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Keywords: Enlistment and recruitment
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Item 11863
Title: Enlistment and draft quotas, Houlton, 1864
Contributed by: Cary Library
Date: 1864-07-01
Location: Houlton
Media: Ink on paper
Item 11855
Title: Army enlistment form, Houlton, 1867
Contributed by: Cary Library
Date: 1867-09-17
Location: Houlton; Augusta
Media: Ink on paper
Item 13922
Title: George W. Dyer letter on soldier recruitment, 1862
Contributed by: Maine State Archives
Date: 1862-12-08
Location: Columbia
Media: ink on paper
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Bounties and the Need for Soldiers
The continuing need for large numbers of soldiers during the Civil War led the U.S. government to institute a draft and pay bounties for soldiers to enlist and for substitutes. Towns and states had quotas for enlistments.
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Home Ties: Sebago During the Civil War
Letters to and from Sebago soldiers who served in the Civil War show concern on both sides about farms and other issues at home as well as concern from the home front about soldiers' well-being.
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Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.
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The Downeast community's history as presented by a broad-based team of representatives from Surry Elementary School and Surry Historical Society. Topics covered include the Surry Opera House and Surry Playhouse, the Surry Village School and education over time in the community, sawmills, and early property owner Phebe Fowler. Students scanned and transcribed a large number of the items digitized for the project.