. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . K,marched on the afternoon of July 1. to Camp Wright. In Camp Wright, along with Colonel J. W. McLanes old Erie Regiment, andthe Ninth and Eleventh regiments and Battery B. of the Pennsylvania ReserveCorps, the Tenth was exercised in drill and instructed in guard duty until theafternoon of July 18, when it marched aboard a train of twenty-one cars. an all-night ride over the rai
. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . K,marched on the afternoon of July 1. to Camp Wright. In Camp Wright, along with Colonel J. W. McLanes old Erie Regiment, andthe Ninth and Eleventh regiments and Battery B. of the Pennsylvania ReserveCorps, the Tenth was exercised in drill and instructed in guard duty until theafternoon of July 18, when it marched aboard a train of twenty-one cars. an all-night ride over the railroad to Huntingdon, and thenceover the Huntingdon and Broad Top railroad, landed at Hopewell. Bedfordcounty, Pa., next morning. In afternoon nuirched to Bloody Run, near Everett ; next evening marchedback to Hopewell; again took the cars ; about midnight were bountifully fed l)ythe good ladies of Huntingdon, and shortly after daylight, July 21, 1861 (day ofbattle of Bull Run), landed in Harrisliurg. jnit up at Camp Curtin. That after-noon the regiment was mustered into the service of the United States for theterm of three years, being the first of the Reserve Corps so mus-. fHOTO. CY .v. H. TIPTON. GETTVSCI PRINT: THE F. GUTEKUNST PHiLA. Pennsylvania at Gettt/tihurg. 243 teied. The mustering officer was lieutenant-colonel, afterward General T. , United States Army. On the afternoon of 22d, again marclied aboardthe cars, and next morning at an early hour arrived in Baltimore. INIarchedacross the city with muskets loaded, and camped for a night at Mount Clare. Late in the evening of .July 24, the regiment embarked on a train of boxcars, and in the night arrived at the Baltimore and Ohio railroad station, inWashington. In and around the depot the men made themselves as comfortableas circumstances would allow until noon, then bivoucked lor two nights on theCapitol grounds (then enclosed by a high fence), near the northeast corner ofthe Capitol building
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