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83rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Portfolio
Published Online: September 30, 2009 
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Private Oliver Wilcox Norton, Co. K., 83rd PA Enlisted September 1, 1961, Discharged November 10, 1863. Wounded in Action at Gaines Mill on Virginia July 17, 1862. Bugler to: General Daniel Butterfield and Bugler and Brigade Color Bearer for Colonel Strong Vincent's Brigade at Little Round Top, Gettysburg. Co-creator of the bugle call "taps"; first bugler to play it. Commissioned First Lieutenant: 8th United States Colored Troops (USCT) on November 6, 1863. Regimental Quartermaster August 30, 1865. Discharged from 8th USCT on November 10, 1865. Participated with his regiments in 26 battles. Published "The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top" (1913), the definitive source for the placement of Vincent's Brigade on Little Round Top. Also Published "Army Letters," (1903). Founded the American Can Company. Died October 10, 1920, buried in Chicago, IL. Carte de visite by JE McClees, Philadelphia PA from the collection of Theodore J. Karle @2009


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