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1861 RECRUITING BROADSIDE FOR THE 24th REGIMENT: WAR!!

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This hand-done recruiting broadside captures the immediacy of the moment. The town and particular regiment seeking recruits are not named, but it was clearly a small town to rely on a broadside made out by hand rather than printed up in numbers to distribute widely. November 9 fell only on a Saturday during the war years in 1861, placing it at a point when battles and considerable bloodshed were making it clear there was no turning back and determination was replacing naïve excitement and war fever in towns both north and south: this could have been to raise troops for either side.

The text reads:

 

War!! War!!

There will be a meeting

at the Town Hall on Saturday

Evening Nov. 9^th for the purpose of

enlisting recruits for the 24^th Reg

The meeting will be addressed

by Officers of the Regiment

Come one Come all

Let the Hall be

=Full=

The broadside measures 12” x 15” and the condition is excellent, just two small losses to the upper corners where it had had been tacked up, a couple of wrinkles on the bottom and a horizontal fold, and some small stains at upper and lower right. The text is in black, distinct and fully legible, shading slight toward a dark gray in places.

We have canvassed newspaper notices for correlations, but given what we suspect is a limited, small town gathering it may have entirely escaped wider reporting. Reference to the “24^th Reg” narrows the possibilities for identification down some, but the regiment could have been organizing at the time, or have been in the field and sent officers back home on recruiting duty. In our opinion the broader possibilities give it greater appeal. Looking at southern volunteer infantry regiments who were in the field or organizing about that time produces units in: Alabama; Georgia; Mississippi; North Carolina; Tennessee; and, Virginia. Northern states supply about the same number of candidates: Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky (officially organized in December;) Massachusetts; Missouri; New York; and Ohio. This is a very telling piece of ephemera for a display, exemplifying a period of nationwide madness and bloodshed determining the fate of the Republic.  [sr][ph:L]

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