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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
the history of that regiment, was more of the average of the Union troops. Mr. Davenport, who wrote the history of the regiment, says: There were men among us who could respond to any duty; representatives from all trades with a sprinkling of the lawyers, book-keepers, sailors, and members of the volunteer fire department, many of the latter belonging to Company G. There were also veterans who had served in the British army in the Crimea and elsewhere; Italians who had fought under Garibaldi; Frenchmen who had served in the armies of la belle France; Teutons from the Prussian army, and some of the fighting sons of Ireland, ever ready for the fray; others who had fought in the Mexican war, and exregulars of the United States. After the first warlike impulse of the North was exhausted, the Federal armies were recruited from abroad, when not by draft at home. England, Ireland and Germany were drummed to swell the ranks of the Union army. Recruits thus enlisted generally mad