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dedicated to the 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery Volunteers (112th Pa. Regt.), a Federal
regiment, and it's men who honorably served fighting and dying for principles in which
they believed during the period 1861-1865.
Over the years, Americans have had varying interests with the Civil War. We have honored
the brave and noble deeds and sacrifices of the combatants by raising monuments to their
glory on the battlefields. We have written and published thousands of books, papers,
manuscripts and journals about its campaigns, battles and leaders but have not, until
recently, begun to reveal the atypical events, the less romantic side of the story.
Somewhere in its romanticized popularity, much of the true essence of our Civil War
history has been overlooked. During the late 1950's and early 1960's the Civil War
Centennial sparked a resurgence of public interest in the war, diminished briefly for a
few years, then surged forth again in the late 1970's. The most recent "hot
interest" period has given rise to the publication of new books and reprints of the
old favorites, written unit histories by the hundreds, and the formation of living history
reenactment and round-table study groups. Above all, these renewed activities and the
thousands of period documents published on the Internet have strengthened our ties to the
Civil War era. We have rekindled an appreciation for American history studies, making it
possible to learn about the less dramatic, less glorified, but the most common,
occurrences of that great conflict. The history of the Second Pennsylvania Heavy
Artillery, its men and the role that they played in the defense of the United States
during that tragic time is one of the many remaining stories to be told.
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