Pittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment: A History of the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry & the Men who Served with Distinction (Ernest D. Spisak - UA) museum including contact and website information

including contact and website information

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The national parks spring from an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most precious portions of the land should be preserved

This finger-pointing by both sides would go on for over a century

Pittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment: A History of the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry & the Men who Served with Distinction (Ernest D. Spisak - UA) museum including contact and website informationPittsburgh's Forgotten Civil War Regiment by Ernest D Spisak "Treason!" Sam Black, the Mexican War veteran they called the Bengal Tiger, fired up the crowd in Pittsburghs city hall that spring day in 1861 following the rebel attack on Fort Sumter. Black would be killed, leading his men in battle early in the war. But the regiment he recruited, the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, would fight on through many of the major battles of the Civil War,