. 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 .. . lled or mor-tally wounded out of the aggregate enrolment of one thousand one hundredand sixty, nearly fourteen per cent., while the deaths from disease, includingthose in southern prison pens, were only thirty-one, being less than two andthree-fourths per cent, of the enrolment—or less than one-fi
. 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 .. . lled or mor-tally wounded out of the aggregate enrolment of one thousand one hundredand sixty, nearly fourteen per cent., while the deaths from disease, includingthose in southern prison pens, were only thirty-one, being less than two andthree-fourths per cent, of the enrolment—or less than one-fifth as many diedof disease as were killed in battle, DEDICATION OF MONUMENT 40™ REGIMENT INFANTRY* (Eleventh Reserves)ADDRESS OF BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL S. M. JACKSON THE battle of Chancellorsville had been fought and lost, and the Armyof the Potomac, battered and broken, but not conquered, recrossedthe Rappahannock and took up its old position on Stafford Heights,inthe rear of Falmouth. The southern press and people clamored for northern invasion, and eventhe rank and file of the Army of Northern Virginia joined in this generaloutcry. ♦Organized at Pittsburgh in June, 1851, to serve three years. It was mustered out•Tune 13, 1864, by reason of expiration of term of service. /. :,1^^j. Pennsylvania at Gettyshurfj. 277 This, together with the overflowing gninaries and storehouses of Mary-land and southern Pennsylvania, doubtless induced General Lee to under-take the campiiigu which proved so fatal to the Confederate cause. Longstreet with his thirty thousand veterans was ordered up from NorthCarolina, and by the stimulus of invasion, conquest and plunder, the thinnedranks of the Confederate army were refilled, and General Lee with hisboasted hundred thousand invincibles started on the memorable Gettysburgcampaign. He moved up the south bank of the Rappajiannock river, whilst GeneralHooker, at the head of the Army of the Potomac, moved in a parallel lineup the north bank,
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