A Shower of Stars: The Medal of Honor and the 27th MaineG.K. Hall, 1999 - 381 pages |
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Page 110
... volunteers had in- creased to somewhere in the neighborhood of 300. And in the meantime , as recorded by Cap- tain Bryant in his journal , Colonel Wentworth had made a trip into Washington , where he had visited the War Department and ...
... volunteers had in- creased to somewhere in the neighborhood of 300. And in the meantime , as recorded by Cap- tain Bryant in his journal , Colonel Wentworth had made a trip into Washington , where he had visited the War Department and ...
Page 174
... volunteers in Wash- ington , its finding there by anyone else was and will be unlikely . If the list had been sent to the War Department back in 1865 — as Calvin Hayes later indicated it had it must have been hope- lessly buried in the ...
... volunteers in Wash- ington , its finding there by anyone else was and will be unlikely . If the list had been sent to the War Department back in 1865 — as Calvin Hayes later indicated it had it must have been hope- lessly buried in the ...
Page 248
... volunteers , or those whom the board had judged to be volunteers , only by numbers , someone might conceivably have been chaffered out of his rightful place by this laxity . But in the end it was all an exercise — a dry run as the Army ...
... volunteers , or those whom the board had judged to be volunteers , only by numbers , someone might conceivably have been chaffered out of his rightful place by this laxity . But in the end it was all an exercise — a dry run as the Army ...
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