History of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry: First Brigade, First Division, Third Corps and Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the PotomacVarious
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History of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry: First Brigade, First Division, Third Corps and Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
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Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 57th (1861-1865)
Camp Pitcher--The "Mud March"--General Hooker in Command of the
Army--Resolutions Adopted by the Fifty-Seventh--Re-assignment to
the First Brigade--Anecdote of Colonel Campbell--Drill and
Inspection--Adoption of Corps Badges--The Chancellorsville
Campaign--Jackson Routs the Eleventh Corps--A "Flying Dutchman"--In a
Tight Place--General Hooker Disabled--General Sedgwick's Movements--A
New Line Established--Strength of the Fifty-Seventh and Its Losses
Chapter VIII. 82
Back Again in Our Old Camp--Cavalry Battle at Brandy Station--The March
to Gettysburg--Hooker's Request for Troops at Harper's Ferry--Asks to be
Relieved from the Command of the Army--We Arrive at Gettysburg--Battle
of July 2d--Strength of the Fifty-Seventh--Its Losses--General Graham
Wounded and Captured--Wounding of General Sickles--Battle of July
3d--July 4th--The Confederates Retreat--General Sickles Asks for a Court
of Inquiry--President Lincoln to Sickles--A Visit to the Battlefield
Twenty-five Years Later
Chapter IX. 95
We Leave Gettysburg--Rebel Spy Hung--French's Division Joins the 3d
Corps--Enemy's Position at Falling Waters--He Escapes Across the
Potomac--In Old Virginia Again--Manassas Gap--Camp at Sulphur
Springs--Movement to Culpepper--Eleventh and Twelfth Corps Sent
West--Lee's Efforts to Gain Our Rear--Skirmish at Auburn
Creek--Warren's Fight at Bristow Station--Deserter Shot--Retreat of
the Enemy--Kelly's Ford--Mine Run Campaign--The Regiment
Re-enlists--The "Veteran Furlough"--Recruiting--Presented with a New
Flag by Governor Curtin--Back to the Front--General Grant Commands the
Army--Reorganization--The Wilderness Campaign--Three Days of Hard
Fighting--Loss in Fifty-Seventh
Chapter X. 111
The Movement to Spottsylvania Court House--General Sedgwick
Killed--Hancock's Grand Charge of May 12th--Great Capture of Prisoners,
Guns and Colors--The Famous Oak Tree--Ewell's Effort to Capture Our
Wagon Train--Losses in the Fifty-Seventh at Spottsylvania--Movement to
North Anna River--Fight at Chesterfield Ford--We Cross the
Pamunkey--Skirmish at Haw's Shop and Totopotomoy Creek--Battle of Cold
Harbor--Our Colors Struck and Badly Torn by a Piece of Shell--Flank
Movement to the James River--March to Petersburg--Severe Fighting at
Hare's Hill--Battle of June 22d--Losses in the Fifty-Seventh--Fort Alex.
Hays--Petersburg--We Move to the North Side of the James--Strawberry
Plains--Return to Petersburg--The "Burnside Mine"--General Mott in
Command of Our Division--Deep Bottom--Other Marching and Fighting Around
Petersburg
Chapter XI. 126
Recruits--Dangerous Picket Duty--Muster-out of Old
Regiments--Composition of the Brigade--Expedition Against the South Side
Railroad--Battle of Boydton Plank Road or Hatcher's Run--Disguised
Rebels Capture Our Picket Line--Election Day--Thanksgiving Dinner of
Roast Turkey--Change of Camp--Raid on Weldon Railroad--A Hard March
Returning--"Applejack"--General Humphreys in Command of the Second Corps
Chapter XII. 138
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