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History of the 127th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers United States Army

Excerpt from History of the 127th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers: Familiarly Known as the "Dauphin County Regiment" The two most important chapters, relating to the battles in which the regiment participated, gave the committee the great est concern, as accuracy was demanded; and the colonel duringhis lifetime, fearing that full justice might not be done to the regiment, appealed to the lieutenant-colonel in the spring of 1893 to carefully prepare historical sketches of both battles. This was done, and he afterwards referred them to the regimental historian, who submitted them to Colonel Jennings afterwards, which he approved; and papers on them, later on, were read before the Association. Comrade Rise, as the regimental his torian, prepared an account of the Battle of Fredericksburg; and Major Rohrer made copious notes from his diary, and after wards wrote out his version of both battles. While these dif ferent accounts tallied in the main, they differed from the several standpoints at which the respective writers viewed the situa tion; so it was concluded best to strike out the repetitions, and compile one account of each battle from the separate accounts, which, it was concluded, would result in greater satisfaction to the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.