Details
Creator P.S. Duval & Son,lithographer.
Contributor Printer: Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia, Pa.), publisher.
Title United States soldiers at Camp "William Penn" Philadelphia, PA [graphic]: "Rally round the flag, boys! Rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom" / P.S. Duval & Son. Lith. Cor. 5th & Minor St. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: Published by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, 1210 Chestnut Street.
Date [1863]
Extent 1 print: chromolithograph, hand-colored; 33 x 40 cm.(12.5 x 15.5 in.)
Description Recruitment print depicting members of an African American regiment posed with their white commander at Camp William Penn, Cheltenham Township. The troop members, including the drummer boy, wear their military best and are gathered on an open green near a tent. One soldier proudly displays the American flag. Begun in 1863 with the support of the Union League, eleven regiments were formed at Camp William Penn, the first Pennsylvania camp for volunteer African American regiments. William Penn was the largest Civil War camp for the training of officers to lead African American troops.
Notes LCP exhibit catalogue: Negro History, p. 140.
Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American City. (Philadelphia: Camino Books, 1990), p. 217.
Genre Chromolithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Subject African American soldiers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Military training camps -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Recruitment & enlistment -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
United States History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
SP3 -- Afro-Americana.
African American soldiers -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Spatial coverage Camp William Penn (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Is part of Civil War Military Camps
Has format TMP.objres.4334.jpg
Call number *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - Penn [P.9177.17]
Accession number P.9177.17