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On the sign:
RESPOND TO OUR COUNTRY’S CALL! WANTED! 100 AbLE Bodied Men, to Fill up the Ranks of the Company being raised in this city, for the 20TH REGIMENT: $100 BOUNTY! 25 DOLLARS ON BEING MUSTERED INTO Service, $13,00, the first month s pay and a premium of $2, MAKING IN ALL $40
That each VOLUNTEER RECEIVES IN ADVANCE. The FAMILY of VOLUNTEER RECEIVES $5 to $15 a mouth from the County
AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR 160 ACRES OF LAND AND THE REMAINING 75 DOLLARS OF THE BOUNTY.
The last opportunity is now offered to patriots to volunteer in the service of their country reworded to for our country is in danger. The drafted man receives only his $11 per month, to sustain it. A Regiment raised in 30 days is worth two raised in 60.
Men must respond speedily to the call or drafting will be Our government has been liberal to us-let us be prompt
Recruiting Office two doors West of Cook’s Hotel in Donelly’s new Block, Ann Arbor.
A recruitment notice for the American Civil War, probably published in 1865, encouraging young men to enlist in a company being raised in the city in exchange for money. The notice was copied into stone and is displayed in front of the Washtenaw County Courthouse. The location was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image
There is also a sign at the site marking the place where the process of Michigan becoming a state in the United States began Click for sign's details
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