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Title: Defend the state! $60 bounty $60 bounty Headquarters 1st Reg't Infantry, P.H.G. No. 7 State House Row. This regiment is recruiting for 3 months! Under the call of the governor, to defend the state of Penn'a. Commanders of companies will report daily at 10 o'clock. Each man enlisting in this corps receives $50 bounty from the city, $10 from Bounty Fund, besides his pay
Description: The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is an eagle on a shield, with the banner: 1863. 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Philadelphia (Pa.), Home Guard
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1863 Phila (1)5777.F.25b (McAllister)

Title: To arms! $10 extra bounty! $10 extra bounty! Recruits wanted for an independent company of infantry! For 3 months' duty in the city's service only! Apply at the armory, No. 12 North Fourth Street
Description: The illustration is an eagle on a shield, with the banner: 1863. 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Philadelphia (Pa.), Home Guard
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1863 Phila (2)5777.F.47a (McAllister)

Title: Attention! Company C Germantown Home Guard All members are ordered to report at the armory this evening, at 8 o'clock, to organize as a minute men for city defence
Description: The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., is an eagle on a shield with the banner: When duty calls 'tis ours to obey!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Germantown Home Guard (Philadelphia, Pa.), Company C.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 German (2)5777.F.7a (McAllister)

Title: To arms! To arms! Head-quarters, Phila., Pa., June 28th, 1863. Special order, no. 2 VIII.--The following places of rendezvous are designated for enrollment and enlistment of men for service for three months, unless sooner discharged. Commissioners' Hall, Spring Garden and 13th Sts., Lieut. Col. E.E. Wallace, late 91st Reg. P.V., in charge City Armory, Broad Street, below Race, Captain Isaac C. Price in charge Market House, Spring Garden and 22d Sts., Captain Joseph Adamson in charge Girard Avenue and Sixth St., Captain Charles C. Phillips in charge When a full company, consisting of 64 privates, 5 sergeants, 8 corporals, 2 musicians, and 1 wagoner is organized, they will be immediately mustered into service, with a full complement of officers, armed, equipped, and moved into camp for instruction. But after an organization is commenced a smaller number of men, without officers, may be mustered into service, and attached to other companies, if desired. A half company, with 40 men, may be mustered in with a 1st Lieut
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Philadelphia (Pa.), Home Guard
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Phila (1)5777.F.66a (McAllister)

Title: General order no. 22 The public exigency requires that there should be a large and immediate increase of the military force. Captains of companies will forthwith take the necessary measures to fill their respective commands to the required number of one hundred and six officers, non-commissioned officers and privates. New companies should be organized forthwith throughout the city
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Philadelphia (Pa.), Home Guard
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Phila (2)5777.F.75e (McAllister)

Title: Fifth Ward attention! All good citizens of the ward favorable to the forming of a Home Guard, for the protection of the Union and the laws of this great and glorious country, will call at the rooms of the Good Intent Hose Company, No. 602 Spruce Street, on Monday, the 22d instant, between the hours of nine o'clock, a.m., and nine o'clock, p.m., and so continue until completed, and register their names and residences, preparatory to organizing a company in accordance with the request of the Committee of Public Safety of the city of Philadelphia
Description: Philadelphia Councils voted May 16, 1861, to form a Home Guard distinct from the state militia. Cf. F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 40., 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 Fifth (1)5777.F.70a (McAllister)

Title: Germantown Home Guard attention! Members of this company, and others, desirous of responding to the call of the authorities, for the purpose of protecting our state and city in the present emergency, will report themselves at the armory of the company, Market House, Main Street, at 4 o'clock, p.m. The company is under orders from Maj. Gen. Dana, to report for duty on Monday, 29th inst. Service not to exceed three months
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Germantown Home Guard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 German (1)5777.F.66b (McAllister)

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