Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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1863/06/15 | Under the leadership of Cornet Samuel J Randall, the thirty-one remaining members of First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry furnish themselves with horses and equipment and ride for Harrisburg, arriving there on June 19th. | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
1863/06/21 | First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, a Union Militia, arrive at Gettysburg. The residents generously contributed to the Troop's commissary supplies. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/06/26 | Confederate States Army arrive in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in search of supplies. | Gettysburg, PA, Pennsylvania |
1863/07/00 | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA | |
1863/07/00 | Col Paul Joseph Revere is wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, dies two days later in the II Corps Field Hospital | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/01 | Major Edmund Berkeley leads Garnett's in attacking and destroying the property of the Cumberland Valley Railroad at Gettysburg. "Boys remember Haymarket" was their rallying cry. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/01 | US Union and Confederate forces begin fighting a fierce engagement in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/01 | Oliver O Howard establishes a strong defensive position on the high ground south of town that will become the main Union line for the remaining two days at Gettysburg. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/01 | Confederate Major General Henry Heth division of just under 8,000 men, to march down the pike from Cashtown, Pennsylvania, east toward Gettysburg. | Cashtown, Pennsylvania |
1863/07/02 | Joshua Chamberlain and and the 20th Maine defend Little Round Top | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/02 | General Jenkins climbs a hill near Rock Creek and is fired upon by Union artilary, the shell explodes, wounding Jenkins and killing his horse | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/03 | Confederate Major William N Berkeley, 8th Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company D "Champe Rifles", and his brother Charles F Berkeley Captain, Company D, are captured at Gettysburg. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/03 | Confederate Colonel Norborne Berkeley (1828-1911) is wounded and captured at Gettysburg. Major of the 8th Virginia Volunteer Infantry at the start of the war, he was responsible for much of the early training. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/03 | Riding by the side of General Farnsworth, William Wells leads a cavalry charge from the west to beyond the Big Round Top spur, attacking the rear of Evander M Law's Alabama regiments. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/07/03 | The 8th Virginia Infantry, the Berkeley Regiment, fought in all the principal battles in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. The regiment was almost annihilated at Gettysburg. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
1863/11/19 | President Abraham Lincoln dedicates the Soldiers' National Cemetery. The dais of the dedication ceremony where Lincoln delivered his address was located near today's Soldiers' National Monument. | Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA |
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