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=== Brief History === | === Brief History === | ||
the 2nd Regiment, Vermont Infantry was organized at Burlington and mustered in June 20, 1861. | the 2nd Regiment, Vermont Infantry was organized at Burlington and mustered in June 20, 1861. Non-veterans in the regiment mustered out June 29, 1864. The rest of the regiment mustered out July 15, 1865<ref>National Park Service, [https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System] (accessed 11 January 2011).</ref>.<br> | ||
For more history of this regiment, see [http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/units/2/index.php 2nd Vermont Infantry, Introduction] and [http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/units/2/history.php 2nd Vermont Infantry, Regimental History]. <br> | For more history of this regiment, see [http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/units/2/index.php 2nd Vermont Infantry, Introduction] and [http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/units/2/history.php 2nd Vermont Infantry, Regimental History]. <br> | ||
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"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> | "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... was disbanded... and the Vergennes company took its place."<ref name="Benedict" /> | "A company of Irish Americans, recruited in Burlington and Colchester, was among those originally accepted; but... was disbanded... and the Vergennes company took its place."<ref name="Benedict" /> | ||
=== Regimental History and Roster === | |||
*''Hard marching every day : the Civil War letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865.'' By Wilbur Fisk. Kan Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. '''''Online at:''''' [https://archive.org/details/hardmarchingever0000fisk/page/n5/mode/2up Internet Archive] | |||
=== Other Sources === | === Other Sources === | ||
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=== Internet<br> === | === Internet<br> === | ||
*Breakthrough Battle at Petersburg, [ | *Breakthrough Battle at Petersburg, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190624155632/http://www.petersburgbreakthrough.org/2ndVT.htm 2nd Regiment Vermont Infantry], (accessed 1 April 2013).<br> | ||
*Civil War in the East, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190624155632/http://www.petersburgbreakthrough.org/2ndVT.htm Second Vermont Infantry Regiment], (accessed 1 April 2013). | |||
=== References === | === References === | ||