. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . he Confederatesharpshooters fired on the guns at Cemetery Hill, and the oldChurch Building, where the chaplain of the Ninetieth Pennsyl-vania Regiment was killed on its steps as he was about to enterto minister to the spiritual welfare of the wounded ; reachingour hotels in time to pack up gripsacks for the homeward found the dead in the National Cemetery at Gettys-burg, are buried in Sections of States: United States Regu- ELY MEDAL,Maryes Heights. 336
. History of the Twenty-third Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, Birneys Zouaves : three months and three years service, Civil War .. . he Confederatesharpshooters fired on the guns at Cemetery Hill, and the oldChurch Building, where the chaplain of the Ninetieth Pennsyl-vania Regiment was killed on its steps as he was about to enterto minister to the spiritual welfare of the wounded ; reachingour hotels in time to pack up gripsacks for the homeward found the dead in the National Cemetery at Gettys-burg, are buried in Sections of States: United States Regu- ELY MEDAL,Maryes Heights. 336 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT lars, 138; Connecticut, 22; Delaware, 15; Indiana, 80; Illi-nois, 6; Maine, 104; Massachusetts, 159; Maryland, 22;Michigan, 171 ; Minnesota, 52; New York, 867 ; New Jersey,78; New Hampshire, 49; Ohio, 131; Pennsylvania, 534;Rhode Island, 12; Vermont, 61; Wisconsin, j^; West Vir-ginia, 11 ; unknown, 979. A massive monument, sixty feet inheight, surmounted by the Goddess of Liberty, rises from thecentre of the plot. It was erected by the National Govern-ment in memory of its dead on the GEORGE F. pp:ui:r, Corporal Co. B. Taken in 1862. PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 337 HomeAvard. THE One-hundred-and-twenty-second New York was thefirst to leave for home, taking the 9 A. M. train onThursday, June 14th, quite a number of the boys going to thedepot to give it a send-off. After many hand shakes, andpromises to be with us on all future reunions of the Brigade,they bid adieu to Gettysburg, and after an uneventful but veryenjoyable ride, they reached old Onondaga County and theirhome, Syracuse, on schedule time—a tired party of pilgrims,but rejoiced at their successful and enjoyable trip. Headquarters party, Sixty-fifth and One-hundred-and-twenty-second New York contingent. Eighty-second andTwenty-third Pennsylvania, departed on their special at i P. M.,of the 14th, with many handshakes and come and see usagain from the good peopleof the
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