The Federal Government has Unlawfully and most tyrannically suspended the people's rightful self-governance of the State of Tennessee and has unjustly imprisoned our Elected Legislators! Remember Imprisoned without trial! Remember the insults to your wives and daughters! The arrests! The midnight searches of your homes! It is time to restore our Mother State to her Sovereign Rights!

Rise at once in arms and strike for Liberty and Right! No gentleman of honor can but rebel at this repeated and most cruel injustice! Rise 0 Warriors and regain your freedom!

Gentlemen of Tennessee!

Gird On Thy Armor and Prepare to Defend Thy Beloved Mother State! The Sixteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Company G, C.S.A. seeks to enlist Patriotic and Brave Men who are willing to Fight

$11.OO per Month Pay and Ample and Wholesome Rations for the first 100 men that join our noble 16th Regiment!

All those who love freedom are invited to join our company and fight to restore our mother state's rightful place with her sister sovereign states