Excerpt from The Record of Athol, Massachusetts: In Suppressing the Great Rebellion This Committee was organized by the appoint ment of Rev. John F. Norton, Chairman, and Dr. J. P. Lynde Secretary. Dr. A. G. Williams having accepted a com mission as a Surgeon in the Army, at a Town Meeting March 2. 1863 Mr. Charles W. Bannon was added to the Committee at the request of the other members. He had previously ren dered much assistance in collecting and arran ging many of the facts that relate to the early history of recruiting in Athol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.