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100 Years Ago: Civil War Hero, Marlborough Postmaster Hosts Comrades

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June 29, 1911: Companies F and I of Old 6th Mass.: Post Master John S. Fay is Entertaining his Comrades of '61 Here Today

Fifty years ago this Thursday, Companies F and I of the 13th Mass. regiment left for three years' service in one of the greatest wars of modern times. Today of the 26 survivors of the 225 men, who left Marlboro on that beautiful June morning, 24 are in Marlboro as guests of their old comrade, Postmaster John S. Fay, who lost a leg and arm on the field of battle. Many of the men have come long distances to meet their old comrades in fraternal greeting and while time may apparently have set heavily on the shoulders of some of the boys, all are light hearted and gay.

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