Introduction: Chautauqua County answered the call to duty from the beginning of the Civil War. Soldiers from this county served in many volunteer units / regiments. Donald K. Ryberg Jr.'s book, Chautauqua County Regiments and Soldiers in the Civil War 1861 - 1865 offers that the 9th Cavalry, 49th Infantry, 72nd Infantry and the 112th Infantry had greater proportions of Chautauqua County men.
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