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About one hundred sharpshooters reached this spot around 12 M. on July 2, 1863, and lost nineteen men here as they first developed the enemy's threatened attack on the Union left and rear. On July 3 the regiment supported batteries along Cemetery Ridge, and on July 4 it picketed and skirmished near the Peach Orchard. Its losses at Gettysburg were 6 killed, 37 wounded, and 6 captured, for a total of 49. Recruited in 1861 from five northern states, the regiment included four New York companies, A, B, D, and H. It served in the 3rd, 5th, and 2nd Corps and took part in forty-three battles and skirmishes from Yorktown in 1862 to Appomattox in 1865.
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Freedom Township, Pennsylvania · United States
