Cavalrymen wanted! : To form a new battalion, under command of Major A.W. Corliss. Now is the time to join a crack battalion for the gallant Gen. 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 boys! This is the last opportunity you will have to join a cavalry regiment! Recruiting office, No. 28 North Main Street, Tyler's Building, up stairs, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. / Samuel A. Lewis, Capt. 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	Lewis, Samuel A.
	Rhode Island. Providence, R.I. 1862.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	Press of Herald and Post (Providence, R.I.), printer.
Title	Cavalrymen wanted! : To form a new battalion, under command of Major A.W. Corliss. Now is the time to join a crack battalion for the gallant Gen. 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 boys! This is the last opportunity you will have to join a cavalry regiment! Recruiting office, No. 28 North Main Street, Tyler's Building, up stairs, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. / Samuel A. Lewis, Capt. 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.) ; 70 x 52 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.
	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	Pawtucket (R.I.) -- History -- 19th century.
	Rhode Island -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre	Broadsides.
	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.8c (McAllister)
Accession number	(1)5777.F.8c (McAllister)