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(GETTYSBURG MUSTER ROLL)

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(GETTYSBURG MUSTER ROLL)
An outstanding partially-printed 2pp. folio, a muster roll for Company I, 82nd Ohio Volunteers, signed by Colonel JAMES S. ROBINSON (1827 - 1892), who was severely wounded on the first day at Gettysburg, and dated June 30, 1863, Emmittsburg, Maryland, just one day prior to the battle of Gettysburg, covering a two month period from April 30, 1863 to June 30, 1863, in part: "...Since last muster the company has been engaged in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Va. in which the company had one capt. killed and five privates wounded. After the battle recrossed the Rappahannock…afternoon on the 12th of June, broke camp…marched for Maryland…reviewed at Emmittsburg, Md., June 26th at which place the company was mustered…". The document is a highly detailed accounting of all the members of the company and gives a descriptive detail of the whereabouts of each soldier, if not present for duty. As part of the 11th Corps, the 82nd Ohio, bore the brunt of Jackson's flank attack at Chancellorsville and were again in the heat of battle at Gettysburg, where they lose seven of the thirty seven men listed just the day before on the muster roll. During the first days battle at Gettysburg they held their position against overwhelming odds thus providing the time needed for the Army of the Potomac to form an impenetrable line on Cemetery Ridge. A great document that shows the loss of the company at the battle of Chancellorsville with 30 of the men listed becoming casualties by the end of the war. Weak at folds with one professional tape repair affecting the folds and margins, else very good.