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Title: Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major-General George G. Meade, Major General Winfield S. Hancock, Major General John F. Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. Gettysburg Battle-field Commission Pennsylvania. Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg Commission Nicholson, John P. (John Page), b. 1842, ed Beitler, Lewis Eugene, 1863- ed Roy, Paul L
Subjects: Pennsylvania. Militia Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Gettysburg Reunion, 1913 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Pennsylvania Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.)
Publisher: (Harrisburg, W.S. Ray, State Printer)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed on the left of the Sixty-second just at the timethat regiment was being deployed as skirmishers, and was marched to theleft to the ground occupied by the monument, where it remained on skir-mish duty throughout the day, being under fire almost continually but notdirectly engaged. The detachment shared in all the duties performed bythe Sixty-second New York, remaining in line of battle all of the 4th ofJuly, and at dawn of the 5th the brigade was advanced across Plum creek,our detachment leading, in pursuit of the enemy. The pursuit was con-tinued by the Sixth Corps to Fairfield Pass, where the enemy was about tobe attacked when another course was determined upon. General Sedgwickrecalled, and the corps headed for Frederick, the regiment rejoining at Mid-dletown. While this stone is one of many to mark the general line of battle, yet thelong list of engagements inscribed upon it, in many of which our regimenttook a more active part than here, suggests another purpose. To the passer-
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Pcnnfiylvania at Gettijahurf). 547 by that list is but the names nf twonty-nino battles, more or loss famed in thehistory of the war, but as wo read. Fair Oaks, Malvern Ilill, Salem Heights,Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Cedar Creek, we remember with sadness, and yetwith a soldierly pride, that r)n these fields Kenney, Poland, Mooney, I.nrge,Patterson, Kirkbride, Drum, the Mcllwaina, Coleman, and one hundredand sevcuty-one others of our comrades laid down their lives to save theUnion. The regiment has just one monument, and it is entirely proper that itshould stand, not in busy city square or pleasure park, nor even in secludedcemetery, but where the gallant men it honors were always to be found,upon the lino of battle. Nearly a generation has passed since PresidentLincoln stood on this field and uttered the immortal words at the dedicationof the first battle monument erected here, the world will little note, nor longremember, what we s;iy; but it can never forget what they did here. DEDICA

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