Identifier: inmemoriamalexan00newy (find matches)
Title: In memoriam, Alexander Stewart Webb, 1835-1911;
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: New York (State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg, Chattanooga and Antietam King, Horatio C. (Horatio Collins), 1837-1918 Lydecker, Charles Edward, 1851-1920
Subjects: Webb, Alexander Stewart, 1835-1911 Philadelphia Brigade Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Pennsylvania Infantry Philadelphia Brigade
Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon company, printers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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erent from those of anyother regiment. In the first place, it was the only regiment of our brigade thatfurnished the skirmish line for the second and third days of the battle.One company of it was selected by General Meade for reconnois-sance. Later, that same company joined in the assault on the BlissHouse and assisted in the capture of it and the many prisoners taken.That same afternoon General Hancock ordered the regiment to repelWrights assault, which they did. with the capture of 2.50 prisoners.After that the regiment was sent to the assistance of General Howard,at his special request, leaving 100 men here, who helped repulsePicketts charge. And, finally, it was the first of the troops to enterthe Town of Gettysburg after the enemy had evacuated it. Gloryenough for one regiment. The One hundred and sixth brought intothis great liattle 23 officers and 263 men, and lost one officer and tenmen killed, ten officers and 53 men wounded and two made prisoners,making a total of 75. 84 PU
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UJ Hb^re00 bp (Bcneral ^beo&orc S. ipech ©t JSurlington, Vt. CoMR^VDES, Ladies and Gentlemen: VERMONT is highly honored in being invited to participate inthe decHcatory exercises of this beautiful nieniorial to onewhose name is so well known to the veterans of the GreenMountain State,— INIajor General Alexander Stewart Webb, one ofthe most distinguished officers of the United States Army during thewar for the Union and the gallant commander of the PhiladelphiaBrigade, Second Corps, which bore such an important part in theBattle of Gettysburg. We feel a particular pride in what it repre-sents, due to the fact that the Second Vermont Brigade, whose monu-ment, surmounted by the statue of its intrepid commander, ISIajorGeneral George Jerrison Stannard, you can see in the distance, alsobore an important part in that terrible struggle, which proved to bethe high-water mark of the Rebellion, and has become known as oneof the most desperate ever recorded in histor

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