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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 73343
Title: Charles Weed's Draft Notice September, 1864
Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society
Date: 1964-09-19
Location: Portland; Sebago
Media: Ink on paper
Item 72480
Title: Charles W. Cole's Draft Notice
Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society
Date: 1862-09-15
Location: Sebago; Portland
Media: Ink on paper
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Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
In Canada During the Civil War
One surviving letter from the family of Francis Pratt to the young man who was in Canada in 1865 suggests that going to Canada to escape military service during the Civil War was not unheard of. The letter also suggests money was removed to Canada to protect it.