Save the Regiment or the Colors The Second Bucktails at Gettysburg
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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The after-action report of Lt. Col. Walton Dwight of the 149th Pennsylvania Infantry, popularly known as the Second Bucktail Regiment, tells the tale of a tough choice no senior officer would wish to make—to save your regiment or abandon your colors. Here's the story.
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