. 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 . HOTO. BY W. H. TIPTON, GETTYSBURG. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 541 luiit of ii loug summer daj^s march; IVeeziiig on the picket line knee-deep in awinter nights snow drift, or presenting an adamantine line in the front ofbattle—wherever and whenever the regiment or any detachment of it was di-r^cted to go it went and stayed until ordered by superior authority to regiment in the service can s
. 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 . HOTO. BY W. H. TIPTON, GETTYSBURG. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 541 luiit of ii loug summer daj^s march; IVeeziiig on the picket line knee-deep in awinter nights snow drift, or presenting an adamantine line in the front ofbattle—wherever and whenever the regiment or any detachment of it was di-r^cted to go it went and stayed until ordered by superior authority to regiment in the service can say more? From Balls Bluft to Appomattoxthe One hundred and sixth Pennsylvania preserved its honor unstained—itsescutcheon untarnished—never defeated—though sometimes unsuccessful, stillholding its place in the line of battle until that fateful day of the 22d of June,1864, when, assailed in front, flank and rear, it destroyed its colors to preventtheir capture and died on the field. Much of this esjirit de corps^ Avas dueto its first commander. Colonel Tuiner G. Moorhead, a veteran of the Mexicanwar, whose soldierly qualities and steadfast bearing left their impress on theregiment
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