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Box 1

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Ralph G. Poriss transcribed the letters prior to 1997. According to the processor of the collection, there are small errors in the transcriptions and users should verify items of crucial evidence against the original letters.

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"Battles of South Mountain September 14 and Antietam September 16-17. March up the Potomac to Leesburg, then to Falmouth October 11-November 18. Battle of Fredericksburg December 12-15. Burnside's 2nd Campaign, "Mud March", January 20-24, 1863. Moved to Newport News, Va., February 13, then to Covington, Ky, March 20-28. Duty in District of Kentucky. At Paris, Nicholasville, Lancaster, Stanford and Somerset till June. Movement through Kentucky to Cairo, Ill, June 4-10, then to Vicksburg, Miss., June 14-17. Siege of Vicksburg June 17-July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Duty at Milldale till August 6. Moved to Covington, Ky., thence to Crab Orchard, Ky., august 6-18. March to Knoxville, Tenn., September 10-26, and duty there till October 3. Action at Blue Springs October 10. Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Campbell Station November 16. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 4. Repulse of Longstreet's assault on Fort Saunders November 29. Pursuit of Longstreet December 5-24. At Blain's Cross Roads till January, 1864. Veterans marched over Cumberland Mountains to Nicholasville, Ky., January, and on furlough till March. Ordered to Annapolis, Md., and duty there till April. Rapidan Campaign May 4- June 12. Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spottsylvania May 8-12; Ny River May 10; Spottsylvania C.H. May 12-21. Assault on the Salient May 12. North Anna River May 12-21. Ox Ford May 24. Line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Bethesday Church June 1-3. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Bethesda Church June 1-3. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Mine Explosion, Petersburg, July 30, 1864."

"PREFACE The 100th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment Known as THE 'ROUNDHEADS' This Regiment was organized in western Pennsylvania in August of 1861. It consisted of eleven companies. The men were from six different Pennsylvaina counties, but over half the men from the eleven compaines were from Lawrence County. The regiment served for forty seven months and participated in eighteen battles and a great number of skirmishes and engagements. Their first baptisim of fire took place at the Battle of Secessionville on June 16th, 1862. From that point on they fought with The Army of the Potomac in the summer and fall of 1862, and were in Pope's Virginia Campaign as well as the Maryland campaign of that year. They then served in Kentucky, and fought with Grant in his campaign at Vicksburg. Then they fought in the East Tennessee campaign which ended with a victory at Knoxville. This locked up Tennessee for the Union. A very large percentage of the regiment reenlisted in East Tennessee during the winter of 1863-1864 even though field conditions were terrible. They joined Grant's army in April of 1864 at Anapolis, and served with the Army of the Potomac for the remainder of the war. It was during this particular period of time that they sustained terrible losses. During this twelve month campaign the Ninth Corps was in the worst of the fighting. William Taylor was a physician in private life but enlisted as a private. He was treated as an officer because of his professional station. He became a Sergeant in Company G and in May of 1864 was promoted to Second Lieutenant. He became a First Lieutenant in July of that year and Commissary Captain in October."

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