United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 75th (1861-1865). Company K.
Achtung! 40stes Regiment Pennsylv. Voluntairs, General Henry Bohlen, Camp, Hunter's Chapel, Va. : Jeder eingemusterte Mann erhält sofort drei Dollars handgeld, un wird vollständig ausgerüstet, und mit Springfield Büchlen vom Jahre 1861 bewaffnet, ehe er zum Camp abreist. / Näheres erfährt man bei Kapitain C. Wyck, 344 Nord Dritte Strasse, Philadelphia.
[Philadelphia, Pa.] : Gedruckt bei King und Baird, 607 Sansomstrasse., [1861]
The 75th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, originally known as the 40th, was recruited primarily from German Americans in the Philadelphia area, beginning in Aug. 1861; it was mustered out Sept. 1, 1865; Christian Wyck was promoted to Captain of Company K Dec. 1, 1861, and drown in the Shenandoah River April 15, 1862; General Bohlen was killed at Freeman's Ford, Va., Aug. 22, 1862. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 2, p. 915, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 99.
The illustration, signed L. Johnson & Co., shows an eagle on a shield, with the banner: Die Union und die Constitution.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Bohlen, Henry, 1810-1862.
United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- Armed Forces -- German Americans.
Broadsides. rbgenr
Woodcuts. gmgpc
Recruiting posters. local
Wyck, Christian, 1829 or 30-1862.
Imprint Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1861.
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
PA. Philadelphia. 1861. Imprint
King & Baird, printer. Printer
L. Johnson & Co., engraver. Illustrator
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