History of the "Bucktails": Kane Rifle Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, 42nd Infantry
by O. R. Howard Thomson and William H. Rauch
Book #1849A
$50.00
466 pp., illustrations, muster roll, index, hardcover.
It all started when an enlistee in Kane’s company, James Landregan, left the enlistment office in Southport and noticed a freshly killed deer hanging outside a butcher shop across the street. He cut off the tail and placed it in his hat. Kane liked the idea and from then on his company would be known as the “Bucktails.”
What kind of men were they? Kane, an attorney and active abolitionist from the northern part of the state, wanted only men who were accustomed to handling guns, could exist in the forest, and were strong of character and possessed of physical strength that could only come from hard, rugged work. And he got them. All sorts enlisted: woodsmen and lumbermen, who learned to shoot for food and work hard to survive from early childhood and who would eagerly volunteer to defend their state, their country and their way of life.
