Read Guard Infantry Company, : attached to Col. Chantry's regiment now accepted. Attention! Volunteers!! Men wishing to go into immediate active service, have now the opportunity. Recruiting stations, at cor. of Riehmond [sic] & Ann Sts., Richmond, 25th W
Title
Read Guard Infantry Company attached to Col. Chantry's regiment now accepted. Attention! Volunteers!! Men wishing to go into immediate active service, have now the opportunity. Recruiting stations, at cor. of Riehmond [sic] & Ann Sts., Richmond, 25th Ward
Description
The 66th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in May and June, 1861, by Alfred W. Chantry, originally for the Reserve Corps; it was mustered in Sept. 1861; Col. Chantry was relieved of his command Jan. 18, 1862; the regiment was disbanded and the officers and men reassigned in early 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 2, p. 632, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 81, The illustration shows a mounted officer facing three standing officers., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; imperfect: torn at head, affecting some text., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 66th (1861-1862)
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.12 (McAllister)