so eloquent a lecture could have been given by no other man than Gough….”

South Danvers Wizard,  5/4/1864, p. 2/3
OUR QUOTAS - “It is now stated as a fixed fact that South Danvers is nine men short of filling her quotas, and Danvers, forty in excess.  The latter must be a good place for those dreading a draft to live in.”

South Danvers Wizard, 5/4/1864, p. 2/5
DESERTER ARRESTED – “A telegram was received on Saturday morning, by Capt. Daniel H. Johnson, Jr., Provost Marshal, from Colonel Thomas R. Tannatt, 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery, that 1st Lieut. Elbridge W. Guilford, of Danvers, had deserted.  After a very diligent search, he was arrested Sunday forenoon by Capt. Johnson at Danvers Plains, in a full suit of citizens clothes.” 

South Danvers Wizard, 5/25/1864, p. 2/6
DANVERS. – WORTHY OF IMITATION. – “Chas. P. Preston, Esq., Representative to the General Court from Danvers, has placed in the hands of the selectmen a sum of two hundred dollars, the extra pay voted by the Legislature to all its members, at the close of the session, with the request that it should be appropriated by them to the relief of wounded and disabled soldiers and to the families of those who have died in the service of their country, who need pecuniary assistance, belonging to that town.”

South Danvers Wizard, 6/1/1864, p. 1/ 4-5
THREE YEARS IN THE ARMY BY A HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLAR [Original] signed “H. H. W., Danvers, Holten High School, 1864.”

Fig. 12. 1 :Roll of Honor" from The Wizard Press, Danvers, November 1, 1861.

South Danvers Wizard, 6/15/1864, p. 2/2
WOUNDED MEN FROM DANVERS – “A friend has handed us the following names of wounded soldiers in hospital belonging to our neighboring town.  They are all members of Co. I of the 1st Mass. Heavy Artillery: Simon Murray, Chas. Hiller and Edwin Fuller.”

South Danvers Wizard, 6/22/1864, p. 2/5
THE DANVERS MARTYRS – “The following are the names of Danvers soldiers who have been killed in battle or died in the United States service: -
James M. Burrows, 17th Regiment
William H. Croft, 17th Regiment
Ephriam Getchel, 17th Regiment
Simeon Coffin, 17th Regiment
James Hatrtley, 17th Regiment
James E. Lowell, 17th Regiment
Thomas A. Musgrave, 17th Regiment
Allen Nourse, 17th Regiment
Daniel Smith, 17th Regiment
Frank Scampton, 17th Regiment
Patrick Trainer, 17th Regiment
Thomas Hartman, 17th Regiment
Edwin Bickford, 40th Regiment
George H. Dwinnell, 40th Regiment
William W. Jesup, 40th Regiment
Charles E. Meader, 49th Regiment
Samuel M. Potter, 40th Regiment
William H. Parker, 40th Regiment
George Woodman, 40th Regiment
Charles U. Young, 40th Regiment
William H. Channell, 40th Regiment
Charles W. Dodge, 35th Regiment
Ambrose Hinds, 35th Regiment
Joseph Woods, 35th Regiment
Charles E. M. Welsh, 35th Regiment
Sylvester Brown, 35th Regiment
James W. Kelley, 23d Regiment
Moses A. Kent, 23d Regiment
Isaac N. Roberts, 23d Regiment
Hugh Cutherton, 23d Regiment
Edwin I Getchel, 14th Regiment 
(In 1864, the 14th  Regiment was the lst Heavy Artillery)
Levi Howard, 14th Regiment
John Merrill, 14th Regiment
William E. Shelden, 14th Regiment
Milford Tedford, 14th Regiment
Angus Ward, 14th regiment
Emerson Hall, 14th Regiment
C. W. Goudy, 14th Regiment
Sergt. J.P. Withy, 14th Regiment
Lieut. James Hill, 33d Regiment
George A. Ewell, 12th Regiment
George W. Porter, 12th Regiment
James Moran, 11th Regiment
Cornelius Sullivan, 11th Regiment
Michael McAuliff, 11th Regiment
Henry A. Smith, 19th Regiment
Robert W. Putnam, 19th Regiment
Patrick F. Shay, 9th Regiment
Abial Howe, 8th Regiment
Thomas Collins, 8th Regiment
William P. Guildford, 5th Regiment
John Shackley, 2d Heavy Artillery
Alonzo Gray, Salem Cadets
George W. Peabody, Reed’s Mounted Rifle Rangers
     It will be seen that the above list contains the names of fifty-four soldiers, who have been killed in battle or died while in the United States service; this is a loss of eighteen greater than that of our neighbor town, South Danvers, and probably much larger than that of any other town in Essex County, in proportion to its population.”

South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/3
MORE DANVERS MARTYRS – “We regret to be obliged to add to the long list of the dead from our sister town, the following names:
John Goodwin
Charles Shelden
H. A. Aiken (mortally wounded)
Mr. Musgrove and
Mr. Hart
    There are also several wounded, more or less seriously, some of whom are on their way home.” 

Davis, J. L.
South Danvers Wizard,  5/4/1864, p. 2/3
PRESENTATION – “Mr. J. L. Davis, the principal of the Grammar School in Wallis District, was recently presented by retiring members of his first class, with a silver syrup pitcher.”

Demeritt, Henry H.
South Danvers Wizard, 6/8/1864, p. 2/3
WAR ITEMS - "...Henry H. Demeritt – The great flag in the square was again hung at half mast on Saturday, on account of another of our brave boys who has fallen.  Henry H. Demeritt was shot in his thigh very severely at the fight in the Wildnerness at Spottsylvania and died in the hospital. He is spoken of as a fine young man of about twenty-three years of age, and has been in the employ of Messrs. Stimpson & Floyd, who hung their flag at half mast and draped it in mourning for the deceased..."

Dodge, Gen. Granville M.

South Danvers Wizard, 6/15/1864, p. 2/4
GEN. GRANVILLE M. DODGE – “We see it announced by authority, that our former townsman, Brigadier General Dodge, has been appointed and confirmed by the Senate as Major General.
    We believe this to be a most proper and judicious appointment, as it is an appropriate acknowledgement of distinguished merit.  Gen. Dodge has always won his epaulets by active service in the field.  He seems to combine all the qualities of foresight and prudence, with the requisite amount of promptness and dash.  Some of our generals seem to excel in the former and others in the latter qualities, but it is the fortune of but few to be properly balanced with both.  Gen. Dodge also possesses a vast amount of pluck and endurance, although at one time his health broke down under the extraordinary field labors he was called upon to perform.  His education was favorable to endurance, he having from youth been exposed to the elements, field-surveying on the Western prairies.  We cannot but take satisfaction in the successful military career of one we are proud to call our townsman.”

Dodge, Sergt. J. P.
South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/6-7
WAR CORRESPONDENCE - Account  of the role of  the Massachusetts 39th Regiment in the battle of the Wilderness.  "...Sergeant J. P. Dodge came out of it without a wound and behaved well..", wrote Charles Hanson in a letter to the Wizard.  See Hanson, Charles W. under People & Places H.

Donovan, Jeremiah
South Danvers Wizard, 3/30/1864, p. 2/4
HALF MAST – “The flag was at half mast on Monday and Tuesday, on account of the deaths of Jeremiah Donovan, a newly enlisted member of the Mass. 19th, who died at Brandy Station, in Virginia, …”

Dustin, Eben S.
South Danvers Wizard, 2/17/1864, p. 2/4
“The annexed lines were written by the late lamented Mrs. Henry C. Torr.  The following are the circumstances under which they were penned: - Eben S. Dustin enlisted in April, 1861, and was in the Mass. 2d Regiment Vols., shared all the hardships of that regiment in Co. A, until the battle of Antietam, where he was wounded and was then placed in a hospital at Harrisburg, where he remained, and wrote to his widowed mother in complaining but hopeful letters, telling of times when he hoped to be able to return home.  On Jan. 8th, a letter came to announce to the poor mother if she wished to see her son living, to come quickly.  She started immediately and when she arrived and was shewn into the hospital, she did not know her son! He was so changed from the robust young man of 19 and a half years (he had been in the service one year and a half and was then 21,) to the skeleton she saw in the sick room!  She said she thought if only she could take him in her arms and carry him home, how gladly she would have done it: -  See poem to left.