Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George GMeade, Major General Winfield SHancock, Major General John FReynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 901 the famous cavalry leader, J. E. B. Stuart, was killed and his cavalrycorps was repulsed and driven headlong into the Confederate capital. Howwith the same resplendent leader, after he was assigned to the commandof the Union forces in the Valley of Virginia, it took an honore
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg : ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Major General George GMeade, Major General Winfield SHancock, Major General John FReynolds and to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania commands engaged in the battle . Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. 901 the famous cavalry leader, J. E. B. Stuart, was killed and his cavalrycorps was repulsed and driven headlong into the Confederate capital. Howwith the same resplendent leader, after he was assigned to the commandof the Union forces in the Valley of Virginia, it took an honored partin all the victories in the Shenandoah over the redoubtable General Early,and how, under command of such leaders as Generals Wilson and Custei,it helped to make the Cavalry Corps of that army invincible. The recordis one which before the contest closed won for the regiment the sobriquetof the Fighting Eighteenth, is one of which every soldier of it maywell be proud, and is in every part an honor to the State of Pennsylvania. In dedicating this monument, therefore, erected on this spot under suchauspices and prompted by such motives as we have faintly detailed, Ifeel that I can justly claim in the name of all the Eighteenth PennsylvaniaCavalry, whether living or dead, the right
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