[CIVIL WAR]. $100 Bounty! 50 Men Wanted! For Company L. 1st Cavalry. Cal. Volunteers! For Active Service in Texas. [Stockton, CA]: Stockton Daily Independent Job Office Print, [1863]. 

Visible 16 7/16 x 23 in. printed broadside (toning/offsetting, minor separations along original folds); matted and framed 23 1/4 x 30 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by Captain James Gorman and L.M. Gardner. 

A recruitment broadside for the 1st California Cavalry Regiment, promising a monthly salary of "$18 per month" and signing bonuses. 

The regiment was first recruited in Oakland, California in October 1861, then sent to Southern California and joined the California Column in the spring of 1862. It was a part of the advance force of the Column during the march to New Mexico Territory and Texas. The 1863 recruitment drive, which this broadside advertises, brought seven more companies to bring the regiment to full strength. 

James Gorman was enlisted at Drum Barracks, California as captain on 28 February 1863 and was commissioned into Company L on 15 August 1863. He was promoted to major on 3 December 1863 and resigned his commission after the war's conclusion on 27 February 1866. 

RARE: No other copies located, not in Streeter. California recruitment broadsides are scarce both institutionally and on the market. 


Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents