Monument of 57th Pa. Vet. Vols., at Sherfy's house on the battlefield of Gettysburg.
History of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Chapter I. 9
Organization of the Regiment—Camp Curtin—Departure forWashington—In Old Virginia—Colonel Maxwell Resigns—Colonel Campbell
Chapter II. 18
We Embark for the Peninsula—Yorktown—Camping in the Mud—PeachOrchard—Artillery Practice—Battle of Williamsburg
Chapter III. 29
Battle of Fair Oaks—Death of Major Culp—Increasing Sick List—AdvancingOur Lines—The Seven Days' Battles—Glendale or Charles City CrossRoads—The Fifty-Seventh Under Captain Maxwell as Rear Guard—MalvernHill—Retreat to Harrison's Landing
Chapter IV. 43
Camp Life at Harrison's Landing—Major Birney Assigned to the Commandof the Regiment—Transferred to General Birney's Brigade—Evacuation ofHarrison's Landing and the Peninsula—The Army of the Potomac isSent to Reenforce General Pope
Chapter V. 53
Second Bull Run Campaign—Battle of Chantilly—Death ofGeneral Kearny—His Body Escorted to Washington bya Detachment of the Fifty-Seventh—Retreat to Alexandria—Conrad'sFerry—Colonel Campbell Rejoins theRegiment
Chapter VI. 61
On to Richmond Once More—Foragers Captured—GeneralMcClellan Superseded by General Burnside—The Marchto the Rappahannock—Battle of Fredericksburg
Chapter VII. 69
Camp Pitcher—The "Mud March"—General Hooker in Commandof the Army—Resolutions Adopted by the Fif