(April 15, 1861) I have actually joined the army and am going to the war as a high private in Company C of the Seventy-first New York Regiment, commanded by Captain Coles. The regiment has been accepted for three months’ service by the general government, and is to start for the front on Sunday next, [...]
“…rejoiced to find myself a real soldier..,”—Josiah Marshall Favill
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