Patriots arouse! Cavalry men wanted! : To form a battalion under Major A.W. Corliss. Now is the time to join a crack battalion for the gallant General Burnside's division! 400 dollars bounty! $325 before leaving the state! Families provided for by the state! Each man will be furnished with a good horse, equipments, &c. Rally! Rally!! Rally!!! This is the last opportunity you will have to join a cavalry regiment! Recruiting offices, Armory Hall and Rathbun's Block, Woonsocket. / Capt. Charles L. Watson, recruiting officer, 2d Regt. R.I. Cavalry. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	United States. Army. Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1863)
Contributor	Watson, Charles L.
	Rhode Island. Providence, R.I. 1862.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	Press of Herald and Post (Providence, R.I.), printer.
Title	Patriots arouse! Cavalry men wanted! : To form a battalion under Major A.W. Corliss. Now is the time to join a crack battalion for the gallant General Burnside's division! 400 dollars bounty! $325 before leaving the state! Families provided for by the state! Each man will be furnished with a good horse, equipments, &c. Rally! Rally!! Rally!!! This is the last opportunity you will have to join a cavalry regiment! Recruiting offices, Armory Hall and Rathbun's Block, Woonsocket. / Capt. Charles L. Watson, recruiting officer, 2d Regt. R.I. Cavalry.
Publisher	[Providence, R.I.] : Press of Herald and Post, state printing house, 15 Market Square, Providence, R.I
Publisher	R.I. Providence. 1862
Date	[1862]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 69 x 51 cm.
Notes	The Second Regiment of the Rhode Island Cavalry was organized in Nov. 1862 and ordered to duty in Louisiana; it was consolidated to a battalion of four companies in Aug. 1863, and transferred to 1st Louisiana Cavalry; it was transferred again in Jan. 1864 to the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry.
	The illustration is a trotting stallion.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881,
	Corliss, Augustus Whittemore, 1837-1908,
	United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
	Bounties, Military -- Rhode Island.
	Families of military personnel -- Rhode Island.
Geographic subject	Rhode Island -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
	Woonsocket (R.I.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Woodcuts.
	Recruiting posters.
Printer	Press of Herald and Post (Providence, R.I.), printer.
Provenance	McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Books & Other Texts \| Rare \| 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.7a (McAllister)
Accession number	(1)5777.F.7a (McAllister)