[660] The town-clerk during all the years of the war was Mark Haskell. The town-treasurer in 1861 and 1862 was Washington Stone; in 1863, 1864, and 1865, James C. Bemis. This town paid bounties to volunteers and State aid to their families, as other towns in that part of the Commonwealth did, from the beginning to the end of the Rebellion. We have not been favored with an abstract of the town-records as in other cases, and therefore cannot give the votes passed at the town-meetings in regard to the war. Oakham furnished one hundred and two men for the war, which was a surplus of twelve over and above all demands. Three were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was ten thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents ($10,867.58). The amount of money expended by the town during the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $155.62; in 1862, $996.09; in 1863, $1,838.94; in 1864, $2,018.00; in 1865, $1,425.45. Total amount, $6,434.10. ‘The ladies of Oakham were not behind their sisters in neighboring towns in their labors for the soldiers, although exactly what was done by them I have not the means of stating.’
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[660] The town-clerk during all the years of the war was Mark Haskell. The town-treasurer in 1861 and 1862 was Washington Stone; in 1863, 1864, and 1865, James C. Bemis. This town paid bounties to volunteers and State aid to their families, as other towns in that part of the Commonwealth did, from the beginning to the end of the Rebellion. We have not been favored with an abstract of the town-records as in other cases, and therefore cannot give the votes passed at the town-meetings in regard to the war. Oakham furnished one hundred and two men for the war, which was a surplus of twelve over and above all demands. Three were commissioned officers. The whole amount of money appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war, exclusive of State aid, was ten thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents ($10,867.58). The amount of money expended by the town during the war for State aid to soldiers' families, and repaid by the Commonwealth, was as follows: In 1861, $155.62; in 1862, $996.09; in 1863, $1,838.94; in 1864, $2,018.00; in 1865, $1,425.45. Total amount, $6,434.10. ‘The ladies of Oakham were not behind their sisters in neighboring towns in their labors for the soldiers, although exactly what was done by them I have not the means of stating.’
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