To get people to join the military, at times a certain amount of cash, called a bounty, has been offered new recruits. A bounty jumper takes the money, later sneaking off to re-enlist elsewhere, where he can pocket another bounty.
"Bringing into the service many 'bounty-jumpers' who enlisted merely for money, and soon deserted to enlist again."
Thomas Higginson, Young folks' history of the United States (1875)
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