. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . ommander, General David A. Russell, atWinchester, who was killed leading the charge, September 19,1864. It attended the burial of its comrades within the citylimits and vicinity. With its membership and friends it raisedthe funds and erected a monument to the command at Gettys-burg, where the regiment was engaged on July 3, 1863. Itwas dedicated August 6, 1886. On this occasion three hundredand fifty survivors and ladies and friends participated. The Bat-tlefield Ass
. History of the twenty third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birney's Zouaves; three months & three years service, Civil War . ommander, General David A. Russell, atWinchester, who was killed leading the charge, September 19,1864. It attended the burial of its comrades within the citylimits and vicinity. With its membership and friends it raisedthe funds and erected a monument to the command at Gettys-burg, where the regiment was engaged on July 3, 1863. Itwas dedicated August 6, 1886. On this occasion three hundredand fifty survivors and ladies and friends participated. The Bat-tlefield Association at first refused their position at Gulps Hill,claiming no record of the regiment or brigade being in thatposition, but suggested that they had the right to place themonument at the right and rear of Little Round Top, orto the left of Meades headquarters on Taneytown Road tothe rear of the left centre. While they were in both positionsunder fire, the only part of the field the regiment was engagedwas at Gulps Hill. After building up a claim to this position, it was so strong 272 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT. that Colonel Batchelder, who had charge of the location ofpositions, went to Washington to hunt up General Shalers re-port of the action. It could not be found in the Sixth ArmyCorps reports, but in looking over the Twelfth Army Corps papers it was found, and withan apologetic letter from Bat-chelder, containing the legendof the frght, extract from Gen-eral Shalers, the brigade com-manders report, the positionat Gulps Hill was omission on the part ofthe official reports of the Armyof the Potomac General Shalercalled attention to GeneralMeade at an army reunionat Providence, R. I., in expressed his regretsand referred him to GeneralWheaton, then living, whocommanded the Third Divi-sion, Sixth Corps, in which the Twenty-third was part atGettysburg, but while Wheaton also regretted the omission andpromised to have it rectified, up to tha
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