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Lot 497

[CIVIL WAR]. Your Country Calls! Young Men to the Rescue! Plymouth, MA: Old Colony Memorial Press, 21 July 1862. With contemporary pencil inscription. 
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$2,250
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[CIVIL WAR]. Your Country Calls! Young Men to the Rescue! Plymouth, MA: Old Colony Memorial Press, 21 July 1862. With contemporary pencil inscription. 

11 7/8 x 18 7/8 in. printed broadside on blue-green paper (minor soil, some creasing); framed to 16 x 23 3/4 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by the Selectmen of Plymouth: Wm. T. Davis, E.C. Turner, Thos. B. Sears, Lysander Dunham, and Hosea Bartlett. With eagle vignette. 

A recruitment broadside for the young men of Plymouth, MA, and surrounding towns featuring a list of the bounties and wages each recruit would receive. An intriguing pencil inscription near the lower edge reads: "not wanted in this quarter of the town. Patriotism still exists here without the aid of the cause of the interest taken by one of our townsmen." 

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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