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I took it from the original source (as per the website's note, "THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN FROM NEW YORK IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, 3RD ED. FREDERICK PHISTERER. ALBANY: J. B. LYON COMPANY, 1912.") which is in the public domain, located at https://archive.org/details/phisterernewyork03fredrich/page/1815/mode/1up, as well as from Military Affairs and Regimental Histories of New York, Maryland, West Virginia, And Ohio, located at https://archive.org/details/unionarmyhistory02madi/page/54/mode/1up, which is also in the public domain. As stated in the PD note following the listing of these sources, "This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain." The website cannot copyright something already in the public domain. They actually cite the source(s) used on their pages and repost them verbatim BECAUSE they are in the public domain. I believe this must be an error caused by an automated bot which failed to read the citation on the museum.dmna.ny.gov site. Also, I thought government records and texts are not protected by copyright - a point that doesn't apply here since the source material is in the public domain. Boo Boo (talk) 14:17, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
