The Union and Confederate volunteers of 1861 were woefully ill-prepared for the coming conflict. The vast majority of enlistees had no military background or training. Few imagined the ultimate length of the war or the amount of death and destruction it would generate. This poster propagates the opening recruitment drive of the 4th New Hampshire Infantry, which would go on to distinguish itself in a number of engagements, including the battles of Fair Oaks, Cold Harbor, and the 1863 operations near the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.