‘ [572] in connection with the pay received from Government, to make the sum total of twenty dollars a month for the time they are actually engaged in such military duty, and in case of their decease the said extra pay is to be paid to their heirs.’ 1862. August 5th, Voted, to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer enlisting to the credit of the town for three years service. September 1st, Voted, to pay the same bounty to men enlisting for nine months and credited to the quota of the town. 1863. There does not appear to have been any action taken by the town in its corporate capacity during this year in regard to the war. 1864. June 25th, Voted, to pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each volunteer ‘who shall enlist to the credit of the town for three years previous to March, 1865.’ Plympton furnished ninety-six men for the war, which was a surplus of eight over and above all demands. Seven were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town for military purposes, exclusive of State aid, was six thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty-five cents ($6,491.85). The further sum of seventeen hundred and eighty-eight dollars was raised by private subscription to aid recruiting. The amount of money paid by the town for State aid during the war to the families of volunteers, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $408.57; in 1862, $2,195.49; in 1863, $3,227.64; in 1864, $1,919.00; in 1865, $1,003.87. Total amount, $8,754.57.
This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
‘ [572] in connection with the pay received from Government, to make the sum total of twenty dollars a month for the time they are actually engaged in such military duty, and in case of their decease the said extra pay is to be paid to their heirs.’ 1862. August 5th, Voted, to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer enlisting to the credit of the town for three years service. September 1st, Voted, to pay the same bounty to men enlisting for nine months and credited to the quota of the town. 1863. There does not appear to have been any action taken by the town in its corporate capacity during this year in regard to the war. 1864. June 25th, Voted, to pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each volunteer ‘who shall enlist to the credit of the town for three years previous to March, 1865.’ Plympton furnished ninety-six men for the war, which was a surplus of eight over and above all demands. Seven were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town for military purposes, exclusive of State aid, was six thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty-five cents ($6,491.85). The further sum of seventeen hundred and eighty-eight dollars was raised by private subscription to aid recruiting. The amount of money paid by the town for State aid during the war to the families of volunteers, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $408.57; in 1862, $2,195.49; in 1863, $3,227.64; in 1864, $1,919.00; in 1865, $1,003.87. Total amount, $8,754.57.
1871. E. P. DUtton and Co. Boston,.
Tufts University. provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.