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Printed broadside, 23.5 x 36 in. (sight), appealing to young men to join the New Jersey Regiments for a bounty of up to 402 dollars. Printed by Camden Democrat Print for recruiter William H. Hemsing. Framed together with a pass for Captain Hemsing issued by the Provost Marshal General's Office on July 28, 1864 and a blue, 6 x 3 in. silk square with gold lettering for the 6th New Jersey Volunteers, Hooker's Old Guard. Overall, 27 x 40 in. Hemsing enlisted as a 1st lieutenant on September 9, 1861 and mustered into the 6th New Jersey, Company E. He reached the rank of captain on November 17, 1862. The men Hemsing recruited fought bravely in some of the most gruesome battles of the Civil War including: Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Battle of the Wilderness, the Second Battle at Bull Run, Spotslyvania Court House, Fredericksburg, and Petersburg. His regiment lost 34 men at their first engagement at Williamsburg, VA. In total, they lost 80 men and 67 were wounded. War weary, the men returned home to Trenton and mustered out on September 7, 1864. Condition: Laid down on linen, with some flaking, wrinkling, and toning of the paper. Fraying of the edges of the silk square and a burn hole on the pass.