To arms! To arms! State defence! 4th Penn'a artillery! : Colonel Chas. Angeroth, has just returned from Harrisburg with orders to recruit a regiment of artillery for six months service in the state defence. All the state and city bounty given! Rally under this command; escape the draft and secure your homes from the invasion of traitors. Head-quarters, 421 & 423 St. John St. / C. Harry Crawford, adj't. Chas. Angeroth, col. com'g. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Contributor	Crawford, C. Harry.
	Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1862.
	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	King & Baird, printer.
	Rogers, E. b. 1831 or 2, engraver.
Title	To arms! To arms! State defence! 4th Penn'a artillery! : Colonel Chas. Angeroth, has just returned from Harrisburg with orders to recruit a regiment of artillery for six months service in the state defence. All the state and city bounty given! Rally under this command; escape the draft and secure your homes from the invasion of traitors. Head-quarters, 421 & 423 St. John St. / C. Harry Crawford, adj't. Chas. Angeroth, col. com'g.
Publisher	[Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date	[1862 or 1863?]
Physical Description	1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 97 x 61 cm.
Notes	Charles Angeroth was authorized in Oct. 1861 to raise a battalion of heavy artillery; the 112th Regiment, 2nd Artillery of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was mustered in Jan. 8, 1862 and mustered out Jan. 29, 1866; Angeroth was discharged June 21, 1862 and replaced by A.A. Gibson. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 3, p. 1059, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 150. There was no 4th Pennsylvania Artillery.
	The illustration, signed E. Rogers, shows four horses, two with riders, pulling a cannon with three soldiers seated.
	Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
	Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject	Angeroth, Charles.
	Pennsylvania Militia -- Militia -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
	United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
	Artillery -- Pennsylvania.
Genre	Broadsides.
	Woodcuts.
	Recruiting posters.
Illustrator	Rogers, E. (Edward), b. 1831 or 2, engraver.
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 To arms (3)5777.F.18 (McAllister)
Accession number	(3)5777.F.18 (McAllister)