149th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
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title:
149th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
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The 149th Pennsylvania Infantry, also known as the 2nd Bucktail Regiment, volunteered during the American Civil War and served a 3-year term from August 1862 to June 1865. Like their forerunners in the 1st Bucktail Regiment, each soldier wore a bucktail on his headwear as a trophy of marksmanship.
During the first year of the Civil War, the 1st Bucktails distinguished themselves as skirmishers and sharpshooters, and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton desired to raise an entire brigade of similar
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Union Army infantry regiment
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/149th_Pennsylvania_Infantry_Regiment
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2024-04-20T12:15:27Z
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