. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. rs, and EzraWright, the former ofCompany K, and the lat-ter of Company H. Agood many men hadbeen transferred to otherbranches of the service,at different times. OnFebruary 17, 1862,therehad been a call for volun-teers for the WesternGunboat Flotilla; andall these men were lostsight of at the final mus-ter out, in Albany. But we must not betoo fast. We are not offfor home yet. About the first of June there was some kind of a move-ment perceptible among the enemy over on the heights. And still t
. To sacrifice, to suffer, and if need be, to die : a history of the thirty-fourth New York Regiment. rs, and EzraWright, the former ofCompany K, and the lat-ter of Company H. Agood many men hadbeen transferred to otherbranches of the service,at different times. OnFebruary 17, 1862,therehad been a call for volun-teers for the WesternGunboat Flotilla; andall these men were lostsight of at the final mus-ter out, in Albany. But we must not betoo fast. We are not offfor home yet. About the first of June there was some kind of a move-ment perceptible among the enemy over on the heights. And still thegrand reviews keep up. May 23 there was a brigade review; May 27 abattalion drill; May 28 another brigade review; May 29, though hot anddusty, a division review, by Major-General Hancock. June 5, ColonelWard, commanding the Fifteenth Massachusetts lying next to theThirty-fourth, wrote in his diary: This morning we discovered therebel camps to be evacuated, and everything seemed to indicate thatthey were off. This afternoon our troops commenced corps began crossing about ADJUTANT JOHN KIRK 1863 Going Home 95 Finally, June 9, this same officer wrote in his diary: This morn-ing the New York Thirty-fourth left for home, their term of servicehaving expired. It seemed like losing a friend, for they had been withus over twenty months. And it was even so. The Thirty-fourth wasoff for home. And even as we started, began that northward move-ment of the northern and southern armies, which was to terminate soeventfully at Gettysburg, a month later. But we must not drop the war part of this brief narrative withoutat least one little glance at the future. The Herkimer County Regi-ment has struck its tents for the last march, and that march is towardhome. Now its arms arestacked ; its flag is furled ; itsfighting days are over. Butit is suggestive to take a verybrief glance ahead. Withinthree weeks from the time weleft our last camp occurred—?Gettysburg. What wou
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