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Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Twenty-fourth, One Hundred and Tenth, and C)ne Hun-dred and Forty-seventh Infantry, the Twenty-fourth Cavalry,and other corps. In October, 1864, the town voted seven thousand eighthundred dollars to pay bounties to the soldiers. All thevolunteers were, of course, discharged the next year, andmost of them returned to the labors of the farm and theworkshoj). If their military experience had disposed themto u.se the hunters rifle, they needed not to look far for aproper field. Not only were the forests of Lewis countynear at hand, but the bears still strayed occasionally amongthe cultivated fields of Orwell. Pa, exclaimed the little daughter of Colonel G. F.Woodbury, a well-known resident of the village of Orwell,one summer Sunday of 1871,—pa, thtre was a bear justwent through our garden ! Nonsense, child ; it was only a big black dog. No, it wasnt; it was a bear. It didnt jump over thefence like a dog; it just scrambled right over. The colonel stepped to the door, but saw nothing, and
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