[Ladies’] Soldiers’ Aid Society
South Danvers Wizard, 1/13/1864, p. 2/2
“In a letter just received from the Sanitary Committee, a request is made that the South Danvers ladies would assist in preparing a supply of mittens to meet the large and urgent requisitions for them at this inclement season.  Contributions of mittens will be gladly received, and all ladies who are willing to knit will be furnished with yarn, if desired, by calling on Mrs. Henry Cook or Mrs. W.H. Little or at the meeting of the Soldiers’ Aid Society on Thursday afternoon at Sutton’s Hall.”

South Danvers Wizard, 1/13/1864, p. 2/7
LYNNFIELD – “The patriotism of this town did not all leave with its quota. – Lieut. Levi S. Russell, one of its sons, being at home on a furlough last week, a subscription was started, and Friday we witnessed the presentation of an elegant sword, costing over half a hundred dollars.  The presentation speech was made by Miss Sarah F. Bryant, which was responded to by Lieut. Russell.  Lynnfield has still two more Lieuts. in the field, who perhaps would be pleased to be remembered.  Other items here are – the ladies making a quilt for the soldiers, helping for a soldier’s fair in a neighboring town, while some are asking – ‘Why can’t we have a soldier’s fair?’ ” – Reprinted from the [Salem] Gazette.

South Danvers Wizard, 1/20/1864, p.2/3
LADIES SOLDIERS AID SOCIETY – “By request, we hereby give a general statement of the doings of the society from the time of its formation in April, 1861, to January, 1864.  At the commencement, the society labored almost exclusively for soldiers who enlisted from this town, and has always furnished hose to soldiers or their friends who have applied for them.
     The following articles were forwarded in May, 1861, to the soldiers from this town belonging to the 5th Regiment, three months’ volunteers, viz: Forty flannel shirts, forty cotton shorts; forty pairs of drawers; forty pairs of hose; forty pocket handkerchiefs; forty towels; together with needles, thread, paper, tracts, and various other articles.  During the same month, the society provided those members of the Salem Light Infantry, who were residents of this town, with ten cotton shirts, ten pairs of woolen hose; ten pairs of cotton hose, ten pocket handkerchiefs; ten towels; hair brushes and stationery.
     In July of the same year, the company under command of Capt. Sidney C. Bancroft, belonging to the 17th Regiment, and composed in part of citizens of this town, received from the society, ninety-five shirts; one hundred and one pairs of drawers; eighty-two havelocks; and a quantity of small bags containing needles, cotton, and other useful articles.  In December, 1862, seventy-five pairs of hose, and fifty-eight pairs of mittens were forwarded to the same company.
     In August, 1861, the South Danvers members of the Essex Cadets received from the society twenty-seven shirts; seventeen pairs of drawers; ten pairs of hose; and thirty-three havelocks.  In November of the same year – eighty pairs of hose and forty-eight pairs of mittens were also sent to them.
     In December, the society, at the request of Lieut. C.B. Warner of the 19th Regiment, made for the South Danvers men in his company – the materials being furnished – twenty-seven shirts and twenty-seven pairs of drawers.  The society presented them with twenty-seven pairs of hose and twenty-seven pairs of mittens.
     Company C 5th Regiment, which left for Newberne in September, 1862, received no aid from the society, as none was needed.  A subscription, amounting to one hundred and seventy dollars, was raised for the purpose of procuring a flag, to be presented to the company, which they declined, preferring that the money should be placed in the keeping of the cashier of the Danvers Bank, subject to their disposal for future exigencies - $120 of which still remains in his hands.
     As Government provides liberally for our soldiers in the field, the society has, of late, principally directed its efforts to the relief of the sick and wounded in our hospitals, for whose benefit more than thirty barrels and boxes of supplies have been forwarded to various persons and places, viz: - To. Dr. Howe and Josiah Quincy, Jr., both members of the Sanitary Committee; to Mrs. Fales, of Washington, D.C.; to the Christian Commission; the Murfreesboro Hospital; the hospital at Point Lookout, Md.; the Post Hospital, Newbern, N.C., and to the N.E. Women’s Auxiliary Association, a branch of the Sanitary Commission.
     The following are among the articles made and contributed by the society since its formation: - More than 200 flannel shirts; 537 cotton shirts; 93 under shirts; 610 pairs of drawers; 900 pairs of hose; 140 sheets; 525 pocket handkerchiefs; 435 towels; 150 pairs of mittens; 75 dressing gowns; 155 havelocks; 74 pairs of shoes; more than 100 blankets; 40 quilts; 3 coverlets; 288 rolls of bandages; 29 bottles of wine; 2 barrels of dried apples; 2 barrels of crackers; 2 pieces of mosquito net; one piece of cotton cloth.
     Besides these, large quantities of second hand clothing have been sent, and also a variety of miscellaneous articles, such as stationery; Bibles; tracts; lint; slings and cushions for broken limbs; bed and pillow ticks; wash bowls, mugs, sponges, soap; also condensed milk, concentrated coffee, tea, sugar, chocolate, broms, preserves, jellies, farina, cornstarch, peaches, tomatoes, tamarinds, ginger cakes, apples; and comfort bags in great numbers.
     The amount of money received by the society, thus far, is $1,662.09.  Amount expended, $1,560.64.
     In addition to the above, the avails of the South Danvers table at the late Fair in Boston for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission amounted to upwards of $700.00.
[See OUR OWN SOLDIERS under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.]

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, 3/16/1864, p. 2/2
THE ANTIQUE FESTIVAL under Entertainments.

South Danvers Wizard, 6/22/1864, p. 2/3
SOLDIER’S AID SOCIETY – “We take much pleasure in publishing the following correspondence, as it is highly honorable to the Directors of the corporation, who gave the entire receipts upon their road for one day to so sacred a purpose as aiding our maimed and disabled soldiers.  This generous act proves that there are notable exceptions to the old saying, that ‘Corporations have no souls.’
     We can give them the fullest assurance that their liberal bounty will be faithfully applied to the excellent object for which it was bestowed:  Salem & So. Danvers Railroad Office, Salem, June 13, 1864, Mrs. Henry Cook, - I take pleasure in handing you as the representative of the South Danvers branch of the Sanitary Commission, a check on the Salem Bank for $108, being one third of the receipts (both cash and tickets) taken by the South Danvers and Salem Railroad Company on Wednesday last, for the purposes of said commission.
     The above sum includes, also, the wages of the employees of the road for that day, which were cheerfully contributed by them for this object, which lies so near every heart.” Signed “Very respectfully yours, Geo. D. Phippen, Treas. S & S D R R” 

Lake, Capt. David G.
South Danvers Wizard, 4/6/1864, p. 2/2
DAVID G. LAKE, “of this town, has been promoted from 1st Lieutenant, Co. A., to Captain of Co. F in the 1st Regt. N. C. Union Volunteers.”

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

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

South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/2
WOUNDED SOLDIERS under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.

Lavelette, P. C.
South Danvers Wizard, 6/8/1864, p. 1/ 4-5
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

Leavitt, Daniel F.
South Danvers Wizard, 4/6/1864, p. 2/2
“Assistant Surgeon Daniel F. Leavitt of this town has been commissioned Surgeon of Third Regiment of Cavalry.”

Lincoln, President Abraham 
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, 5/11/1864, p. 2/6
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT [From Yesterday’s Papers] – “Call to the Friends of the Union and Liberty to Return Thanks to God for His Especial Favor.”

Little, Mrs. W.H.
South Danvers Wizard, 1/13/1864, p. 2/2
LETTER FROM THE SANITARY COMMITTEE under [Ladis] Soldiers Aid Society, People & Places L.

Little, William H.
South Danvers Wizard, 2/3/1864, p. 2/2
TOWN MEETING under Transportation.

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

Lod [Lord?], Timothy
South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/2
WOUNDED SOLDIERS under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.

Looby, Thomas
South Danvers Wizard, 1/271864, p. 2/7
THE CURRIER’S STRIKE.

Lord, Timothy H.
South Danvres Wizard, 2/17/1864, p. 2/3
FURLOUGHS under South Danvers, Massachusetts, People & Places S.

Lord, William N.
South Danvers Wizard, 1/27/1864, p. 2/7
THE CURRIER’S STRIKE.

Lynn, Massachusetts
South Danvers Wizard, 5/11/864, p. 2/2
ALMOST A MOB.

Lynnfield, Massachusetts
South Danvers Wizard, 1/13/1864, p. 2/7
LYNNFIELD – “The patriotism of this town did not all leave with its quota. – Lieut. Levi S. Russell, one of its sons, being at home on a furlough last week, a subscription was started, and Friday we witnessed the presentation of an elegant sword, costing over half a hundred dollars.  The presentation speech was made by Miss Sarah F. Bryant, which was responded to by Lieut. Russell.  Lynnfield has still two more Lieuts. in the field, who perhaps would be pleased to be remembered.  Other items here are – the ladies making a quilt for the soldiers, helping for a soldier’s fair in a neighboring town, while some are asking – ‘Why can’t we have a soldier’s fair?’ ” – Reprinted from the [Salem] Gazette.

South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/2
LYNNFIELD STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL – “Mr. Wizard, - If you will say to all witches of South Danvers that if they will ‘ride on a rail’ to our Strawberry Festival here this Wednesday, June 29, they will receive a free pass on their return, you will much oblige. Signed: LYNNFIELD. We advise all female wizards to accept the inducements offered by the above and go to Lynnfield To-Day either on a rail or on their broomsticks.”