91st PA--newspaper articles

Home from the wars!

['Home from the wars!', Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 May 1865, pages 1 and 8 [91st on page 8]]

HOME FROM THE WARS!
The Grand National Pageant!
REVIEW OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
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FIFTH CORPS.
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FIFTH [sic; sc. First] DIVISION.
Division Commander, Brigadier-General J. L. Chamberlian.
Assistant Adjutant-General, Captain William Fowler.
A. D. I., Brevet Major J. M. Belcher.
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Third Brigade, First Division.
Colonel Edmonds, Thirty-second Massachusetts.

This Brigade comprises nine old regiments, embracing nearly all of the old Fifth Corps of Peninsular memory.

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Ninety-first Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel Eli G. Sellers; it has present 14 officers and 234 men: full strength 600; it is a veteran regiment and has served nearly four years; It was organized in Philadelphia in 1861; has been with the Army of the Potomac since the battle of Antietam.

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