[Orders from the State of Maine]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09372 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Broadside Date: 9 July 1862 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy
Two Executive Orders and three General Orders from the State of Maine, printed together, re the necessity of raising additional troops for the Union cause. Bottom of page is a statement addressed to "the Patriotic Citizen Soldiery of Maine: …With the $100 cash bounty … the advantages of entering the service by voluntary enlistment, rather than by being detached or drafted, are most apparent. The adoption of the latter course, for want of volunteers, while it will deprive our citizens of the Government Bounty, premium and advance pay, will also deprive them of the honor of volunteering in this hour of the Nation's peril, for its defense. No richer legacy than this honor can any man transmit to his children. Delays are dangerous."
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