[299] and the selectmen were authorized to keep on recruiting, and to pay the same amount of bounty to the 1st of March, 1865. 1865. May 31st, A vote was passed to raise by taxation four thousand six hundred and six dollars, ‘to refund to individuals the several sums contributed by them to fill the quotas of the town,’ under the several calls of the President for volunteers. Brimfield furnished one hundred and thirty-eight men for the war, which was a surplus of five over and above all demands. Two were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town for military purposes, exclusive of State aid, was fifteen thousand and sixty-four dollars and thirty-three cents ($15,064.33). The amount of money raised and expended by the town for State aid to soldiers' families during the war, and which was afterwards repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $250.67; in 1862, $1,123.20; in 1863, $1,704.77; in 1864, $1,666.47; in 1865, $1,108.00. Total amount, $5,853.11. The ladies of Brimfield were active during the whole of the war in doing good for our soldiers. By subscriptions and fairs held by them, they raised $1,803.25 for the Sanitary and Christian Commissions; and before the Fortieth Regiment left the State, they raised seventy-five dollars, and with it purchased a sword, belt, and sash, which they presented to their townsman, Francis D. Lincoln, who commanded a company in the regiment.
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[299] and the selectmen were authorized to keep on recruiting, and to pay the same amount of bounty to the 1st of March, 1865. 1865. May 31st, A vote was passed to raise by taxation four thousand six hundred and six dollars, ‘to refund to individuals the several sums contributed by them to fill the quotas of the town,’ under the several calls of the President for volunteers. Brimfield furnished one hundred and thirty-eight men for the war, which was a surplus of five over and above all demands. Two were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town for military purposes, exclusive of State aid, was fifteen thousand and sixty-four dollars and thirty-three cents ($15,064.33). The amount of money raised and expended by the town for State aid to soldiers' families during the war, and which was afterwards repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $250.67; in 1862, $1,123.20; in 1863, $1,704.77; in 1864, $1,666.47; in 1865, $1,108.00. Total amount, $5,853.11. The ladies of Brimfield were active during the whole of the war in doing good for our soldiers. By subscriptions and fairs held by them, they raised $1,803.25 for the Sanitary and Christian Commissions; and before the Fortieth Regiment left the State, they raised seventy-five dollars, and with it purchased a sword, belt, and sash, which they presented to their townsman, Francis D. Lincoln, who commanded a company in the regiment.
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