Address to the Survivors´ Association of the 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
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Excerpt from Address to the Survivors´ Association of the 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers: Read at Gettysburg, September 25th, 1896 How widely different are the circumstances under which we now meet, my comrades, from those which marked our first visit to the town of Gettysburg thirty-three years ago. We had spent the night of June 30th, as you will all remember, at the little hamlet of State Line, just across the Maryland border. We knew we were nearing the enemy, and that a battle was certainly approaching; but we little realized the terrible ordeal which the 1st of July, 1863, had in store for us. We spent the night peacefully, and started on our march northward leisurely enough on that Wednesday morning. It was not until after we had fairly started that the sound of the cannon broke upon our cars, and rumors of the commencing conflict began to meet us on our way. Then the cannon grew louder and news came thick and fast. We heard of the first success and the capture of Archer´s Brigade, and then, alas! of the gallant Reynolds´ death. Our pace had quickened as the cannons´ sound grew louder, and e´er long the order to double quick was given. Then, just before we reached this pretty town, lying white and peaceful in its green meadows, our course was turned to the left, and leaving Gettysburg to the cast of us we hastened forward over the hills and vales, where we passed many a gallant soldier stretched upon the ground for his last slumber, to the ridge or hill by McPherson´s barn, which we were to make historic ground forever. Gettysburg itself we were not to pass through until, as the afternoon shadows grew long, the broken remnants of our gallant regiment, far more than decimated, since we had left between this old barn and the Seminary more than half our number killed or seriously wounded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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