Recruitment poster
date: label: associated date
content: 1861-1865
notes: label: Description
content: One motive for enlistment was the desire of young men on both sides to prove their courage and conviction to friends and neighbors who volunteered with them, to local leaders who organized their regiments, and to the public at large. Many immigrants from Ireland and Germany, hoping to gain full recognition as American citizens, joined the Union Army. Some men answered appeals like the broadside above, issued by Colonel Joshua T. Owen, who raised a regiment in Philadelphia to serve in Colonel Edward Baker's brigade.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
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content: Princeton Posters
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.78969M
label: accession number
content: 308845
label: catalog number
content: 78969M
label: catalog number
content: 308845.906
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 22 1/4 in x 30 1/4 in; 56.515 cm x 76.835 cm