. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. , were there. Up by the Lacy House, overlook-ing the city of Fredericksburg, is a great plateau; and here the reviewwas held ; or rather, we should sav, the series of reviews. One day it Winter in Camp 89 was all the cav-alry, under GeneralStoneman, and an-other day, perhapsthe artillery; buton the 8th it wasthe infantry, ourcorps, the grandold Second, andthe Thirty-fourthwas just in it. April 5, aseries of resolu-tions was adoptedon the occasion departure ofour much-lovedsurgeon, Dr. S
. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. , were there. Up by the Lacy House, overlook-ing the city of Fredericksburg, is a great plateau; and here the reviewwas held ; or rather, we should sav, the series of reviews. One day it Winter in Camp 89 was all the cav-alry, under GeneralStoneman, and an-other day, perhapsthe artillery; buton the 8th it wasthe infantry, ourcorps, the grandold Second, andthe Thirty-fourthwas just in it. April 5, aseries of resolu-tions was adoptedon the occasion departure ofour much-lovedsurgeon, Dr. S. , who hadalso been called tocome up higher. Hehad been ap-pointed MedicalDirector at Nor-folk, and his newduties took him tothe new field. , who hadjoined the regi-ment as assistantsurgeon the pre-vious August, now became the surgeon, and we find his commission dated a month Edward S. Walker, who had been the first assistant surgeon, hadresigned November 3, preceding, and gone home. He was succeededJ. Hervy Miller. Manly and Miller thus remained our surgeon. THE COLORS 1S62 by Dr. J. Hervy Miller. Manlyand assistant till the muster out. Along about April 20 came the ever-welcome Paymaster King,this time doubly welcome, for he was to bring us four months matter of importance claims attention just here. All throughthe winter certain companies had been nursing the hope the authoritieswould consider that their term of service expired on May 1. No doubtthe great severity of the winter, and the arduous duties and sufferingsof the men, gave emphasis to this hope. It is no wonder, therefore, thatwhen the first of May came round, there should have been a littletrouble. Many of the men who were in the regiment at the first,unlisted in April, 1861, to serve two years. So read all their enlistment 90 History of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment papers. The official record clearly reads that they were musteredinto the state service May i, 1861, t
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