Abstract:
Lieutenant Colonel Walton Dwight inherited the difficult task of whipping the green 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry into battle shape before the summer campaign of 1863. Among the ranks of Dwight’s regiment were Henry and Willie Cole, farm boys who had as much to learn about being men as they did about being soldiers. Their tense scouting missions at Chancellorsville and the bloody first day’s battle at Gettysburg changed all that when they endured the lethal rain of bullets and canister to write a new chapter in the glorious history of the Pennsylvania Bucktails.