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Creator United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865). Company I.
Contributor Jones, S. Spencer.
O'Callaghan, C. M.
Wetherill, Alfred N.
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1862.
Ringwalt & Brown, printer.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Corn Exchange Regiment. : $162. $162. Col. Chas. M. Prevost Steady, able-bodied men wanted for Co. I. S.E. cor. Second and Walnut Streets. $162.00 bounty! Paid to each recruit as follows: $2 government premium when recruit is mustered in; $10 Corn Exchange bounty, when sent to camp; $25 city bounty when the company is full; $25, city bounty, $25, one-fourth of government bounty, and $13, one month's pay in advance, when the regiment is formed; $75, remainder of government bounty when mustered out of service; thus making a total of one hundred dollars before leaving the city! / C.M. O'Callaghan, Captain. A.N. Wetherill, 1st Lieut., S. Spencer Jones, 2d Lieut.
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Ringwalt & Brown, steam-power printers, 111 South Fourth Street
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date [1862]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 118 x 83 cm.
Notes The Corn Exchange Regiment, the 118th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in July 1862 and disbanded in June 1865; it was under the command of Col. C.M. Prevost until Sept. 30, 1863; C.M. O'Callaghan was wounded at Shepherdstown, W.Va. Sept. 20, 1862, and discharged Feb. 14, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 3, p. 1310, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 130.
Printed in red and blue; printed on two 61 x 83 cm. sheets pasted together.
The illustration is an eagle with a blank banner, perched on a horn.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Prevost, Charles Mallet, 1818-1887.
Philadelphia Corn Exchange (Pa.)
United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Bounties, Military -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Broadsides.
Woodcuts.
Recruiting posters.
Printer Ringwalt & Brown, printer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | 4# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.5 (McAllister)
Accession number (4)5777.F.5 (McAllister)

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