Church Cancelled in Great Falls

A Revolver, Bowie Knife and Blanket

Concord, New Hampshire early 1850s (By Henry P. Moore LOC - LC-DIG-pga-00365)

From The New-York Times April 29, 1861:

WHAT NEW-HAMPSHIRE IS DOING.

CONCORD, N.H., Sunday, April 28.

Our City Council has appropriated $10,000 to aid the volunteers from this city.

At Great Falls, to-day, the churches were closed, and a mass religious meeting was held in Market square.

The Granite State Guard is under orders for the war. Each member has been presented with a revolver, bowie knife and blanket. The citizens have subscribed over $10,000 in aid of the volunteers.

Other Articles from the Same Times Issue:

THE CHILD OF A VOLUNTEER.

A young man who has lately volunteered in the Second Regiment National Volunteers, is desirous of finding some person willing to adopt his son, a child eight years of age, whose mother has been dead for some years. The boy is handsome and intelligent. Any person desirous of adopting him can obtain further information by applying to Capt. FRANK J. WHITE, at his residence, No. 341 Fifth-avenue.

PATRIOTIC MATTERS.

A matronly lady, accompanied by her son, a fine youth of about nineteen years, entered a gun store on Broadway, on Saturday, and purchased a full outfit for him. Selecting the best weapons and other articles for a soldier’s use, that could be found in the store, she paid the bill, remarking, with evident emotion, “This, my son, is all that I can do. I have given you up to serve your country, and may God go with you — it is all a mother can do.” The incident attracted considerable attention, and tearful eves followed this patriotic mother and her son, as they departed from the place.

Great Falls is currently called Somersworth, New Hampshire.