still image; text Colonel Rush's Light Cavalry. Company K, active men wanted! The regiment is now in camp on the Second Street Road ab. Nicetown Lane. Eagle on shield with banner, arrows and branch. Banner reads, 'No compromise with traitors, and no argument but the cannon's mouth.' Image signed 'L. Johnson & Co.' Poster printed in color. Signed '[blank] 1st Lieut. T.W. Neill, 2d [Lieut.] Howard Ellis, Captain'. View Item
still image; text 31st New York Volunteers re-organizing! Col. Frank Jones, headquarters 532 Broadway. $250 bounty for re-enlistments! Image includes symbols of commerce, agriculture, and education. Banner reads 'Excelsior.' Eagle on shield between Justice and Liberty. View Item
still image; text Camp Lacey. Visit of Gov. Curtin! Presentation of Reg'l Colors ... Eagle on shield with banner, arrows and branch. Banner reads '104th Regiment Pennsylv'a Vol.' Signed 'W.W.H. Davis, Colonel Commanding Binggold Reg't, Penn'a Vol.' View Item
still image; text Fourth Senatorial Dist. Regiment! Colonel Peter McDermott. (Late major Excelsior Brigade, and of Mexican War.) Adjutant Geo. W. Warner. (Late Captain, 15th N.Y.V.) Headquarters, City Assembly Rooms, Broadway. Eagle on shield with banner, arrows in talons, right. Banner reads, 'respond to your country's call.' Signed 'Michael C. Murphy, Recruiting Officer.' View Item
still image; text $163 Bounty! Spinola's Empire Brigade! Hillhouse Light Infantry! Recruits wanted for Comp'y I., Captain John B. Honstain. Hand-colored. Liberty cap above Lady Liberty, shield and eagle, in addition to a train, steamship, cannon, branch and arrows. Banner reads, 'respond to your country's call!' Image by Holton & Jardini Inc., N.Y. Signed '1st Lieutenant, Wm. B. Avery. 2d Lieutenant, A. L. Bagley. Capt. J. B. Honstain'. View Item
still image; text Men for the Navy or Army wanted for 1 year, or 3. The best bounty that is out! will be paid. Eagle sits on a shield, bearing a banner in its break and grasping arrows in its talons. The shield rests on top of a cornucopia. The banner is blank. Recruiting for the Navy or Army. Signed 'John T. Smith, recruiting agent.' View Item
still image; text $163 Bounty! Spinola's Empire Brigade! Hillhouse Light Infantry! Recruits wanted for Comp'y I., Captain John B. Honstain. Liberty cap above Lady Liberty, shield, eagle, in addition to a train, steamship, cannon, branch and arrows. Banner reads, 'respond to your country's call!' Image by Holton & Jardini Inc., N.Y. Signed '1st Lieutenant, Wm. B. Avery. 2d Lieutenant, A. L. Bagley. Capt. J.B. Honstain'. View Item
still image; text To war! To war! 43rd Regiment, N.Y.S.V. Commanded by Col. Vinton, formerly Capt. 16th Inf., U.S.A. Stand by our flag! Recruits wanted to join this first class regiment, now in active service at Washington. Eagle standing on banner. Banner is blank. Signed 'G.W. Reid, Captain. Recruiting Officer'. View Item
still image; text Fifth Ward. A mass meeting of the loyal citizens of the Fifth Ward will be held in Library Street, on Tuesday evening, at 7 1/2 o'clock. Eagle on shield with banner, arrows and branch. Banner reads 'No party but our country.' Signed 'Col. Fitzgerald, a War Democrat, John D. Watson, Esq. William Nicholson, Esq.; the Buckeye Blacksmith and other distinguished speakers.' View Item
still image; text Young Guards 20 volunteers wanted for this company, which is commissioned, and will be one of the first companies mustered in the United States service, under the second requisition. Eagle on shield with arrows and branch. Poster also includes icon of three citizens with an American flag. A banner attached to the flag reads, 'Attention!' Signed 'Recruiting Officers, Alfred W. Chantry, Jr. Peter Conlin, Chas. W. Borbidge'. View Item
still image; text To the patriotic young men of New Jersey. $100 Bounty $3.50 per month allowed for Clothing. $6.00 per month for a married man. Recruiting for 'Olden Legion Regiment, Col. William Bryan.' Eagle wings spread with banner, branch and arrows. Banner reads, 'Freemen to arms!!!' Signed 'Capt. R. Graham Clark. 1st. Lieut Wm. Hamilton Axe. 2nd Lieut. Joseph S. Hugg' View Item
still image; text War! Young men your country calls,--'Tis duty to obey! All who are ready to volunteer, to serve their country, now in its hour of danger, to march in defense of the government, and to protect our glorious flag, the Star Spangled Banner ... Eagle wings spread with banner in beak, arrows. Banner reads, 'Union and Liberty!' 'To complete the organization of a military company, to be attached to Colonel W.W.H. Davis's Bucks County Regiment.' Signed 'W.W. Marple'. View Item
still image; text Our country now and our country forever!! Citizens of the upper end of Bucks, your country claims your services. Eagle wings spread with banner in beak, arrows. Banner reads, 'Union and Liberty,' as well as an image of pointing finger. Signed 'Paul Applebach, B. Frank Fisher, Jos. Thomas.' View Item
still image; text $204 in bounties! Cost what it may, the nation must be saved! To join the 36th Regiment New York Volunteers, commanded by Colonel W.H. Brown. Liberty with flag, eagle between citizen and soldier. Citizen says, 'We will come. We know our country's need, and will respond to her call ...' Soldier says, 'Americans! Your country calls. Your cherished institutions and your noble flag are threatened by rebels and traitors ...' Signed 'Lieut. G.H. Moore, Recruiting Officer'. View Item
still image; text War! As I am bound to fight, and look death straight in the face, not at Bunker Hill, but at Charleston, I will sell at public sale, on Monday, April 22, 1861, at my residence ... in the Borough of Doylestown, the following personal property!! Eagle wings spread with banner in beak, arrows. Banner reads, 'Our Country! Right or Wrong!' 'Conditions by Wm. Kachline'. View Item
still image; text Fall in the Portland Company! $100 Bounty by Portland in addition to all other bounties and pay to volunteers. Banner reads, 'Liberty or Death.' At top of poster, eagle with spread wings and banner in beak and arrows gripped in talons. Promises a one-hundred dollar bounty to every soldier to enlist from the Portland, Maine area before September 1st. Describes the different monetary awards to be given to enlisted men living with different familial circumstances (i.e. those with wives and/or children). View Item
still image; text Rally, boys for the Union, Goodwin's Battery of Breech-loading Light Artillery! Soon to take the field! Let the Rebels take warning! Now is the time to serve your country! No skedaddlers wanted! Fall in boys! Colored. Liberty with flag, eagle between citizen & soldier. Citizen is saying 'We will come. We know our country's need, and will respond to her call...' Soldier is saying, 'Americans! Your country calls. Your cherished institutions and your Noble Flag are threatened by rebels and traitors...' Signed 'Wm. F. Goodwin, Commanding Battery'. View Item
still image; text The Old Fourth accepted. To arms! To arms! The companies comprising the 4th New Jersey, recently returned from Virginia, have opened their armories to recruit several companies for the war! In conformity with the new requisition. Eagle wings spread with banner in beak, arrows. Banner reads, 'Jerseymen to arms!' Poster is inscribed with the name and company of the recruiting officer and the address of the recruiting station. Signed 'T. [or J.?] C. Moore recruiting officer' View Item
still image; text Union mass meeting! A grand rally of the patriotic citizens of the counties of Bucks and Montgomery, who are in favor of the maintenance of our Constitution and laws, at whatever cost, will be held at Hatboro', Montgomery County … Eagle on shield with banner, arrows and branch. Date is the date the poster was printed at the Democrat office. Banner reads, 'The Union it must and shall be preserved.' 'The Meeting will be addressed by the following eminent Speakers:---Hon. Lewis Cassidy, Hon. Wm. D. Kelly, Hon. Daniel M. Smyser, Harry W. Bonsall, Esq., and others' Image is labeled 'H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured.' View Item
still image; text 12th New-York State Artillery ... Wm. A. Howard Col. Com'dg. ... This regiment now being organized under the command of a United States officer of tried experience, offers superior inducements to recruits, as it is a favorite branch of the service. … War scene of men loading and firing cannons. Text surrounding images reads 'Head-quarters, 86 White St.', 'United States & State Bounties Paid', 'A little more grape', '(For) Capt. Bragg.' Additional Image: eagle on shield, wings spread, with American flag, arrows, branch, and banner in beak. Banner reads 'Our country, our whole country.' View Item
still image; text Attention! Volunteers! Wanted, Good, sober, active & intelligent men, to fill Company A. Twenty-Second Regiment P.V. Col. T.C. Morehead, an officer of experience and ability. Eagle wings spread with banner in beak, arrows. Banner reads, '22d Regiment.' Signed 'Captain, Wm. K. Murphy. Lieutenant, Thos. F. Browne.' View Item
still image; text Metropolitan guards! Col. Charles S. Turnbull, Adj't George Wheaton. Having received authority to raise a company for this fine regiment, I have opened a recruiting office at No. 223 Centre St. Eagle on shield with banner, arrows in talons, right. Banner reads, 'The Union It Must and Shall Be Preserved!' Signed 'E. Jackson, Capt. … 1st Lieut John C. Coates … 2d Lieut. Norman Murray'. View Item
still image; text $150 Bounty! Spinola's Empire Brigade! Hillhouse Light Infantry! Col. P.J. Claassen, commanding 2d Reg't. 40 good men wanted immediately to fill up a company. Eagle, wings spread, on shield, and flags, man at left. Man at left is holding the American flag and the Constitution, agriculture and manufacturing tools are at his feet. Image by T. Horton and Co. Banners read, 'The flag of our union forever and ever!' 'Come one! Come all! United we stand! Divided we fall!' Signed 'Capt. W. R. Cummings, 286; Third Avenue, Recruiting Officer.' View Item
still image; text $225 Bounty, Senatorial Regiment Colonel Anthony Conk. Company F, of this fine regiment, is in want of a few more able-bodied men to fill up its ranks! Eagle, wings spread, on shield, and flags, man at left. Hand-colored image. Man at left is holding the American flag and the Constitution, agriculture and manufacturing tools are at his feet. Banners read, 'Rally round the flag, boys!' 'Come one! Come all!' 'United We Stand! Divided We Fall!' Image by T. Horton and Co. Signed '1st Lieut., Fred. H. Staford, 2d Lieut., Augustus J. Spencer. Capt. Edgar Perry.' View Item
still image; text Fourth Senatorial Dist. Regiment! Colonel Peter McDermott, Adjutant Geo. W. Warner. 50 able-bodied men wanted for this regiment, which offers inducements equal to any now being organized. Eagle on shield wings spread with banner, branch arrow. Banner reads, 'Now is the last chance for the bounty!' Signed 'Fred. Creighton, Recruiting Officer'. View Item
still image; text First National Volunteers. Col. William Gurney, of the First U.S. Chasseurs, now raising a crack regiment. Boys, don't be drafted get your bounty! Eagle on shield with arrows, branch, banner in beak. Banner reads, 'Now is your last chance for the bounty!' Image by A.H. Jocelyn, NY. Signed 'Ed. W. Schauffler, Recruiting Officer.' View Item
still image; text Volunteers Wanted! Wanted! Cameronian Guards, Company F. Col. George P. M'Lean's regiment, H.E. Wilkinson, Capt. Eagle with arrows, branch and small shield. View Item
still image; text Don't be drafted! Volunteers wanted … men wanted immediately, for nine months, for the Independent Guards. The undersigned having been authorized to raise a Company for Nine Months, in lieu of the draft … Eagle wings spread with banner, branch & arrows. Banner reads, 'Jersey Blues, Awake!' Signed 'S.P. Laning, 1st Lieut., Geo. T. Da Costa, Captain'. View Item
still image; text Volunteers for nine months. Men wanted immediately for nine months to fill up Company B, N. Jersey Volunteers. Eagle wings spread with banner, branch and arrows. Banner reads, 'Rally for the old flag!' Also two pointing fingers. Signed 'J.K. Brown, Captain'. View Item
still image; text Spinola's Empire Brigade! Bounty! Bounty! 100 dollars Ver. St., wovon 25 dollars voraus bezahlt werden! 50 dollars Staat New-York, wird bei der Einmusterung bezahlt. Eagle with ship, train, and goods. Written in German. Signed 'Um die compagnie C, Capitain H.W. Phillips, vom zweiten Regiment, Oberst P.J. Claassen, in dieser prächtigen Brigade, zu ergänzen.' Signed 'Lieut. J.R. Winterbotham'. View Item