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Creator United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 157th (1862-1865). Company D.
Contributor Ashton, James W.
Caldwell, Frank M.
Rowland, William M.
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1862.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
King & Baird, printer.
Title Philad'a City Guard, 157th Regiment, P.V. : Col. William A. Gray. Able-bodied men wanted for Company D. Bounty, $152. Government bounty, $100, enlistment premium, 2, citizens' bounty, $50, total, 152. A gum blanket to each recruit. Don't wait to be drafted, but volunteer and receive the bounty. Men will be uniformed and sent to camp at once. Apply at recruiting offices: 218 North Third Street, and 405 Walnut Street, / Wm. N. Rowland, Captain. 1st Lieut. Frank M. Caldwell, 2d Jas. W. Ashton, recruiting officers.
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, prs. Sansom St. Philada
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date [1862?]
Physical Description 1sheet ([1] p.) ; 8 x 10 cm.
Notes The Philadelphia City Guard, the 157th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, began recruiting in Oct. 1862; in 1865 it was consolidated with the 191st Regiment. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 833, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 140.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Gray, William A.
Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Bounties, Military -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Broadsides.
Recruiting posters.
Printer King & Baird, printer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.53c (McAllister)
Accession number (1)5777.F.53c (McAllister)

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