History of Pennsylvania volunteers, 1861-5; prepared in compliance with acts of the legislature, by Samuel P. Bates.

HISTORY
OF
PENNSYLVANIA V OLUNTEERS,
1861-5;
PREPARED
IN COMPLIANCE WITH ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE,
BY
SAMUEL P. BATES
MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Who, whenever their attempts were unsuccessful, thought it dishonor that their country should stand in need
of anything that their valor could do for it, and so made it the most glorious present. Bestowing thus their lives
on the public, they have every one received a praise that will never decay, a sepulchre that will always be most
illustrious,-not that in which their bones lie mouldering, but that in which their fame is preserved, to be on every
occasion, when honor is the employ of either word or act, eternally remembered. This whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious men; nor is it the inscription on the columns in their native soil alone that show their merit.
but the memorial of them, better than all inscriptions, in every foreign nation, reposited more durably in universal remembrance than on their own tomb. —ORATII oF PERICLES IN HONOR OF THE DEAD IN THE FIRST YEAR 05
THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
VOL. II.
HARRISB URG:
B. SINGERLY, STATE PRINTER.
1869.