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Wanted immediately! 100 colored teamsters!

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Broadside continues: For the Army of the Potomac. Wages, $20 per month and rations. Frank Pfeiffer, Master Mechanic.; Printed area measures: 23.9 x 19.9 cm.

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The Library Company of Philadelphia

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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Broadsides
  3. Civil War
  4. Civil War, 1861 1865
  5. History
  6. Participation, African American
  7. Recruiting Posters
  8. Recruiting, Enlistment, Etc
  9. United States
  10. United States Army

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Citizens, halt!: The wounds and deaths of relatives and friends cry for vengeance. The Union calls for supporters The traitor hands that have polluted the sacred flag of freedom, must be destroyed. Freedom has decreed that slavery is a political nuisance to be abolished. The flag of the free must not be prostituted to protect the interests of slavery. ... Every whole-souled man, every one capable of bearing arms, who has an American heart, come forward and sign the muster roll. Maj. T.G. Miller, formerly of 3d Reg't Reserves, is now recruiting a company for nine months' service at Mrs. P. Miller's White Horse Tavern, Frankford Road & Columbia Avenue All who will prove themselves men, patriots, defenders of rights that Americans hold dear, come forward and serve for nine months. If they are required for a longer time, they can then enlist again. U.S. pay, food and clothing, and city bounty, secured to the volunteer. Citizens in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war, are invited to call and confer with the major "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow!": Colored men of Burlington Co., your country calls you Men of color willing to enlist in the service of the United States for three years or the war, can present themselves at head-quarters, 1210 Chestnut St. be enrolled and get two dollars enlistment fee and ten dollars bounty Good men wanted: $752 bounty : Under the authority of the War Department, ... Bounty for colored volunteers, $350[.] Volunteers have the choice of any of the old regiments now in the field. J. Davis Rudolph, Recruiting Agent. Headquarters--West Chester To men of color: authority has been received to raise a reg't of men of color for 100 days. ... Col. Taggart, late Colonel 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, will command, and the officers will be the graduates of the Military Board at Washington. $50 city bounty will be paid each man. Come, then, to head-quarters, 1210 Chestnut Street and enroll your names Men of color in consequence of indisposition, of Fred'k Douglass the meeting for promoting recruiting for 3d Regiment U.S. Colored Troops is postponed until Friday, July 24, 1863 Free military school for applicants for command of colored troops... Free military school for applicants for commands of colored troops, no. 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia : established by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, chief preceptor, John H. Taggart, late colonel 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves The diary of James T. Ayers : Civil War recruiter Free military school for applicants for command of colored troops, no. 1210 chestnut street, Philadelphia, established by the Supervisory committee for recruiting colored regiments, John H. Taggart, chief predeptor Free military school for applicants for commands of colored troops Free military school for applicants for command of colored troops, no. 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia : established by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, chief preceptor, John H. Taggart, late colonel 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves. 2nd ed. Sir: your attention is requested to the following extract from the Philadelphia Sunday transcript of April 30th, 1865: the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Troops Newspaper articles on African American soldiers in the Spanish-American War Hancock family papers, 1664-1854 (inclusive), Volume JH-6, John Hancock letterbook (business), 1762-1783 Hancock family papers, 1664-1854 (inclusive), Volume TG-1, Thomas Goadsby copybook, 1787-1788 Hancock family papers, 1664-1854 (inclusive), Volume L-1, Ship Rebecca logbook, kept by James Scott, 1755-1757 Notes from Men of Mark on abolitionist Henry O. Wagoner New York and the conscription of 1863 : a chapter in the history of the Civil War Correspondence respecting the enlistment of British subjects in the United States' army
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