Cavalry under the president's proclamation. : The undersigned are recruiting a company of Bucks County Cavalry for the defence of the state! With the approval and consent of the governor of the commonwealth, whose aid, Col. Wright, telegraphs that the company must be raised at once. The officers have had one year's active service in the U.S. Cavalry Service. All members of the company will be exempted from the draft and receive the pay and rank of the 3 years' volunteers. / Capt. Samuel Comfort, Morrisville 1st Lieut. Jno. W. Jackson, Yardleyville. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 20th (1863-1865)
Contributor	Comfort, Samuel, 1837-1923.
	Jackson, John W.
	Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1863.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title	Cavalry under the president's proclamation. : The undersigned are recruiting a company of Bucks County Cavalry for the defence of the state! With the approval and consent of the governor of the commonwealth, whose aid, Col. Wright, telegraphs that the company must be raised at once. The officers have had one year's active service in the U.S. Cavalry Service. All members of the company will be exempted from the draft and receive the pay and rank of the 3 years' volunteers. / Capt. Samuel Comfort, Morrisville 1st Lieut. Jno. W. Jackson, Yardleyville.
Publisher	[Philadelphia, Pa.? : s.n]
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1863
Date	[1863]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 48 x 29 cm.
Notes	The 181st Regiment, 20th Cavalry of the Pennsylvania Volunteers,under the command of Col. John E. Wynkoop, was recruited in June and July 1863, principally from the eastern counties of the state; Samuel Comfort Jr. was promoted to Captain 25 July 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 32 and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 183.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Wynkoop, John E.
	United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subject	Bucks County (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
	Morrisville (Bucks County, Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
	Yardley (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Recruiting posters.
Provenance	McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Books & Other Texts \| Rare \| #Am 1863 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.17a (McAllister)
Accession number	(1)5777.F.17a (McAllister)