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Keystone Confederates?

Talk about diversity in the CS service! I knew about the Illinois company of Rebels, but I didn't know about these guys. Anybody else every heard of them? (I'm also posting this on the PA board.)

"Mobile Register and Advertiser, September 23, 1862.
PENNSYLVANIANS JOIN THE CONFEDERATE FORCES.--The Richmond Dispatch is assured, upon the statement of an officer of the Confederate army who arrived in that city on Monday and who left Frederick a few days ago, that a company of Pennsylvanians from Adams County, numbering 115, arrived at Frederick last week and tendered their services to the Confederate government. This company was regulary organized with its own officers before they left their own State, and declared that they were unwilling to stay at home and be drafted into the Abolition service." -- Jim Huffman, Gainesville Vols

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