. Gettysburg . nd the 150th Pennsyl-vania Volunteers out of 380 men and seventeen officers,brought back about eighty men and only one officer notwounded. The 121st, the 142d, the 143d, the 149th,and the 151st Pennsylvania lost quite as heavily. While the First Corps was thus engaged, the 11thCorps (General Howard) came onto the field from theEmmitsburg road. Stein wehrs Division, then underthe command of General Orland Smith, was sent toCemetery Hill to fortify, and Schurzs and BarlowsDivisions were started for Oak Hill, that they mighthold it against Ewells Corps coming back from nearHarrisbu
. Gettysburg . nd the 150th Pennsyl-vania Volunteers out of 380 men and seventeen officers,brought back about eighty men and only one officer notwounded. The 121st, the 142d, the 143d, the 149th,and the 151st Pennsylvania lost quite as heavily. While the First Corps was thus engaged, the 11thCorps (General Howard) came onto the field from theEmmitsburg road. Stein wehrs Division, then underthe command of General Orland Smith, was sent toCemetery Hill to fortify, and Schurzs and BarlowsDivisions were started for Oak Hill, that they mighthold it against Ewells Corps coming back from nearHarrisburg. Unfortunately for the Federals, theenemy (Rhodes) had already seized the hill and How-ard was forced to take the plain, so as to afford someprotection to the First Corps then faced to the west andon the ridge. His two divisions were skillfully placed,and for two hours he persistently sustained an unequaland hopeless fight, being finally forced back to Ceme-tery Hill, just as Doubleday had been, and at about. STATUE OF JOHN BURNS the same time. His losses were heavy, one regimentlosing 70 per cent. Without protection, and withouthope of holding his ground even, Howards men hadmade a great fight. Among the incidents of the FirstDay was the appearance on the field of John Burns,citizen, who came out from the town dressed in a blueswallow-tailed coat with brass buttons on it, with atall hat on, and with his pockets distended with powderand ball. He approached the firing line, where Major Chamberlain of the 150th was standing, and begged tobe allowed to fight with that regiment. While discus-sing the matter, Colonel Wister came up and advisedhim to go into the woods and fight from behind a tree,which the old man did, receiving there three wounds,for which Pennsylvania has erected to his memory ahandsome statue, located on the ground where the150th fought, During the night of the first and during the secondof July, the two army commanders were hurrying uptheir troops, but it was
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