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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Norfolk County. (search)
d thirty-six men for the war, which was a surplus of seventeen over and above all demands. Ten were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-three cents ($31,531.23). Dr. O. Brown took a very active part in raising Company I of the Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, of which he was appointed Assistant Surgeon. Rev. W. L. Ropes contributed liberally of time and money, and in various ways exhibited his ardent patriotism. The amount of State aid paid by the town to soldiers' families during the war, and reimbursed by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $1,436.76; in 1862, $5,398.22; in 1863, $7,059.77; in 1864, $5,239.19; in 1865, $3,000.00. Total amount, $22,137,14. The ladies of Wrentham formed a Soldiers-Aid Society and frequently sent articles of comfort and necessity to the soldiers in the cam