| Author | Thompson, Heber Samuel, 1840-
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| Title | The first defenders; by Heber S. Thompson, president of the First Defenders' Association.
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| Published | [n.p., 1910]
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| Description | 1 p. ℓ., vii-xiii p., 1 ℓ., 179 p. pl., ports., facsims. 24 cm.
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| General Note | A history of the first bodies of troops to reach Washington after the President's call of April 15, 1861: the National Light Infantry of Pottsville, Pa., the Washington Artillerists of Pottsville, Pa., the Ringgold Light Artillery of Reading, Pa., the Logan Guards of Lewistown, Pa., and the Allen Infantry of Allentown, Pa. These organizations formed the nucleus of the 25th Pennsylvania Infantry, organized June 3, 1861.
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| Subjects | Pennsylvania Infantry. 25th Regiment, 1861
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Pennsylvania Infantry -- 135th.
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| Organizations | First Defenders' Association
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| LC Card Number | 11-2914 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 527.5 25th
mq162434: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 99220] |
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