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Title: Army letters, 1861-1865. Being extracts from private letters to relatives and friends from a soldier in the field during the late Civil War, with an appendix containing copies of some official documents, papers and addresses of later date
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Norton, Oliver Willcox, 1839-
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 83rd (1861-1865) United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 8th (1863-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: (Chicago, Printed by O.L. Deming
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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- from recordson file in the War Department. It is substantially correct, but con-tains two errors. The statement that he was present with his regi-ment in the engagements at Raccoon Ford, Brandy Station andBristow Station in October, 1863, and at Newmarket Heights andChapins Farm, Virginia, September 28. 29 and 30, 1864, is probablyoccasioned by the fact that his absence attending the ExaminingBoard in Washington in October, 1863, and in Chesapeake Hospitalin September, 1864, was not noted on the muster rolls. 302
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MILITARY SOCIETIES. The author of the preceding letters counts among thegreatest pleasures which he has enjoyed during the years thathave passed since the close of the civil war, the privilegeof membership in patriotic societies of survivors of the war.Association with men who served the country in its time ofperil keeps alive the spirit which actuated these men in theiryounger days. In that great society of veterans, the Grand Army of theRepublic, his name is on the roll of the George H. ThomasPost, No. 5. He is a member of the Western Society of the Army ofthe Potomac, an organization composed of men residing inthe west, who served in that army. In April, 1882, he was elected a Companion of the Mili-tary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, anorganization of commissioned officers of the army and navywho served in defense of the Union during the war of therebellion. Insignia No. 2321. In IMay, 1902, the Illinois Commandery of the LoyalLegion conferred upon him the great ho

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