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(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) Spinola, Francis B. Farewell order issued from "Head Quarters, Keystone Brigade." Printed circular letter, 10 x 7 3/4 inches, apparently field-printed on lined paper, and signed in type by Spinola as Brigadier General; minor foxing and wear. Washington, NC, 28 May 1863
Francis B. Spinola (1821-1891), a native of Stony Brook, Long Island, was an Italian-American general in the United States Army. He wrote this farewell letter to the troops in the Keystone Brigade of Pennsylvania troops (158th, 168th, 171st and 175th regiments) upon his transfer to the command of the Excelsior Brigade, after they had successfully defeated the Confederate siege of Washington, North Carolina. He recalls that "you were put under my command at a time when you were fresh from your native state and . . . entirely unacquainted with the toils and dangers of war. . . . Your march from Suffolk, Va to Newbern, N.C. has no equal since the war began." He implores these short-term troops to re-enlist "until this diabolical attempt to destroy the government . . . has been ploughed out by the roots." No other copies traced at auction or in OCLC, though the text of the address was published in some contemporary newspapers.
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