Newspaper: Soldiers Off for Gettysburg  

 
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by David Welch
dpwelch@erols.com
 
USGENWEB NOTICE:  In keeping with our policy of providing
free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by
non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on
all copied material.These electronic pages may NOT be
reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other
organizations.
 
____________________________________________________________


The Pottsville Republican newspaper printed the following article on 
Monday, September 26, 1910, page 1:

"Soldiers Off for Gettysburg" - The following members of Gowen Post, 
No. 22 G.A.R. accompanied by their wives left this morning for Gettysburg 
where they will attend the unveiling of the monument erected by the State
tomorrow.  The unveiling will be marked with appropriate exercises.  
Those who left today were Capt. John T. Boyle, Hugh Stevenson, Benjamin 
Jenkins, Arthur Branigan, Ethan Crandall, Thomas Williams, David C. Pritchard, 
George Foltz, John C. Crosland, William McGrone (or McGlone), John McGlone, 
Henry Groatman, Chas. P. Potts, Penrose Smith, Emanuel Templin, George 
Holder, Francis Shollenberger, Chas. Shelly and Chas. Fisher, David Mellon, Wm.
Miller and Robert Thomas.

[This appears to refer to the massive monument on the battlefield that
contains the name of every Pennsylvania soldier who participated in the
battle of Gettysburg.  Check it out if you had an ancestor who fought
there.]