Capt. Edward Lyster and 1st Lt. Thomas P. Smith were in Company K of the 196th Regiment Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Fifth Union League Regiment, under the command of Col. Harmanus Neff; it was organized July 20, and mustered out Nov. 17, 1864. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 436, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 278., The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield, with the banner: No compromise with traitors, and no argument but the cannon's mouth., 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, 196th (1864), Company K.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.43c (McAllister)
The Sixth Union League Regiment, the 198th Pennsylvania Infantry, under the command of Horatio G. Sickel, was organized in Sept. 1864 and mustered out June 3, 1865; George W. Mulfrey died at Lewis Farm, Va. March 29, 1865. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 464, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 271., 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, 198th (1864-1865), Company C.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (3)5777.F.46 (McAllister)