Enlisting Armies

Recruiting poster that reads "302 Dollars or 402 Dollars for Veterans will be paid for volunteers for the 10th Wis. Regiment"

Civil War recruitment poster for the 10th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment.

Confederate call to arms printed in Lexington, Kentucky, asking for volunteers to go to war in Virginia. April 17, 1861. State Library, Richmond, Virginia.

Volunteer enlistment in 1st regiment of the Veterans Company by Joseph Short, born in Ireland, but residing in Binghamton, New York and working as a laborer. This was his second enlistment. He first e…

Gettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons

Signed: Robert C. Trigg, Col. 54th Regt. Va. Vols., July 21, 1862. Announces formation of mounted Partisan corps in Western Virginia. Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints, 5083. Hummel, R.O. Sou…

A form used by the Confederate Army Department of Conscripts. This form is dated December 17, 1862.

Title from accompanying materials. Date from accompanying materials. Essex Board of Selectmen

Civil War Union Army recruitment poster.

Schedule 2 - Enrollment List of all persons of Class 2, subject to do Military duty in the New Paltz Sub district of the 18th Congressional district, consisting of the Counties of Ulster, and Green in…

Draft wheel used in Provost Marshall's office during Civil War. The wheel was used to randomly select names of men to be drafted into the Army. Colony Historical Society, New Haven, Connecticut.

Running title: Services of the metropolitan police during the riot week, July, 1863. Caption title: The Metropolitan police.

A receipt made out to Abraham Gilman for the $300 he paid to avoid serving his draft duty in the Civil War.

Title from accompanying materials. Associated name: William A. Constantine, bugler Date from accompanying materials. Federal Government - Army

Original newspaper, Forney's War Press, Saturday, August 8, 1863. Illustration shows "The New York Riot-Andrews Haranguing the Mob." The New York Riots resulted from anger over conscription into the a…

Broadside calling for 50 volunteers for the Civil War from the town of Otsego, N.Y., December 1863.

Volunteer enlistment for Tilman Hurst of Sevier County, aged nineteen and occupied as a farmer. He volunteered on August 1, 1863 to serve as a soldier in the Army of the United States of America. Sign…

Muster-in roll for Hamilton K. Redway which certifies Redway as Captain of Company "F," First N. Y. Vet. Cavalry. The muster-in roll details that Redway was made captain when he was stationed at Camp…

List of Civil War draft-dodgers issued by the Provost Marshal's office.

Draft notice (Form 37, Provost Marshal's Office) to Elijah Leppo of Finksburg, Carroll County, Maryland dated June 25, 1864 ordering him to report for duty in Frederick, Maryland by July 5, 1864. The…

With: List of drafted men who have failed to report. Milwakee : Office Provost Marshal, 1864. -- Deserters : list of men drafted in Third Congressional District, Wis., in 1864, who failed to report. L…

Muster-in Roll of William W. Allen, 2nd Assistant Surgeon of the 5th Regiment of Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. The 5th Regiment was commanded by Colonel Thomas S. Allen and called into the service of…