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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 14 0 Browse Search
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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 7: Franklin County. (search)
bounties to soldiers who have or shall volunteer in the town's quota; also, to authorize the selectmen to cause the quota of the town to be filled with volunteers in advance of any draft. The town at several meetings voted to pay the highest bounties allowed by the laws of the State. Mr. Mayo, the town-clerk, writes: The men who went from our town were among our best citizens, and those who returned to us fully occupy their former stations. We have lost in the war twenty-six men. Alexander Cooper, sergeant of Company G, Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, was more than three years in the army, and was discharged for wounds received at Spottsylvania. He was instantly killed Nov. 22, 1866, by the fall of a derrick while raising a stone for the soldiers' monument in this town. Warwick furnished ninety-nine men for the war, which was a surplus of nine over and above all demands. None were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
to mention—ensured the destruction of a hostile schooner, the Alexander Cooper, at New Topsail Inlet, near Wilmington. Cushing, causing a yaagainst the violation of the blockade by neutral nations. The Alexander Cooper was a blockade-runner fitted out in New York, and, having beeniously closed upon and blockaded him in his post. The Southern general Cooper, occupying the right bank of the Arkansas, had collected the buarch, and in the forenoon of the 17th he encounters the outposts of Cooper. Pushing them before him, he comes near the woods bordering the coge and leads to the village, situated a few miles farther on, where Cooper has collected a large stock of supplies. Blunt, who has himself Springs fight had cost him seventeen killed and thirty-six wounded; Cooper's losses were much greater. Hence, notwithstanding the reinforcemedian River. He starts in the fore part of August. At his approach Cooper and Cabell separate. The former moves southwardly, closely followe