Boy Scout 19th Anniversary Rendezvous
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Fort Gibson, Ok. - Spring Encampment - Firing Contest
Everyone,
Below is a you tube of the final two men of the 77th who participated in the firing contest at Fort Gibson a few weeks ago.
After watching the film Lucas, I think you would have taken Gary if your eyes had not strayed being distracted for just a few moments.
Great job of firing under pressure.
Below is a you tube of the final two men of the 77th who participated in the firing contest at Fort Gibson a few weeks ago.
After watching the film Lucas, I think you would have taken Gary if your eyes had not strayed being distracted for just a few moments.
Great job of firing under pressure.
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O, did you see him in the street dressed up in army blue,
When the drums and trumpets into town their storm of music threw-
A louder tune than all the winds could muster in the air,
The Rebel winds that tried so hard our flag in strips to tear?
Lucy Larcom
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To Arms! To Arms!
Persevere Until Victory!
Enlist in the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Inc..
Persevere Until Victory!
Enlist in the 77th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Inc..
The methods by which these regiments were raised were various. In 1861 a common way was for someone who had been in the regular army, or perhaps who had been prominent in the militia, to take the initiative and circulate an enlistment paper for signatures. His chances were pretty good for obtaining a commission as its captain for his active interest, and men who had been prominent in assisting him, if they were popular, would secure the lieutenancies.
On the return of the "three months" troops many of the companies immediately re-enlisted in a body for three years, sometimes under their old officers. A large number of veterans, through influence at the various State capitals, secured commissions in new regiments that were organizing. In country towns too small to furnish a company, the men would post off to a neighboring town or city, and there enlist. The securing of troops soon resolved itself into individual enlistments or this programme;-twenty, thirty, or fifty more men would go in a body to some recruiting station, and signify their readiness to enlist in a certain regiment provided a certain specified member of their number should be commissioned captain.
In 1862 the War Department was working on a more systematic basis, and when a call was made for additional troops each State was immediately assigned its quota, and with marked promptness each city and town was informed by the State authorities how many men it was to furnish. There were two kinds of recruiting stations (offices). those which were opened to secure recruits for regiments and batteries already in the field, and those which solicited enlistments in new organizations. Unquestionably, at this time the latter were more popular.
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee
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