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Creator United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865). Company G.
Contributor Cox, James M.
McCloskey, Frank.
Sloan, Benjamin F.
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1861.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
King & Baird, printer.
Mumford, Thomas Howland, b. 1816, engraver.
Title Cavalry! : Wanted good men, to fill up Company G, attached to the 2d Penna. Regiment Cavalry, Col. R. Butler Price, commanding. Pay to commence on enrolment, equipped and sent to camp at once. Head quarters, [blank] / 1st Lieut. Benjamin F. Sloan, 2d " Frank McCloskey. Captain James M. Cox.
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date [1861 or 1862]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 61 x 49 cm.
Notes The 2nd Cavalry, 59th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in the fall of 1861 and mustered out in July 1865; James M. Cox resigned Sept. 22, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 2, p. 320, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 155.
The illustration, signed Mumford, shows a mounted cavalry soldier.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images fo the American Civil War.
Subject Price, Richard Butler, d. 1876.
United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Broadsides.
Woodcuts.
Recruiting posters.
Illustrator Mumford, Thomas Howland, b. 1816, engraver.
Printer King & Baird, printer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.17b (McAllister)
Accession number (1)5777.F.17b (McAllister)

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