Contributor |
Massey, John W. |
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Continental Cavalry. |
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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865) |
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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 11th (1861-1865) |
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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 18th (1862-1865) |
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Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1861. |
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McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
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King & Baird, printer. |
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Rogers, E. b. 1831 or 2, engraver. |
Title |
Flying artillery : Fifty good men wanted to fill up Capt. Massey's Company I Flying Artillery! To be attached to the Continental
Cavalry, commanded by Col. Peyton. Government and city bounties given. All men joining this company will be clothed immediately
and put in comfortable quarters, and drilled as cavalry and light artillery. Recruiting offices. 403 Walnut Street, N.W. cor.
Broad & Fitzwater, 735 Market Street, N.W. cor. Eleventh & Oxford. / John W. Massey, Captain, Company I, Continental Cavalry.
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Publisher |
[Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, printers, No. 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1861 |
Date |
[1861 or 1862?] |
Physical Description |
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 97 x 62 mm. |
Notes |
In his memoir, Reminiscences of Philadelphia during the past half century (Philadelphia 1895), J.E. Peyton of Haddonfield,
N.J. claims to have lent his name to the recruitment of two cavalry regiments which became the 3rd and 11th Pennsylvania.
Taylor associates him with the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry: In the autumn of 1862 an enthusiastic citizen of Haddonfield, N.
J., was active in securing recruits for the "Continental Cavalry." Two companies, intended as A and B, were camped at Haddonfield.
Adverse circumstances led many of the recruits to leave camp and to enlist elsewhere. Their names were, however, carried upon
the company records as "deserters." Those who remained were, with their officers, mustered into the service and attached to
the 18th Cavalry."--F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 180 note.
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The illustration, signed E. Rogers, shows four horses, two with riders, pulling a cannon with three soldiers seated. |
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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 |
Peyton, Jesse Enlows, 1815-1897. |
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United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
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Artillery -- Pennsylvania. |
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Cavalry -- Pennsylvania. |
Genre |
Broadsides. |
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Woodcuts. |
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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 1861 Flying (4)5777.F.51 (McAllister) |
Accession number |
(4)5777.F.51 M(McAllister) |