(CIVIL WAR NEW HAMPSHIRE) Nine Months Men Come Forward I

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW HAMPSHIRE.) "Nine Months' Men . . . Come Forward Immediately" recruitment broadside. Letterpress broadside, 27 x 20 inches, signed in type by recruiting officers E.B.S. Sanborn of Henniker and B.A. Ballou of Weare; lacking 7½ x 3-inch area of lower left corner, professionally filled, conserved, and stabilized. Concord, NH: McFarland & Jenks, 3 [October?] 1862

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The recruiters "call upon all able-bodied men to come forward immediately and swell the ranks of the Union Army! . . . [R]ally in your strength! [The r]ebellion shall quail before you, and treason be crushed forever!" New Hampshire sent only two nine-month regiments to the front, the 15th and 16th New Hampshire Infantry. Both were recruited in Concord in October 1862. One of the recruiters, Barton Allan Ballou, served as a lieutenant in the 16th New Hampshire. We trace no other examples of this broadside at auction or in OCLC.