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The 72nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Philadelphia Fire Zouaves under Colonel D.W.C. Baxter, held this angle as part of the Philadelphia Brigade under General Alexander Webb during the last assault on July 2 and 3, 1863. In the battle, the regiment lost 10 officers and 182 men out of 473 present for duty, with total casualties of 495, and honored the memory of its fallen comrades.
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania · United States
