[282] Orange furnished two hundred and nine men for the war, which was a surplus of ten over and above all demands. Three were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was twenty-five thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars ($25,135.00). The amount of money raised and expended by the town for the payment of State aid to the families of volunteers during the years of the war, and which was repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $110.62; in 1862, $1,535.66; in 1863, $3,091.58; in 1864, $3,190.90; in 1865, $2,027.17. Total amount, $9,955.93. The ladies of Orange and North Orange Village were indefatigable in their work for the soldiers, and forwarded to the Sanitary and Christian Commissions articles of comfort and use to the money value of at least two thousand dollars.
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[282] Orange furnished two hundred and nine men for the war, which was a surplus of ten over and above all demands. Three were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was twenty-five thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars ($25,135.00). The amount of money raised and expended by the town for the payment of State aid to the families of volunteers during the years of the war, and which was repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $110.62; in 1862, $1,535.66; in 1863, $3,091.58; in 1864, $3,190.90; in 1865, $2,027.17. Total amount, $9,955.93. The ladies of Orange and North Orange Village were indefatigable in their work for the soldiers, and forwarded to the Sanitary and Christian Commissions articles of comfort and use to the money value of at least two thousand dollars.
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