At the outbreak of the American Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men volunteered to fight to end the rebellion in the southern states. In August and September 1861, nearly 1,000 of them stepped forward to become members of the 46th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, agreeing to give their country three years of their lives, never thinking the war would last so long. Over the course of the next two years, they would arrive on five major battlefields...
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