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MONOCACY MONUMENT.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 legiinent. Pa. Yols., left yesterday (Tuesday) morning to bo juosont the same das at the dedication of (ho Monoeacy monumenl.Those in the puny were ('apt. Win. T. Ziegler. Capl. Calvin Gilbert. Pen y Tamiev. Geoige .Johns. C Win. SheadsWm. If. Rupp, Geo. Warner. John H. Shoads and Janies (2. Frock of tiie Eighty Seventh regiment, and Edward Deatrkk, W. Frank Cline, David Kitz-mi Her, Mark Hamilton, and 1. H.Moore of the One Hundred and Thirty Eighth tegiinent.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 Battlefield of Monoeacy two miles south of Fredcuick to dedicate the monument authoiizcd by recent Act of Legislature appropriating several thousand [dollars for the purpose of marking the j site of ilie battle. In this engagement I the S7th, C7th and l?.Sth Pa. regiments jtook a conspicuous parr.The monument is a JJ-foot shaft or Vermont granite and occupies a spot in the thick of the fight at Monoeacy.It is the second monument erected on the field. Capt. William IL Lanins, of York, is chairman of the commission to erecl the monument.The Eighty Seventh regiment was organized in York in August 1801. with Colonel George Ha as the commanding officer. The regiment contained one thousand enlisted men and thirty-eight lt;ommisisoned officers. .Vine of the ten companies composing the regiment were recruited in York county. Company i was recruited at New Oxford; Company (2 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 get to the battle of Gettysburg. In the spring of 1SC4 this regiment was placed in tlie First Brigade, Third Divisionn, Sixth Army Corps, and served with distinction in all Hie 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! Eatly with 17,000 men sweeped down the Shenandoah Valley and threatened Washington. The Eighty Seventh regiment under command of Colonel Stable (now residing near Y'ork). 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 teached that town General Early, who the year before had captured York, I levied and collected two hundred thou-ji sand dollars from the citizens of Fred- j lt;crick. The money was given to the Confederate Chieftain to save the town from ashes because lilt;* threatened to burn it if the money was not forthcoming.On July It. isdl. the hard fought batik* of the Monoeacy took place. The odds were in favor of the Confederal*-* 1m-cause they outnumbered the Cnion troops three to on*1. General Llt; \v Wallace, the famous author and soldier, commanded the Cnion troop; in tliis battle which lasted neatly fouiboms. H* held th*j lt;onfederal*■ force.-at !*;*% long enough to prevent Early Ifiom •■niering Washington. jIn ih«» battle of Monetae.- the xjih., i r* ginu-nt lolt;t m-y- ni '.-four fcilh-d. '■ j wound**! and lt;up7i3r*-d. Five cominis * .sloped officer^ wej-e among Hi*’ Main. '•11 Among the -uivning officers of the i Kiahn Seventh j-giin*nt ar** Colonel John XV. Slt;-ha]) of Xorri-Town. 3,i Col } Jam* A Stahl*- of imar York About j r«» of 11 s• lt;173*‘ thousand 2.1* n ■who j**d i7i 1b*’ regiment are now lining and ^ man' atu-mhd Hi*- dodhtmuw ^nit( Spot* hes weje mad*- h? tie- Glt;n*i-Hior of r**nn«t 1 vania and Captain Cha.-.T. Cornwell. of Wost Chester. who4■sowed on the staff of General Hickett I in the battle of Monotalt;, j lt;hjjej-al Grant in his own book says 1 Uhat had it not V-en for the gallantry ! | of the troops under General Wallace I 1 at Monoeacy on July p. 18(24. the city i !of Washington would have been lt;ap-j 11111 *sl on July 1*, by lt;ieneral Early _ with Confederate soldiers. In;no other battle did the Eighty Seventh j * do such noble servh e as at the battle s of Monoeacy, ‘ fI1
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Gettysburg Compiler
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Wed, Nov 25, 1908
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