Sunday, October 12, 2014

Diary of Amos A. Lawrence: Monday, April 21, 1861

Great town meeting in Brookline. I made the committee's report, putting the whole town on the war footing, and appropriating $15,000 to be used by a military committee whom we named. This was adopted with great excitement.

SOURCE: William Lawrence, Life of Amos A. Lawrence: With Extracts from His Diary and Correspondence, p. 171

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