2006-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/31/2006
Commission, 1p. 17”x14”, for George L. Hersum (1825-1890) as “First Lieutenant of Company “G” of infantry IN THE Fifth REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEERS…”, dated July 2, 1864, and is signed by “Allen Terry” as Secretary of State and by Joseph Albree Gilmore (1811-1867) as Governor of New Hampshire, who won the governorship in 1863, and was reelected in 1864. As governor, Gilmore arranged for the state to borrow $1.5 million - an immense sum, used to pay bounties for soldiers and "bounty hunters" who helped sign up New Hampshire men for the Civil War. Under Gilmore's leadership the state exceeded its mandated quotas of soldiers.
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