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Fourth of July 63: Life in Camp and Battle Sket ches
Col Charles E Sprague recalls life in the Forty fourth New York in Virginia and Maryland during the Civil War. He details a soldier’s view of camp housing a shanty style home built of tents and mud, march routines, equipment, and the Gettysburg fight with personal injuries and hospital ordeals.
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Charles E. Sprague
Union Dime Savings Institution
New York
Gettysburg
Forty-fourth New York Regiment
Eugene
Virginia
Stafford
Stahl’d
Falmouth
Fredericksburg
Mpoint
Wil
Furene
Qhimney
Jack
Burnside
Joe Hooker
Chancellorsville
Stafford County
Tod
Army
McClellan
Tom
Harry
Lee
Aldie
Potomac
Edwards’ Ferry
Lake George
Frederick
Hooker
Meade
Charley Griffin
Dan
Butterfield
Maryland
Antietam
Mason and Dixon's
Pennsylvania
Mike
Reveille
Col. Vincent
Marcel
Sixteenth Michigan
Prairie States
Vermont