Dauphin County PA Archives News.....Pennsylvania and the War November 2, 1861
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Presbyterian Banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1860-1898 November 2, 1861
The Harrisburg Telegraph publishes from the official documents, that Pennsylvania
has now, in the field, 82,817 soldiers, and that as soon as the seventeen regiments
and six companies now forming are completed, which will be in the course of six
weeks, the old Keystone State will have 101, 070 men in actual service. The
Telegraph says: The quota of men called for from Pennsylvania, by the last
proclamation of the President, was 75,000, and thus it is shown by the above, that
the authorities have succeeded in exceeding this amount by twenty-six thousand men.
Taken all together, we submit this statement with pride, because it places
Pennsylvania in the position justly her due, of having, first given birth to the
Declaration of Independence; second, that the Convention to form the Constitution
was held within her limits, and now she sends forth, from her midst, and from among
her bravest and most hardy sons, a larger force to sustain the Declaration of
Independence, and vindicate the Constitution and laws, than has been contributed by
any other Commonwealth in the Union.

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