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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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ere provided the Veterans, and to present each Scoutwith an appropriate badge, to become his after his tour ofduty and commemorative thereof, Scout Commissioner Porterand his subordinate officers to be directly in command, in turnsubject to the orders of the Army Officers in charge of the GreatCamp. Under such Agreement, Commissioner Porter andhis StafiC so selected and brought to Gettysburg such bodyof Boy Scouts, some 385 all told, in Troops of twenty-four,each under a Scoutmaster, and the services they renderedwere of inestimable value. Under the noon days scorchingsun, through drenching rain, here, there, everywhere, anyhour, day and night, until their officers actually forced themto desist for necessary rest, this splendid body of intelligentyoung gentlemen, in their neat service uniforms, trained, dis-ciplained, trustworthy, courteous, so aided and assisted thisCommission and the Army Officers in our duties as hosts ofthe occasion, that they added new laurels to this general Boy
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Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 51 Scout Movement, to its State Officers and their particularTroops, won the profound appreciation and gratitude of hostsand guests alike and the enconiums of the press and publicwho witnessed their weeks services, their splendid part in theGreat Keunion. Sharing in. like manner in this service and inthe record made and the honors won and in the gratitude andappreciation due them were, in addition, some seventy-five BoyScouts from Washington, D. C.; Burlington, N, J.; Frederickand Hagerstown, Maryland, under Scout Commissioner Mar-tin, of Washington, D. C, they accompanying the National RedCross Hospital Organization on duty at Gettysburg duringthe Reunion. While under the Act of Congress, heretofore recited, theWar Department was supreme in control of the Great Camp,and also assisted the Gettysburg Battlefield Commission inpolicing its roads and avenues throughout the battlefield, bydetails from the cavalry squadron on duty at the Reunion,yet the control o

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