Nevada County CA Archives History - Books .....Patriotic 1867
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Book Title: Bean’s History And Directory Of Nevada County, California

PATRIOTIC.

  Besides giving a heavy majority at the polls for the maintenance of the
integrity of the Union, Nevada county contributed liberally of men and money in
the war of rebellion. Four companies were enlisted, and did service in the
field. Captains Greene, Thayer, Atchisson and Kendall raised and commanded these
companies, which altogether numbered about two hundred and fifty men. They all
served in Arizona, or on the southern borders of the United States and Mexico.
All these companies were assisted by the citizens of the county to enter the
service of their country. The distance to the scenes of heaviest conflict was so
great as to prevent extensive enlistments in California, though the people of no
portion of the Union had more fervid desires for the fray.

  In the way of contributions to the Sanitary Fund, Nevada county has left a
noble record. The California Branch of the Sanitary Commission, in a published
pamphlet, gives statements of the amounts contributed by each town and county of
the State, which passed through the hands of the Commission, and also the
amounts sent through Dr. Bellows. The following is a compilation of the amounts
raised by the various places in Nevada county:

Bridgeport                              $1,000 00
Birchville                               1,089 00
Chalk Bluff                                127 50
Columbia Hill                              149 00
French Corral                              300 00
Grass Valley                             8,523 85
Lake City                                  101 00
Moore's Flat                               332 50
Nevada                                   4,938 95
North San Juan                           3,390 56
North Bloomfield                           140 00
Omega                                       21 25
Patterson                                   38 50
Red Dog                                  1,034 00
Rough and Ready                            624 00
Sweetland                                  226 37
Washington                                 329 00
County at Large                            522 35
                                       __________
    Total                              $22,887 83

  To this amount is to be added $6,500 raised in Nevada City and sent by Hon. A.
A. Sargent, while a member of Congress, direct to New York. Of the amount
contributed by the county at large, $355 00 was taken at the polls in Nevada
City. All of the above amounts were in coin. There was, also, contributed $58 in
currency. The total amount given by Nevada county to the Sanitary Fund during
the war, for which receipts can be shown was, therefore, $29,387 83 in coin, and
the above named sum in greenbacks.


Additional Comments:
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Bean’s History and Directory of Nevada County, California

CONTAINING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, WITH
SKETCHES OF THE VARIOUS TOWNS AND MINING
CAMPS, THE NAMES AND OCCUPATION OF
RESIDENTS; ALSO, FULL STATISTICS
OF MINING AND ALL OTHER
INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES.

COMPILED BY EDWIN F. BEAN.

PRINTED AT THE DAILY GAZETTE BOOK AND JOB OFFICE,
1867.


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