. 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 . the occasion did not engender within us emotions of a conflictingnature. As I look around me and see how few there are of us left, memories of thepast come crowding before me. I recall to memory those days in G3 whenwe w-ere battling with the enemy upon this very field. I am carried stillfarther bac
. 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 . the occasion did not engender within us emotions of a conflictingnature. As I look around me and see how few there are of us left, memories of thepast come crowding before me. I recall to memory those days in G3 whenwe w-ere battling with the enemy upon this very field. I am carried stillfarther back to Gl when we started out upon our military career, and, com-paring that starting out with to-day, one cannot but be profoundly impressednot alone bj the changed and hajipy conditions now existing, but surrowfullyas well, as Ave recall to memory our former comrades, now dead and gonebut then with us brave, eager and enthusiastic. The records of the W^ar Department show that from 61 to G.*? our regi-ment had already gone through ten principal engagements, not counting thenumerous minor ones, and in each many were stricken fnuu our ranks, andwhen, in 18G3, we marched upon the field of Getfysliurg, our ranks had al-ready been sadly depleted, but again our thin ranks were furtlior reduced in. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 325 numbers. From Gettysburg to Ai)pomattox iuclusive the Fifty-third tookpart iu sixteen additional principal engagements, making twenty-six in all,averaging one principal engagement or battle, for each fifty days of service,including the time spent in winter quarters, and not counting the reconnais-sances, special services and incidental encounters with the enemy betweenbattles, in all of which however we suffered constant losses in killed andwounded. Our regimental reports of casualties during the war foot up thirty-fiveofficers and seven hundred and two enlisted men, giving a total of sevenhundred and t1:irty-spven. Of lliese, the record of killed in action or
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