Attention! Heavy artillery : The finest opportunity offered for enlistment Battery L Third Penna. Vols. Colonel Segebarth. This reg't offers extra facilities and unusual opportunities: 1st. It avoids long and fatiguing marches, being solely confined to fo
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Attention! Heavy artillery The finest opportunity offered for enlistment Battery L Third Penna. Vols. Colonel Segebarth. This reg't offers extra facilities and unusual opportunities: 1st. It avoids long and fatiguing marches, being solely confined to forts, fortifications and entrenchments. 2d. It will be under Gen. Sigel, which is sufficient guarantee for its success. 3rd. The life of an artillerist is healthier. 4th. A recruit becomes sooner perfected in all the duties of a soldier. These with other reasons combined, makes this regiment a most desirable one. It is in full course of recruiting. Recruits will be sent at once to camp, with clothing, camp and garrison equipage, with medical attendance, and under experienced officers
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The 152nd Regiment, 3rd Artillery of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was authorized in Aug. 1862 and mustered out of service in July and Nov. 1865; Joseph W. Sanderson was mustered in March 3, 1863; Hermann Segebarth was discharged April 28, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 698, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 152., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
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United States, Army, Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, 3rd (1862-1865), Battery L.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.38d (McAllister)
Cavalry under the president's proclamation. : The undersigned are recruiting a company of Bucks County Cavalry for the defence of the state! With the approval and consent of the governor of the commonwealth, whose aid, Col. Wright, telegraphs that the com
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Cavalry under the president's proclamation The undersigned are recruiting a company of Bucks County Cavalry for the defence of the state! With the approval and consent of the governor of the commonwealth, whose aid, Col. Wright, telegraphs that the company must be raised at once. The officers have had one year's active service in the U.S. Cavalry Service. All members of the company will be exempted from the draft and receive the pay and rank of the 3 years' volunteers
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The 181st Regiment, 20th Cavalry of the Pennsylvania Volunteers,under the command of Col. John E. Wynkoop, was recruited in June and July 1863, principally from the eastern counties of the state; Samuel Comfort Jr. was promoted to Captain 25 July 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 32 and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 183., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
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United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 20th (1863-1865)
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.17a (McAllister)