Gen. Thos. Francis Meagher's body guard! The rough riders : Wanted, 50 men to join this crack company, attached to the Irish Dragoons, Col. J.H. [sic] Gallagher in camp at Frankford. The brigade has 4,000 brave and loyal Irishmen in the field in Virginia, and we now want to complete the company, when it will proceed to Washington, to act as a guard of honor to this brave son of Erin. Men mustered in immediately--pay and rations to commence at once. Experienced officers will command. / Capt. Wm. H. Fry, late of Baker's California Reg't. " Harris Light Cavalry, N.Y. Apply at once, at N.W. cor. Seventh & Chestnut Sts. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 13th (1861-1865)
Contributor	Fry, William H.
	Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1861.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.
Title	Gen. Thos. Francis Meagher's body guard! The rough riders : Wanted, 50 men to join this crack company, attached to the Irish Dragoons, Col. J.H. [sic] Gallagher in camp at Frankford. The brigade has 4,000 brave and loyal Irishmen in the field in Virginia, and we now want to complete the company, when it will proceed to Washington, to act as a guard of honor to this brave son of Erin. Men mustered in immediately--pay and rations to commence at once. Experienced officers will command. / Capt. Wm. H. Fry, late of Baker's California Reg't. " Harris Light Cavalry, N.Y. Apply at once, at N.W. cor. Seventh & Chestnut Sts.
Publisher	[Philadelphia, Pa.] : U.S. Job Print, Ledger Buildings
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date	[1861]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 53 x 41 cm.
Notes	The Irish Dragoons, the 117th Regiment, 13th Cavalry of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, under the command of Col. James A. Gallagher, was organized in Sept. 1861, originally to be attached to Gen. Meagher's Irish Brigade forming in New York City; it was mustered out July 14, 1865; James A. Gallagher was discharged Oct. 6, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 3, p. 1267, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 172.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Gallagher, James A.
	Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867,
	United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subject	United States -- Armed Forces -- Irish Americans.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Recruiting posters.
Printer	United States Book and Job Printing Office (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.
Provenance	McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Books & Other Texts \| Rare \| #Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.34b (McAllister)
Accession number	(2)5777.F.34b (McAllister)