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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), Who first Answered the President's call? (search)
Who first Answered the President's call? camp Griffin, Va., January 4, 1862. In your issue of the thirty-first of December, under the head of Record of the Rebellion, etc., you assert that the Ringgold Artillery, of Reading, Pa., was the first company of volunteers that responded to the call of the President. In a subsequent issue, a letter from a former member of the Ringgold Artillery, goes to prove that the artillery was not the first company, but that it arrived at Washington together with four other companies--one from Allentown, two from Pottsville, and one from Lewistown. The latter company, the Logan Guards, commanded by Capt. John B. Selheimer, if any, were the first to answer the President's call, and it is about time they receive the credit for so doing. On the morning of the sixteenth of April, at nine o'clock, the Logan Guards received orders from Gov. Curtin to proceed immediately to Harrisburgh, and by nine o'clock that night they were ready to leave for t