HISTORY OF THE TENTH REGIMENT, VERMONT VOLUNTEERS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE OFFICERS WHO FELL IN BATTLE. AND A COMPLETE ROSTER OF ALL THE OFFICERS AND MEN CONNECTED WITH IT-SHOWING ALL Bancroft 973.744 In la 188840 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the 188840 2-3-49 A1 TO THE READER. THIS work, such as it is, now committed to the citizens of Vermont, and, so far as it may concern them, to the general public, and especially to the friends and surviving members of the Tenth Regiment, was authoritatively assigned to the hands that have performed it. It was the great good fortune of Vermont to have such Executives as Governor FAIRBANKS to put the State into line, Governor HOLBROOK to bear up the standard during his terms of official service, and Governor SMITH to close up the struggle and bridge the chasm to returning peace; and that during all of this trying period, her exchequer was under the experienced care of Hon. JOHN B. PAGE, as State Treasurer, since an honored Governor of the State. These men performed distinguished service for the State and the Nation, in the faithful discharge of their civil offices, and to their acknowledged ability and patriotic endeavors, with the universal sympathy and coöperation of all loyal citizens, those in the field were vastly indebted. We trust that we may ever hold them in grateful remembrance for their valuable services. The author has apprehended the difficulties to be encountered in undertaking to present the history of a single Regiment, where all of its military operations, its victories and defeats, have been shared by similar and larger organizations, but they have not been mastered. No attempt has been made to give undue prominence to this organization to the disparagement of others from the same or other States; still the TENTH REGIMENT and its operations have been the particular subjects of the following pages. Hence the descriptions of battles, 41.710 |