Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . he emergency troops thus raised reached this field. This regimentthe Twenty-sixth, reached Gettysburg on the 26th of June and taking position on the Chambersburg pike, west of town, attempted to arrest the progress of Ear-lys division of Confederates who were raiding through this section. The effort was disastrous; after a short engagement they were compelled to retreat andseveral hundred of their men were captured. Company A, of the Twenty-sixth E
Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . he emergency troops thus raised reached this field. This regimentthe Twenty-sixth, reached Gettysburg on the 26th of June and taking position on the Chambersburg pike, west of town, attempted to arrest the progress of Ear-lys division of Confederates who were raiding through this section. The effort was disastrous; after a short engagement they were compelled to retreat andseveral hundred of their men were captured. Company A, of the Twenty-sixth Emergency regiment, was raised among the boys of Gettysburg College. Gen-eral Early proceeded to Gettysburg and made the following requisition for supplies on the borough authorities: 60 barrels flour, 7000 lbs. bacon, 1200 lbs. sugar,600 lbs. coffee, 1000 lbs. salt, 10 bushels onions, 1000 pairs shoes, 500 hats, or $10,000 in money. He was assured by the town authorities that the quantities re-quired were far in excess of that in their possession, and receiving orders that same evening to proceed to York, the requisition was not again PENNSYLVANIA MONUMENTS. Pennsylvania appropriated $1500 to each organization toward the expense of a monument. They were allerected under the supervision of the Commission, General John P. Taylor, General J. P. S. Gobin, Colonel John P. Nicholson, Colonel R. Bruce Ricketts, andLieutenant Samuel Harper. This Commission performed its work with untiring zeal and in a most creditable manner. Perhaps no other monument on thefield is so interesting to tourists as the One Hundred and Forty-third, shown on this page. It represents their color-sergeant, Crippen, in the defiant attitudein which he was killed. Colonel Freemantle told of a conversation with General A. P. Hill relative to this incident: General Hill said to me that theYankees in the First Days battle had fought with a determination unusual to them. He pointed to a field in the center o
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