1862 CIVIL WAR HANDWRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ARMY RECRUITER AND THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ADJUTANT GENERAL REGARDING DESERTERS

1862 CIVIL WAR HANDWRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ARMY RECRUITER AND THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ADJUTANT GENERAL REGARDING DESERTERS

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CIVIL WAR and New Hampshire interest: - 1862 letter from recruiter to New Hampshire Adjutant-General, re: deserters, etc., 2pp, 8vo. With reply on 3rd page from Adjt.-General. Aug. 28, 1862, Holderness [NH]. Re: recruitment of volunteers..."I have enlisted as you see 56 men. Plymouth comes here with 29 men. New Hampton with 21 men making 106 men here." Electing officers....- detailed description of deserter -- "...has I suspect left here to avoid the service..." Wants the state to send a man and money to find him. "I feel I have spent time and money enough myself..." On 3rd page the Adjt.-General replies - :The presumption is, that your deserter will cost as much as he is worth to look him up -- in as much he has never been mustered into service..." VG

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