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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 3: Berkshire County. (search)
bounty to colored men enlisting to the credit of the town, as we pay to white men. May 9th, The bounty for three-years volunteers was fixed at one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The selectmen were authorized to borrow two thousand dollars for recruiting purposes, and to refund to the ten drafted men who entered the service or paid commutation-money, each, the sum of one hundred dollars. June 24th, The selectmen were authorized to borrow three thousand dollars for recruiting purposes. August 31st, Voted, that the agents of the town for recruiting be directed to pay four-tenths of the cost of a substitute to any enrolled militia-man of said town who will put a substitute into the army, said substitute to answer on the present quota of the town; said payments not to exceed four hundred dollars for a three-years man, three hundred for a two-years man, and one hundred for a one-year man. Fifteen hundred dollars were appropriated for this purpose. December 1st, The treasurer was inst
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 9: Hampshire County. (search)
, $354,219; in 1865, $342,842. The selectmen in 1861 were Nathan Orcutt, William H. Mitchell, Charles Harlow; in 1862, Nathan Orcutt, John C. Reed, Charles Harlow; in 1863 and 1864, N. F. Orcutt, Charles Harlow, John C. Reed; in 1865, L. J. Orcutt, L. E. Dawes, C. M. Tillson. The town-clerk during all these years was Almon Mitchell. The town-treasurer during the same period was William Packard. 1861. The first town-meeting at which action was taken in regard to the war was held August 31st, which voted to raise five hundred dollars in aid of families of such citizens as had or might hereafter volunteer in the United-States service. 1862. A meeting was held July 28th, at which it was voted to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer to fill the quota of the town, the number required being fourteen. Almon Mitchell who had been town-clerk since 1855, and all through the war, writes, that the above were the first actions of the town after the war commenced.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 10: Middlesex County. (search)
iment Massachusetts Volunteers, who resigned his seat in the common council to take command of the regiment Colonel Davis was one of the best and bravest officers in the Commonwealth. He was killed in action, July 11, 1864, near Petersburg, Va. August 17th, The city voted to pay to each Cambridge soldier in the First Regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, who did not receive Government bounty because discharged before serving two years, a gratuity of one hundred dollars, which on the 31st of August was extended so as to include men who were in other regiments and similarly discharged. 1865. January 2d, The recruiting committee was authorized to spend all necessary sums to fill the quota of Cambridge under the recent call of the President for three hundred thousand additional volunteers. May 24th, Voted, to give a public reception to Companies A, B, and F, Thirty-Eighth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, on their return to Cambridge at the end of the war. Cambridge furnished