To the Editor Bolivar Bulletin,

Sir: I give you below a statement of the Fund for the erection of our Monument.

Net proceeds of Supper given by ladies of Bolivar … $90.00
Net proceeds tournament ………………………………… $510.00
Net proceeds Ladies Concert …………………………… $239.75
Amount of subscriptions ………………………………….. $935.50
Also in gold ……………………………………………………… $10.00
In silver …………………………………………………………… $12.00
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Making in all ……………………………………………….. $1,775.35
Besides in coin ………………………………………………… $22.00

I adopt this means of letting the people of the county know that we have now some eighteen hundred dollars (nearly all of it paid in and the balance can be obtained whenever called for, being subscribed but not yet paid). There ought to be raised at least $3,000 to put up a nice Monument, and we make another appeal to the people of the county to send in what they can in the course of the next six weeks. It has been seven months since the call was first made, and many said they would subscribe this past fall. The monument will certainly be raised, God willing, and the people of the country will surely send in something towards it. A good many districts have not sent a dollar as yet. I call again on the people, especially on all officers of companies to send in to me, the names of those who died or were killed in the war; giving if possible the time and place. We want the names of all who were either killed or died in the service.
A. T. MCNEAL, Sec’y
Bolivar, December 6, 1866

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 08 Dec. 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.