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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 3: Berkshire County. (search)
twenty-five dollars; and they procured three volunteers, paying two of them $550 each, and the other $500. The $1,125 with the $375 allowed by the town made $1,500, leaving the agent (H. W. Smith), who procured the men, $100 out of pocket, besides a liberal contribution towards the $1,125. The town, by a vote, refused to refund to its agent the $100 advanced by him, to save them from another draft.] The words in brackets we do not fully comprehend: we have given them as we found them. December 27th, The selectmen were authorized to procure five volunteers, and pay to each a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Five were procured, and received the bounty. Alford furnished thirty-three men for the war, as reported by the selectmen in 1866. It must have furnished at least fifty-five. At the end of the war, after having furnished its quota upon every call of the President, Alford had a surplus of four over and above all demands. None were commissioned officers. The wh
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 15: Worcester County. (search)
by him to the end of this infernal war. Voted, To pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to volunteers. The selectmen were requested to open subscription-lists forthwith. August 25th, Voted, to pay a bounty of one hundred and fifty dollars to each three-years volunteer, and one hundred dollars to each volunteer for nine months, and to assume the responsibility of the payment of the fifty dollars each subscribed for them. The treasurer was authorized to borrow money to pay the bounties. December 27th, The selectmen were directed to draw three hundred dollars from the treasury to meet the wants of the Sanitary Commission. 1863. March 7th, Voted, to appropriate three hundred dollars for the Soldiers-Aid Society for the benefit of the soldiers. June 7th, Voted, to pay each man who volunteers to the quota of Harvard one hundred and twenty-five dollars, while the law will allow it. 1864. June 7th, At an informal meeting it was voted to raise by a separate tax $2,550 to pay a bounty