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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 23363
Title: Volunteer enlistment form, Portland, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1862-07-24
Location: Portland
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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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.
Exhibit
The War was not going well for the Union and in the summer of 1862, when President Lincoln called for an additional 300,000 troops, it was not a surprise to see so many men enlist in an attempt to bring proper leadership into the Army.
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Site
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.