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Civil War recruiting posters are often highly local because they were produced by individuals who had been tasked to recruit in a specific territory. Many use standard language but add on some more personalized sentences or information to appeal to…

This poster is unusual in its highly evocative and detailed appeal to Vermonters specifically. Burnell, the recruiting officer responsible for it, evoked the language and imagery of Vermont's earlier military heroes, the Green Mountain Boys, and…

Text continues: "The Sharp Shooters of this vicinity who are willing to serve their country in Capt. Weston's Vermont Company, Col. Berdan's Regiment of Sharp Shooters, are requested to meet at the Inn of B.B. Cook, in this place [West Townshend], on…

Text continues: Dura Warren will be at the hotel, in royalton on Wednesday, Nov. 27th, 1861, and wishes to buy several good, and kind, horses for cavalry use.

Text continues: Thetford Centre, Thursday evening, December 5, 1861, for the benefit of the soldiers. Text describes the program in two parts with a 10-minute intermission.

Poster includes an insignia featuring an American eagle with a stars and…

Langley was an African- American born into a large farm family in Huntington, Vermont. Educated and articulate, he posted many newspaper editorials decrying the colonization schemes of the mid-1800's, the evils of slavery, and the unjust treatment of…

Loyalty oath and pass issued to soldiers returning home after Civil War. Physical description of bearer in manuscript on verso.

6th Corps headquarters guidon. Swallowtail in shape, blue worsted ties attached flag to staff. Wool on wool, ground plain weave. Applique is a twill weave, red 6 in a cross bonnelly. Date of issue: Post July, 1863. On March 24, 1862 General George B.…