. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861 1865 . d regiments to Through at least a portion of the war period the official envelopesof the Pennsylvania Railroad bore the then popular device of cannonand flags. The subscriptions made at various times by the Pennsylvaniafor the help of the Sanitary Fair and the military hospitals amountedto $220,000, and for homes for orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors,$50,000. *In later years a large proportion of the men who occupied important andresponsible positions with the railroad companies centering at Philadelphia werereturned veterans of th
. Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861 1865 . d regiments to Through at least a portion of the war period the official envelopesof the Pennsylvania Railroad bore the then popular device of cannonand flags. The subscriptions made at various times by the Pennsylvaniafor the help of the Sanitary Fair and the military hospitals amountedto $220,000, and for homes for orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors,$50,000. *In later years a large proportion of the men who occupied important andresponsible positions with the railroad companies centering at Philadelphia werereturned veterans of the armies of the Union cause. fin the summer of 1864 the wide-spread spirit of disloyalty, existing in thePennsylvania coal regions, manifested by strikes and riots, induced the Govern-ment to take military control of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in orderto secure the necessary supply of coal for naval purposes. In September, 1863, troops stationed at Pottsville were the loth N. Y. Infantry,ist N. Y. Artillery and the Invalid Railroad Battery built for the P. W. & B. R. R. Company by Baldwin & Co. THE THREE YEARS REGIMENTS
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