Union Guards! 144th Regiment. Colonel John B. Adams. : $167 dollars bounty. To arms! On to Richmond! All able-bodied young men desirous of attaching themsleves to the Union Guards Regt., Company C, have now the last chance, as the company is nearly full. All bounties allowed by state and national authority guarantied. Pay, clothing and rations commence from the time of enlistment. This regiment has selected as camp ground, Jones's Farm, at the terminus of the Girard Avenue Railroad, and will go into camp immediately. Head quarters of the company, S.E. cor. of 18th & South Sts. / Henry Cruise, Captain. 1st Lieut. George Sanderson, 2d " Robt. Sanderson, recruting officer. Orderly Sergeant, William H. Ballinger. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 144th (1862). Company C.
Contributor	Ballinger, William H.
	Cruise, Henry.
	Sanderson, George.
	Sanderson, Robert.
	Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1862.
	Bonfield, George Robert, 1805-1898, engraver.
	King & Baird, printer.
	Howell, Joseph B., b. ca. 1830, ill.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title	Union Guards! 144th Regiment. Colonel John B. Adams. : $167 dollars bounty. To arms! On to Richmond! All able-bodied young men desirous of attaching themsleves to the Union Guards Regt., Company C, have now the last chance, as the company is nearly full. All bounties allowed by state and national authority guarantied. Pay, clothing and rations commence from the time of enlistment. This regiment has selected as camp ground, Jones's Farm, at the terminus of the Girard Avenue Railroad, and will go into camp immediately. Head quarters of the company, S.E. cor. of 18th & South Sts. / Henry Cruise, Captain. 1st Lieut. George Sanderson, 2d " Robt. Sanderson, recruting officer. Orderly Sergeant, William H. Ballinger.
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 troops recruited for the One Hundred and Forty-fourth Regiment, never had a regimental organization, and were consequently assigned to other commands."--S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 518 note.
	The illustration, signed Bonfield and Howell, shows a Union soldier with rifle in hand, bayonet fixed, charging past a fallen Confederate soldier in battle.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Adams, John B.
	United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Woodcuts.
	Recruiting posters.
Illustrator	Bonfield, George Robert, 1805-1898, engraver.
	Howell, Joseph B., b. ca. 1830, ill.
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.46a (McAllister)
Accession number	(1)5777.F.46a (McAllister)