Colored broadside commemorating Company E, 1st Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Cavalry

Name/Title

Colored broadside commemorating Company E, 1st Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Cavalry

Entry/Object ID

ARC647

Scope and Content

Colored broadside commemorating Company E, 1st Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Cavalry; Mustered into Union Army, September 9, 1861, by Captain Moore, U.S.A., at Parkersburg, W. Va. for three years Broadside lists privates and company officers. Memoranda at the bottom list engagements and skirmishes entered into. Pictured are scenes of families and battles at land and sea surrounding a large Bald Eagle with snake in its beak. Our Swords [paper's edge frayed and missing] Liberty, and Secure our Rights

Acquisition

Accession

00

Source or Donor

Found in collection

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

16" x 20" colored broadside

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1864 ca. Date(s): 1864 circa