Excerpt from The United States Service Magazine, Vol. 2: October, 1864 The aggregate amount appropriated by county, city, and town authorities, and the sums contributed by corporations and individuals, for bounties and aid to the families of soldiers, can be only approximately ascertained. In some of the States careful statistics of the sums have been collected, while in others they can be estimated with tolerable accuracy by multi plying the average extra bounty offered by the number of men enlisted; but in most cases this process gives a Sum below the truth. It is certain, however, that the sums thus contributed do not fall Short of eighty-one million five hundred thousand dollars expended prior to May 1, 1864. The State appropriations for sick and wounded soldiers, whether made Specially for this purpose or in the form of a Governor's Contingent, Fund, or grant to State sanitary associations, have not been of very large amount, as this has been felt to be the special field of voluntary organizations. It Slightly exceeds eight hundred thousand dollars. For purposes of State defence of harbors or territory, grow ing out of the war, or of border defence, the States Specially in danger have appropriated about thirteen millions of dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.