Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . s, 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
Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . s, 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 of which he had seen a man (Crippen,One Hundred and Forty-third Pennsylvania) plant the regimental colors, around which the regiment had foufht for some time with much obstinacy; andthat when at last it was obliged to retreat, the color-bearer retreated last of all, turning around now and then to shake his fist at the advancing Hill said he felt sorry when he saw this gallant Yankee meet his PENNSYLVANIA MONUMENTS. Among the nineteen Pennsylvania monuments shown above are some of very interesting designs. The hugegranite tree trunk of the Ninetieth Regiment on Oak Ridge, marks the regiments position and the right of the First Corps line. The open book on the pedestalon this page was erected by the same regiment to mark the spot on Christs Church steps where Chaplain Howell was killed. During the retreat through thestreets of the town he stopped at the church, which was being used as a hospital, to minister to some of the wounded of his regiment. As lie mounted thesteps he was struck by a stray bullet. The spirited bronze figure on the Seventy-seconds monument, righting with clubbed musket, gives an idea of the char-acter of the righting at the Angle. The figure of the soldier sitting on the stump, marks the position of the One
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