[334] 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 appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was twenty-nine thousand dollars ($29,000.00). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the war, for the payment of State aid to the soldiers' families, and which was afterwards reimbursed by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $484.01; in 1862, $3,137.93; in 1863, $3,901.81; in 1864, $3,834.27; in 1865, $2,218.47. Total amount, $13,576.49.
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[334] 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 appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was twenty-nine thousand dollars ($29,000.00). The amount of money raised and expended by the town during the war, for the payment of State aid to the soldiers' families, and which was afterwards reimbursed by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $484.01; in 1862, $3,137.93; in 1863, $3,901.81; in 1864, $3,834.27; in 1865, $2,218.47. Total amount, $13,576.49.
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