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Company C Third Regiment Mass. Volunteeer Militia

  “Attorney James Richardson mustered the first unit to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers. Of the original 97 men, 85 survived the war. April 17, 1861″ Graffiti covered alley, Central...

 

“Attorney James Richardson mustered the first unit to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers. Of the original 97 men, 85 survived the war. April 17, 1861″

Graffiti covered alley, Central Square, Cambridge, MA

The man it decorously describes as ‘Attorney James Richardson’ inspired Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’

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