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Coster sends forward the 27th Pennsylvania to the edge of town and deploys the 73rd Pennsylvania as skirmishers. Smith moves up in column of regiments. Map indicates developments as of 12:45 p.m., July 1.
"The Second Brigade, Col. Orland Smith, took a position toward the northwest … Colonel [Charles R.] Coster threw forward one regiment as skirmishers in front of his position, and another one into a large stone church and the surrounding houses in town, in order to prevent the enemy's sharpshooters from annoying our artillery" – Brigadier General Adolph von Steinwehr.
"We were deployed as skirmishers on the right of the cemetery" – Private Robert Robinson, Company B, 73rd Pennsylvania.
"The 27th Regiment was ordered to take possession of the [Adams County] jail, [Trinity German Reformed] church, and [public] school building on one end of the town [East High Street] and make preparations to defend the entrance from that direction" – Member of the 27th Pennsylvania.
"Fill canteens, clean and load guns" – Corporal Newell Burtch, Company E, 154th New York.
"I immediately formed the brigade in line of battle by battalions in mass in rear of Cemetery Hill, and thus advanced through the cemetery to the front of the hill overlooking the town" – Colonel Orland Smith.
"Rested for a little while in the quiet cemetery on the hill … It was a solemn place to rest and reflect before going into battle" – Major Samuel H. Hurst, 73rd Ohio.
"We … were filing through the lines of marble slabs and over the low grassy mounds" – 1st Lieutenant John W. Hand, Company F, 136th New York.
"We marched to the arched entrance of the cemetery and formed in line of battle at right angles to the road leading to it" – Corporal Lucien A. Smith, Company G, 136th New York.
"Our brigade was placed in reserve on Cemetery Hill, my regiment being in the cemetery" – Colonel Adin B. Underwood, 33rd Massachusetts.
"The battery [I, 1st New York] of steel guns with us … in front of the cemetery, a little to the left of the main entrance and on the opposite side of the Baltimore turnpike" – Sergeant James H. Little, Company A, 33rd Massachusetts.
Sources:
-Official reports of Brig. Gen. A. von Steinwehr, Col. Orland Smith.
-The Gettysburg Diary of Robert Robinson, 73rd Pennsylvania, by Kelly Palestini, Gettysburg Magazine, no. 66, p. 98.
-27th Pennsylvania, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, by Samuel P. Bates, Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1870, 1:390.
-Diary and notes of Newell Burtch, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
-Journal-History of the 73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by Samuel H. Hurst, Chillicothe, OH: 1866, http://home.adelphia.net/~73rdovi/journal-history2.html, 03/10/2003.
-A Graphic Account of the Battle by an Eleventh Corps Captain, by J. W. Hand, National Tribune, July 24, 1890.
-Recollections of Gettysburg, by L. A. Smith, War Papers, read May 3, 1884 before the Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Detroit, MI: James H. Stone & Co., Printers, vol. 2, p. 300.
-December 9, 1881 report of Colonel Adin Ballou Underwood, Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ed. by Janet B. Hewett, Noah Andre Trudeau, Bryce A. Suderow, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, vol. 5, serial no. 5, p. 217.
-The 33d Mass., by J. H. Little, The National Tribune, April 29, 1909, p. 7.
"The Second Brigade, Col. Orland Smith, took a position toward the northwest … Colonel [Charles R.] Coster threw forward one regiment as skirmishers in front of his position, and another one into a large stone church and the surrounding houses in town, in order to prevent the enemy's sharpshooters from annoying our artillery" – Brigadier General Adolph von Steinwehr.
"We were deployed as skirmishers on the right of the cemetery" – Private Robert Robinson, Company B, 73rd Pennsylvania.
"The 27th Regiment was ordered to take possession of the [Adams County] jail, [Trinity German Reformed] church, and [public] school building on one end of the town [East High Street] and make preparations to defend the entrance from that direction" – Member of the 27th Pennsylvania.
"Fill canteens, clean and load guns" – Corporal Newell Burtch, Company E, 154th New York.
"I immediately formed the brigade in line of battle by battalions in mass in rear of Cemetery Hill, and thus advanced through the cemetery to the front of the hill overlooking the town" – Colonel Orland Smith.
"Rested for a little while in the quiet cemetery on the hill … It was a solemn place to rest and reflect before going into battle" – Major Samuel H. Hurst, 73rd Ohio.
"We … were filing through the lines of marble slabs and over the low grassy mounds" – 1st Lieutenant John W. Hand, Company F, 136th New York.
"We marched to the arched entrance of the cemetery and formed in line of battle at right angles to the road leading to it" – Corporal Lucien A. Smith, Company G, 136th New York.
"Our brigade was placed in reserve on Cemetery Hill, my regiment being in the cemetery" – Colonel Adin B. Underwood, 33rd Massachusetts.
"The battery [I, 1st New York] of steel guns with us … in front of the cemetery, a little to the left of the main entrance and on the opposite side of the Baltimore turnpike" – Sergeant James H. Little, Company A, 33rd Massachusetts.
Sources:
-Official reports of Brig. Gen. A. von Steinwehr, Col. Orland Smith.
-The Gettysburg Diary of Robert Robinson, 73rd Pennsylvania, by Kelly Palestini, Gettysburg Magazine, no. 66, p. 98.
-27th Pennsylvania, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, by Samuel P. Bates, Harrisburg, PA: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1870, 1:390.
-Diary and notes of Newell Burtch, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison.
-Journal-History of the 73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by Samuel H. Hurst, Chillicothe, OH: 1866, http://home.adelphia.net/~73rdovi/journal-history2.html, 03/10/2003.
-A Graphic Account of the Battle by an Eleventh Corps Captain, by J. W. Hand, National Tribune, July 24, 1890.
-Recollections of Gettysburg, by L. A. Smith, War Papers, read May 3, 1884 before the Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Detroit, MI: James H. Stone & Co., Printers, vol. 2, p. 300.
-December 9, 1881 report of Colonel Adin Ballou Underwood, Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ed. by Janet B. Hewett, Noah Andre Trudeau, Bryce A. Suderow, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, vol. 5, serial no. 5, p. 217.
-The 33d Mass., by J. H. Little, The National Tribune, April 29, 1909, p. 7.
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