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Union soldier and member of the 100th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment "The Roundheads" Company E as transcribed directly by Cynthia Friend Crytzer

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The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America (Neiberg) ecw Union soldier and member ofby Michael S. Neibert When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war President Woodrow Wilson won re election by pledging to keep out of the conflict. Yet by the spring