$160 bounty! A few good men wanted for the heavy artillery service! : 112th Regiment. 2d Artillery. This regiment is now doing garrison duty in the fortifications for the defence of the city of Washington, and wishing to fill up their numbers to the maximum standard, have opened for that purpose a recruiting office, at No. 138 South Fourth St., between Chestnut and Walnut, where all information will be given to applicants. One hundred and sixty dollars bounty! $85 in cash! Before leaving the city. J.N. Abbey, 1st Lieut., 2d Artillery, 112th Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers, recruiting officer. A.A. Gibson, U.S. Army, Col. commanding reg't. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	United States. Army. Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, 2nd (1861-1866)
Contributor	Abbey, Joseph N.
	Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1862.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	Ringwalt & Brown, printer.
Title	$160 bounty! A few good men wanted for the heavy artillery service! : 112th Regiment. 2d Artillery. This regiment is now doing garrison duty in the fortifications for the defence of the city of Washington, and wishing to fill up their numbers to the maximum standard, have opened for that purpose a recruiting office, at No. 138 South Fourth St., between Chestnut and Walnut, where all information will be given to applicants. One hundred and sixty dollars bounty! $85 in cash! Before leaving the city. J.N. Abbey, 1st Lieut., 2d Artillery, 112th Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers, recruiting officer. A.A. Gibson, U.S. Army, Col. commanding reg't.
Publisher	[Philadelphia, Pa.] : Ringwalt & Brown, steam-power printers, 111 South Fourth St
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date	[1862]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 81 x 60 cm.
Notes	Charles Angeroth was authorized in Oct. 1861 to raise a battalion of heavy artillery; the 112th Regiment, 2nd Artillery of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was mustered in Jan. 8, 1862 and mustered out Jan. 29, 1866; Angeroth was discharged June 21, 1862 and replaced by A.A. Gibson; Lieut. J.N. Abbey was promoted to Captain of Battery H in Nov. 25, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 3, p. 1059, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 150.
	The illustration shows an encampment, a cannon, and the digging of trenches.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Gibson, Augustus A.
	United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subject	Washington (D.C.) -- Defenses.
	Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Woodcuts.
	Recruiting posters.
Printer	Ringwalt & Brown, printer.
Provenance	McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Books & Other Texts \| Rare \| 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.45d (McAllister)
Accession number	(2)5777.F.45d (McAllister)