Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the 103d Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Vol. 1: 1861-1865
The aspersion cast on Casey's division, in the first dispatch from the com manding general to the Secretary of War, announcing the battle of Fair Oaks was finally shifted in his official report to two. Brigades of the division, especially robbing the Regiment's brigade of its heroic defense of the intrenchments, and giving the credit to a brigade commanded by a favorite of the commanding gen eral. It is especially fitting that Casey's division be vindicated in the history of the One Hundred and Third Regiment, as this Regiment was an integral part of his division until it was separated into other commands. One of the principal re?ections upon this division in the histories of the battle of Fair Oaks is that it was taken by surprise. This reflects especially upon its pickets and their supports. As it was the commanding officer of the pickets from the Regiment who apprised Gen. Casey of the presence of a large body of the enemy in front of the division, and as it was the Regiment that opened the battle, and was the first regiment. Of the division to be routed, it is especially appropriate and essential that the truth as to the whole matter should appear with a history of the Regiment. The dead and maimed of the Regiment who fell in the battle of Fair Oaks and also all those who did their full duty must be vindicated.
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