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Creator Pennsylvania. Militia. National Guard (1862)
Contributor Military Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania. Militia. Reserve Infantry Regiment, 2nd.
Title Come join the National Guard : Defend your state! Recruits wanted. Military Hall, Library St., bet. 4th & 5th.
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia
Date [1862]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 61 x 97 cm.
Notes The National Guard, an infantry battalion of the Pennsylvania Militia, was formed from the 2nd Regiment Reserve Brigade, under command of Major Jeremiah W. Fritz; it was mustered in Sept. 11 and discharged Sept. 22, 1862. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1205, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 219.
Printed on yellow paper.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Fritz, Jeremiah W.
Pennsylvania Militia -- Militia -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subject Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Broadsides.
Recruiting posters.
Printer King & Baird, printer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | 3# Am 1862 Penn Mil (4)5777.F.2 (McAllister)
Accession number (4)5777.F.2 (McAllister)

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