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Title: Eleven days in the militia during the war of the rebellion
A journal of the 'Emergency' campaign of 1862

Author: A Militiaman

Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31969]

Language: English

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ELEVEN DAYS IN THE MILITIA

DURING THE

WAR OF THE REBELLION;

BEING

A JOURNAL OF THE "EMERGENCY" CAMPAIGN
OF 1862.

BY A MILITIAMAN.

[Illustration]

COLLINS, PRINTER, PHILADELPHIA.
1883.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by
THE COLLINS PRINTING HOUSE,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

INTRODUCTION.

Twenty years have passed away since a band of hastily-gathered
minute-men left their homes to defend the soil of Pennsylvania from
the first threatened invasion of the State by the rebel army under
General R.E. Lee. Viewed through the lapse of this long period,
crowded as it has been with so many momentous events in the life of
the nation, the incidents of that brief and comparatively unimportant
campaign begin, nevertheless, from their increasing remoteness, to
take upon themselves a degree of historic interest. In respect to both
their significance and their adventure, they greatly exceed the
occurrences which attended the march of the celebrated Advance Light
Brigade to the defence of Philadelphia in the war of 1812-14, in which
latter body of citizen soldiery the county of Berks had the honor to
be liberally represented.

With many of the participants in the movements of September, 1862,
that minor undertaking comprises the sum total of their personal
experience of military service during the entire ordeal of our
country's conflict. To them, therefore, the memories of that period of
excitement