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MILITARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CIVIL WAR

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  by Charles Dornbusch

  Four volumes, divided by region, with volume 3 and 4 being general updates. This complete reference work is renowned within military circles for its completeness, and Charles Dornbusch is revered for this life work. If you've ever seen a Civil War book referred to as Dorn Number such-and-such you have seen Mr. Dornbusch's hand in categorizing this genre. 3 vol set $90 (Vol IV is out-of-print). This set or see other Civil War titles.

The 120th New York State Volunteers

by C. Van Santvoord

• The 120th Regiment, also known as the Washington Guards, was among the 300 "fighting regiments" of the war. It participated in nearly every major battle after Fredericksburg in December 1862, and was on duty at Appomatox when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865. Late in the campaign of 1864 just before its final engagements in March 1865, the regiment received a new flag inscribed with the names of the 16 battles in which it had fought.

  Returning to Rondout in early June, the regiment faced a "glorious" reception. "We were crowned with flowers, every soldier had a bouquet in the muzzle of his gun," wrote the regiment's chaplain, the Rev. Henry Hopkins.

  Company records from the 120th, which list a total enrollment of 1,562, show 128 men were killed or had died from wounds and 151 died of disease or imprisonment, according to a regimental history written by Cornelius Van Santvoord. A later account put the total death toll at 333, including 151 killed or fatally wounded. About onethird of that combat toll was at Gettysburg, where a monument to the regiment was dedicated in 1889.

  'The eye could not be turned in any direction along our line without seeing men fall at every moment," the regiment's original commander, Gen. George H. Sharpe of Kingston, related at the dedication. "All the details to these colors that we bring with us today were successively shot down, yet none shrank from the honor of carrying them." H $25.00

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