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 VERMONT RIFLEMEN
 IN THE
 WAR FOR THE UNION,
 1861 TO 1865.



 A HISTORY OF COMPANY F,
 FIRST UNITED STATES SHARP SHOOTERS,




 BY
 WM. Y. W. RIPLEY, Lt. Col.




 Rutland:
Tuttle & Co., Printers.
 1883.




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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I.Organization.3
II.The Peninsular Campaign.17
III.Second Bull Run. Antietam. Fredericksburgh.60
IV.Chancellorsville.84
V.Gettysburgh to the Wilderness.107
VI.The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor.142
VII.Siege of Petersburgh. Muster Out.182
 Conclusion.203



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CHAPTER I.
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord.
That would reduce these bloody days again,
And make poor England weep in streams of blood!
Let them not live to taste this land's increase,
That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!
Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again;
That she may long live here, God say—Amen!
—King Richard III.

ORGANIZATION.

Very soon after the outbreak of the war for the Union, immediately, infact, upon the commencement of actual operations in the field, it becamepainfully apparent that, however inferior the rank and file of theConfederate armies were in point of education and general intelligenceto the men who composed the armies of the Union, however imperfect andrude their equipment and material, man for man they were the superiorsof their northern antagonists in the use of arms. Recruited mainly fromthe rural districts (for the South had but few large cities from whichto draw its fighting strength), their armies were composed mainly of menwho                         
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