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the enemy. About the 1st of June, the regiment took the railroad ut Ivor and arrived at Petersburg on the evening of the same day. On the next dav it marched to Richmond, Va., and after one days rest again took up the line of March for Hano ver Junction, to which point it marched under the scorching rays of a June sun,ar riving thereabout night. All were tired and exhausted, but after a night of refreshing sleep, the regiment took the cars for Fred-ericksburg'aud bivouacked above the city 011 the same night of its arrival. About the 14th the regiment, with the army, took up t!e line of march for Pennsylvania, passing through Culpepper, Berryville, Va., Hagerstown, Md., and after many long, weary and fatiguing marches it arrived near Gettysburg, I'a., on the 30th of June,1803. On the morning of the 1st of July, 1803, (a day ever memorable in the annals of profane history) after marching about six miles, the command formed iu liue of buttle and threw forward skirmishers. After advancing a short distance the enemy were discovered strongly posted between the Confederate forces and the little town (•f Gettysburg, then scarce’y known be-yond the jurisdiction of a squire, but now known and regarded as a consecrated spot where thousands of the manly advocates of Liberty, yielded up their martvred lives in ti.-iemv t f those principles, so deeply engraved upon every true Southern heart —
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New Bern Our Living and Our Dead
New Bern, North Carolina, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1874
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