Excerpt from History of the 101st Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865
To compile the annals of the One hundred and first Regiment. Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, has been no easy task. During the almost a half century that has elapsed since the Regiment was mustered into the service, a large majority of the principal actors in the great drama enacted from 1861 to 1865. has passed from the stage of action into the great beyond.
Few regiments that went out from the State of Pennsylvania had so many of their original members, seal their devotion to the Union by giving their all - their lives, "the last full measure of devotion" - to preserve its integrity, and to the proposition that all men arc created equal. Forty per cent of the mart and boys who accompanied the standard of the rorst Regiment to the seat of war sleep in Southern graves. Twice have the company and regimental records been entirely lost in battle, first in front of Seven Pines, early in 1862. and two years later, at Plymouth. N. C. From the capitulation of the Plymouth garrison until the war was practically ended, most of the officers of the Regiment were prisoners of war, and when they gained their freedom it was impossible for them to revive the records in complete form from memory. Neither did they realize the importance of having this well done, in order that future generations might know the part this Regiment had played in preserving this nation, "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
I would have been reluctant to have assumed the duties and responsibility of recording the activities of the Regiment had 1 not been able to avail myself of the painstaking research of Comrade L. S. Dickey, historian of the 103d Penna. Regiment. For several years Comrade Dickey has been devoting his spare time in searching the libraries of the principal cities of the country for all matter bearing on the events of the war in which his regiment and the rorst participated. He has carefully gone through the official records of the War Department and noted every reference to the action of the troops comprising the brigade in which the rorst was an integral part during its nearly four years of service. I have availed myself of all this research in preparing the Regimental narrative, and have amplified what i have written, from memory, from the diaries, letters and reminiscences furnished me by surviving comrades, and by giving the official reports, written immediately following the events as they occurred. These are incorporated in the narrative in proper sequence and are of themselves, a faithful general history of the events in which the Regiment participated. But beyond the Regimental narrative, three supplemental articles appear in this volume of great historical value, as appendices, prepared by Comrade Dickey, viz: "Casey"s Division at Seven Pines." "the Battle of Plymouth," and "Andersonville and Florence Military Prison Life." The compilation in each of these articles is so comprehensive as to make each authoritative and unassailable from a historical point of view, and no future historian can well afford to ignore these articles when writing on these subjects.
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