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FABULOUS CIVIL WAR RECRUITMENT POSTER
[CIVIL WAR]. “Free Excursion! to Richmond! F. H. Hale, Engineer.” [Norway Village, Maine, ca. 1861-62]. Folio recruitment broadside for Norway, ME, most likely for the 1st Maine Volunteer Infantry. Broadside, approximately 315 x 449 mm. Toned, edgeworn, soiled, chipped, short marginal tears, three vertical and one horizontal creases. Letterpress broadside with three woodcuts at upper margin of an American Eagle with “E. Pluribus Unum” banner, an American Flag, and a bear (“Oxford Bears, come forth!). “... Greatest inducement ever offered to Volunteers! $45 bounty from the State; $27, from the general Government; one month’s pay, in advance, $13 - Total advance, $85. $75 from government, when discharged. Also, 160 acres of land… Don’t wait to be drafted. Come forward and Enlist.”