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the enemy. About the 1st of June, theaIregiment took the railroad at Ivor and ar-rived at Petersburg on the evening of the ^ same day. On the next dav it marched toRichmond, Va., and after one days rest\again took up the line of March for Hanover Junction, to which point it marched under the scorching rays of a June sun,arri\ing thereabout night. All were tired and exhausted, but after a night of refreshing sleep, the regiment took the cars for Fred-encksburg'and bivouacked above the cityrJon the same night of its arrival. Aboutthe 14th the regiment, with the army, tookup the line of march for Pennsylvania, passing through Culpepper, Berryville, Va.,Hagerstown, Md., and after many long,weary and fatiguing marches it arrivednear Gettysburg, I’a., on the 30th of June,ItIlt;Ilt;11II18(13. On the morning of the 1st of July,18(13, (a dav ever memorable in the annals of profane history) after marching about miles, the command formed in line of battle and threw forward skirmishers. After advancing a short distance the enemywere discovered strongly posted betweenthe Confederate forces and the little town; lt;f Gettysburg, then scarcely known beyond the jurisdiction of a squire, but nowiknown and regarded as a consecrated spot where thousands of the manly advocates ofLiberty, yielded up their martvrod lives in1 ’ • A Vdefence i.f those principles, so deeply engraved upon every true Southern heart“life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”-blight examples of genuine patriotism. After a desperate resistance, the hist line of tin* enemy was at last forced back upon the tow n. Then with an exultant shout of
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New Bern Our Living and Our Dead
New Bern, North Carolina, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1874
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