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1st PA Cavalry recruitment poster
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:11 am
by Philip S
This recruitment poster for emergency cavalry during the Confederate invasion of PA in 1863 is on display at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA.
Re: 1st PA Cavalry recruitment poster
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:34 am
by mnhorse
A great poster. I wonder if there is a reproduction available?
Richard
Re: 1st PA Cavalry recruitment poster
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:23 am
by Todd
Hmm.... smells like recruiter fibs to me....
"Oops - sorry 'bout that - now that you're committed under military law, we're going to need ya'll to cross that little itty-bitty imaginary line over there....."
Re: 1st PA Cavalry recruitment poster
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 3:57 pm
by Philip S
I think this is the unit:
1st Battalion Militia Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg, Pa., July 13, 1863. Attached to Dept. of the Susquehanna. Mustered out August 21, 1863
Re: 1st PA Cavalry recruitment poster
Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 8:07 am
by Todd
Essentially one-month of service....
An interesting exercise would be to look up men on the rosters for this unit in the government pension files around 1890 or so. I'll bet anything you'd find any number of them drawing down pensions for years based on this single month of service. Happened a LOT. For the $13 and a month spent milling around, they pulled down that (or more)/month for years, later in life.