Details
Creator Cadwalader Regiment.
Contributor Schreiber, W. F.
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1861.
Bonfield, George Robert, 1805-1898, engraver.
King & Baird, printer.
Howell, Joseph B., b. ca. 1830, ill.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Head quarters Cadwalader Regim't, S.W. corner Ninth and Walnut Streets, (second and third stories.) : Recruits wanted for three years or during the war. United States bounty, $100. City bounty, 50. One month's pay in advance ... Premium for enlishment, ... $90 in cash before leaving the city. Active able-bodied young men are wanted to fill up this regiment. The attention of mechanics and working men is respectfully solicited. The regiment will be officered by men who have had military experience, and can be approached by those under their command. The regiment having been accepted by the Governor, recruits will be put into camp at once, and receive the necessary subsistence, &c. &c. / Col. W.F. Schreiber.
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date [between 1861 and 1865]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 108 x 81 cm.
Notes Printed in red and blue.
The illustration, signed Bonfield and Howell, shows a Union soldier with rifle in hand, bayonet fixed, charging past a fallen Confederate soldier in battle.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; (4)5777.F.29 torn, affecting text; (2)5777.F.30c, also torn, but affecting less text, is the bottom half only, 56 x 81 cm., beginning with: (second and third stories.)
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Geographic subject Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Broadsides.
Woodcuts.
Recruiting posters.
Illustrator Bonfield, George Robert, 1805-1898, engraver.
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 | 2# Am 1861 Cadwalader (2)5777.F.30c (McAllister)
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | 4# Am 1861 Cadwalader (4)5777.F.29 (McAllister)
Accession number (2)5777.F.30c (McAllister)
(4)5777.F.29 (McAllister)

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