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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 3: Berkshire County. (search)
hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty-two cents ($25,691.82). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the four years of the war for the payment of State aid to the families of soldiers, and which was afterwards reimbursed by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $651.48; in 1862, $3,854.97; in 1863, $6,422.58; in 1864, $5,371.26; in 1865, $3,200. Total amount in four years, $19,500.29. The ladies of Great Barrington formed a Soldiers' Aid Society on the 2d of May, 1861, which met once a week, to do soldiers' work, until the close of the war. We have not been able to procure a detailed account of their labors, but this fact may be taken as an illustration of their entire course. Immediately after the battle of the Wilderness, in May, 1864, they raised twenty-two hundred and eighty-two dollars for the benefit of the sick and wounded. Hancock Incorporated July 2, 1776. Population in 1860, 816; in 1865, 967. Valuation in 1860, $494,484; in 1865, $