Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . eallusion to the presentation oi regimental colors, as provided forby a resolution of the Assembly. The year 1862 was a period of constant activity in militaryaffairs in Pennsylvania, and the camps at Harrisburg, Pittsburgand in the vicinity of kept alive with troopspreparing for duty at the front. In the early part of the year theregiments recruited but not sent forward in 1861 were organizedand placed at the disposal of the war department, but other thanthis there was no direct call for more m
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . eallusion to the presentation oi regimental colors, as provided forby a resolution of the Assembly. The year 1862 was a period of constant activity in militaryaffairs in Pennsylvania, and the camps at Harrisburg, Pittsburgand in the vicinity of kept alive with troopspreparing for duty at the front. In the early part of the year theregiments recruited but not sent forward in 1861 were organizedand placed at the disposal of the war department, but other thanthis there was no direct call for more men until July 7, whenforty-three regiments, aggregating 40,383 men, were organizedand put into service. The Governor himself had been informed of the necessity ofthis call for additional troops, and on the 4th of July had issued aproclamation in which, among other things, he said: Pennsyl-vania has hitherto done her duty to the country. Her freemanare again called on to volunteer in her defence that tlie blood ofher sons who have already fallen may not ha\e lieen shed in William Jackson Aide-de-camp to Washington; assistant secre-tary of war, 1782-1783; secretary of the con-vention which framed the Federal ; private secretary to Washington duringhis first administration; publisher of the dailyPolitical and Commercial Register, especially for this work from anoriginal panel by Trumbull, in the HistoricalSociety of Pennsylvania Curtiiis Ailmiiiistration and llial wc ina\ liaiul ilnwn tn mir ])ii>tcvily llu lilessings ofuiiiiiii and cud and ])iililical liliorlN. wliicli we derived tiDni our fatluTs ()nr nnJile (imiuKmwealth lias never yet faltered and innst stand Ilrni now wlieii her lumur and every lliinj; that isdear to lier is at stake. It was such sentiments as these expressed by Governor Curtinand tliousands of other patriots throughout the State tliat keptalive the ardor of the people in general and spurred them on tostill grea
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