Address to Reunion of the 130th Pennsylvania by John Hays II

A speech by John Hays II to his former comrades in the 130th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, remarking on the Regiment’s “nine months’ trip from Harrisburg back to Harrisburg,” which was “full of tragedy and suffering with interludes that were jolly and jovial.” Hays specifically mentions the Battle of Antietam, conditions on the front lines, his estimations of casualties, and General Edwin Vose Sumner, who commanded cavalry at the Carlisle Barracks from 1838-42.