Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Onondaga's Part in the Civil War
The train had come in from the west, and its engine stood snorting just beyond the eastern opening. Good byes had been said - the soldiers of the company were seated in the train - but on the rear platform were Captain Butler and other officers. I stood on the northwest corner of Salina street when the train began to pull out and the picture is still 'vivid to me, as that group of brave men were for a moment framed in the arch of the old station house.
Captain Butler, in the strength of his young manhood, stood with bared head. His clear-cut features and yellow, curling hair shone with distinctness against the background of the car, while he held in his hand the staff of a large ?ag which had just been presented to him. The train started, the wind caught the folds of the ?ag, which ?uttered above him and the other brave boys standing with him, and they were gone. It is only like a ?ash light picture in my memory, but as such is distinct and speaks for what it meant, for them and our country.
The Syracuse Zouaves were incorporated in the Third Regiment, New York Volunteers, as Company D of that organization.
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