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PENNSYLVANIA PRIDE
n September 14, 2019, the Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Round Table gathered on Gettysburg’s Little Round Top to celebrate the recent National Park Service restoration of the 155th Pennsylvania Monument with a third rededication ceremony. Originally paid for by veterans, the monument honors the men from Western Pennsylvania who trained at Camp Howe and left for service on September 2, 1862. They fought at Antietam, faced deadly Confederate volleys at Marye’s Heights in Fredericksburg, and returned to their native state to fight at the Battle of Gettysburg. Following that, they continued to serve until their last engagement at Appomattox. ¶ Originally dedicated in 1886 without the figure of a soldier, the monument was again dedicated following Pennsylvania’s allocation in 1889 of $1,500 for memorials to each state regiment that served at Gettysburg That largess allowed the veterans of the 155th to
