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Subject:	Service in the Civil War
From:	Randy Cabell <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jul 2003 13:44:20 -0400
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We have just returned from a short vacation in upstate NY, and read an article about some NY regiment whose enlistments ran out so the whole regiment returned and never went back to fight again.

Did anything like this total unit muster-out happen in the South, particularly Virginia?  I have seen at least one instance of somebody being 'honorably discharged' after the battle of Fredericksburg, but no reason was given.  My impression has been that whatever term one signed up for in the Confederacy, the term ended up being the entire war.

Randy Cabell

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