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Title: Continental Light Cavalry! $300 bounty! Young men wanted immediately for Col. J.E. Peyton's regiment of cavalry for service in the South-West. $300 will be given to all recruits joining this company under a regular army officer. Sergeants wanted with men. Apply at Richard's House, Eighth Street below Spring Garden
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., Printed in red and blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Aexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Continental Cavalry
Date: [1861 or 1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Conti (1)5777.F.18f (McAllister)

Title: Continental Cavalry, Col. J.E. Peyton Drafted men, and their substitutes, can volunteer in this regiment and receive the government bounties. Men will be uniformed immediately and sent to camp for instruction. Recruiting station, Vine Street, above Ninth
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., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Continental Cavalry
Date: [1861 or 1862?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Conti (1)5777.F.75k (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)

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