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MEMORY OF CIVIL WAR HERO WHO FOUGHT AND DIED HERE WILL BE COMMEMORATE D AGAIN7 hr mriimrv ui n Pennsylvania lino who fought imd died on tlit* , field ol Urttysburg, during the three clays' (n/sitfu'incnts here in ‘r3. will ; bf* further commemorated by the jcity lt;j! Erie. accmdihg to inlorma-non received by the Gettysburg 'Chamber ol Commerce.Ur Itoum! To)) sibout Jivr o'clock 011 the Hltfi'noon ol July 2. ihr rcgi-The G. A It. post, at Eric, was • morning oi the 3rd the j mined l lie tin: mi I Strong Vincent I rejoined the Brigade onmerit taking position in front of this monument, and repulsed several charge;; «J the enemy, utter which the regiment assisted in driving the enemy beyond and in taking possession oi Big Round Top. Oil theregiment the lefti post, after General Strong Vincent center. ’ i who was u colonel in the 83rd Penn- The 83rd Pennsylvania Volun-sylvania Volunteers, infamy regi- • tews participated in 31 engagements ■ merit. and suffered casualties of 11 officersNuw word has been received tliat \ and 2G7 men killed or died of wounds; senior high school wt Erie! two officers and 150 men died of.the new, bus been named the Strong Vincent high school. The school board of 'Erie plans to erect a monumental !statue of General Vincent in front; ol the new school, similar to the j 1 one erected to the memory of the i ■ Civil War hero on the battlefield ; , here.Erect Statue HereA beautiful bronze statue of Gen-i oral Vincent, atop a stone monument, rests on the southern slope of Little Round Top, a few feet | from the spot where the then Col-I one! Vincent received a gunshot1 wound that caused hLs death five ■ days later. He was wounded on July 2 and died July 7.Shortly after he was wounded J and before he died Colonel Vincent • was promoted to brigadier general. S. J. Kelly, the sculptor who carved , the Buford monument, on The battlefield. in the sculptor who carved the Vincent mcmumerit.The inscription on the Vincent; monument reads as follows:“Thin brigade was hurried to Lit-officers and 485 mendisease: 29 wounded.The outfit was recruited from Erie, Crawford and Forest counties.When Bishop Vincent, brother of the slain soldier, came here to claim ; the body, he learned that a baby j buy hud been born to a Mrs. Bush-\ man, to whose home Colonel Vin-: cent hud been removed after being wounded.Bishop Vincent asked that the boy be named after his brother. The youngster was christened Vincent Bushman and the mother received a beautiful cut-glass pitcher from the bishop, in appreciation of this act,Vincent Bushman resides in Hanover. The gift from the bishop is still in the Bushman family.HOLD CRIPPLED KIDDIES’ CLINIC HERE MARCH 26■Ci,En___
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Gettysburg Star and Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Mar 15, 1930
Page 4
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