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, Volume 2E. K. Meyers, state printer, 1893 - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 |
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Adjutant ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE advance Aggregate Antietam Appomattox Appomattox Court House artillery battery battle of Gettysburg brave Bristoe Station Bull Run Captain Captured or missing Cavalry Cemetery Hill Chancellorsville charge Cold Harbor column command Company comrades Court House Creek Cross Culp's Hill Died of disease died of wounds Division Emmitsburg enemy enemy's engaged enrolment approximate estimate field fight fire flank fought Fredericksburg front gallant ground Groveton guns Hatcher's Run honor to furnish hundred and ninth July Killed and died Lieutenant line of battle Little Round Top Major SAMUEL HARPER Malvern Hill morning moved Mustered out June North Anna Totopotomoy o'clock obedient servant ordered PENNA Pennsylvania Cavalry Pennsylvania Infantry Pennsylvania Reserves Pennsylvania Volunteers Petersburg picket position Potomac Present at Gettysburg R. C. DRUM Rappahannock Station Re-enlisted rear rebel regiment respectfully Ridge Salem Heights skirmish soldiers Strawberry Plains Total enrolment approximate Totopotomoy troops Union WASHINGTON Wounded Captured
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