Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . ttle-field, and the states liberality in this respect has been unsurpassed. The amount of more than $400,000 has already been expended, and there has been appro-priated by the State Legislature the sum of $150,000 for the erection of a State monument. In a tour of the field there are seen monuments which make an in-dividual and lasting impression on the tourist. Such is the Seventy-fourth Pennsylvanias memorial which stands along Howard avenue, rep
Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . ttle-field, and the states liberality in this respect has been unsurpassed. The amount of more than $400,000 has already been expended, and there has been appro-priated by the State Legislature the sum of $150,000 for the erection of a State monument. In a tour of the field there are seen monuments which make an in-dividual and lasting impression on the tourist. Such is the Seventy-fourth Pennsylvanias memorial which stands along Howard avenue, representing thecolor-bearer sinking down with a death wound but still holding up the colors. The One Hundred and Fifty-third is on Barlows Knoll. They were the ex-treme right of the line on the first day. When this position was finally abandoned hundreds of dead and wounded were left, among the latter General Bar-low. Here also was positioned Battery G, Fourth United States Artillery, commanded by the gallant Lieutenant Wilkeson, who mortally wounded, remainedat his post, finally working his way to the Almshouse barn, where he died that PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY MONUMENTS. One of the very best collections of monuments on the field, they all show the effigy of the cavalry-mans good friend, the horse. At the top of the page and on either side are monuments that were erected by the Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry on the left marks the spot where Private Sandoe of Company B was killed. Company B was being organized at Gettysburg in those later days of June,1863. When Whites cavalry, accompanying Earlys Confederate raiders, came into Gettysburg on the 26th of the month, those members of Company B whowere mounted, scattered in all directions. A number of them escaping by the Baltimore pike were pursued, and near the old McAllister place Sandoe waskilled. He was the first soldier killed in the campaign around Gettysburg. From the artists point of view the Seventeenth
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