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Title: History of the 121st regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. "An account from the ranks."
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania infantry. 121st regt., 1862-1865 Strong, William W., b. 1840 or 41, ed
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Press of Catholic standard and times
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the soil of Penn-sylvania, by the sinews and the sacrifice of her sons was reset thekeystone of the arch. This field shall be a Mecca. When Hastings, Waterloo, Sedan are forgotten, the English-speaking nations of the world shall turn hither, and, awe-stricken,whisper of the Titan race whose greatest battle announced that fromthat day forth their children should be united, and as their twice-chosen chief had spoken it on that field, theirs should be the heritageof all, a government of the people, for the people, and by thepeople. And now the monument of our regiment is delivered to theAssociation whose charge it will l)c to preserve and keep. Our exercises began with prayer. Let a benediction fall uponthe heroes of 63. and when the last of the Boys in IMue has marchedsturdily away to fall in in the ranks of the Grand Army, let littlechildren gather flowers and wreathe garlands and twine them aroundthis stone, and wonderingly learn to lisp the story of how and whytheir cfrandsires died.
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WALTER L. C. BIDDLEs ADDRESS. 127 Narrative of Colonel Alexander Biddle. The I2ist Regiment was raised in the summer of 1862 by ColonelChapman Biddle, and completed by union with a fin«3 body of menbrought from Venango County by Colonel Elisha W. Davis, onceSpeaker of the Legislature, who became its lieutenant-colonel. It first joined the army near Sharpsburg, after the battle ofAntietam, marching with it to the Rappahannock. Its first generalaction was at Fredericksburg, where, in the assault of Aleades divisionupon the enemys lines, it lost one-fifth of its force and was congratu-lated for its behavior both by )\Ieade and Reynolds. With this considerable diminution of its strength, details forartillery, ambulance and commissariat service, and a full company atcorps headquarters, it was reduced on the night of June 30, 1863, to256 muskets and six line officers present for duty. It was the leading regiment of the First Brigade, Third Division(Doubledays), First Corps (Reynolds), and

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