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A Number of Veterans of the County Present at Dedication.A number of veterans of (ho Eighty Seventh regiment and One Hundred and '1 hirty Eighth legiment. Pa. Vols., left yesterday (Tuesday) morning to be pioseut the same day at the dedication of thi1 Monoeacy monunu-nl.Those it) the [jaity were ('apt. Win. T. Ziegler. Cap!. Calvin Hilbert. Pen y Tavniev. Geoige .Johns. C Win. SheadsWm. If. Rupp, Geo. Warner. John H. Sheads and James G. Frock of the Eighty Seventh regiment, and Edward Deatrkk, W. Frank Cline, David Kitz-mi Her. Mark Hamilton, and L H. Moore of the One Hundred and Thirty Eight It legimont.These veterans at Hanover met a special train conveying Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania, his staff, and a large number of veterans of the Civil War. They proceeded to the Battle-Held of Monoeacy two miles south of Frederick to dedicate the monument authoiized by recent Act of Legislature appropriating several thousand [dollars for the purpose of marking the jsite of ilie battle. In this engagement I the S7tb, 67th and l?.Sth Pa. regiments jtook a conspicuous parr.The monument is a 27-foot shaft oi Vermont granite and occupies a spot in the thick of the fight at Monoeacy.It is the second monument erected on i the field. Capt. William II. Lanins, of York, is fhairman of the commission to erect the monument.The Eighty Seventh regiment was organized in York in August 180!. with Colonel George Hay as the commanding officer. The regiment rcontained one thousand enlisted men and thirty-eight lt;ommisisoned officers. Xitie of the ten companies composing the regiment were recruited in York county. Company i was recruited at Xew Oxford; Company (I was organized at llanover. Three of the other companies were recruited at York, one at Shrewsbury. one in Chanceford township and another in Warrington township. York county. After spending nearly six months guarding the bridges between York and Baltimore, the Eighty Seventh regiment was sent to West Virginia.Owing to the defeat of Milroy near Winchester the Eighty Seventh regiment did not gel to the battle of Gettysburg. In the spring of 1SG4 this regiment was placed in the First Brigade, Third Division!!, Sixth Army Corps, and served with distinction inall the battles of Grant's campaign from the Rapidan River to the capture of Petersburg.The regiment lost heavily in the battles of the Wilderness, Spoltsylvania. Cold Harbor and in the siege of Petersburg. While Grant’s army of 120,000 men was laying siege to Petersburg in the summer of 1864. General Juba! Eaily with 17,000 men sweeped down the Shenandoah Valley and threatened Washington. The Eighty Seventh regiment under command of Colonel Stable (now residing near York), with Rickett's Division of the Sixth Army Corps moved toward Washington on the fastest steamers that could be obtained. When the troops reached Baltimore they were conveyed in passenger coaches with all possible haste to Frederick. Maryland. Before they had i cached that town General Early, who the year before had captured York. \ levied and collected two hundred thou- j sand dollars from the citizens of Fred- j crick. The money was given to the Confederate Chieftain to save the town from ashes because hlt;* threatened to burn it if the money was not forthcoming.On July !*, JM’.I. the hard fought batik* of the Monoeacy look place. The odds were in favor of the Confederate-, b»-cause they outnumbered the Cnion troops three lo on*1. General Llt; \v Walhet*. the famous author and soldier, commanded the Cnion troop* in this battle which lasted neaily foui hows. IP* held Jh** Gem federate forces at l*a\ long enough So pr**v*-nl Early Ifiom •-nienng Washington.In th«» ban p. lt;,f Monotaey lhe x7ih i r« gjmons lost m-v-in'--four killed.;wound**! and lt;ap7nr*-d. Fix*- ■commis isiom-d officer* wor*- among the .-lain.i1 Atnong the -wvising officers of He* Seventh i-ginj*nt are C-doTe-l John \Y. SehuH of Xorrj-town. Lt Col Jam*?- A Stahl*- of u«-ar York About lt;*f 111-• one thmjj-aml m* n who *-« i * !**d iti lh«* regjtueiit are now being and 'man* uHenibd i^c d*'dilt;ator^ sent1 lt;cs( Sp«*iH bes weje mad*- by the Gon i • Hior of Pennsylvania and Captain Chas. T. Cornwell, of W^t Chester, who4•served on the staff of General KiehettI in the battle of .Monoeacy, j Guicj-al Grant in his own book says Uhat had it not been for the gallantry of tlie troops nutbT General Wallace at Monoeacy on July P. 1864. the cityof Washington would have been lt;ap.tun'd on July 1*, by General Early with iT.OO^f Confederate soldiers. In no other battle did the Eighty Seventh do such noble serene as at the battle of Monoeacy.:
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Gettysburg Compiler
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Nov 25, 1908
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