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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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fighting stock; not so good on adash, perhaps, but just the men for holding on and pounding away if itshould take all summer. The hardest and most stubborn fighting of the warwas when the Scotch-Irish regiments. North and South, were pitted againsteach other. Then they were intelligent. They knew what the war was about, and theywent, not for money or glory, but from a sense of duty. But this regiment,from the first clear through, had good leaders. Colonel McKnight was de-termined to make his regiment one of the best, and spared no pains to reachthat point. Day by day, week after week, he drilled the men, he instructedthe officers, until they got mad and swore like the troops in Flanders; but thecolonel was right, and they found it so after a while. And then was thereever a better oflScer than Colonel Craig? So cool, so brave, and yet so kind-hearted. He was stern to demand of his men the discharge of all duty, andyet he could sympathize with them in any trouble. I make special mention
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Pennsylvania at Gettyshurfj. 551 of these two men because they had command of the regiment louRer than anyothers. But they had worthy successors, and their equals in all soldierlyqualities, in Greenawalt and Duff and Conser and Redic and Miller. When we look at the make-up of this regiment, in its oflicers and men, wecan understand how it came to have such an enviable record all through thewar. And now, comrades, a word in cuncliisioii. A (luartcr of a century haspassed away since the war. Then we were in our prime; now we are grow-ing old. The hard tack would be harder for us now. That tender, juicy,Government beef, fattened (?) on pine leaves^ wild garlic and past recollec-tions, would be a little too much for us now. Our eyes need glasses now.You could not go in with a rush and make the speed in a charge you couldthen ; nor could you make as good time getting out of the way if the otherfellows were making the charge. Yes, we are growing old. With theyoungest of us life is at its no

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