. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . Railroad Battery built for the P. W. & B. R. R. Company by Baldwin & Co. THE THREE YEARS REGIMENTS. I N the course of an address delivered at OrchardKnob, Tennessee, upon November 13th, 1897,Comrade John Tweedale, late of the FifteenthCavalry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, said: Itdoes not come to each generation to be privileged tooffer life that a Nation may live. In our time theopportunity came and we accepted it. In thehighest sense, the three year men of the UnionArmies accepted their duty. There were amongthem recruits lured by
. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . Railroad Battery built for the P. W. & B. R. R. Company by Baldwin & Co. THE THREE YEARS REGIMENTS. I N the course of an address delivered at OrchardKnob, Tennessee, upon November 13th, 1897,Comrade John Tweedale, late of the FifteenthCavalry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, said: Itdoes not come to each generation to be privileged tooffer life that a Nation may live. In our time theopportunity came and we accepted it. In thehighest sense, the three year men of the UnionArmies accepted their duty. There were amongthem recruits lured by large bounties, unwillingmen who had been conscripted, some who had nohigher motive than adventure, but the greater partwere actuated by the purest spirit of patriotism, forwhich they willingly gave up education, business op-portunity, trade and security, to face unknowndangers, death, disease and Southern prison men were paid, from month to month, andwhen the paymasters closed their accounts, at theend of the war, the Government owed them nothingin agreed-upon dollars and cents. What was thispay? The average monthly pay of the commis-sioned offic
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