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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 9: Hampshire County. (search)
ocure volunteers to relieve citizens who had been drafted or who might thereafter be; and to those citizens who were drafted, and had procured substitutes or had paid commutation, there be paid the sum of three hundred dollars; and for this purpose the selectmen and treasurer were directed to borrow thirty-six hundred dollars. This amount was borrowed on the personal notes of the selectmen and treasurer, on a guarantee to them signed by about three hundred voters of the town; on the 20th of May, 1865, the town assumed the liabilities incurred by the selectmen and treasurer. June 30th, Voted, to raise a sum of money sufficient to procure forty volunteers. 1865. January 2d, Voted to raise twenty-five hundred dollars to procure recruits on the last call of the President for three hundred thousand men. Belchertown furnished two hundred and eighty men for the war, which was a surplus of twenty over and above all demands. Nine were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money