Excerpt from Boston Maine Railroad: Lowest Rates, Short Line Between Boston and Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul and Minneapolis, The Vacation Resorts of New EnglandSumpter by the rebel forces, President Lincoln issued his proclamation and called for volunteers from all the states to suppress the rebellion, when Boston took a very active part, sending to the war her full quota of men for the army and navy. On the 14th of July, 1863, at about 1 o'clock, commenced the great draft riot in Boston. A large mob took possession of the North End and de ¿ed the city and United States authorities. The City Government immediately prepared for the con¿ict, the whole police force were armed, the regulars, ma rines, and the whole state militia were called out and marched at once to the North ebd, The mob attacked the Cooper Street Armory, where the Light Artillery and a battalion of regulars were quartered. On the discharge of the cannon and the muskets of the regulars, fully fifty persons were killed or wounded in the mob. The city sent men to the war for the Union. November 9 - 10, 1872, a fire destroyed worth of property.In 1637 the first addition of outlying territory that was made to Boston was Noddle's Island, layd to Boston, and its name changed to East Boston. It remained unimproved and almost uninhabited until 1833, when it was pur chased by a company of capitalists and improvements commenced. South Bos ton, under the name of Dorchester Village, annexed to Boston, March 6, 1804, Washington Village, formerly part of Dorchester, annexed May 21, 1855, Rox bury annexed January 6, 1868, Dorchester, January 3, 1870, Charlestown, West Roxbury and Brighton, January 5, 1874, Back Bay annexed April 25, 1859, Suffolk County incorporated May 10, 1643.The present area of Boston, with all its districts, is acres. To the original 783 acres of the peninsula have been added East Boston, 836 acres, South Boston, acres, Roxbury, acres, Dorchester, acres, West Roxbury, acres, Charlestown, 586 acres, Brighton, acres, Breed's Island, 785 acres, Deer Island, 184 acres.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.