. 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 . ents, supple-mented and again recounted by another of the most active participants only ashort time since.! These accounts, comprehensive as they are, leave me noeasy task, and I must needs embody much of them in this address. The standard of efficiency in the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac wasgreater in the spring of 1863 than at any previous time. The same was nodoubt true of the cavalry of the A
. 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 . ents, supple-mented and again recounted by another of the most active participants only ashort time since.! These accounts, comprehensive as they are, leave me noeasy task, and I must needs embody much of them in this address. The standard of efficiency in the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac wasgreater in the spring of 1863 than at any previous time. The same was nodoubt true of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. The time hadgone by for the nonsense of the early days of the war, when it was said thatone of either side was as good as two of his opponents, and we were fully awarethat nothing but stalwart bravery could secure definitive results. It took manfor man, and often superior numbers, to decide a contest. The beginning ofthe Gettysburg campaign found this condition in the cavalry forces on either * Colonel William Brooke-Rawle whose account is published herewith. t Captain William E. Miller in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol- iii, p. 397. ■^ ff5^:MSif^i^. PHOTO. BV W. H. TIPTON, GETTYSBUHG. MNT : THE F. GUTEKUNST CO., PHIL*. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 797 side, and the prowess of our regiment was to be proven, often and again, evenbefore it was so fully tested on this the chief battle-field of the war. When we left camp at Potomac Creek Station, Virginia, and, crossing theRappahannock at Kellys Ford, took a hand in the hurly-burly fight with theenemys cavalry at Brandy Station on June 9, 1863, we were just enteringupon the series of mounted combats of the Gettysburg campaign. After thisdrawn fight we recrossed at the ford near the railroad bridge at RappahannockStation, unfoUowed and unmolested. Before many days we were again en-gaged at Aldie, Middleburg, Upperville and Ashbys Gap, through which latterwe had again driven these .same foemen. O
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