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Title: Reply of the Philadelphia Brigade Association to the Foolish and Absurd Narrative of Lieutenant Frank A. Haskell

Author: Various

Release Date: August 30, 2010 [EBook #33585]

Language: English

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The Battle of Gettysburg

How General Meade Turned the
Army of the Potomac over
to Lieutenant Haskell
See Page 10

PUBLISHED BY
THE PHILADELPHIA BRIGADE
ASSOCIATION

BOWERS PRINTING COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

REPLY OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRIGADE ASSOCIATION
TO THE FOOLISH and ABSURD NARRATIVE
OF Lieutenant FRANK A. HASKELL

WHICH APPEARS TO BE ENDORSED BY
THE MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION
COMMANDRY OF MASSACHUSETTS
AND THE WISCONSIN HISTORY COMMISSION

COMPLIMENTS OF THE
PHILADELPHIA BRIGADE ASSOCIATION
MARCH, 1910

HEADQUARTERS,
PHILADELPHIA BRIGADE ASSOCIATION,
S. W. COR. FIFTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

At the stated meeting of the Survivors of the Philadelphia Brigade, Second
Brigade, Second Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac, held at the
above place, Tuesday evening, September 7, 1909, letters were read from
Gen. Alexander S. Webb, who commanded the Philadelphia Brigade at the
Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2 and 3, 1863, requesting the consideration
of the Brigade Association to the most astounding misstatements made by
First Lieut. Frank Aretas Haskell, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, in a paper said
to have been written by him under date of July 16, 1863, two weeks after
the Battle of Gettysburg had been fought and addressed to his brother, who
printed it for private circulation about fifteen years afterward.

The letters of Gen. Webb were accompanied by a volume of 94 pages,
containi