The Daily Dispatch: May 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Irish Recruits.

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--A recruit imported from Ireland, writing to his "dear parents" from Galoup Island, Boston harbor, March 17, 1864, says:

‘ It took us fourteen days to come to Portland, and when we landed there were hundreds of civilians to meet us. They gave us brandy, whiskey, pies, puddings, cigars, or anything we wished for, to enlist along with them. Faith, we took all we got and did not go with them after all. Feeny brought us out with the intention of making us drunk and enlisting us after; but he was disappointed, for any of us that did list was not with him. * * * The bounty was very tempting, and I enlisted the first day I came here. There is a good many of the batch enlisted, and a great many did not. I belong to the 28th Massachusetts regiment of foot, &c.

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The Daily Dispatch: May 20, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. May 20, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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