10th Wisconsin Regiment Union recruiting poster, 1861
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyRecruiting poster that reads "302 Dollars or 402 Dollars for Veterans will be paid for volunteers for the 10th Wis. Regiment"
Recruitment poster for the 10th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyCivil War recruitment poster for the 10th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment.
Confederate broadside asking for volunteers to go to war in Virginia, April 17, 1861
New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Visual InstructionView Full Item in New York State ArchivesConfederate 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 document of Union soldier Joseph Short, September 18, 1862
Roark, Lieutenant John EView Full Item in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsVolunteer 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…
Political cartoon about Union draft resisters, 1862
Unknown, Harper's WeeklyView Full Item in Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
Confederate recruitment poster recruiting in West Virginia before the conscription act, 1862
Trigg, Robert CView Full Item in Duke UniversitySigned: 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…
Confederate States of America form granting exemption from conscription, 1862
Confederate States of America -- Conscription BureauView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesA form used by the Confederate Army Department of Conscripts. This form is dated December 17, 1862.
Massachusetts Union recruiting poster, 1862
View Full Item in Town of Essex, MA, Town ClerkTitle from accompanying materials. Date from accompanying materials. Essex Board of Selectmen
Union recruiting poster for New Jersey offering a bounty for enlistment, 1862
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyCivil War Union Army recruitment poster.
Union Army enrollment list for New Paltz, New York, 1863
View Full Item in Historic Huguenot StreetSchedule 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…
Union draft wheel used in a Provost Marshall’s Office in Connecticut
New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Visual InstructionView Full Item in New York State ArchivesDraft 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.
Book titled The Draft Riots in New York, 1863
Barnes, David MView Full Item in University of CaliforniaRunning title: Services of the metropolitan police during the riot week, July, 1863. Caption title: The Metropolitan police.
Receipt for three hundred dollars paid by Abraham Gilman to avoid serving draft duty, Wisconsin, 1863
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyA receipt made out to Abraham Gilman for the $300 he paid to avoid serving his draft duty in the Civil War.
Union enlisment paper for William A. Constantine, bugler from Massachusetts, 1863
United States. ArmyView Full Item in Town of Essex, MA, Town ClerkTitle from accompanying materials. Associated name: William A. Constantine, bugler Date from accompanying materials. Federal Government - Army
Issue of Forney’s War Press for August 8, 1863, reporting on the New York draft riots
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesOriginal 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 fifty volunteers from Otsego, New York, December 1863
New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Visual InstructionView Full Item in New York State ArchivesBroadside calling for 50 volunteers for the Civil War from the town of Otsego, N.Y., December 1863.
Volunteer enlistment for Union soldier Tilman Hurst Sevier County, Tennessee, August 1, 1863
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesVolunteer 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 him as Captain of Company F, New York, January 1864
Seymour, HoratioView Full Item in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsMuster-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 draft dodgers issued by the Provost Marshal’s office offering a thirty-dollar reward, Wisconsin, 1864
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyList of Civil War draft-dodgers issued by the Provost Marshal's office.
Draft letter for Elijah Leppo of Finksburg, Maryland, June 25, 1864
United States. Provost Marshal General's BureauView Full Item in Private CollectionDraft 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…
List of drafted men who have failed to report, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1864
View Full Item in Harvard UniversityWith: 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, 1864
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesMuster-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…