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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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hat as our country lives, so we as a regimentgo on, living in the freedom of a land and the stability of a government,neither of which would now be, without sentiment, the spring of humanlife? The memorial which is here placed speaks from all along the line, fromBath to Appomattox. For the moment it moves aside, and where it was, and within the length-ening of its shadow, we see them all and as we glance from right to left,from front to rear, one is taken from here, another from there, one by one,from the highest in rank to the lowest, from the oldest in years to theyoungest, the man and the boy; first the two hundred and thirty in the timeof the war, then the many who have left us in the days that have inter-vened; and then comes the shaft into the space which was made for it.We look upon it now, and know that it stands for them. The time is comingwhen it will stand for all whose names made up a regimental roll. Then, and not till then, shall we know that our work here is fully done.
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 479 DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 88™ REGIMENT INFANTRY* September 11, 1S89ADDRESS OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE E. WAGNER COMRADES of the Eighty-eighth Regiment and fellow-citizens:—TheIegiment in whose memory we are assembled on this occasion wasrecruited by Colonel George P. McLean, and was originally railedthe Cameron Light Guard, in honor of the Hon. Simon Cameron, thenSecretary of War; it was afterwards known as the Eighty-eighth RegimentInfantry Pennsylvania Volunteers. It was composed of seven companiesfrom Philadelphia and three from Reading, in all about 1,000 men. Re-cruited in September, 1861, re-enlisted in January, 1864, and mustered outof service June 30, 1865, having served well and faithfully for a period ofthree years and ten months. During its term of service there were inscribed upon its rolls the namesof about 2,050 officers and enlisted men. Of the original complement ofofficers—field, staff and line—of thirty-eight, but two remained a

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