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Excerpt from The Seventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Cavalry: Its Record, Reminiscences and Roster; With an Appendix At the twenty-sixth annual Reunion of the Seventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Cavalry Association held at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on October 6th, 1903, a committee was authorized to be appointed to prepare a History and Roster of the Seventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. The undersigned were appointed a publication committee by President of the Association, H. D. Loveland, on February 18, 1904. At the twenty-seventh annual Reunion of the Association held at Milton, Pennsylvania, on October 25th, 1901, the Roster was presented in pamphlet form and accepted by the Association, and the committee was continued. Early in 1905, the Publication Committee asked Colonel William B. Sipes, who had been authorized in 1861 by the Governor of Pennsylvania, Andrew G. Curtin, to recruit and organize the regiment, now living at Bath Beach, New York, to write the History of the Seventh Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Cavalry. Colonel Sipes consented to undertake the writing of the history and spent the summer of 1905 in work upon it. The Publication Committee and the President of the Association were in constant communication with Colonel Sipes during the summer and co-operated with him in advancing the work. On August 10, 1905, Colonel Sipes completed the work and place: lit in the hands of the committee. On September 1, 1905, Colonel Sipes died suddenly of pneumonia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.