CAMP NEAR PETERSBURG, Va.,
Nov. 8, 1864.
The vote of the Brigade [3/2/V/AotP] is as follows1:
………………………………………….Lincoln McClellan
157th [PA] Regiment 58 11
190th [PA] Regiment 150 55
191st [PA] Regiment 122 70
210th [PA] Regiment 261 186
…………………………………………..591 322
…………………………………………..322
Lincoln’s majority 269
Our [210th Pennsylvania] Regimental vote stands thus:
………………………………………….Lincoln McClellan
Company A 18 34
Company B 14 27
Company C 19 14
Company D 27 25
Company E 27 14
Company F 33 14
Company G 52 13
Company H 24 18
Company H 74 18
Company I 30 12
Company K 17 15
…………………………………………..261 186
…………………………………………..186
Lincoln’s majority 75
I saw no electioneering whatever, and but few of the men voted an open ticket or boasted on what side they intended to vote. There seemed to be no external influence used whatever. The men were quiet and orderly-no drinking, nor its consequence (fighting) nor betting being observable anywhere. In fact, people at home may copy from the soldiers’ method of conducting an election. In our Company we lost three Lincoln votes by their being on picket duty and other duty at a distance from the regiment. As there was not a solitary McClellan man thus circumstanced, it took just so many from our company’s majority.
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Source/Notes:
- SOPO Editor’s Note: Unlike many of the Pennsylvania “high number” regiments, the 210th Pennsylvania was placed in the veteran Third Brigade, second Division, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, which included the remnants of the famous Pennsylvania Reserves in the 190th and 191st Pennsylvania regiments. ↩
- Gayley, Alice J. “210th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers Company C.” 210th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company C Muster Roll, www.pa-roots.com/pacw/infantry/210th/210thcoc.html. ↩
- “Camp near Petersburg, Va.” The Bedford Inquirer (Bedford, PA), November 18, 1864, p.3, c.3. ↩