WAR!!

You are called upon to discharge the HIGHEST, THE MOST GALLANT, AND MOST HONORABLE duty a citizen can ever have an opportunity to perform.

Take up Arms!!

preserve the HONOR of our flag and the UNION!

All Able Bodied Men

between the ages of 18 and 45 are invited to report themselves

IMMEDIATELY!!

at Camp Aiken, in BRIDGEPORT and be ready for service.

Men of CONNECTICUT, Show your LOYALTY, in the defense of the UNION for which our fathers freely sacrificed their LIVES and FUTURES.

Bridgeport, August 28th , 1862.


STEP FORWARD VOLUNTEERS, INTO THE RECRUITING TENT