Nov 21 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2687 -

Sale 2687 - Lot 102

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) To Horse, To Horse! My All For a Horse! The Washington Cavalry. Illustrated broadside, 22 x 16 inches, signed in type by Captain J.W. Hall; edge wear, several splits, laid down and stabilized on early linen, two later grommets affixed in upper corners. Philadelphia: Ringwalt & Brown, [August 1862]
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Illustrated with a large engraving of a dramatic cavalry charge. "The Washington Cavalry of Philadelphia and Bucks County, instituted in 1812, have been accepted by a Special Order of the Secretary of War for Three Years or the War. . . . Yeomanry, come to your country's call, to put down treason and rebellion, and hand down to your children, unimpaired, the rich legacy of the Glorious Union achieved by your Forefathers. To Young Men of good moral habits--Farmers and Farmers' Sons--and those accustomed to the use of Horses, a rare chance is offered by the Washington Squadron of Cavalry. Horses, Equipments for Horses, Uniform and Arms, all supplied to Recruits in this Squadron by the U. States."

The bulk of this regiment was recruited in western Pennsylvania, but this broadside is for the Washington Cavalry, a legacy Philadelphia militia unit which entered service as the regiment's Company A. As the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry (also known as the 159th Pennsylvania Regiment), they went on to pursue Lee's retreating army from Gettysburg, and also chased the Confederate raiding party out of Chambersburg, PA the following year. The broadside mentions the commander Colonel James Schoonmaker, who earned a Medal of Honor for his leadership of the brigade at the Third Battle of Winchester.

Provenance: James Julia's Norm Flayderman sale, 2014. One in OCLC, at the Library Company of Philadelphia. No others traced at auction since a 1910 C.F. Libbie sale.

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