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Nineteen Heroes and a Sixty First Pennsylvania Tale
Article recounts deeds of the Sixty‑first Pennsylvania volunteers in Civil War battles from Fair Oaks to Cedar Creek. Highlights colonels Rippey Spear and Crosby, fortitude at Marye’s Heights, Fort Stevens, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg, noting officer casualties and heroism across multiple engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Press Association
Army of the Potomac
Gettysburg
Shiloh
Sixty-first
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Fittsburg
Oliver Vazare Rippey
Etyrnal
Bloody Fair Oak
Chickawlaminy Morass
Waterloo
McClellan
Cresta
Keyes Pourth
Couch
Casey
Pennsylvania
Mens
Hippey
Yha
Jimien
Heuteman
Col
Rippey
Roses
Palmetto Regiment
South Carolina
Carolinians
Fair Oaks
Sixth Army Corps
Marye’s Heights
George C. Spear
Farr Oaks
Spear
Washington Artillery
J. W. Crosby
Getty
Sixth Corps
Whiancock
Brock Road
Plink Road
Spottsylvania
Hancock
Upper Potomac
Maryland
Noosh
Jubal AL Early
Shenandoah Valley
Potomac
Washington
Fort Stevens
Lincoln
Hisabinet
Bidwell
Marty
Ana
Maj
Crosby
Marye
Early
Crosle
Lees Aetetas
Petershure
Pri
Port Stevens
Sherkdan
Cst
Great Charlestessa
Winchester
Cedar Creek
Shridan
Oliver Hi. Rippey
Marye's Heights
Petersbor
Adjt
G. W. Wilson
Louis Redieuback
Company 23
Charlestown
View W
C. Koerner
Wilderness
Pany
Rhodes
Fate Gake
Harper