The Mercantile Hall Company was reported as having fifteen more men than the number required. The recruits were all young and able-bodied, great care being taken to enlist such men only, as it was thought, would pass the surgical examination.
SOURCE: John Jasper Wyeth, Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass. Dep’t of North Carolina from September 1862 to June 1863, p. 5
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