Image of Union and Confederate cavalry soldiers clashing on horseback with sword drawn on a recruiting poster for the Union cavalry during the American Civil War. Date supplied by cataloger based on recruitment activity during the American Civil War.
Wood engraving with letterpress type.
"King & Baird, Printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia."--text, bottom left margin.
"A company now forming. All bounties offered by the U. States, state, and city, will be given to recruits. Head quarters, Ridge Avenue below Poplar. Amos Pennebaker, Lieutenant. T.A. Byrnes, Captain."--text, center of image.
Extent
1 wood engraving : uncolored ; overall 96.52 x 61.28 cm (38 x 24 1/8 in.)
Cavalry--Pictorial works Horses--Pictorial works Military service, Voluntary Soldiers--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Intaglio prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Relief prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Broadsides. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Military Large Size American Civil War The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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