14th Pennsylvania Light Cavalry! : Last chance for cavalry! Don't wait to be drafted! James M. Schoonmaker, com'g. Wanted, men accustomed to horses! $162 bounty! One months' pay in advance. $100 government bounty, 50 city bounty, 10 extra bounty, 2 premiu
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14th Pennsylvania Light Cavalry! Last chance for cavalry! Don't wait to be drafted! James M. Schoonmaker, com'g. Wanted, men accustomed to horses! $162 bounty! One months' pay in advance. $100 government bounty, 50 city bounty, 10 extra bounty, 2 premium for enlistment. Recruiting stations, [blank] [blank]
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The 159th Regiment, 14th Cavalry of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in Aug. 1862 and mustered out in Aug. and Nov. 1865; Joseph A. Crawford was promoted to Captain Nov. 22, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 851, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 174., Printed in red and blue; printed on two sheets, 60 x 78 cm. and 52 x 78 cm., pasted together., The illustration shows a cavalry charge, with two buildings in the background., 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, 14th (1862-1865)
Date
[between 1863 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1863 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.43 (McAllister)
To horse! To horse My all for a horse! : The Washington Cavalry of Philadelphia and Bucks County, instituted in 1812, have been accepted by the Secretary of War for three years or the war. Yeomanry, come to your country's call! To put down treason and reb
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To horse! To horse My all for a horse! The Washington Cavalry of Philadelphia and Bucks County, instituted in 1812, have been accepted by the Secretary of War for three years or the war. Yeomanry, come to your country's call! To put down treason and rebellion, and hand down to your children, unimpaired, the rich legacy of the glorious Union achieved by your forefathers. To young men of good moral habits--farmers and farmers' sons--and those accustomed to the use of horses, a rare chance is offered by the Washington Squadron of Cavalry. Horses, equipments for horses, uniform and arms, all supplied to recruits in this squadron by the U. States Pay from $13 to $22 per month. Bounty, $162 ... Officered by Captain Joseph W. Hall, ... Captain H.N. Harrison, ... Lieuts. Casper Morris and Jacob Morris, ... Battalion officered by Jas. M. Schoonmaker, who ... was ordered to raise this battalion ... 18th August, 1862, and ordered to report within three weeks
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The 159th Regiment, 14th Cavalry of the Pennsylvania Volunteers was organized in Aug. 1862 and mustered out in Aug. and Nov. 1865. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 4, p. 851and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 174, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 174., 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, 14th (1862-1865)
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.7d (McAllister)