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Upon the 24:th of November, 1871, :\ re-union oC tlie 28tli 
 and 147 Regiments, Pennsylvania Volunteers, was held at the 
 St. Lawrence Hotel, in the City of Philadelphia, Major Gen. 
 Hector Tyndale, presiding ; after effecting an organization by 
 the election of 
 
 President^ 
 
 Major Gen. John W. Geary. 
 
 Yice Presidents, 
 
 Major Gen. Hector Tyndale, Brig. Gen. Ario Pardee, 
 
 Brigadier Gen. John H. Flynn. 
 
 Secretary, 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel John P. Nicholson. 
 
 Assistant Secretaries^ 
 
 J. K. Pryor, Jos. L. Cornet, 
 
 Thos. Armer, Sergt. E. M. Eby, 
 
 Thos. Duffy. Sergt. H. M. Quirk, 
 
 Corf. Wm. P. Roberts, Jr. Corp. John Mills. 
 
 Treasurer, 
 
 Cart. W. J. Mackay. 
 
 Executive Committee, 
 
 Col. Jas. Fitzpatrick, Capt. Caleb Greenawalt, 
 
 Col. H. E. GooD:\rAN, M. D. Capt. Joseph W. Hammer, 
 
 Capt. Jacob P. Kreider, Lieut. Calvin Pardee, 
 
 Lieut. G. W. H. Calver, M.lJ. Lieut. Aaron Lazarus, 
 
 Lieut. Chas. W. Chapman, Lieut. Henry Hoffer, 
 
 GusTAvus Hartley, Lieut. John Gorman, 
 Capt. A. E. Colgan. 
 
 AS OFFICERS TO SERVE FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. 
 
The adoption of a ('Onstitutiou and By-Laws, and de- 
 toriniiiiiii:' tliat tlic next rc-unioii sliould be lield at Ilazelton, 
 Luzerne County, November 24tli, 1872, tbe members proceeded 
 to Independtjnce ILall, wliere the Mayor of the City, Hon. D. M. 
 Fox, welcomed them. Upon the eonclusion of the ceremonies 
 the members proceeded to Belmont Mansion, I^'airmouut Park, 
 where a bancpiet had been prepared, over which, the President, 
 Major Gen. <ieai-y i)resided. Upon the removal of the cloth, 
 and in I'e.sponse to Toasts, remarks were made by Generals 
 Meade, Hooker, Geary, Patterson, Mindil and Tyndale, the 
 latter in response to the " 28tli Regiment,'" gave a historical 
 sketch of it. Ui)on motion, Gen. Tyndale was unanimously 
 requested to I'uniish a copy of his remarks for publication. 
 
 In compliance with the request of the association the manu- 
 script has been kindly presented, and the publication will no 
 doubt bo of interest "to all who were connected witli the 
 
 " 28th " 
 
 JOHN P. NICHOLSON, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
REMARKS 
 
 OF 
 
 ^REYET JAajor General 
 
 Hector Tynrlale. 
 
Comrades of the 28th, I shall speak to 
 you of your own and your dead comrades 
 deeds. I heartily thank you for the opportunity. 
 
 As there were twenty-five three months re- 
 giments from Pennsylvania at the beginning of 
 the War of the Rebellion, so the 28th became 
 the third of the three years regiments raised 
 in this state. 
 
 It was organized in Philadelphia, although 
 its members represented very many of the 
 counties of the State. Ario Pardee Sr., of Hazle- 
 ton, aided this organization very greatly. It 
 was mustered into the service of the United 
 States, on the 28th June, 1861. John W. Geary 
 being Colonel. 
 
 The War Department gave permission to 
 increase the number of its companies to fifteen, 
 forming three battallions, of which the two 
 first went to the front July 27th and the third 
 battallion in August of 1861. This made the 
 effective force of the regiment about 1550 men 
 and officers, the most of whom were accustomed 
 to and were dextrous in the use of fire arms, 
 
iiianv of tliL'in bcinij cxijcrts. It was at first 
 
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 brigatlcd under Colonel, afte'rwards (icncral 
 Cicorgc H. Thomas, in Banks" Division. Troni 
 Sandy Hook it moved to Point of Roeks, Mar) - 
 land, and while at this point the well knowii 
 and splendid Knap's Battery was formed from 
 the regiment, \\ith whieh it was and is identihed 
 as of one ilesh and one blood. 
 
 During the b^all and Winter of 1861-62 the 
 28th guarded about twenty-four miles of the 
 Potomac, reaching from Monocacy River to An- 
 tietam Creek, including Point of Rocks, Berlin 
 and Harper's Ferry, Its first action was thcit 
 of Bolivar Heights, \'irginia near Harper's 
 Ferry, on the i6th of October. It marched to 
 Fdward's Ferry after the disaster of Ball's Bluft', 
 to support our troops thrown across the Poto- 
 mac at that point. During all that winter the 
 regiment was somewhat actively engaged in 
 skirmishes along the river, so that when the arm\ 
 under McClellan, in February, 1862, crossed into 
 Virginia at Harper's Ferry, (in which operation 
 the 28th was the advance, holding the tow 11 
 and the bridge-head), the regiment had alread\' 
 passed more than six months in the best school 
 of the soldier — acti\e outpost dutx. 
 
 Under LieutenantColcjnel, afterwards Colonel 
 De Korpona)'and Brigaded under Colonel, after- 
 
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 wards (icncral (icar)', in Williams' l)i\'ision, the 
 regiment formed the left flank of Banks' Army 
 Corps and held, with the first Michigan Cavalry, 
 the counties of Loudoun, Fauquier, Warren and 
 others during the Spring and part of the Sum- 
 mer of 1862, while Banks occupied the Valley 
 of Virginia. Here it did a great deal of exposed 
 and hard work \\hich showed and trained the 
 manly pride and spirit of its members. 
 
 One morning early in that Spring, w'hile 
 marching' in the fallinLT snow, then of a foot's 
 depth, the officer immediately commanding the 
 regiment, observing a pale, delicate boy-member 
 staggering under the weight of his accoutre- 
 ments and showino;- sio'ns of distress, ordered 
 him to report to the surgeon for the ambulance 
 train ; whereupon the brave fellow, himself 
 carefully and tenderly nurtured, said, "Oh, 
 please not sir, I'm plenty strong enough and 
 prefer to march with the boys if you'll let me," 
 this granted, then he asked leave to retain his 
 musket as "every soldier loved his musket." 
 This boy, Rhodes of Allegheny, brave and true 
 comrade, was afterwards killed at Ringgold. 
 
 Again, on another occasion, at White Plains, 
 when the snow^ lay mid-leg deep over all the 
 country, the sentinel in front of an officer's tent, 
 was seen to suffer intensely from exposure and 
 
a severe cold. When told to call the corporal 
 of the ^'uard to be relieved because of his illness, 
 he dre^\' himself up and, saluting, said, "Please 
 no sir, I've never yet lost a day from duty and, 
 please God, I never will" — and he never did until 
 he was shot in the front of battle and died upon 
 the field, he and his loved companions had won. 
 
 In the sharp and bloody action of Front Royal, 
 in May of that year, Knap's Battery lost heavily 
 in common w ith Colonel Kenly's Maryland re- 
 giment, both ha\ing behaved nobly in the affair. 
 
 When the army of Virginia was formed under 
 General Pope, the twenty-eighth was placed in 
 Auger's Division and in (xeary's Brigade, to- 
 gether with the gallant fifth, seventh, tiveuty- 
 niutli and sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, and 
 these regiments remained together in the same 
 brigade during the whole war. 
 
 Under the command of Lt. Colonel Tyndale, 
 the regiment participated in the battle of Cedar 
 Mountain." By the direct and personal orders 
 of General Banks, it took and held an important 
 position on the far-extreme right of the army. 
 For its conduct it received the thanks of General 
 Inuiks as it had done on former and did again 
 on after occasions from him and other general 
 officers. 
 
 During Pope's retreat it showed its pre\ious 
 
training and discipline in its close and steady 
 marching and by its promptness, courage and 
 steadfastness under the severe and constant 
 pressure upon our army of Lee's overwhelm- 
 ing forces. But the 28th was not downcast 
 then. During the gloomiest of the retreat, 
 the whole command being near the third day 
 without food of any kind, an c^fficer, to whom a 
 biscuit had been given by a friend from a relie\'- 
 ing regiment, offered it to a member of ours. 
 Our comrade hungrily put out his hand to take it 
 and then drawing back he blushed and said, 
 "No sir, thank you, but you need it more than 
 I do." Among the thousands sleeping on the 
 fields of battles, no one was more beloved by 
 or was more' true to his peers and companions, 
 whom he knew and trusted so well, than you, 
 dear comrade, brave Harrison White. 
 
 The series of actions and battles after Cedar 
 Mountain was continuous and destructive to our 
 forces, including Brandy Station, Rappahannock, 
 Freeman's Ford, Warrenton Springs, Bristoe 
 Station, second Bull Run, Chantilly. — At this 
 last action, the gallant Kearney rode along the 
 ranks of the 28th and complimented it as a 
 soldier should. 
 
 Here, by the direct orders of Cicneral Pope, the 
 regiment held and afterwards destroyed two 
 
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 l)i-id^cs c)\cr Hull run, tluis aidiiii;" the security 
 of the army. B\ the same direct (orders, the 
 regiment was detailed to destroy the immense 
 ([uarter-master and commissary stores whicli 
 coukl not be passed across Kettle Creek bridge, 
 as the enemy had cut the trestle work. 
 
 The 28th, severely and sorely tried, arrixed 
 at the Potomac, perhaps the last regiment of 
 our army and the nearest to the enemy. It then 
 numbered about or less than 700 men, many of 
 whom were sick \\ ho recjuested to be and were 
 kept on acti\e duty. At the battle of South 
 Mountain, the regiment, under Major, afterwards 
 (ieneral Pardee, was in reserve in the brigade 
 commanded by Lt. Colonel Tyndale, Cxeneral 
 Cireene's Dixision of (ieneral Mansfield's Corps. 
 
 At the battle of Antietam, with about 650 
 muskets, the regiment, in the right wing of our 
 army, entered in front of the cornfield and the 
 Dunkard Church — and from both of those well 
 known positions and from that entire \icinity 
 the enemy was driven with terrible loss by the 
 brigade of w hich the 28th formed more than a 
 full half. 
 
 Let n'le detail a fragment here — llx pcdc 
 I Icrculcjii. 
 
 At the instant, and in the face of your deplo)- 
 ment one of the best and finest bricrades in (Uir 
 
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 service \\-as in full retreat— routed before the 
 closely following enemy, pushing heavily and 
 rapidly down the cornfield. Here, with its ranks 
 somewhat disordered by the retreat of the 
 brigade referred to, the steady 28th threw in 
 such a fire that it is spoken of to this day 
 by those, yet li\'ing, who heard its xolume and 
 by those who felt its force. For full twenty 
 minutes this pounding was mutual and earnest — 
 then the enemy broke, leaving hundreds more 
 upon the field which Hooker's forces had already 
 piled \vith dead. Immediately after this the 
 regiment, obliquing to the left, drove the enemy 
 trom a strong position, which, while somewhat 
 sheltered from the fire from the \\ oods beyond, 
 to a certain extent commanded the cornfield. 
 
 From seven in the morning until three in the 
 afternoon the 28th was in one continuous roar 
 and fiame of fire. But its spirit did not bate 
 one jot. After one of its charges, when it had 
 again and again been thanked, a company "M" 
 man roared out, "Fd rather be a member of 
 the 28th than king of the whole world." — Then 
 how you cheered, as if you had not been 
 fighting for hours, and near one half of your 
 numbers lying behind you on the ground 
 you had w(jn. Idie whole regiment was eager 
 and full of spirit. Towards the middle of the 
 
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 (la\- tlic cncnn's sharpshooters \vcrc annoyin^^ 
 our front from \\hich their hne had aij^ain been 
 ch-i\en. Company "A," Captain iMtzpatrick, 
 was ordered to, and did clear them out quickly, 
 but other companies almost clamored to assist 
 the detail. One member of Company " P^" 
 Captain (ireenawalt, asked and was i^ranted leave 
 to i^o out with "A." Me soon came back with 
 "his man" whom he had "spotted," exchanged 
 shots with, and, after wounding, had captured, 
 much to the satisfaction of our comrade. 
 
 AMiile the reijiment lav in the hollow field, 
 some distance in front of the church, the enemy 
 tried a sharp ruse. All at once from the Av^oods 
 at the top of the cornfield, upon our right wliich 
 they had again and again \'ainly tried to turn, 
 came a quick, rattling musketry fire and then a 
 large number of blue coated men, many without 
 arms, running before a dense and heavy column 
 of the enemy who followed on their heels. This 
 ruse succeeded for a moment, as it stopped 
 firing for the time, but sharp-eyed Sergeant; 
 afterwards Captain Knight called out, "Why 
 they're all greybacks " — and then came a shout 
 of "give "em hell." — Then was one of the 
 most destructive fires of the war. Being 
 on a hillside, every shot told on the enemy's 
 column and their whole uuisse melted away 
 
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 as an icicle when thrust against a red-hot stove. 
 In vain their officers strove to drive an ad- 
 vance, they were hopelessly beaten and thrown 
 back to the woods from which they were shortly 
 afterwards compelled to fall back. 
 
 Here let me relate one terrible incident of that 
 battle to remind you, if that could be forgotten, 
 how brave were the men against you who gave 
 up the ground that day, foot by foot. About 
 one o'clock the brigade was again in the charge 
 moving immediately on the church and the 
 woods behind it; its wings were slightly ad- 
 vanced according to the formation of the ground. 
 The enemy had fallen back from the wings but 
 in their centre, in a hollow just in front of the 
 church, stood a brave regiment, which when 
 our centre, then held by the 28th, advanced over 
 a slight elevation, delivered a point blank and 
 heavy fire upon it. A momentary pause and the 
 whole brigade belched a concentric and simul- 
 taneous fire, which in the twinkling of an eye 
 swept that devoted regiment from the earth. 
 They lay in long, straight lines — the heads of 
 the front in the laps of the rear rank. They 
 were splendid and true soldiers. Upon that field 
 a few years ago, nailed to a tree, was a board 
 inscribed, " Here lie the bodies of two hun- 
 
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 drcd and forty of tlie North Carolina 
 
 RcL;'inicnt killed upon this spot.'"* 
 
 Three times upon the right of your regiment 
 and brigade and as often on your left did the 
 enemy push hard-fighting, heavy masses and 
 eaeh time they were repulsed. In one of these 
 attacks upon your left battallion — at the time 
 under Major Raphael w ho was just then sup- 
 porting Knap's battery, which all day gave and 
 received very hard blows — the enemy rushed 
 almost to the guns. Here occurred hand 
 to hand encounters which showed your per- 
 sonal courage equal to your high qualities as 
 disciplined and reliable soldiers. In one of 
 these encounters Lieutenant, afterwards Major 
 Borbridge, cut the regimental colors from the 
 hands of a South Carolina Sergeant who fought 
 most bravely and who stubbornly held his flag- 
 after he had been cut down. 
 
 After each of these repulses the wings advanced, 
 while your centre fought its way foot by foot to 
 the front, position after position, until about two 
 o'clock, when you stood far behind the church 
 facing the last hill between you and the Potomac, 
 behind which hill lay the beaten yet fighting ene- 
 
 *This relation of the board and the numbers, were given to the speaker by Mr. Miller, 
 of Antietam, upon whose grounds this event occurred. The number of the regiment 
 is believed to be the 8th North Carolina. The board was said to have bixn nailed to 
 the tree by some of Lee's army of invasion, in 1863. 
 
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 my, who were of Stonewall Jackson's forces. 
 You will remember that at this time the enemy's 
 left had been weakened by the withdrawal of 
 forces to their right to meet Burnside's attack. 
 While facing this last position it was deter- 
 mined to attempt the hill in front and your 
 commanding officer called for a hundred \'olun- 
 teers of the 28th to lead the advance against it 
 — a forlorn hope almost. What response did you 
 make to this Comrades ? Every man stepped 
 forward as cheerfully as if going on parade — the 
 light of batde still brightly burning in each face 
 after so many hours of fighting when many, if 
 not all of you, had fired more than one hundred 
 and fifty rounds apiece. But that charge was 
 not to be — some troops of another brigade, 
 which had been brought up and posted upon 
 our right and rear, gave way and let in upon us 
 heavy columns of the enemy, causing our brig- 
 ade to fall rapidly to the left. 
 
 The loss of the 28th Regiment on that day 
 was about two hundred and fifty killed and 
 ^\"ounded — missing none ; but the blows struck 
 upon the enemy in front were terrific and their 
 losses in killed and wounded fearful — far exceed- 
 ing those of your entire brigade and estimated 
 by many, and it is more than probable too, at 
 more than the numbers of your brigade when 
 
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 it first entered the fi^dit. Tlie fis^htinu' on the 
 part of thi: 28th, as of the whole brigade indeed, 
 was magnificent — charging, repulsing, some- 
 times on the belly, always self-contained, always 
 aggressive and always advancing, until at about 
 three o'clock your right was turned by vastly 
 superior numbers, and then, receiving the fires 
 of the enemy from the front, right and rear, you 
 made your way to the left and there held the 
 enemy at bay until our batteries in the rear, your 
 collected fire and their own exhaustion drove 
 the beaten enemy from before the thin ranks 
 of that noble brigade. — But even here you 
 showed the true soldier. While in full retreat 
 and almost surrounded, our comrade Lieutenant 
 Borbridge seeing his superior officer fall dead, 
 as he supposed, stopped, turned in the face 
 of a heavy fire and with the aid of a Sergeant, 
 whose name is unkno\vn,* dragged the body to 
 a shelter, from behind which, comrades, your 
 accurate, firm and persistent firing soon checked 
 the advancing foe, who at last, though but for 
 a short time, had seen your backs. 
 
 Your brigade captured that day seven battle- 
 flags, some say nine, of which the 28th took 
 five or six; drove or destroyed the regiments 
 which had carried them, captured one battery 
 
 Not-' 2. Supposed tJ li;iv(* been killed. 
 
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 and silenced another.'^" It gives great pleasure 
 to say not only were you thanked personally 
 several times during that day, but that your im- 
 mediate commander, Major Pardee, was thanked 
 on the field for his conduct and yours. 
 
 From his foot know Hercules — From this 
 sketch of one action, judge ye of the \\hole 
 career of "the steady 28th.'" 
 
 Following the enemy into Virginia, the regi- 
 ment, in its old command, was stationed all the 
 next winter, 1862-63, at Dumfries and here aided 
 in the repulse of Stuart's Cavalry which attacked 
 that point. While lying here, the third bat- 
 taUion of five companies (namely L., M., N.,0., 
 and P.) was detached from the 28th and, with 
 three other Pennsylvania Companies, was formed 
 into the 147th Pa. Regiment, under Lt. Colonel, 
 afterwards, General Pardee. But these two noble 
 regiments should not be spoken of separately, 
 as they were and are one in e\^ery feeling as 
 they were in every action. 
 
 The 1 2th Corps having been formed, the 
 division and the brigade, of which last the 28th 
 and 147th remained a large part, were placed in it. 
 
 " Note 3. It is proper to say that many men of Union regiments and brigades, 
 whicli weie broken up in tlie progress of tlie batll;-, gallantly joined you duiing the day 
 and somewhat compensated tor your losses. 
 
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 AtChcinccllor\ illc the regiment again suffered 
 hea\il}' and did noble and signal service. Its 
 loss in that battle was over loo out of 307 men 
 engaged. The works thrown up by the 28th 
 on the field were marvels of rapidity of execu- 
 tion and of ingenuity. The tenacity and holding- 
 power of the regiment were here again de- 
 monstrated. 
 
 Present at Gettysburg the 28th did not lose 
 heavily but it was hard worked and, with the 
 mcxst of Slocum's Corps, was moved from our 
 right to the support of the left which was so 
 terribly pushed on the afternoon of the second 
 day of that batUe, and those most -worthy and 
 gallant companions of the regiment, those of 
 the brigade of General Greene, inflicted very 
 heavy loss upon the enemy in front of their 
 works, on Gulp's Hill. These works were in 
 part C(3nstructed and defended by the 28th, 
 and the enemy's loss in front of them was 
 immense. 
 
 With the old fighting army of the Potomac, 
 under Meade, it moved in the pursuit of Lee after 
 (Gettysburg. 
 
 Following the Union defeat at Chickamauga, 
 with its own and the eleventh Corps, both under 
 Hooker, the 28th was moved out to Alabama 
 under command of Cai)t. Flyiin. While at 
 
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 Bridgeport, holding Uiat point, occured the action 
 of Wauhatchie, Tennessee, one of the most im- 
 portant and interesting, in its results, of all the 
 minor battles of the war. Fought at midnight of 
 the 28th October, 1863, in an unknown country 
 against heavy odds, that action reflected glory 
 not only upon the brigade which fought it, 
 but upon its compeers and comrades with 
 whom it had so often and so long marched 
 and fought side by side, (jlory not only to 
 Greene's brigade and to our Knap's magnifi- 
 cent battery — General Geary in command — 
 but upon the whole 12th Corps and upon the 
 brave, patient and true soldiers of the eleventh, 
 Howard's Corps — some of whose brigades 
 carried, at the point of the bayonet, the hills on 
 which were posted the enemy's reserves and thus 
 caused or aided in causing all their forces to fall 
 back. The 28th had no cowards among its 
 companion regiments. 
 
 Following this in a few weeks came the five days 
 battles around Chattanooga. On this day, the 
 24th November eight years ago, the 28th in its 
 old brigade and division moved upon Lookout 
 Mountain, as part of the general plan of Grant 
 at Chattanooga. As explained to the speaker 
 by General Hooker, it was a beautiful move- 
 ment well carried out. The mere ascent of 
 
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 Lookout Mountain th^ou^■h the wild forest, over 
 immense roeks and fallen trees, was of itself a 
 toilsome feat, and the "28th" and their eom- 
 panions should be proud of the brilliancy and 
 beauty of that action. Not losing many that day, 
 so well timed was the movement of (jcneral 
 Osterhaus on the other flank of the mountain, yet 
 the hard work performed and the rapidity of ex- 
 ecution made it tell heavily on the whole 
 command. 
 
 During" all these days around Chattanooga 
 and following the enemy down into Georgia, the 
 28th was activly engaged — losing sharply at 
 Ringgold. 
 
 One of the noble fellows wounded at this 
 battle lay dying in the hospital at Chattanooga 
 and when spoken to by an old comrade said 
 strongly and with cheer — " Never fear sir, I'll be 
 back again with the boys of our old regiment!" 
 And he is with very many of them to day — \\ ith 
 our loved and lost comrades. 
 
 Returning to Wauhatchie, the 28th re-enlisted 
 for three years from December 1863, under Col- 
 onel Thomas J. Ahl. 
 
 In the spring of 1864, in the army of the great 
 and good Thomas, the regiment, under Colonel, 
 afterwards General John Mynn, moved in the 
 Grand Army of Sherman through (icorgia to 
 
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 the sea. All the way down — before and at 
 Atlanta, Rocky- Faced Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw, 
 Mill Creek, Dallas, Snake Gap and else- 
 where — was one continous advance and fight At 
 Peach Tree Creek the regiment lost many but 
 inflicted heavy blows upon the enemy. What 
 that hundred days cost that army, none but 
 soldiers can know. What the soldiers suffered, 
 no one can tell — their heroism is known, in its 
 fullness, only in Heaven. But they marched 
 and suffered and fought and w^ent on clean down 
 to the end — yea throiigh the bitter end out into 
 the full light of their gloriously saved Union. 
 
 They marched on through Milledgeville to 
 Savannah where the "28th" was among the 
 troops which garrisoned that City. Through the 
 Carolinas to Raleigh, to Richmond, to Wash- 
 ington ! Then what they felt no one but a soldier 
 can feel. The divine hands of appreciating sym- 
 pathy were laid upon the soldiers and they 
 were blessed — 
 
 The 28th, the 147th and Knap's battery, "three 
 joined in one," were mustered out in June, 
 1865. 
 
 Upon the rolls of the 28th, from first to last, 
 there were 2834 men and officers. The number 
 of its killed and severely wounded in action, so 
 far as the speaker can learn, was about 500, not 
 
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 including those of the 147th. How many died 
 of disease in the service and of disease and 
 wounds after discharge can never be known.* It 
 fought in eight states of the Union, in twenty-four 
 battles and engagements and in nineteen skir- 
 mishes. From it were made two regiments ; 
 one battery of six guns (Knap's); two Brevet 
 Major Generals with the full rank of Brigadier 
 Generals; two Brevet Brigadier Generals ; six 
 Colonels ; two Brevet Colonels ; four Lieutenant 
 Colonels; three Brevet Lieutenant Colonels; six 
 Majors; two Brevet Majors — add to these whole 
 scores of brave and deserving line officers, and all 
 these and more were made by you — more for you 
 made nearly three thousand excellent soldiers 
 and — better yet, for, less your dead, you have 
 made that number of intelligent, self-respecting 
 and honored citizens. »*»*»« » 
 The great war was ended and our li\'ing 
 heroes came back home. On the 90th anni- 
 versary of American Independance, on the 4th 
 of July, 1866, our dear old State gathered into 
 her arms all the battle flags of her sons and 
 hung them upon the peaceful walls of her 
 Capitol. — among them those of the 28th and 
 147th Pennsylvania Regiments and of Knap's 
 
 Note 4. Many of the statistics herein given were furnished by Colonel John P. 
 
 Nicholson a diligi-nt investigator of the history of the " 28th." 
 
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 battery, as radiant with glory as the best — 
 and no man can say more than this. 
 
 Oh saved Country cherish your hving soldiers 
 and mourn, never forgetting, the brave who 
 died to save you. 
 
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