American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

12 1/2  x 17 5/8 in. (sight), framed to 14 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (creasing, small losses particularly along edge lines and near center horizontal fold, light soil, unexamined outside frame). Undersigned in type by Captain Lyman Scott Jr., 1st Lieut. H.E. Palmer, and 2nd Lieut. J.N. Turner. Top center features bold type "WANTED!" below which appears an illustration of a spread-winged eagle with a riband in its beak bearing the text "$100 / Bounty." Below the eagle in small print, part of which is obscured by a loss along the fold, is the regimental identification: "O[ne H]undred Men for Co. [left blank] 11th Regiment Kansas Volunteers." Large bold type then highlights the bounty again followed by an exhortation: "Our Homes are in Danger! / Come one come all and rally around / The Banner of Freedom! / And help save your Country in this hour of peril, and thus do your duty to / God and Our Native Land! / and thus enable you to face the Spirit of our Forefathers." No printer identification is visible on the broadside. Framed with a carefully folded document which is laid on top of the eagle's body. Period ink notation on the folded, lined paper reads "Countersign for Officer of the day." RARE. No other copies of this broadside identified in OCLC.

The 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry was raised in response to President Lincoln's July 1862 call for 300,000 volunteers. Residents of Kansas, many of whom already believed that their state had born a proportionately unjust and onerous burden for supplying troops to the war effort, were doubtful that their state could supply the quota with volunteer enlistments. However, the settlers of Kansas, who had just entered the Union in January 1861, proved their commitment to the Union once again raising their full quota in an unprecedentedly short span of time. The 11th Kansas enlisted its first recruit on the 18th of August, and on the 29th of that month Co. A was mustered in with a hundred men including their company captain. HDS indicates that Captain Lyman Scott of Leavenworth, Kansas, enlisted as a captain (date unknown) and was commissioned into Co. A, 11th Kansas Cavalry on 8/27/1862. He resigned on 2/20/1863. During the course of its service, the 11th was actively engaged in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, responding to Price's Missouri Expedition ("Price's Raid") including fighting in the Battle of Westport ("Gettysburg of the West"), and participating in US Army actions against the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the summer of 1865.