Creator |
United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865) |
Contributor |
McMakin, Lewis. |
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Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1861. |
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Bonfield, George Robert, 1805-1898, engraver. |
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King & Baird, printer. |
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Howell, Joseph B., b. ca. 1830, ill. |
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McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
Title |
Active men wanted! For the Second Regiment Penn'a Cavalry! : Col. R. Butler Price, now in camp near Darby. Men joining this
regiment will be uniformed and fed at once. Pay as follows: 1st sergeant, $22 Other sergeants, 19 Corporals, $16 Privates,
14 Farrier's blacksmith, $17 Buglers, 16 Roll open at N.W. cor. 3d & Chestnut Sts. / Lew. McMakin, Captain.
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Publisher |
[Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, No. 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1861 |
Date |
[1861?] |
Physical Description |
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 97 x 62 cm. |
Notes |
The 2nd Cavalry, 59th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in the fall of 1861 and mustered out in July
1865. 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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The illustration, signed Bonfield and Howell, shows a Union soldier with rifle in hand, bayonet fixed, charging past a fallen
Confederate soldier in battle.
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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. |
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Cavalry -- Pennsylvania. |
Genre |
Broadsides. |
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Woodcuts. |
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Recruiting posters. |
Illustrator |
Bonfield, George Robert, 1805-1898, engraver. |
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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 | 3# Am 1861 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.41a (McAllister) |
Accession number |
(4)5777.F.41a (McAllister) |