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- May 3, 2013
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Bonus:
Who am I? Jessie Benton Fremont.
Who was my famous husband? John Charles Fremont.
Who am I? Jessie Benton Fremont.
Who was my famous husband? John Charles Fremont.
Oops, forgot the source! Here it comes:Regular question:
1) Samuel W. Pennypacker
2) 26th Emergency Regiment
3) the farm of Henry Wittmer
" The student soldiers became Company A of the 26th Emergency Regiment.
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Klinefelter would later criticize Haller for ordering the 26th into an isolated position: “Here was an ‘emergency’ indeed! A regiment of raw recruits deserted by him who had forced them into the face of an enemy with whom we bore no comparison in numbers or discipline, and cut off from the railroad and all hopes of reinforcements.
Pvt. Samuel W. Pennypacker of Company F, a future governor of Pennsylvania, defended Haller. “To this regiment of seven hundred and thirty-two men who had left their homes only a few days before, unacquainted with their officers and comrades, and unfamiliar with the ways of warfare, was assigned the task of stopping the progress of the army of Lee. The order has often been criticised, but it was absolutely correct.”
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The men of the 26th moved along the Hunterstown Road as fast as their legs could carry them. They stopped at the farm of Henry Witmer, exhausted after a trek of 3-and-a-half miles. Some of the first combat of the Gettysburg Campaign happened here.