1st PA Cavalry recruitment poster
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Philip S
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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.
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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....."
"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....."
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.
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.