Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . sylvania 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 a
Historic views of Gettysburg : illustrations in half-tone of all the monuments, important views and historic places on the Gettysburg battlefield . sylvania 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 Hundred and Forty-ninth Pennsylvaniaregiment. A part of Stones Bucktail Brigade fought their first hard battle here, and out of an effective force of a little over 1200 men the brigade lost PENNSYLVANIA MONUMENTS. Pennsylvania was naturally the first state to appropriate money for the preservation of the Gettysburg battle-field, and the states liberality in this respect has been unsurpassed. The amount of more than $400,000 has already been expended, and there has been appro-priated by the State Legislature the sum of $150,000 for the erection of a State monument. In a tour of the field there are seen monuments which make an in-dividual and lasting impression on the tourist. Such is the Seventy-fourth Pennsylvanias memorial which stands along Howard avenue, representing thecolor-bearer sinking down with a death wound but still holding up the colors. The One Hundred and Fifty-third is on Barlows Knoll. They were the ex-treme right of the line on the first day. When this position was finally abandoned hundreds of dead and wound
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