| Creator |
United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865). Company A. |
| Contributor |
Archambault, Joseph, 1796-1874. |
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Cox, James M. |
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Evans, Frank. |
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People's Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1861. |
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McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
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L. Johnson & Co., engraver. |
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Stephens, H. L. 1824-1882, ill. |
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Merrihew & Thompson, printer. |
| Title |
Attention cavalry! : Capt. J. Archambault, for 28 years commanding the Union Troop of Bucks and Montgomery counties, has received
special orders from the War Department to form a troop to be attached to Col. R. Butler Price's regiment of cavalry, now in
camp at Harrisburg. He invites sober, active and intelligent young men, and his old friends to join him. Head quarters----People's
Hotel, 106 South Sixth Street. Pay, rations and equipments immediately. $100 bounty! Wanted, a good sergeant with 10 men,
and a good corporal with 4 men. 1st sergent's [sic] pay is $22. Sergeant 10. Farrier's pay is $17. Bugler's " 16. Corporal's
pay is $16. Private's " 14. / Capt. Jos. Archambault, late 18th Regiment P.V. 1st Lieut. Frank Evans. 2d " James M. Cox.
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| Publisher |
[Philadelphia, Pa.] : Merrihew & Thompson, printers, Lodge St., and Kenton Place |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1861 |
| Date |
[1861 or 1862] |
| Physical Description |
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 58 x 46 cm. |
| Notes |
The 2nd Cavalry, 59th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in the fall of 1861 and mustered out in July
1865; Joseph Archambault, Captain of Company A, was promoted to Major May 19, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania
volunteers, v. 2, p. 320, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 155.
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Printed on yellow paper. |
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The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield with the banner: The Union, it
shall be preserved!
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Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook. |
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Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War. |
| Subject |
Price, Richard Butler, d. 1876. |
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United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Genre |
Broadsides. |
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Woodcuts. |
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Recruiting posters. |
| Illustrator |
Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882, ill. |
| Illustrator |
L. Johnson & Co., engraver. |
| Printer |
Merrihew & Thompson, 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.6e (McAllister) |
| Accession number |
(2)5777.F.6e (McAllister) |
