. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major-General George G. Meade, Major General Winfield S. Hancock, Major General John F. Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle .. . cked with feminineapparel. They were appropriated by the men; and we had quite a mas-<inerade around our camp-fires that night. In this engagement Lieutenant-Colonel Perkins and some of our men were wounded. On the 7th, we again encountered the enemy, near High Bridge or Cum-berland Church. In
. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major-General George G. Meade, Major General Winfield S. Hancock, Major General John F. Reynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle .. . cked with feminineapparel. They were appropriated by the men; and we had quite a mas-<inerade around our camp-fires that night. In this engagement Lieutenant-Colonel Perkins and some of our men were wounded. On the 7th, we again encountered the enemy, near High Bridge or Cum-berland Church. In front of the Fifty-seventh, the enemy held a strongposition along a high bridge within cannon shot of our position. We sufferedsome from their artillery fire but did not attack. Part of our corps on ourright attacked and turned their position, causing them to retreat once more. On the 8th, the regiment acted as flankers to the main column, marchingin this manner for about six miles. Humors were flying about that (^rant and were corresponding rela-tive to the surrender of the rebel army, causing our men to he in hiirhspirits. About noon on April 9, when we were resting near Appomattox CourtHouse, we received the welcome tidings that the old enemy of the Armyof the Potomac had Icnnsijlvdnid at Gclti/sbiinj. J09 During its active service which be^un in Ajiril, 1862, Jind endtd inApril, 1865, the Fifty-seventh had been engaged in twenty-seven ,and eight minor engagements or skirmishes. Its casualties during thesam2 period weic: officers, eleven killed, thirty-two wounded and five captared; enlisted men, ninety-four killed, four hiindred and seventy-twowounded and one hundred and ninety-four cMjiturcd, making a total ofeight hundred and eight. The total enlistments in the regiment were seventeen hundred and eleven,but in this number arc included about two hundred mi-n who December, 1863, which are counted as new enlistments, and about twohund
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