. 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 . ohistory. It was just 6 oclock by the watch I carried when we crossed thecorner of the wheat-field going into action. By count of the regiment whichI made that day, we numbered twenty-five officers and four hundred andninety enlisted men at that moment. Less than two hours later we had lostin action
. 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 . ohistory. It was just 6 oclock by the watch I carried when we crossed thecorner of the wheat-field going into action. By count of the regiment whichI made that day, we numbered twenty-five officers and four hundred andninety enlisted men at that moment. Less than two hours later we had lostin action, by official records, fourteen officers and two hundred and twenty-seven enlisted men. Your own lieutenant-colonel was left the rankingofficer of the bi-igade. Sad and soi-rowful was your duty that night rallyingthe remnant of a splendid regiment. On the morning of the .3d you were given position on left center whichyou held during the terrible conflict of that day, without firing a shot andwithout further loss to your decimated ranks. Very imperfectly I have thus sketched your part in the battle of Gettys-burg, my comrades. Other armies of the Union were equally brave, andother victories equally brilliant, but, nevertheless, Gettysburg will ever THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LCNOXAMD. BIEN 8 CO. NEW YORK Pennsylvania at Gettyshurg. 685 remaiu the most interesting battle field of the gresft civil conflict. Herewas the high tide of rebellion, here the focus of sacrifice and suffering forthe preservation of the Union. Here let our children and our childrenschildren make tlieir pilgrimages, my comrades, to learn from these thicklypeopled lines of battle and from legends in granite and bronze, how luridthe days, how dark the nights, how bloody the way, through which the flagof the Union was carried to victory. And such a victory! Lasting peaceand marvelous prosperity for all the land, north and south, east and let us dedicate ourselves and our children to the great
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