receipt of Mr. Robert S. Rantoul's communication dated Janu- 

 ary 22d, addressed to you and enclosing copy of a resolution 

 passed by the "Essex Institute" of Salem, Massachusetts, rec- 

 ommending that the fortifications^ now erecting in Marblehead 

 be named " Fort Glover," and the works designated for the 

 "Stage" in Gloucester " Fort Conant." 



In reply, I am instructed to inform you, that the Secretary 

 regards the names proposed as suitable designations of these 

 defences, and that he has ordered that they be named accord- 

 ingly. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



ED. M. CAMBY, 

 Brigadier General, A. A. G. 

 Hon. WM. WHITING, 



Solicitor of the War Department. 



The chair remarked as follows: soon after the publication 

 of Mr. W. P. Upham's Memoir of Gen. John Glover of Mar- 

 blehead, S. H. Phillips Esq., suggested the propriety of hav- 

 ing one of the Forts about to be constructed in Marblehead 

 named " Fort Glover.' 7 



At a meeting of the Essex Institute, held on Wednesday, 

 Sept. 2, 1863, on motion of Mr. W. P. Upham, a committee, 

 consisting of Messrs. W. P. Upham and A. C. Goodell Jr., 

 was appointed to cooperate with the town authorities and citi- 

 zens of Marblehead in such a manner as may be deemed ap- 

 propriate to accomplish this object. 



At a meeting held on Monday evening, Dec. 14, 1863, the 

 subject of naming the fortifications designed for the "Stage" 

 in Gloucester, "Fort Conant," suggested in a letter to Mr. 

 Goodell by J. Wingate Thornton Esq., of Boston, in honor of 

 Roger Conant, the founder of the first plantation in Massachu- 

 setts Bay, was brought to the notice of the Institute and refer- 

 red to the same Committee who had under consideration the 

 naming of the Fort at Marblehead. 



Mr. Goodell moreover stated that as the business for which 

 the Committee was appointed had been so fully accomplished 

 by Mr. Rantoul, he desired to be excused from further duty. 



