Rally! Rally! : A few more men wanted for a first-rate company, now forming at Doylestown. Rally to the flag of your country, and avoid a draft! Bounties to this company will be $100 by the government, $50 by the county, and $2 premium, with one month's p
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Rally! Rally! A few more men wanted for a first-rate company, now forming at Doylestown. Rally to the flag of your country, and avoid a draft! Bounties to this company will be $100 by the government, $50 by the county, and $2 premium, with one month's pay in advance, and extra township bounty
Description
The 138th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in Aug. 1862, and mustered out in June 1865; Company H was recruited in Bucks County; John H. Fisher was killed at the Wilderness, Va., May 1864. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 351., The illustration is a cannon and a U.S. flag., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Revolution.
Creator
United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 138th (1862-1865), Company H.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.47b (McAllister)
Bounty or draft! : To the people of Bucks Co. Whereas, the city of Philadelphia and neighboring counties have filled, or are now filling, their quotas under the conscription act by means of bounties to volunteers; ... in order to ascertain what the sense
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Bounty or draft! To the people of Bucks Co. Whereas, the city of Philadelphia and neighboring counties have filled, or are now filling, their quotas under the conscription act by means of bounties to volunteers; ... in order to ascertain what the sense of the tax-payers of Bucks County may be upon the subject, we invite the citizens of the respective boroughs and townships of Bucks County to meet at respective places of election, on Saturday, the 20th of February, 1864, ... to choose by ballot delegates to represent each of their respective townships and boroughs in a general county convention to be held at the court house, in Doylestown, on Monday, February 22d, 1864, ... to determine whether or not the commissioners of Bucks County shall appropriate out of the county funds a bounty, and to what amount, to induce volunteering to the extent of the quota of the county, in order to avoid the draft to take place on the 10th of March next
Description
The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnston & Co. copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield with the banner: Virtue, liberty, and independence., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Bucks County (Pa.), County Commissioners
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Bucks (1)5777.F.67a (McAllister)
County Commissioners' Office, Doylestown, Bucks Co., Pa., February 15, 1865. : This is to certify, that the bearer will be entitled to the sum of three hundred dollars, with six per cent. interest from the date. Payable out of the Bucks County Bounty Fund
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County Commissioners' Office, Doylestown, Bucks Co., Pa., February 15, 1865 This is to certify, that the bearer will be entitled to the sum of three hundred dollars, with six per cent. interest from the date. Payable out of the Bucks County Bounty Fund, on the first day of July, anno Domini 1866, at which time the interest on this certificate will cease
Description
A blank form., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Bucks County (Pa.), County Commissioners
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Bucks (2)5777.F.75d
Volunteers attention! $702 $802 : Only 35 men wanted to fill the quota of Bensalem Township, Bucks County, to which the following bounties will be paid by applying immediately at the Provost Marshal's Office, at Frankford, or at the Barley Sheaff Hotel, 2
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Volunteers attention! $702 $802 Only 35 men wanted to fill the quota of Bensalem Township, Bucks County, to which the following bounties will be paid by applying immediately at the Provost Marshal's Office, at Frankford, or at the Barley Sheaff Hotel, 2d St. above Race. Gov't bounty to veterans, $402 " " new recruits, $302 $300 county bounty. $100 township bounty. Or $463 cash in hand and the balance as the government directs
Description
Printed in red and blue., The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnston & Co. Copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield with the banner: Our flag and our country., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Bounty Fund Committee (Bensalem, Pa.)
Date
[1864?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.35d (McAllister)
Recruits wanted! 104th Pennsylvania Regiment! : Wanted for the Ringgold Regiment, {104th} Pennsylvania Volunteers, a number of good men, pay and rations to commence upon enrollment. Bounties: By the the United States, $100 00 By Bucks County, 50 00 Enroll
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Recruits wanted! 104th Pennsylvania Regiment! Wanted for the Ringgold Regiment, {104th} Pennsylvania Volunteers, a number of good men, pay and rations to commence upon enrollment. Bounties: By the the United States, $100 00 By Bucks County, 50 00 Enrollment premium, 4 00 One month's advance pay, 13 00 Total, $167 00 The bounty of the county and $25 of the government bounty, with the enrollment premium, and one month's pay, will be paid to each man as soon as mustered in, making $92; and the balance, $75, when honorably discharged. By entering this regiment you will be thrown into the company of your friends and neighbors, who are now well drilled, and from whom you will soon learn the duties and arts of war, and you will share the honors and praises that fall to the lot of this distinguished regiment. Citizens! You have but two weeks to volunteer, when the draft will be upon you. Will you not prefer going as volunteers and receive the bounties, than to be taken against your will and receive nothing but your monthly pay. Those wishing to enroll will call at the headquarters, three doors below the "Democrat" office, Doylestown; or at the recruiting offices at Quakertown, Kintnerville, Bristol, and Plow and Harrow, Reading
Description
The Ringgold Regiment, 104th Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. W.W.H. Davis commanding, was recruited primarily in Bucks County; the first company was mustered into service Sept. 6, 1861; the regiment was mustered out Sept. 30, 1865. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 3, p. 733., Printed in red and black., The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, shows an eagle on a shield, with the banner: Fair Oaks, Chickahominy, and Harrison's Point! [all battles of the Peninsular Campaign, March-July 1862]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 104th (1861-1865)
Date
[1862?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1862 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.9 (McAllister)
Flag of the Union! : A few days more are all that is left to the gallant sons of Old Bucks to volunteer in one of their own companies; by doing which they will save being drafted and secure the bounty of $165.00. Young men! Rally for you altars and your f
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Flag of the Union! A few days more are all that is left to the gallant sons of Old Bucks to volunteer in one of their own companies; by doing which they will save being drafted and secure the bounty of $165.00. Young men! Rally for you altars and your fires, God! and your native land, and enlist at once in Capt. Yerkes's Bucks County company. Meetings with martial music and eloquent speakers to secure volunteers will be held at Line Lexington, Thursday evening, August 14th; at Closson's Tavern, Lower Black's Eddy, Friday evening, August 15th. Now file in! And keep step to the music of the Union. Your country calls---it is your duty to obey
Description
The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, shows an eagle on a shield, with a blank banner., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Flag (1)5777.F.63b (McAllister)
To the rescue! Bucks County expects every man to do his duty. : $152 bounty! And one month's pay in advance. One flag! One country! Don't wait to be drafted, but come at once and enroll in the new Bucks Co. company now forming in Doylestown, to serve for
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To the rescue! Bucks County expects every man to do his duty $152 bounty! And one month's pay in advance. One flag! One country! Don't wait to be drafted, but come at once and enroll in the new Bucks Co. company now forming in Doylestown, to serve for the war. Every man as soon as sworn in will be paid $50 by Bucks county, $25 of the $100 government bounty, one month's pay in advance, and $2 enrolment fee. At the end of the war, when honorably discharged, $75, the balance of the government bounty, will be paid. This is no humbug, and the men of Bucks county should not be lured by the representations of those from a distance, who are endeavoring to enlist men for companies out of the county or state. ... Recruits will be enrolled at the office of the Democrat, and at Kulp's Hotel, Doylestown. Meetings at which speakers will be present, will be held in the evenings at the following places: at Jacoby's Hotel, Sellersville, on Tuesday, the 12th inst.; at Keelersville, on Wednesday, the 13th inst.; at Pleasant Hill, on Thursday, the 14th inst.; at Reiglesville, on Friday, the 15th inst.; at Bucksville, on Saturday, the 16th inst
Description
The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, shows an eagle on a shield, with the banner: Obey the call of your country!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1862 To the rescue (4)5777.F.28 (McAllister)