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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 67485
Title: Roll Call of Volunteers to meet Civil War Drafts
Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society
Date: 1869-03-31
Location: Sebago; Westbrook; Gorham; Pownal
Media: ink on paper
Item 16111
Title: Civil War Recruiting Poster, Houlton, 1862
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: 1862-09-03
Location: Houlton
Media: 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.