Identifier: historyof121stre02penn (find matches)
Title: History of the 121st regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. "An account from the ranks."
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania infantry. 121st regt., 1862-1865 Strong, William W., b. 1840 or 41, ed
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Press of Catholic standard and times
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ncerningthe History of the Civil War. I can have no access, personally, tothem, and nobody except myself could find his way through such amass of documents. I have, therefore, no means of studying againthe incident of the battle of Gettysburg to which you call my attten-tion. I regret it because I aim always to be true in every respect andfair to every one. Believe me. Yours truly, Philippe, Comte de Paris. 1307 Walnut Street, December 16, 1892. Dear Captain Strong:—I found on my table in town your noteof December loth. which contained news to me. The position occupied by the brigade consisting of the 121st Penn-sylvania, 20th New York, a battery of six pieces, the I42d Pennsyl-vania and the insist Pennsylvania, is laid down as a definite line onBatchelders map of the three days (this map was prepared from datacollected on the ground not many days after the battle). To the rightof this line was General Langhorne Wistcrs brigade, which extendedas far as the Railroad Cut to the north.
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FIRST LIEUTENANT RICHARD A. DEMPSEY. APPENDIX. 169 We had been facing to the north and an advance was being madefrom the north by the rebel forces, and we were under a hvely fire ofshells, when we were ordered to change front and deploy to the south,facing west; this was done, leaving the 151st in front of the wood, theI42d next to it to the south, the battery of artillery next south of that,the 20th New York (known as the Ulster County Regiment, MajorVan Rensselaer and Colonel Gates), and then the 121st Pennsyl-vania. We had no more than time enough to deploy beyond the 20thNew York, face westward and advance a short distance, finding anundisturbed fence before us, and then the rebel line was close to us,and a regiment some 150 yards further off well on our left flank. Weremained there until the battery withdrew in safety and no visible linewas left. Lieutenant Herpst and I walked together from the field to theseminary, where we joined Colonel Biddle, Colonel McFarlane, ColonelMcCalm

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