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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 260 260 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 18 18 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 11 11 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 7 7 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 7 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 6 6 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 5 5 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 4 4 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 4 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 4 4 Browse Search
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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 8: Hampden County. (search)
ar, exclusive of State aid, was seventeen thousand and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-five cents ($17,077.55). The amount of money raised and expended by the town for State aid to the families of volunteers during the years of the war, and which was afterwards repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $228.10; in 1862, $1,197.46; in 1863, $1,919.62; in 1864, $2,060.74; in 1865, $1,313.22. Total amount, $6,719.14. The ladies of Agawam formed a Soldiers' Relief Society in October, 1861. They met once a week during the war, and made lint, bandages, and under-clothing, which from time to time were sent to the front. The value of these contributions in money was between eight hundred and a thousand dollars. One lady volunteered, and served three months as a nurse in one of the hospitals near Washington. Blandford Incorporated April 10, 1741. Population in 1860, 1,256; in 1865, 1,087. Valuation in 1860, $519,151; in 1865, $529,150. The selectmen in 1861 were
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 10: Middlesex County. (search)
various religious societies in Cambridgeport had raised in money five thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-one cents, and had sent forward sixty-five boxes of articles. The Old Cambridge Sanitary Society was started in October, 1861, two months before the formation of the Boston Branch of the United-States Sanitary Commission, by two young ladies, Miss Marianne G. Washburn and Miss Catherine A. Eliot. For three years and two months they took charge of all the society wo was seventeen thousand two hundred and forty-eight (17,248) articles made. Articles forwarded (made by the Society, and received as donations), twenty-one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two (21,892). The first three boxes, packed between October, 1861, and January, 1862, were sent to St. Louis. After the formation of the Boston Branch of the United-States Sanitary Commission in January, 1862, all the articles (with the exception of one box to St. Louis) were forwarded to the Boston Branch
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Norfolk County. (search)
d honored townsman, in behalf of the city council, a public reception and welcome at Institute Hall, upon his arrival in Roxbury, at such time as may be convenient; and an opportunity be thus afforded for the people to unite in their congratulations for the return to the army and to his home and friends of a gallant officer and a true, noble, and loyal heart. Colonel Lee commanded the Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Ball's Bluff, in October, 1861, together with Major Revere and Adjutant Perrin of the same regiment, and were held as prisoners at Richmond, Virginia. May 12th, The military committee were given full power to look after and minister to the necessities of our sick and wounded soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. June 9th, A brass field-piece, captured from the British in the Revolutionary War, and since preserved at William and Mary's College, Virginia, and taken as a relic by Company K, First Massachusetts Volunt