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Recruiting of African Americans, 1865

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Slaves and the Civil War

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ItemID
wmsl175
IDEntry
8193
Creator
Hagerstown Mail
Date
1865-02-17
Collection Location
Washington County Free Library
Coverage
Western Maryland, 1800-1864
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Recruiting has been going on briskly in some of the Districts in this county within the last few days. A number of the Districts have filled their quotas, whilst several have a surplus of volunteers. The Hagerstown District, we understand, lacks but three men of having its full complement, and probably by this time it is complete. Quite a number of “Afric’s sable sons” enlisted in this town and have gone off to the war.