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If you want a good short read try "Nine Months to Gettysburg; Stannard's Vermonters" by Howard Coffin. You'll understand drill, drill, and more drill. And the life in camp and the way new troops were moved about in anticipation of a fight but never finding it. My wife's orthopedic surgeon gave me this book when he saw me reading Scott Bowden's and Bill Ward's "Last Chance For Victory; Robert E Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign" (In my opinion, the best book ever written on the subject.) I think I read it from start to finish while she was having L5-S1 back surgery. A great account of some nine month volunteers that never fired their weapons until they were force marched to Pennsylvania from their camp on Aquia Creek in Northern Virginia and put on the field "willy-nilly" by Hancock. Only to be right in the middle of the fray when Armistead and Jimmy Kemper came marching by on 3 July 1863. As I remember it was 3 or 4 regiments of Vermont volunteers. After their term of service, which was actually over on or about the same day that fighting started at Gettysburg, they returned home "victorious" but Vermont was unable to muster another regiment from this area throughout the war. "Once bitten, twice shy."

Keith

Pray for our country. It's a sad day to be a Virginian.

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