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Title: Office of the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. August [blank] 1862 To [blank] Take notice, that you have been enrolled as a citizen within the [blank] precinct of the [blank] Ward of the county of Philadelphia in the said county, liable to military service. If you claim exemption from any cause, the claim will be received and determined by the commissioner to be appointed for that purpose for this county, at such time and place as he shall specify, by hand-bills to be posted in [blank] [blank] deputy marshal
Description: A draft registration form., Printed on blue paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; completed in MS.: August 27, 1862. To John A. McAllister ... within the sixth precinct of the Eighth Ward ... William Hinkle deputy marshal., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Marshal (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.61d (McAllister)

Title: Citizens of Philadelphia! Awake, if you would avoid the draft in this city on the 28th instant. Enlist or send a recruit to the Philadelphia City Guard, 157th Regt., P.V., Col. William A. Gray, let each one remember that drafted men have to buy their blankets, &c. but when you join the above regiment you get a complete outfit, all the bounties and one month's pay in advance. A gum blanket to each recruit. Regiment is now in camp. Head quarters: 627 Chestnut Street
Description: The Philadelphia City Guard, the 157th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, began recruiting in Oct. 1862; in 1865 it was consolidated with the 191st Regiment. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 833, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 140., 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, 157th (1862-1865)
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.70h (McAllister)

Title: Office of the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. August [blank] 1862 To [blank] Take notice, that you have been enrolled as a citizen within the [blank] precinct of the [blank] Ward of the county of Philadelphia in the said county, liable to military service. If you claim exemption from any cause, the claim will be received and determined by the commissioner to be appointed for that purpose for this county, at such time and place as he shall specify, by hand-bills to be posted in [blank] [blank] deputy marshal
Description: A draft registration form., Printed on blue paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; completed in MS.: August 27 1862. To Henry Phillips ... within the 2d precinct of the 7th ward ... C.W. Walker deputy marshal., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Revolution.
Creator: United States, Marshal (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.75j (McAllister)

Title: Draft! Head-quarters, Provost Marshal! Third District, Pa. No. 511 Brown Street, Philadelphia. Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of an order from the War Department, a draft will be made for the required number of men from said district, at the above head-quarters, as follows: For the first sub district, (being the 12th Ward,) on Monday, July 13th
Description: July 13 fell on a Monday in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Pennsylvania : 3rd District)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.22c (McAllister)

Title: Office of the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. August [blank] 1862 To [blank] Take notice, that you have been enrolled as a citizen within the [blank] precinct of the [blank] Ward of the county of Philadelphia in the said county, liable to military service. If you claim exemption from any cause, the claim will be received and determined by the commissioner to be appointed for that purpose for this county, at such time and place as he shall specify, by hand-bills to be posted in [blank] [blank] deputy marshal
Description: A draft registration form., Printed on blue paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Marshal (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.61c (McAllister)

Title: Notice to drafted men Persons wishing to procure substitutes, can be supplied without any further trouble to themselves, and their certificates handed them by applying to the undersigned, at the North Pennsylvania Hotel, N.E. cor. Third and Willow Sts
Description: In the 1863 Philadelphia directory, Stem, Burch, and Blye are all listed as residing at the North Pennsylvania Hotel, 445 N. Third St.; in the 1864 directory, Stem and Blye remain, but Burch is no longer listed., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Stem, David
Date: [1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Stem (2)5777.F.68a (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia, [blank] 1862. To [blank] Sir: You will please take notice that you have been enrolled as liable to military duty. If you claim you are not liable, on account of physical defect or bodily infirmity, or that you are exempt from the performance of military duty by any law of this state or of the United States, it will be your duty, on or before the [blank] day of [blank] 1862, to deliver to either of the undersigned, at their residence, [blank] an affidavit, stating such facts on which you claim to be exempt, or not liable to such military duty. [blank] [blank] assessors
Description: A draft notification form., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; completed in MS. Aug. 17, 1862, ordering John A. McAllister to report on or before Aug. 18 to Edw. Irwin, 1507 Sansom St. or J.H. Brady, 22nd below Locust., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Phila (2)5777.F.68i (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia, [blank] 1862. To [blank] Sir: You will please take notice that you have been enrolled as liable to military duty. If you claim you are not liable, on account of physical defect or bodily infirmity, or that you are exempt from the performance of military duty by any law of this state or of the United States, it will be your duty, on or before the [blank] day of [blank] 1862, to deliver to either of the undersigned, at their residence, [blank] an affidavit, stating such facts on which you claim to be exempt, or not liable to such military duty. [blank] [blank] assessors
Description: A draft notification form., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; completed in MS. Aug. 11, 1862, ordering Henry M. Phillips Jr. to report on or before Aug. 15 to Chas. Moore, 308 S. 12th St. or Thos. Naulty, 24th and Lombard; MS. note on verso: In consequence of this notice I obtained from Dr. H.L Hodge a certificate of ill health &c ... Aug 13 '62 ... left it with Charles Moore No. 308 S. 12th St., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Phila (2)5777.F.76c (McAllister)

Title: List of all persons enrolled in Class No. 1, subject to military duty in the First Ward being the first sub-district of the second district of Pennsylvania. All persons herein named claiming exemption on the ground of alienage, non-residence, unsuitableness of age, or manifest permanent physical disability, can appear before the Board of Enrollment on or before January 5th, 1864, and on due proof thereof, be stricken off the rolls. Those having certificates of exemption from last draft, need not appear. Citizens who know of any person liable to do military duty in Class No. 1, whose name is omitted, are requested to notify the Board of Enrollment, in order that such name may be added to the list
Description: With 17 columns of names., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Pennsylvania : 2nd District), Board of Enrollment
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 5# Am 1864 Uni Sta Provost 9982.F.17 (McAllister)

Title: Draft! Draft! Draft! Attention! Attention! To all loyal citizens! Will you stand still and be drafted while your country needs your services. Come on and get your bounty. $500 for one year only. Fall in and join Company "C" Philadelphia Guards! Rendezvous, No. 106 South Sixth Street
Description: The 199th Pennsylvania Infantry, under command of Col. James C. Briscoe, was organized in the fall of 1864 to serve for one year, and mustered out June 28, 1865; Henry C. O'Donnell was Captain of Company C. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 495, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 272., 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, 199th (1864-1865), Company C.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (3)5777.F.51 (McAllister)

Title: Mass meeting! To avoid the draft! Citizens of Philadelphia rally in your might! Assemble in Independence Square! On Saturday evening, October 25th. And adopt measures to promote enlistments in the 157th Regiment, Penna. Volunteers. Philadelphia City Guard, Col. Wm. A. Gray. Let every citizen unite in the endeavor to fill this regiment and thus avoid a draft in the birth-place of liberty, our time honored city of Philadelphia. Come one! Come all! Merchants, manufacturers, artizans, mechanics, the patriotic of all classes, trades and professions, and show the world that Philadelphia, by her efforts can avoid a draft! Make one grand and final effort and the work will be done. The following eminent speakers will address the meeting. Hon. Alexander Henry, Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, Daniel Dougherty, Esq. Morton McMichael, Esq., Rev. J. Walker Jackson, and others
Description: The Philadelphia City Guard, the 157th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, began recruiting in Oct. 1862; in 1865 it was consolidated with the 191st Regiment. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 833, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 140., Oct. 25 fell on a Saturday in 1862., 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 4# Am 1862 Mass (4)5777.F.19a (McAllister)

Title: Draft! Look out for prizes in the wheel of fortune on the fifth of September Volunteers, for 1 year's service, will receive, when mustered in, ... $575 Volunteers for 3 years' service, will receive, when mustered in, ... $925 Choice of regiments--cavalry, infantry, artillery or sharpshooters. $1000, and upwards, will be paid to veterans offering themselves as substitutes
Description: There was a draft scheduled for Philadelphia Sept. 5, 1864., Printed on yellow paper., The illustration is an eagle with a blank banner., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Paxson & McNally
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Paxson (2)5777.F.14a (McAllister)

Title: Drafted men & substitutes 152d Regiment, Penn'a Volunteers, 3d Heavy Artillery Col. Herman Segebarth. An excellent opportunity is now offered to persons wishing to join a company in this regiment, now quartered at Camp Ruff, Camden, N.J., and for service at Fort Delaware. All drafted men and substitutes may attach themselves to Battery C and will receive the regular government bounty, as paid to volunteers, as per instructions from Adjutant General Thomas. Apply at recruiting tent, Camp Philadelphia, West Philadelphia, or Camp Ruff, Camden, New Jersey
Description: The 152nd Regiment, 3rd Artillery of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was authorized in Aug. 1862 and mustered out of service in July and Nov. 1865. 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.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, 3rd (1862-1865), Battery C.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.51d (McAllister)

Title: 12th Ward $702 bounty All recruits accredited to the 12th Ward will be entitled to the following bounties: ... The committee appointed to pay the extra ward bounty of $50 to all recruits accredited to the Twelfth Ward, will be in attendance at F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall, No. 532 North Third Street, every afternoon until the quota is filled. Recruits can rely upon receiving the ward bounty at once, upon presenting to the treasurer a certificate of having been accredited to the ward. Disbursing Committee: Job W. Rickards, ... Davis Pearson, treasurer
Description: There are an additional seven names following Job W. Rickards in the Disbursing Committee., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (12th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.28b (McAllister)

Title: Avoid the draft The citizens of the 5th Precinct, 14th Ward, are now called upon to contribute money to pay ward bounties to volunteers! To fill her quota. Let every citizen contribute It is his duty. Let it not be said of any one, that his neighbor has paid his money to fill the quota, and that he has not done his share. Come one! Come all and bring your contributions to the office
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (14th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.28d (McAllister)

Title: Third Ward Bounty Fund subscription card Name, [blank] Address, [blank] Amount, [blank] This card will be called for on Saturday, April 2d
Description: April 2 fell on a Saturday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; completed in MS. for Geo. R. Birch, 762 Erie St. Five dollars (this is additional)., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (3rd Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.75j (McAllister)

Title: $650 for substitutes! Veterans and aliens about to volunteer can obtain $650 bounty in addition to government bounty, by applying to the Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee! The money will be paid to the volunteer on the day he is mustered in. For further information apply at the office, No. 422 Walnut Street
Description: Printed in red and blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1863 or 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1863 Citizens (3)5777.F.63 (McAllister)

Title: Subscribers to the 21st Ward Bounty Fund! Organized, January 22, 1864. A. Campbell, president. Geo. A. Smith, secretary. Fred. Fairthorne, treasurer. ... Having examined the above account and the vouchers connected therewith, we find the same to be correct
Description: A list of all the contributors with the dollar amounts they gave., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (21st Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1864 Bounty (3)5777.F.54 (McAllister)

Title: Gentlemen wanting substitutes for the draft will apply at the Wetherill House, Sansom Street, above Sixth. Substitutes will also apply as above
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1863 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Gentlemen (2)5777.F.70g (McAllister)

Title: To the citizens of the Ninth Ward The gentlemen whose names are hereunto appended, have been appointed to collect funds for the purpose of supplying the military quota of the ward through enlistment; thus avoiding the necessity for a draft. ... Money and men are all that are wanted; with a sufficiency of these, in a very few months, a permanent peace and Union may be secured. We look to you to supply the money, with the assurance that with it the supply of men will not be wanting
Description: The committee, broken into eight divisions, lists 46 names., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (9th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.72d (McAllister)

Title: Eighth Ward. Philadelphia, January 19th, 1864 As a citizen of the Eighth Ward, you are earnestly solicited to give your attention to the matter of this communication. The opportunity now exists of deciding whether the draft for United States soldiers, ordered by the government, shall go into effect in this ward; or whether, by offering proper encouragements to volunteers, we shall avoid the reproach and inconvenience of compulsory military service, or the payment of exemption or substitute money, to which alternative every drafted man is subject. ... it was resolved, to raise the sum of about thirty thousand dollars, to be appropriated as bounties ... The quota of the ward is nearly three hundred men, ... Whatever you may contribute to this bounty fund is a premium of insurance against a possibly far greater tax, if the draft should be allowed to become necessary
Description: The Committee on Collection, divided into six precincts, lists 33 names; the Executive Committee lists eight names., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (8th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.70b (McAllister)

Title: To the citizens of the Eighth Ward On the 10th of March next, a draft has been ordered by the government. By that time the amendment of the Conscription Act will have placed all able-bodied men, married as well as single, under forty-five years of age, in the same class. Not less than five hundred of such men will be required from the Eighth Ward. ... Volunteers are abundant, but to pay the promised bounties, money is required. About $15,000 have been collected--at least as large a sum is yet to be raised. The contributions have been comparatively few, and principally by those (including a number of ladies) not themselves liable to draft. ... Send or bring your subscriptions, large or small, without a moment's delay, to either of the committee
Description: There are twenty additional names and addresses following Theodore Cuyler., Printed on blue paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (8th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.72c (McAllister)

Title: Draft! Citizens of the 1st and 26th Wards awake! The draft is still impending! The draft was ordered for the 29th of September, and would certainly have taken place but for the influence of our Representative in Congress, Hon. Charles O'Neill, and of the committee of the wards, who visited the president of the United States and the provost marshal general, and succeeded in obtaining a postponement of the draft! upon the pledge of the committee, that the First and Twenty-sixth Wards, would fill their quota, if a little more time were given. This time has been granted; and it now rests with the citizens of these wards to fulfil the pledge by clearing themselves of the draft! Ten dollars from every man liable to draft, will clear us! Who would not rather pay ten dollars than be drafted? Let every citizen attend the ward meetings
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Draft (2)5777.F.22b (McAllister)

Title: Avoid the draft! To the citizens of the First Ward On the 10th of March next a draft has been ordered by the government. By that time the amendment of the Conscription Act will have placed all able-bodied men, married as well as single, under 45 years of age, in the same class. Not less than eight hundred of such men are required from the First Ward. ... Volunteers are abundant, but to pay the promised bounties, a sum of not less than thirty thousand dollars will be required. Thus far our contributions have been comparatively few, and principally by those not themselves liable to draft. Our ward contains about thirty-five thousand inhabitants. These thirty-five thousand are alike interested, poor and rich, and we appeal to them for their early and liberal contributions
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (1st Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.27e (McAllister)

Title: 11th Ward $702 bounty All recruits accredited to the 11th Ward will be entitled to the following bounties: ... The committee appointed to pay the extra ward bounty of $50 to all recruits accredited to the Eleventh Ward, will be in attendance at the hall, N.E. corner of Second and Coates Streets, (second story) every afternoon, from 3 to 6, until the quota is filled. Recruits can rely upon receiving the ward bounty at once, upon presenting to the Disbursing Committee a certificate of having been accredited to the ward. Disbursing Committee: Wm. Remick, chairman, ... William H. Wright, treasurer
Description: There are an additional seventeen names following Wm. Remick in the Disbursing Committee., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (11th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.28a (McAllister)

Title: Citizens' substitutes, representatives and volunteer agency of Philadelphia, No. 411 Chestnut Street Citizens desirous of securing substitutes, representatives or volunteers, can be supplied with the same at the shortest notice, and on both reasonable and honorable terms. Citizens can not only now procure substitutes, representatives and volunteers, at prices far lower than the same will demand after the contemplated draft has been put in force, but they will have done something towards forwarding this patriotic work to successful conclusion. N.B.--J. Paxson & Co. will take pleasure at all times, during office hours, in giving such information as they may from time to time have in their possession, respecting business connected with the forthcoming draft, to all who may choose to call
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Paxson & Co.
Date: [between 1863 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 J Paxson (2)5777.F.69a (McAllister)

Title: Office Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee, S.E. cor. Sixth and Walnut Sts. August 12, 1864 Sir: This committee regret to be obliged to discontinue their efforts to procure substitutes in advance of the draft. Owing to various changes in the regulations as to enlistment, and especially since the passage of the late ordinance of Councils, putting the bounty paid to volunteers so far beyond that given for substitutes, the terms offered by this committee are altogether insufficient. You are therefore requested to withdraw your subscription, and to send your receipt as soon as possible to
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Citizens (2)5777.F.69d (McAllister)

Title: Office Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee, Southeast corner Sixth and Walnut Streets. Philadelphia, [blank] 1864 To Captain [blank] Provost Marshal, [blank] District, Pennsylvania. The bearer [blank], representing himself to be not liable to draft as a [blank], desires to volunteer as a [blank] for [blank] of [blank] Ward, [blank] District, Philadelphia. If accepted, after proper examination, please muster him in as a [blank] for the said [blank], and send him under guard to this office, between [blank] and [blank] o'clock this afternoon, when the substitute money and city bounty will be paid to him on presentation of an exemption paper or certificate of representation for the said [blank] and a certificate of credit to the [blank] Ward. If rejected, please report to this office without loss of time. [blank] Secretary
Description: A blank form., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Citizens (2)5777.F.68c (McAllister)

Title: Office Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee, Southeast corner Sixth & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia, [blank] 186[blank] Received, this day, of the Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee of Philadelphia, the sum of four hundred dollars, being in full for the amount agreed upon for my enlisting for three years in the service of the United States, as a [blank] for [blank] of [blank] Ward, [blank] District of Pennsylvania. Also, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, being in full for the bounty offered by the city of Philadelphia. In all, six hundred and fifty dollars. $650 [blank]
Description: A blank form., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1863 or 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Citizens (2)5777.F.61b (McAllister)

Title: Avoid the draft! The 5th of September is coming! Company "K" Sixth Union League Regiment! Colonel H.G. Sickel, commanding, for one year. ... Total for one year's service, $717 $458 cash down. Head-quarters 458 North Third Street
Description: 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. 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 K.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (3)5777.F.49 (McAllister)

Title: Attention! Drafted men! Become volunteers to your country's call and get your bounty! Enlist in Roberts' Artillery! For Fortress Monroe. The reasons why. 1st. You become volunteers, and not conscripts of the draft. 2d. You get $100 bounty, $40 on being mustered in. 3d. You receive $13 per month instead of $10, and are better equiped and cared for. 4th. You will be stationed permanently in the finest fort in the country. 5th. You will have comfortable quarters in garrison, and not exposed to the hardships of a winter's campaign in the field. 6th. You will be commanded by experienced officers, who have seen service, Major Roberts being an officer in the regular artillery. 7th. You will receive such instruction as will qualify you for officers, in any branch of the service. 8th. You will have the very best chance for promotion, as all promotions will be made from the ranks
Description: Roberts' Artillery, the 152nd Regiment, 3rd Artillery of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was authorized in Aug. 1862 and mustered out of service in July and Nov. 1865. 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.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Artillery Regiment, 3rd (1862-1865), Battery B.
Date: [1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1862 Uni Sta (24)1540.F.20 (McAllister)

Title: 13th Ward! The citizens of the ward will meet at the Washington Hall Spring Garden Street, above Eighth, Monday eve'ng, Feb 8th, 1864, to hear the report of the committee to whom was referred the raising of the ward's quota! Without reference to a draft. Eminent speakers will address the meeting. Let every citizen be at his post!
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (13th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.52b (McAllister)

Title: "Rally 'round the flag, boys!" A meeting of the citizens of the 14th Ward will be held at Spring Garden Hall, Wednesday eve'ng, Jan. 6th, 1864 at half-past 7 o'clock, to take measures to fill our quota!
Description: The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is 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.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (14th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.28c (McAllister)

Title: 19th Ward Avoid the draft At a meeting of the Bounty Fund Committee of the 19th Ward, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, that the citizens of the ward pledge themselves not to contribute, directly or indirectly, to any fund to procure exemption for any citizen, in employment and health, who may be drafted and who has not contributed to the ward bounty fund; and they will also guaranty exemption to any man who may be drafted, under the present call, who has contributed twenty dollars to the fund. Mass meetings will be held on Friday, Monday & Tuesday eve'ngs March 4th, 7th and 8th, at Temperance Hall, cor. York and Trenton Avenue. Rev. Father McLaughlin is expected to address the meeting on Monday night
Description: March 4 fell on a Friday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (19th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.52c (McAllister)

Title: Waters & Co. head-quarters for drafted men subsitutes, and volunteers for Army or Navy 816 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Drafted men from the city, or any part of the state, will be furnished with substitutes at short notice, and on liberal terms. Men enlisting, either as substitutes or volunteers, will receive the largest bounties, which will be paid to them in cash as soon as mustered in. Runners are assured that their men can be enlisted, through this office, with promptness not surpassed by any agency in the country, and to their entire satisfaction. Agents will be liberally paid at this office
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Waters & Co.
Date: [between 1863 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Waters (2)5777.F.29a (McAllister)

Title: Substitutes and volunteers wanted Largest bounty paid in cash. Men wanted for Army and Navy
Description: The illustration shows a Union soldier in Zouave uniform, sabre drawn, attacking a Confederate soldier., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Folwell, Joseph R.
Date: [between 1863 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Folwell (2)5777.F.22i (McAllister)

Title: Substitutes and volunteers wanted Highest cash bounties paid. Men wanted for Army and Navy, for one, two and three years. City bounty $400 U.S. " 100 Pay 192 Total for one year's service, 692 Head quarters, N.E. cor. Beach and Laurel Sts., Philadelphia
Description: The "a" in "Head" is printed upside down., The illustration shows a Union soldier in Zouave uniform, sabre drawn, attacking a Confederate soldier., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1863 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Substi (2)5777.F.62 (McAllister)

Title: The last call to the citizens of the Fifteenth Ward A meeting will be held in the Baptist Church, Eighteenth and Spring Garden Sts., on Thursday evening, 11th inst., at 8 o'clock. It will then be decided whether further efforts are to be made to avoid the draft in the ward. We believe that $15,000 will furnish enough volunteers to fill the quota. Every tax-payer is interested in seeing that the ward has its full proportion of volunteers who receive the city bounty, as their property is taxed to pay it. Every patriot is interested in seeing that the Army is filled with volunteers. Every man who has a family he cannot leave--- Every man who loves his country more than money--- Every man who does not wish to go himself--- Every man, whether rich or poor, old or young, white or colored--- Every man in the ward is interested in seeing that the quota of the ward is filled
Description: There are an additional sixteen names following William Mann., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (15th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.69b (McAllister)

Title: Third Ward avoid the draft A mass meeting of the citizens of the Third Ward will be held on Tuesday eve'ng, Feb. 2d at half-past 7 o'clock, at Jefferson Hall! Cor. of Sixth and Christian Sts. Citizens of the Third Ward, come out in your might, irrespective of party, and show that you can and will do your duty for the success of the ward. Let all who are in favor of raising the quota of the ward attend. Eminent speakers will address the meeting. Hon. Morton McMichael, Hon. Daniel Dougherty, Hon Theodore Cuyler, Hon. E.C. Quinn, Hon. P.S. White and others, have promised to be present and address the meeting. Come, one and all
Description: Feb. 2 fell on a Tuesday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (3rd Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.27f (McAllister)

Title: Citizens of 3d Ward To the rescue To the rescue A mass meeting of the citizens of the 3d Ward, will be held at the House of Industry Catharine Street above Seventh. On Monday, March 7th, 1864, at half-past 7 o'clock, for the purpose of adopting measures to avoid the draft Let every citizen of the ward be present. A number of prominent speakers will be present to address the meeting
Description: The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is 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.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (3rd Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.27g (McAllister)

Title: Fifth Ward attention! Avoid the draft At a meeting of the citizens of the Fifth Ward, held on Thursday evening, 26th inst., the following named gentlemen were duly authorized to receive and collect money to pay bounty to recruits under the president's late call for volunteers: ... An adjourned meeting will be held Saturday eve'ng, 28th inst., Good Intent Hall, Spruce St., above Sixth at half-past 7 o'clock. Punctual attendance is requested
Description: Jan. 26 fell on a Thursday in 1865., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (5th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1865 Bounty (2)5777.F.52a (McAllister)

Title: Notice! Property holders, business and working men of the 7th Ward are requested to attend a public meeting to be held at the Western Hose House! On Saturday evening, March 19, at half-past 7 o'clock, to raise the necessary means to fill our quota The requisite number of men are to be had; all that's wanting is for the residents of the ward to furnish the means. Let all who are favorable to an undivided Union come--all who would sustain our brave soldiers in the field come, and contribute to this fund, that our ward may not be subject to the disgrace of a draft. The officers of the Bounty Fund will present a statement of what has been done. Several speakers will address the meeting
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (7th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.27h (McAllister)

Title: To the citizens of Philadelphia. An appeal in behalf of the First and Twenty-sixth Wards That there will be no draft generally in Philadelphia is due to the enterprise and liberality of her citizens. In many wards the quotas have been entirely filled by volunteering. While this general result is most gratifying, the undersigned beg leave to state that the quota of the first sub-district (composed of the First and Twenty-sixth Wards) has not been filled ... Far poorer than their sister wards, with residents chiefly working-men, they have not been able to offer large bounties. ... Those who are willing to subscribe to our bounty fund should send their names to [blank]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; completed in MS. directing names to Charles Wheeler at the office of Morris, Tasker & Co. No. 209 So. 3d St., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 To the cit (2)5777.F.71a (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia, August 12, 1864. Dear Sir We are again under the necessity of making application to the citizens of the ward for subscriptions to a fund to raise troops for the defence of our nation, and by this means avoid the necessity for a draft. ... Arrangements have been made for the appointment of a lieutenant to enlist specially for the benefit of the ward, and if the citizens maintain their reputation for liberality, it is not likely there will be a draft in the Ninth Ward. May we ask you to send to either of the undersigned committee the amount you are willing to give?
Description: There are twelve additional names and addresses following Daniel Steinmetz., Daniel Steinmetz was chairman of the Citizens' Volunteer Substitute Committee, which, in a letter also dated Aug. 12, 1864, suspended operations., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (9th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Bounty (2)5777.F.69f (McAllister)

Title: Draft! Philadelphia Guard Reg't Col. A.A. Lechler. $400 bounty $400 For one year's service only!
Description: Colonel Ambrose A. Lechler served in the 176th Pennsylvania Infantry and the 199th Pennsylvania Infantry., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1862 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1862 Draft (3)5777.F (McAllister)

Title: Men of the 15th Ward avoid the draft! The 5th of September is coming! Company "C" 6th Union League Regiment! Colonel H.G. Sickel, commanding, for one year. ... Total for one year's service, $742 $483 cash down. Headquarters, Eighteenth and Green Streets. See sign board
Description: 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 9, 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., The ward bounty is listed as $50., 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 (4)5777.F.50b (McAllister)

Title: Men of the 15th Ward avoid the draft! The 5th of September is coming! Company "C" 6th Union League Regiment! Colonel H.G. Sickel, commanding, for one year. ... Total for one year's service, $717 $458 cash down. Headquarters, Eighteenth and Green Streets
Description: 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 had served in the 88th Regiment, and died at Lew 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., The ward bounty is listed as $25., 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.47 (McAllister)

Title: 24th Ward avoid the draft! The 5th of September is coming. The last chance---the largest bounties. Saunders Guards! Company "C" Sixth Union League Col. H.G. Sickel, comd'g. ... Total for one year's service, 692 $433 paid cash in hand as soon as the recruit passes the surgeon and is mustered in.---No deception. $25 will be paid to any one who brings an acceptable recruit as soon as he is mustered in. Headquarters, Commissioners' Hall, 37th and Market Streets, West Philadelphia
Description: 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)

Title: $525 bounty Attention citizens of the 14th Ward It is no time to talk of your patriotism and loyalty, prove them by joining Company "G" of the Sixth Union League Regiment, now forming in the 14th Ward, commanded by one of the best officers in the service, Colonel H.G. Sickles [sic] (late Colonel of the 3d Pa. Reserves.) All the government bounties, together with city and ward bounty, will be paid to each recruit as soon as mustered in. This regiment is now forming under the auspices of the Union League of Philadelphia, and is one of the two regiments authorized to be raised in Philadelphia for twelve months' service. Company headquarters, Spring Garden Hall, N.W. cor. 13th & Sp. Garden Sts
Description: 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. 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., Printed in red and blue., 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 G.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1864 Uni Sta (3)5777.F.48 (McAllister)

Title: Robert Raikes' School House Sixth Street, above Carpenter. Benefit of the Bounty Fund of the 2d Ward Wonderful metamorphoses in natural magic: modern thaumaturgics and ancient sorcery, combined with immence powers of ventriloquism, and the learned canary birds! Sig'r Blitz the world-renowned ventriloquist and magician, will give his performances at the above place, Thursday afternoon and evening, April 14th, 1864 commencing at 3 and quarter of 8 o'clock. ... To conclude with the wonderful Dance of six plates on a common table! Lessons given in ventriloquism. Family amusements for sale. Also, A history of ventriloquism, with instructions and anecdotes price 15 cents. For sale at the door. Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Blitz, Antonio, 1810-1877
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Blitz (26)5761.F.15a (McAllister)

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