History of the One hundred and twenty-fifth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, 1862-1863

Preface

To THE Survivors of the 125TH Regiment^ Pennsyl\'ania Volunteers, and Friends.

At the reunion of our Regimental Association, in the year 1893, we were appointed a Committee to prepare a Memorial Volume hy which to transmit to coming generations a faithful record of the services rendered to the nation by the 125th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, when rebellion threatened its life.

To preserve tlie Union and maintain the supremacy of the government and law, many regiments of loyal and heroic citizens promptly responded to the appeal of President Lincoln, and were mustered into the service of the United States, and performed their part well. Some of them had longer terms of service, but probably none rendered more effective service, at a more critical period of the war, than did the officers and privates of the 125th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, who left peaceful homes and avocations in civil life, and attested their loyalty and patient endurance in weary marches, through summer's heat and winter's storms, and their bravery and devotion to their country's cause as shown by the heavy losses sustained by the regiment on bloody battlefields.

The lamented death of one of the Committee (Comrade J. Fletcher Conrad) while actively at work in collecting materials for the history, and other unexpected contingencies, delayed the work ; but now, after much time and patient eft'ort gratuitously given, your Committee has finished its labors, and the result is before you. The volume is not all that the Committee could wish it to be ; many things are omitted that you perhaps would have had recorded; some things perhaps inserted which you would have excluded, but nevertheless the book is now submitted with the hope that you will generously overlook its faults and indulgently accept it as the best that we could produce from the material at hand.

Yours in fraternal regard,

Wm. W. Wallace, (Chairman) Thomas McCamant, JosL\H D. Hicks, J. Randolph Simpson,

Committee.

Members deceased:

J. Fletcher Conrad, Robert Cozzens.

Co tl)e -(Hemory of tlie IBt-

(WHO LEFT THEIR HOMES FOR THE TENTED FIELD, AND HEROICALLY ENCOUNTERED HARDSHIPS, PERILS, AND DEATH IN PATRIOTIC RESPONSE

TO THE APPEAL OF ABRAHAM

LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE AID OF LOYAL CITIZENS, IN THE SUPPRESSION OF REBELLION.)