Recruiting Broadside - Calcium Light Regiment
Item
- Title
- Recruiting Broadside - Calcium Light Regiment
- Description
- Recruiting broadside for a Civil War regiment which had a recruiting office in Palisade Gardens, Weehawken. The text of the broadside reads: The Best Regiment Yet! The Union of the States for the Sake of the Union. "Then Conquer we must, for our case it is just, and this be our motto: In God is our trust." The Calcium Light! Sharp-Shooters! This Regiment, under the command of Colonel Robert Grant Is now being organized for the United States Service by special order of the war department. The uniform, the pay and the rations are to be the same as in the regular army. The pay is $13 per month and $100 bounty upon honorable discharge at the end of the war. If the soldier is killed, this bounty of $100. together with his pay, due to that time is paid to his family, heirs, or assigns. The pay & rations commence from the date of enlistment. Clothing furnished immediately. Recruiting offices 400 Broome St. N.Y. Ninth Avenue between 42d & 43d Sts N.Y. Cor. Hudson & Canal Sts., N.Y. Edge Laboratory, Jersey City. 102 Fulton St. N.Y. Palisade Garden, Weehawken. Recruits Immediately forwarded to the camp of instruction at Scarsdale Regimental Headquarters, 400 Broome Street, New York Purcell & Dalton Steam Job Printers and engravers 428 Broome St. New York. As Company E of the 102nd New York, the Calcium Light Sharpshooters were recruited in New York City 1861 and served in a consolidated regiment that received its unit designation in March 1862. Known primarily as the Van Buren Light Infantry, the regiment saw its first hard action at Cedar Mountain, where 115 were killed, lost or wounded, with equally severe subsequent losses at Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in the Eastern Theater. Transferred south in 1864, the 102nd participated in the Battle Above the Clouds, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Georgia, and was with Sherman throughout the Atlanta Campaign and the "March." The regiment got its name for its innovative use of very bright Calcium lights to allow its sharpshooters to better see their targets.
- Subject
- WHC88282
- Date
- 1861
- Type
- OT
- Identifier
- WHC88282
- Coverage
- Weehawken, NJ [40.7663711,-74.02537149999999]
- Tag
- Government
- Rights
- This digital image may be used for educational or scholarly purposes without restriction. Commercial and other uses of the item are prohibited without prior written permission from the Weehawken Historical Commission.
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