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Title: To arms! To arms! A few more men wanted to fill up the Keystone Battery! Apply at the armory of the company, at the City Arsenal, Race Street bel. Broad
Description: The illustration shows an encampment, a cannon, and the digging of trenches., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Keystone Battery
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1861 Keystone (4)5777.F.30 (McAllister)

Title: Flying artillery Fifty good men wanted to fill up Capt. Massey's Company I Flying Artillery! To be attached to the Continental Cavalry, commanded by Col. Peyton. Government and city bounties given. All men joining this company will be clothed immediately and put in comfortable quarters, and drilled as cavalry and light artillery. Recruiting offices. 403 Walnut Street, N.W. cor. Broad & Fitzwater, 735 Market Street, N.W. cor. Eleventh & Oxford
Description: In his memoir, Reminiscences of Philadelphia during the past half century (Philadelphia 1895), J.E. Peyton of Haddonfield, N.J. claims to have lent his name to the recruitment of two cavalry regiments which became the 3rd and 11th Pennsylvania. Taylor associates him with the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry: In the autumn of 1862 an enthusiastic citizen of Haddonfield, N. J., was active in securing recruits for the "Continental Cavalry." Two companies, intended as A and B, were camped at Haddonfield. Adverse circumstances led many of the recruits to leave camp and to enlist elsewhere. Their names were, however, carried upon the company records as "deserters." Those who remained were, with their officers, mustered into the service and attached to the 18th Cavalry."--F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 180 note., The illustration, signed E. Rogers, shows four horses, two with riders, pulling a cannon with three soldiers seated., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861 or 1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1861 Flying (4)5777.F.51 (McAllister)

Title: Avoid the draft! Connect yourself immediately with the Keystone Artillery! For state defence, in response to the governor's proclamation. Recruits wanted at the city arsenal, Race Street below Broad, and at Independence Hall. Do not delay, come at once, danger is threatening us!
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Keystone Artillery
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Keystone (2)5777.F.49a (McAllister)

Title: Recruits wanted for the Keystone Artillery for temporary service, in the defence of your state Head-quarters 808 Filbert Street
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Keystone Artillery
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Keystone (2)5777.F.47c (McAllister)

Title: A Rare chance! Wanted immediately, twenty able-bodied men, to fill up the artillery company attached to the 57th Regiment, P.V., Col. J. Richter Jones commanding. The only artillery company now being formed in the city. $100 bounty! Term of service, 3 years or sooner discharged. Pay, clothing, rations, quarters, and medical attendance, begin immediately upon enrollment. The battery, 6 pieces, arrives this week, (Oct. 28-Nov. 4.) Horses, side-arms & accoutrements furnished. Ambitious young men, wishing to join the most desirable branch of the U.S. service, affording repeated opportunities for personal distinction, will at once join the light artillery company now approaching completion under the command of
Description: Col. John Richter Jones commanded the 58th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, not the 57th, both of which began recruiting in the fall of 1861, though neither regiment included an artillery battery. Paul T. Jones led Battery L of the 2nd Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment., Printed on rose-colored paper., The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is an eagle on a shield with the banner: The Union now and forever!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Rare (2)5777.F.32b (McAllister)

Title: To arms! To arms! State defence! 4th Penn'a artillery! Colonel Chas. Angeroth, has just returned from Harrisburg with orders to recruit a regiment of artillery for six months service in the state defence. All the state and city bounty given! Rally under this command; escape the draft and secure your homes from the invasion of traitors. Head-quarters, 421 & 423 St. John St
Description: Charles Angeroth was authorized in Oct. 1861 to raise a battalion of heavy artillery; the 112th Regiment, 2nd Artillery of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was mustered in Jan. 8, 1862 and mustered out Jan. 29, 1866; Angeroth was discharged June 21, 1862 and replaced by A.A. Gibson. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 3, p. 1059, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 150. There was no 4th Pennsylvania Artillery., The illustration, signed E. Rogers, shows four horses, two with riders, pulling a cannon with three soldiers seated., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862 or 1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1862 To arms (3)5777.F.18 (McAllister)

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