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[http://vermontcivilwar.org/units/2/rosters.php Rosters by company]<br> | [http://vermontcivilwar.org/units/2/rosters.php Rosters by company]<br> | ||
"The ten companies... were recruited in the towns of Bennington, Brattleboro, Burlington, Castleton, Fletcher, Ludlow, Montpelier, Tunbridge, Vergennes, and Waterbury, in the nine counties of Addison, Bennington, Chittenden, Franklin, Orange, Rutland, Washington, Windham and Windsor, thus representing the State at large as fully as any regiment recruited during the war."<ref name="Benedict">Benedict, George Grenville. [http://vermontcivilwar.org/bene/05.pdf Vermont in the Civil War]. (Burlington VT: Free Press Association, 1888), p. 63.</ref> | |||
"A company of Irish Americans, recruited in Burlington and Colchester, was among those originally accepted; but being found deficient in number and discipline was disbanded by order of the Governor and the Vergennes company took its place."<ref name="Benedict" /> | |||
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