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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 Nicholson, John Page, 1842-1922 Beitler, Lewis Eugene, 1863-
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Gettysburg Reunion, 1913
Publisher: (Harrisburg : W. S. Ray, state printer)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s painted in vivid colors its scenesand incidents until the Seminary and the Cemetery, Gulps Hill and theRound Tops, the Peach Orchard, Devils Den and Wheat-field seem asfamiliar as places of interest around our immediate homes. There wereeighty-four organizations of Pennsylvania Volunteers—infantry, cavalry andartillery—engaged in the battle, and as the result of patriotic legisla-tion the survivors of the several commands are assembled at this timeto mark with enduring memorial the exact ground upon which they fought,and all over the miles covered by the operations of the army will to-daybe narrated not only the grand manoeuvres, mighty deeds and brilliantacliicvcnMnt.s of brigade, divisions and army corps, but the more singleHtorica of the regimental conflicts in which were displayed the valor, •Orj(iuil/.(il nt PhllndiOpliln from Augimt ir. to AuRuat 30, 1S62, to sorve tbree years.It wiiB iiiuHtiTid out of HKrvIco Juno 1, ISCT), and the recruits trauHferred to the MatIltinn.
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 687 heroism and devotion even unto ghastly wounds and mutilation and hor-rible death that were necessary (and wUlingly accepted) to secure victoryfor the army and the colors, and that go to make a result that for alltime wUl remain a brUliant page in our countrys history. Now the newspaper correspondent of the day and the later magazinecontributor, not to mention the major-generals and brigadiers on both sides,have made a review of the field unnecessary—indeed might be resented,for of a truth any one who reads (who in Pennsylvania,, the home of thepublic school, does not?) is better informed to-day as to the operations ondifferent parts of the field transpiring at the same time than was at thetime the participant in the battle—better than any regimental, brigadeor division commander. Said the great Wellington, referring to his crowning victory, Waterloo,More and better information of the battle may be learned from theEnglish, French, Prussian and Belgia

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