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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910. Excerpt: ... THE PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA CALLED IN 1862 FOR STATE DEFENCE. A Paper read before the Berks County Historical Society, December 12, 1905, by RICHMOND L. JONES, Esq. THE militia, in the sense applied to the men summoned to military service in 1862, was not a body organized, armed and equipped for military service in exigencies, but was hastily mustered from all citizens capable of bearing arms and subject to military duty. The organized militia of that period, or the individuals composing it, had been enlisted from time to time, under the frequent and extraordinary demands of the service, and their organizations had been disbanded. The Army of the Union, then in the field, was composed for the most part of youths under five and twenty, unsettled in business, full of adventure and enthusiasm, without families dependent on them, and who, in offering themselves as a personal sacrifice, were not encumbered with the entanglements arising from duties imposed in later life when men are woven into the fabric of our social and business existence. Adjutant General Stewart in an interesting address at a camp-fire of the Grand Army of the Republic held last summer stated that "of 1,012,273 recorded ages taken from the rolls it was shown that but 46,626 had reached 25 years of age, 231,051 enlisted at 16 years and under, 15,023 at 14 years and under, and 228 drummer boys at 12." The men who remained were for the most part of the great army of bread-winners, who were providing not only for their families'but for the support and maintenance of the great army in the field, a burden cheerfully and patriotically borne, though a terrible tax upon their resources. It was this class that was summoned, upon the discomfiture of the army in Virginia, to resist an invasion of their h...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1458985687
- ISBN 13 9781458985682
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages142
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