Don't be a conscript! : Enroll yourself in the crack regiment of Philadelphia. Rush's Lancers! 70th Regiment Penna. Vols. Now in active service in the field. A portion as body guard to General Hooker. This superior regiment, having received the deserved approbation of President Lincoln and the War Department for its discipline and effeciency, offers the best inducements to smart, active young men to connect themselves with a desirable organization. $100 bounty! An advance of $27.00 on enlistment. Enroll your names at once, as this will be the last chance before conscription. Office, S.E. cor. Sixth and Minor St. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 6th (1861-1865)
Contributor	Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1861.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title	Don't be a conscript! : Enroll yourself in the crack regiment of Philadelphia. Rush's Lancers! 70th Regiment Penna. Vols. Now in active service in the field. A portion as body guard to General Hooker. This superior regiment, having received the deserved approbation of President Lincoln and the War Department for its discipline and effeciency, offers the best inducements to smart, active young men to connect themselves with a desirable organization. $100 bounty! An advance of $27.00 on enlistment. Enroll your names at once, as this will be the last chance before conscription. Office, S.E. cor. Sixth and Minor St.
Publisher	[Philadelphia, Pa. : s.n]
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date	[between 1861 and 1863]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 104 x 76 cm.
Notes	Rush's Lancers, the 70th Regiment, 6th Cavalry of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in July 1861 and mustered out in Aug. 1865; Richard H. Rush resigned Sept. 29, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 2, p. 741 and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 162.
	Printed in blue.
	The illustration shows a mounted Union cavalry soldier, sabre drawn, attacking a mounted Confederate cavalry soldier.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879,
	Rush, Richard Henry, 1824-1893,
	United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Woodcuts.
	Recruiting posters.
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.18k (McAllister)
Accession number	(1)5777.F.18k (McAllister)