R. F. Taylor

Col. 33d N.Y.S. Vols

THE TWO YEARS CAMPAIGN OF THE 33d. N.Y. Vols.

Col. R. F. Taylor.

THE UNION NOW AND FOREVER.

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THE STORY OF THE
THIRTY-THIRD N. Y. S. VOLS:
OR
TWO YEARS CAMPAIGNING
IN
VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND.

BY DAVID W. JUDD,
(Correspondent of the New York Times.)

Illustrations from Drawings by Lieut. L. C. Mix.

ROCHESTER:
BENTON & ANDREWS, 29 BUFFALO STREET.
1864.

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This volume does not propose to review the causes,rise and progress of the unhappy civil strife, which formore than two years has rent our land; neither is itdesigned to describe all the operations which have markedthe war in the single department of Virginia and Maryland.

It aims merely, as the title page indicates, at giving anarrative of one of the many Regiments which the EmpireState has sent into the field, together with a descriptionof the various campaigns in which it participated.

Nor should it be inferred, from the embodying of theirexperience in book form, that the soldiers of the 33desteem their services more worthy of notice than thoseof numerous other Regiments. The work has its originin the general desire expressed on the part of the membersand friends of the command to have the scenes andincidents connected with its two years’ history collectedand preserved in readable shape—valuable for futurereference—interesting as a souvenir of the times.

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The plan, as will readily be seen, comprises separatesketches of each company until merged into the Regiment;the regimental history from the period of itsorganization at Elmira, in May, 1861, until its returnfrom the war, May, 1863; brief biographies of thevarious officers, and muster rolls of the men.

Such facts as did not come under the personal observationof the writer, have been derived from the statementsand reports of Division and Brigade Generals, andother sources. Owing to the confusion consequent uponthe death, disease and desertion attending a two years’campaign of nearly one thousand men, some of the membersmay find themselves incorrectly “accounted for.”

A double interest attaches to the numerous engravingswhich embellish the volume, from the fact that instead ofbeing gotten up to order, they were “drawn on the spot”by a skilful artist—an officer of the Regiment—whoparticipated in all the scenes through which it passed.They constitute in themselves a pictorial history of thefirst two years of the Eastern campaigns.