The High Private, Vol. 1 of 3: With a Full and Exciting History of the New York Volunteers (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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But now the hand of fate is on the curtain, And gives the scene to light.

The drumming up of recruits was commenced, and by the middle of December about eight hundred men enlisted for better or for worse, as they say in the marriage ceremony, and were sent down to Fort Hamilton to fat on bread and pork - with soft planks for a bed and icy ground to drill on.

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