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 Assistant Adjutant battery battle of Gettysburg brave Bull Run camp Captain Captured or missing Cavalry Cemetery Hill Chancellorsville charge Cold Harbor column command Company comrades Confederate Court House Creek crossed Culp's Hill died of wounds Division Emmitsburg enemy enemy's engaged enrolment approximate estimate field fight fire flank Ford fought Fredericksburg front gallant ground Groveton guns honor to furnish hundred and ninth July Killed in action Lee's Lieutenant line of battle Little Round Top Major SAMUEL HARPER Malvern Hill Meade morning moved Mustered North Anna o'clock obedient servant ordered Pennsylvania Cavalry Pennsylvania Infantry Pennsylvania Reserves Pennsylvania Volunteers Petersburg picket Pittsburg position Potomac Present at Gettysburg R. C. DRUM Re-enlisted rear rebel records regiment respectfully Ridge Salem Heights Secretary Pennsylvania Board skirmish soldiers Spotsylvania Total enrolment approximate Totopotomoy troops Union WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON Wilderness
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