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Title: Wanted a few good men to fill up Capt. Jos. Archambault's company, attached to the 2d Pennsylvania Reg't of Cavalry. Col. R. Butler Price, commanding. Pay to commence on enrollment and sent to camp immediately, neary Darby. Head quarters, 106 South Sixth St
Description: The 2nd Cavalry, 59th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in the fall of 1861 and mustered out in July 1865; Joseph Archambault, Captain of Company A, was promoted to Major May 19, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 2, p. 320, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 155., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865), Company A.
Date: [1861 or 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.6d (McAllister)

Title: Attention cavalry! Capt. J. Archambault, for 28 years commanding the Union Troop of Bucks and Montgomery counties, has received special orders from the War Department to form a troop to be attached to Col. R. Butler Price's regiment of cavalry, now in camp at Harrisburg. He invites sober, active and intelligent young men, and his old friends to join him. Head quarters----People's Hotel, 106 South Sixth Street. Pay, rations and equipments immediately. $100 bounty! Wanted, a good sergeant with 10 men, and a good corporal with 4 men. 1st sergent's [sic] pay is $22. Sergeant 10. Farrier's pay is $17. Bugler's " 16. Corporal's pay is $16. Private's " 14
Description: The 2nd Cavalry, 59th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in the fall of 1861 and mustered out in July 1865; Joseph Archambault, Captain of Company A, was promoted to Major May 19, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 2, p. 320, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 155., Printed on yellow paper., The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, is an eagle on a shield with the banner: The Union, it shall be preserved!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865), Company A.
Date: [1861 or 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.6e (McAllister)

Title: Attention, troop! Capt. Archambault formerly of Bucks County, and for many years commander of the Union Troop, invites his old companions in arms, friends, and all patriotic young men, to rally under his command in a troop of cavalry, to assist in maintaining the honor of our flag and the perpetuity of the Union. Rally, freemen, rally! Capt. Archambault and his lieutenants will be at Kulp's Hotel, in Doylestown, on Saturday, the 17th of August, where they will be happy to see the captain's old friends and all others desirous of serving their country in her hour of need
Description: Capt. Joseph Archambault recruited and led Company A of the 2nd Cavalry, 59th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Col. R.B. Price; the regiment was organized in the fall of 1861 and mustered out in July 1865; Capt. Archambault was promoted to Major May 19, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 2, p. 320, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 155., August 17 fell on a Saturday in 1861., The three illustrations are a cavalry soldier with a horn, a shooting cannon with the flag, and a mounted rider with a horn.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865), Company A.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Uni Sta (2)5777.F.7b (McAllister)

Title: Cavalry! Wanted good men, to fill up Company G, attached to the 2d Penna. Regiment Cavalry, Col. R. Butler Price, commanding. Pay to commence on enrolment, equipped and sent to camp at once. Head quarters, [blank]
Description: The 2nd Cavalry, 59th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in the fall of 1861 and mustered out in July 1865; James M. Cox resigned Sept. 22, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 2, p. 320, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 155., The illustration, signed Mumford, shows a mounted cavalry soldier., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images fo the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865), Company G.
Date: [1861 or 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.17b (McAllister)

Title: Active men wanted! For the Second Regiment Penn'a Cavalry! Col. R. Butler Price, now in camp near Darby. Men joining this regiment will be uniformed and fed at once. Pay as follows: 1st sergeant, $22 Other sergeants, 19 Corporals, $16 Privates, 14 Farrier's blacksmith, $17 Buglers, 16 Roll open at N.W. cor. 3d & Chestnut Sts
Description: The 2nd Cavalry, 59th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized in the fall of 1861 and mustered out in July 1865. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania volunteers, v. 2, p. 320, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 155., 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., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865)
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1861 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.41a (McAllister)

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