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- GLC#
- GLC06851
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 1864/03/25
- Author/Creator
- Rivers, William J., fl. 1864
- Title
- To the Youth of Alabama: We are calling to arms! [recruitment broadside]
- Place Written
- Sommerfield, Alabama
- Pagination
- 1 sheet + news clippings Height: 23.6 cm, Width: 30.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Recruiting "Cavalry to be composed of those under [age] 18" to fight under Gen. Pillow. Once mounted in an album or scrapbook. On verso were adhered four undated newsclippings: two poems, one news story describing the positions of former Confederate leaders, and one 3-line joke.
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