following up the discomfitfed foe and harassing him in his ignominious retreat. Several corps moved during the afternoon and evening, and we ourselves received orders to march at five o'clock on the morning of July sixth, at which hour we were in line, and moved a short distance, but soon returned to the grove occupied by us on the fifth, where we spent the remainder of the day and night. At this place we received the intelligence of the fall of Vicksburg, and the army became very enthusiastic over the "glad tidings of great joy." General Meade's modest congratulatory order was promulgated during the day.

The total loss of the regiment during the engagement was, one officer, Lieutenant Hiram R. Dyer, and seventeen enlisted men, killed; seven officers, Captain Almon H. Fogg, Captain Milton M. Young, Adjutant Charles W. Roberts, Lieutenants Newton Whitten, W. H. Green, George W. Verrill, and Stephen Graffam, and one hundred and five enlisted men, wounded; and two only, missing.

In his official report of the battle of Gettysburg, Colonel (since Major-General) de Trobriand thus mentions the Seventeenth Maine:

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* * Still the forces of the enemy were passing around our left, and, when in proper position, their columns rushed forward on Ward's brigade, drawn in line to receive the shock. The accustomed yells of the confederates, and the intensity of the firing

on my left

had scarcely announced the precise point and the violence of the attack, when I extended my left by moving the Seventeenth Maine across a wheat-field, in order to fill a gap open there, thereby reinforcing the right of General Ward. The Seventeenth Maine took a strong position, behind a stone wall, and did good service at that point."

In another portion of the same report, he again metions the regiment:

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"I found the Seventeenth Maine in the wheat-field, where it had followed the receding movement of the line on the left; and, as the enemy was pressing upon us on that side, I made a retour offensif with that regiment, reinforced by the Fifth Michigan, keeping the enemy at bay in the woods, until the arrival of efficient reinforcements from the Second Corps allowed us to be relieved, when our ammunition was just exhausted."

ARLY on the morning of July seventh, we were aroused by the bugle sounding reveille. It rained quite hard during the night and continued through the day. We were in line at four o'clock, and soon after on our way; and it was with a feeling of relief that we found ourselves once more "out of Pennsylvania." It was a singular fact, and to us a mortifying one, that our experiences in the borders of the Keystone State had not been as pleasant as we had been led to anticipate, and that our presence had not been hailed with the enthusiasm and welcome that we had a right to expect from a people whose homes and property we had marched so far, and undergone so much, to protect. In the section through which we passed, it seemed as though the inhabitants regarded us as a species of itinerant showmen, from whom it was their duty to

extort as much as possible for the smallest consideration. They also seemed to think that because the rebel army had passed over their farms, and burned a few fences, we were bound to pity and condole with them; that they were a much abused and unfortunate race, and we a sort of jolly crew on a pleasure excursion through their domains.

Though of course there were many very honorable exceptions, the majority of the inhabitants were coarse, vulgar, unfeeling, and miserly. The border inhabitants were not, however, regarded by us as representatives of the noble State of Pennsylvania, whose brave men have done so much in putting down the rebellion. A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Gettysburg, made some plain statements, and nearly every soldier who was present with the army can corroborate the assertions thus made, or quote instances still more barbarous and discreditable that came under his own observation.

"In the first place the male citizens mostly ran away, and left the women and children to the mercy of their enemies. On their return, instead of lending a helping hand to our wounded, and opening their houses to our famished officers and soldiers, they have only manifested indecent haste to present their bills. One man yesterday presented a bill for eighteen rails which our men had burned in cooking their coffee! On the streets the burden of their talk is their losses, and speculations as to whether the Government can be compelled to pay for this or that. They are almost entirely uncourteous, but this is plainly from lack of intelligence and refinement. Their charges, too, were exorbitant, hotels, $2.50 per day; milk, ten and fifteen

cents per quart; bread, $1, and even $1.50, per loaf; twenty cents for a bandage for a wounded soldier! I wish it to be understood that the facts I have stated can be fully substantiated by many officers high in rank, as well as by what I personally saw and experienced."

We did not regret, as we retraced our steps, the termination of our northern campaign; nor did we shed a tear upon the occasion of bidding farewell to Pennsylvania, unless to the memory of those gallant and noble sons of the north whom we left on the bloody field of Gettysburg as sacrifices to the noblest cause that ever enlisted the sympathies of a free people. We marched about seventeen miles, the weather during most of the day being damp, rainy, and disagreeable.

At five o'clock, A. M., of Wednesday, the eighth, it still continuing to rain, we resumed our march, and passed through Mechanicsville. A portion of our route lay over a fine macadamized pike, but for several miles our course was by most miserable, stony, and muddy roads, and through creeks swollen by the recent rains, which, in many instances, the men were obliged to ford where they were waist deep. The crossing of trains and artillery was attended with many difficulties. Rumors and reports reached us of the destruction of the enemy's pontoon trains and bridges, and the rise in the Potomac, rendering it unfordable at every point.

Although we had bad weather and hard marches,