Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-09-05
REVISED ROSTER OF VERMONT
TROOPS.

TROOPS.
The work of revising the roster o.
Vermont soldiers who served in the
civil war was committed by the legis-
ture of 1888 to Adjutant General Thee
dore S. Peck. General Peck has beer
busily at work on it since that time
and now, after nearly four years OF
labor, the roster itself appears. II
is probably as complete as it has been
possible to make it. Since the annual
report of Adjutant- General Washburn
| for 1886, the army lists have been cor
rected in one way or another-in the
Office of the adjutant- general of the
United States army, in the pension
office, in the official records office at
Washington, and through the re-
searches of historians. The Burling-
ton Free Pree, in recent issue, gave
long and comprehensive review of
the new roster, from which we quote
the following:
sThe Revised Roster of Vermont
Volunteers forms handsome volume
of nearly 900 imperial quarto pages.
The large page, nine inches wide
gives room for the name, residence
cat enlistment), date of enlistment
and date of muster out of each officer
soldier, in a single line, with space for
added information in regard to pro-
motion, death, wounds received in
o4n Nhn
age of the officer or man, given in the
original roster, is omitted in this.
Each company roll is single alpha
betical list, without distinction (Other
than in the date of enlistment) be-
tween original members and recruits.
This arrangement is a great improve
ment on that in Washburn's rolls.
The tabular record Of each regiment
and battery is prefaced by a short
sketch of the service of the organiza
ton, prepared by some member
thereof.
The elaborate revisions Of General
Wasburn's records nearly fill the first
700 pages Of the volume. The remain
ing 200 pages comprise much matter
compiled from original sources and
now first collected in a separate for
NAL record.
The Free Press says: "To the gener-
al accuracy, completeness and value
of this roster, we bear unqualified tes-
timony, and it's value is rounded out
by full alphabetical index, compris-
ing every name of the thirty thousand
soldiers of Vermont in the war of the
rebellion. The work does credit
to Governor Dillingham; under whose
administration it was commenced,
and to Governor Page under whom it
was completed. 1t is monument of
painstakipg, efficient and unselfish
labor on the part of Adjutant- General
Peck, and it will earn him the thanks
of all Vermonters living, and will
hand his name down to posterity with
undying credit. Without capable as
sistance, elsewhere named, he could
never have completed it, and they de-
serve a good share of the general
commentator which awaits the ap-
pearance Of the work. The typo
graphical execution was entrusted to
the Waterman Publishing Company;
the paper is fine, type clear, press
work good, and mechanical execution
highly creditable. The volumes are
now in the hands of the binder and
they will soon be ready for distribu-
ton. By the terms of the act author
izing the publication, five hundred
copies of the work will be at the dis
posal of the adjutant- general for the
use of the state; one hundred copies
to be placed in the state library, and
one copy sent to each town, to be
placed in the town clerks office, not
to be sold or disposed Of, but to be
kept for the benefit Of the town: one
copy also will be sent to each Grand
Army post in the state. In addition
the Vermont Waterman Company
have printed five hundred copies,
which they will sell at price to be
determined by the governor and ad-
jutant- general. They cannot fail to
be in in lively demand"
THE SOLDIER VOTE.