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 y
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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)
Recruits wanted! For the 58th Pa. Reg't. : Col. J. Richter Jones. Now in the field! Recruits for this regiment are now mustered into the U.S. service, equipped and receive their bounty in Philadelphia, immediately after being mustered in. $160 bounty: the
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Recruits wanted! For the 58th Pa. Reg't Col. J. Richter Jones. Now in the field! Recruits for this regiment are now mustered into the U.S. service, equipped and receive their bounty in Philadelphia, immediately after being mustered in. $160 bounty: the following bounties are paid each recruit: Government bounty in advance, $25.00 Enlistment, 4.00 Bounty from Citizens' Bounty Fund, 50.00 Premium " " " " 6.00 Total bounties in advance, $85.00 Government bounty at the expiration of term of service, $75.00 Total bounty paid, $160.00 Apply at the recruiting station: No. 620 Chestnut Street
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Recruiting began for the 58th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the fall of 1861, and the regiment was formed Feb. 13, 1862; it was mustered out of service in Jan. 24, 1866; Col. Jones was killed at Bachelor's Creek Station, N.C. May 23, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 2, p. 285, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 77., The illustration, signed Bonfield and Howell, shows a Union soldier with rifle in hand, bayonet fixed, charging past a fallen Confederate soldier in battle., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; MS. note: 50 copies Aug. 22., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 58th (1862-1866)
Date
[1862 or 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.36l (McAllister)