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Title: The Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y. June and July, 1863

Author: George W. Wingate

Release Date: April 16, 2010 [EBook #32013]

Language: English

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THE
LAST CAMPAIGN
OF THE
TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT,
N. G., S. N. Y.
JUNE AND JULY, 1863.

New York:
C. S. WESTCOTT & CO., PRINTERS,
NO. 79 JOHN STREET.
1864.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1864,

BY GEORGE W. WINGATE,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.

THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF THE

Twenty-second Regiment N. G., S. N. Y.

On the 18th of June, 1863, it having been definitely ascertained that the
rebel horde had invaded Pennsylvania in force, the call of the President
was issued to the Empire State, and her militia, leaving everything as it
stood--their books unclosed, their ploughs in the furrow--hurried eagerly
forward in response, to unite in the defence of our sister State. All day
long blue and gray uniforms were dashing frantically backward and forward
through the streets, and in and out of the various armories of the city,
in search of essentials found missing at the last moment; and in military
circles the flurry and commotion were indescribable, particularly at the
Palace Garden in Fourteenth street, where the Twenty-second regiment
N. G., S. N. Y., assembling in great haste, were preparing to be "off to
the war" on their second campaign.

At last the manifold preparations were completed, and amid tumultuous
cheering, the fluttering of handkerchiefs, the ringing of bells, and the
thousand bewildering noises of an enthusiastic crowd, the regiment formed
and marched away--where to, none knew and