695956 Attention! Company!, recruiting broadside for New York 156th Infantry, 1862 (litho) by American School, (19th century); 52.4x35.9 cm; Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York, USA; (add.info.: Announcement made by Lieutenant Holmes (fl.1862), the recruiting officer of the regiment. His first name could not be discovered. Printed by Hommel\'s Power Press Printing in Kingston, New York. Depicts large eagle holding scroll reading "The Union must be preserved." Recruits are asked for Captain P.H. Decker\'s company of Colonel Erastus Cooke\'s regiment. Headquarters is at the Ulster County House, in Kingston. Dated from the first year the regiment was mustered into the Union Army. Was previously folded into quarters. Small hole at the bottom was repaired. Colonel Erastus Cooke received authority to form the regiment on August 23, 1862 and began to recruit this regiment in the then 10th Senatorial District of the State; it was organized at Kingston, where It was mustered in the service of the United States for three years beginning on November 17, 1862. ); 穢 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ; American, out of copyright.