For your country! Now or never! Don't wait to be drafted! : To horse! The foe is on us!! Young men wanted to join at once! The first troop Penn'a Light Horse! We will fight the guerillas on their own soil! Arouse, men of Pennsylvania! The rebels are menacing the homes of your fathers!! "Strike for your altars and your fires! Strike for the green graves of your sires! Strike, till the last armed foe expires!" Your countrymen have provided liberally for your families, and all the bounties for three years, or the war, will be paid men joining this troop. This troop will be organized on the principle of the Anderson Troop. / Wm. H. Fry, Captain. Recruiting office, No. 213 Chestnut Street. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 16th (1862-1865). Company I.
Contributor	Fry, William H.
	Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1862.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	King & Baird, printer.
Title	For your country! Now or never! Don't wait to be drafted! : To horse! The foe is on us!! Young men wanted to join at once! The first troop Penn'a Light Horse! We will fight the guerillas on their own soil! Arouse, men of Pennsylvania! The rebels are menacing the homes of your fathers!! "Strike for your altars and your fires! Strike for the green graves of your sires! Strike, till the last armed foe expires!" Your countrymen have provided liberally for your families, and all the bounties for three years, or the war, will be paid men joining this troop. This troop will be organized on the principle of the Anderson Troop. / Wm. H. Fry, Captain. Recruiting office, No. 213 Chestnut Street.
Publisher	[Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date	[1862]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 82 x 56 cm.
Notes	The 16th Cavalry, 161st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, under the command of Col. J. I. Gregg until Aug. 1864, was organized in the summer and fall of 1862 and mustered out in Aug. 7, 1865; Company I, recruited primarily from Philadelphia, was led by Capt. William H. Fry, who was promoted to Major Nov. 14, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 950 and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 179.
	Printed in red and blue.
	The illustration shows a mounted Union cavalry soldier, sabre drawn, attacking a mounted Confederate soldier.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Gregg, John Irvin, 1826-1892.
	United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
	Families of military personnel -- Pennsylvania.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Woodcuts.
	Recruiting posters.
Printer	King & Baird, 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.16h (McAllister)
Accession number	(1)5777.F.16h (McAllister)