$160 bounty and one month's pay in advance. : Bounty to cease and drafting to commence on the 15th of August. Recruits wanted for Company D, Col. Chapman Biddle's 121st Reg., P.V. $2 premium paid to each recruit on being mustered into service. / T.E. Zell, recruiting officer. Apply immediately at 431 Chestnut St., or at cor. Frankford Road and York St., 19th Ward.
United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 121st (1862-1865). Company D.
Biddle, Chapman, 1822-1880.
United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
The 121st Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in Sept. 1862, and mustered out in June 1865; Chapman Biddle was discharged in Dec. 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 30, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 135.
President Lincoln called for a draft in Aug. 1862, which was later postponed.
Printed in red and blue.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
[Philadelphia, Pa.] : King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadadelphia
PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Zell, T. Ellwood.
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1862.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
King & Baird, printer.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Printer: King & Baird, printer.
[1862]
Broadsides.
Recruiting posters.
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 68 x 57 cm.
Islandora:6631
Library Company of Philadelphia Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.41 (McAllister)
(1)5777.F.41 (McAllister)