. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . rdentseekers for military glory, witnessing the march of New York troopsthrough the city, hastened to offer their services where there seemeda better prospect of getting to the front. Officers of local companies,tired of delay in the process of acceptance and muster here, took theirmen where they were eagerly accepted. Philadelphia was already afertile ground for recruiting agents from adjoining States and continuedto be so until it finally became unlawful for outside agents to pick uprecruits in this *The Mississippi Marine Brigade, aft
. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 . rdentseekers for military glory, witnessing the march of New York troopsthrough the city, hastened to offer their services where there seemeda better prospect of getting to the front. Officers of local companies,tired of delay in the process of acceptance and muster here, took theirmen where they were eagerly accepted. Philadelphia was already afertile ground for recruiting agents from adjoining States and continuedto be so until it finally became unlawful for outside agents to pick uprecruits in this *The Mississippi Marine Brigade, afterward organized to patrol the westernrivers, was a separate force of 2,000 men manning a fleet of eight vessels commandedby Gen. Alfred M. Ellet. (History of the Nat. Asso. of Naval Veterans, Simmons.) tBy an ordinance of Councils dated July 14th, 1864. the Mayor was authorizedto enforce in the city an Act of the Assembly to punish agents recruiting men formilitary organizations of other States. EASTERN TROOPS TO THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. Wi ITH the opening of the third year of thewar, upon January 2d, 1863, came news of thebattle of Murfreesboro (or Stones River),an obscure railroad point in Tennesseeabout fifty miles northwest from Chattanooga, wherethe Confederate Gen. Bragg had his chief base ofsupplies. This battle attracted but little attentionin the East, where the public were absorbed in watch-ing the course of events in Virginia and upon the At-lantic coast. The only Pennsylvania regiments en-gaged at Stones River with the large Federal forceassembled there under Major-Gen. W. S. Rosecranswere the 77th, 78th, 79th and 80th Infantry, and the7th and part of the 15th Cavalry. Eastern troopswere few in the western armies, while, upon the con-trary, western commands were numerous in the Armyof the Potomac. At the battle of Fredericksburg,twenty-one western regiments participated, and atGettysburg the western States (not including WestVirginia) were represented by twent3-
Size: 947px × 2640px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthortaylorfr, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1913
