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Muster Day

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noun

U.S. History.

  1. the annual day for enrollment in the militia of all able men aged 18 to 45, according to a law established in 1792 and in effect until after the Civil War.

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When Cassius Wyble came down from his mountains to the 2OOO-population metropolis of Clayburg on his half-yearly trip for supplies he thought the old custom of Muster Day had been revived.

From Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls by Various

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