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Madison Zouaves for the War!
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Poster calling for volunteers for the Civil War, claiming "Highest Bounty And Pay!".
The Zouave recruting officer WM. F. Vilas, the twenty-one-year-old son of Mayor Levi P. Vilas. William F. Vilas graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1858 at the age of eighteen and received a a law degree from a New York law school in 1860.
1862
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Attention! Company!! The Fox River Zouaves!
August 24, 1861
Civil War Era Union recruitment poster for Fox River Zouaves.
War Notice! Bounty for Volunteers!
August 2, 1862
Civil War Union Army recruitment poster.
British Subjects
1915
White poster with red and blue text. Text reads: "British Subjects it is your duty to Enlist in the British or Canadian Army. Men are eligible for enlistment between the ages of 18 and 45 and in ce...
Patriots of St. Croix Recruiting Poster
April 23, 1861
Recruiting poster for the "Patriots of St. Croix" to "take up arms".
Petition for legalizing a vote in Liberty to pay bounties to volunteers and drafted men
1866
Petitioners request to legalize a town meeting vote in Liberty, Manitowoc County, to levy a special tax to pay volunteers and drafted men bounties.
Remonstrance against legalizing the proceedings of a town meeting on paying military wages for volunteers
1862
Petitioners argue against legalizing the results of the town meeting held in Christiana, Dane County. They state that only a small percentage of legal voters were present for the town meeting, so t...
