Twenty Men Wanted for the Sixth Iowa Cavalry. Captain Ames' Company, Stationed now at Davenport, Iowa.
Davenport, IA?]: 24 December 1862. Broadside (358 x 260 mm). Signed in print by recruiting officers Sergeants Woolsincroft and Woodward. Condition : foxing, creases and folds, minor separations and edge tears. Provenance : DeWitt C. Hunt (contemporary inscription in pencil). very rare recruiting broadside for a cavalry regiment on the northern frontier. The broadside continues: “$100 Bounty, $25 of which is paid in advance, together with One Month’s Pay, given each recruit. This is the last call positively before the Draft, which will certainly take place early in January. Transportation provided, as well as subsistence from day of enlistment.” The Sixth Iowa Cavalry was organized by order of the War Department in September 1862 and served throughout the remainder of the war in the West, including action against Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory. No information could be found about the early owner of this broadside DeWitt C. Hunt; however, DeWitt C. Cram served as Captain of Company B of the regiment. [With:] A carte-de-visite of a group of soldiers thought to be members of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry standing in front of a stagecoach. [N.p. but Davenport?: n.d. but c. 1862]. On an unmarked mount. Condition : stained, creases and short tears.
Twenty Men Wanted for the Sixth Iowa Cavalry. Captain Ames' Company, Stationed now at Davenport, Iowa.
Davenport, IA?]: 24 December 1862. Broadside (358 x 260 mm). Signed in print by recruiting officers Sergeants Woolsincroft and Woodward. Condition : foxing, creases and folds, minor separations and edge tears. Provenance : DeWitt C. Hunt (contemporary inscription in pencil). very rare recruiting broadside for a cavalry regiment on the northern frontier. The broadside continues: “$100 Bounty, $25 of which is paid in advance, together with One Month’s Pay, given each recruit. This is the last call positively before the Draft, which will certainly take place early in January. Transportation provided, as well as subsistence from day of enlistment.” The Sixth Iowa Cavalry was organized by order of the War Department in September 1862 and served throughout the remainder of the war in the West, including action against Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory. No information could be found about the early owner of this broadside DeWitt C. Hunt; however, DeWitt C. Cram served as Captain of Company B of the regiment. [With:] A carte-de-visite of a group of soldiers thought to be members of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry standing in front of a stagecoach. [N.p. but Davenport?: n.d. but c. 1862]. On an unmarked mount. Condition : stained, creases and short tears.
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