Lot 511
[CIVIL WAR]. Go in Before the Draft! Men Wanted to fill up a Fighting Regiment Commanded by Col. Irwin, an Old Mexican Soldier. Huntington, PA: "Globe" Job Office, 11 March 1863.
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
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Nov 4, 2022
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[CIVIL WAR]. Go in Before the Draft! Men Wanted to fill up a Fighting Regiment Commanded by Col. Irwin, an Old Mexican Soldier. Huntington, PA: "Globe" Job Office, 11 March 1863.
Visible 15 x 11 1/2 in. printed broadside (old folds, toning, minor offsetting); matted and framed to 20 1/2 x 17 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by Major John B. Miles.
A recruitment broadside for the 49th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. In their first three years of service, the 49th Pennsylvania had already participated in several battles in the Eastern Theater, including action at Antietam and Fredericksburg. Not long after this recruitment drive, they would again be bloodied at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the major conflicts of the Overland Campaign including the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and the Seige of Petersburg.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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