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Title: A brief history of the 69th Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers (electronic resource): from its formation until final muster out of the United States service
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: McDermott, Anthony W Reilly, John E
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 69th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Philadelphia : D.J. Gallagher & Co., printers and publishers
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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he factthat this batteiv were pouring charge after charge of canister shotand shrapnel into the advancing lines, still on come the mad Geor-gians until thev reach point-blank range of our rifles. We mettheir charm «ith such a destroying fire that they were forced back• in confusion. They rally again and make a second effort, andagain are their lines broken and thinned as we pour volley uponvolley into their disordered lines, until they finally retire a dis-pirited mob, not even able to take Browns abandoned guns,which thev twice succeeded in reaching. Savs one writer: Wright, Wilcox and Perry pass by Hum-phries right, but the gallant Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers,under the command of Dennis, OKane (Second Corps), receivethe advancing foe—Wrights Brigade—with a defiant shout, asthey shake out the folds of their green flag and pour a witheringfire at short range into the faces of their adversaries, then back-ward propelled by another volley, the men in gray and butternut ^H
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29 uniforms in confusion are driven down the slopeand across theground over which they had charged. Our position was strength-ened by the Seventy-first Pennsylvania being placed a few pacesin our rear. The men of the Sixty-ninth were eager to give pur-suit, but were prevented by Gens. Harrow, commanding thedivision, and Webb, commanding the brigade. This closed thework of the regiment on the 2d of July. The field in our frontwas thickly strewn with the dead and wounded of the enemy,whose losses seemed very heavy, while the loss of this regimentwas but trifling in comparison. Capt. M. Duffy, of Company I,and Lieut. Charles Kelly, two brave officers, who were exceed-ingly anxious to countercharge upon the repulsed lines of the foe,were among the killed. The men on this part of the field, not knowing that the lines ofthe army on the right curved to our rear, and hearing the artilleryand musketry firing on Cemetery and Culps Hills, almost directlybehind us, grew very uneasy as to the fate

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