d of
the Brigade, and the Lieutenant-Colonel took command of the Regiment, and
soon after was shot in the leg, remaining in command until his right arm
was shattered. Carried into an adjacent barn, used temporarily as a
hospital, the flow of blood was stopped by a tourniquet, and the arm
bandaged--occupying about thirty minutes--after which he returned to his
regiment and assumed command, maintaining the line held by it until the
excruciating pain and faintness from shock and loss of blood compelled him
to retire. The next day his arm was amputated at the shoulder.

For that--perhaps--unprecedented instance of heroism at Gettysburg the
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 150th Pennsylvania was awarded a Congressional
Medal of Honor; he was promoted for bravery on the field of battle, and
this is what he, General Henry S. Huidekoper, of Philadelphia, a member of
the Loyal Legion, Commandery of Pennsylvania, says of Haskell's book:

"In the first print much of what Haskell said was suppressed, and we
cannot but regret that any of it was made public, for, from a
historical standpoint, the story is inaccurate and misleading, and
from an ethical standpoint it is indecent, venomous, scandalous and
vainglorious."

And this is the "narrative" that the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
Massachusetts, and the History Commission of Wisconsin, have recently
published in attractive and costly form, giving the same wide circulation,
unmindful of the fact that thereby they are inflicting irreparable injury
to both the living and the heroic dead.

THE PHILADELPHIA BRIGADE.

Colonel Chas. H. Banes, late President of the Market Street National Bank,
was a typical soldier of the Civil War; he was a leading member of the
Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and was as devout as a Christian as he was
heroic as a Volunteer Soldier. In 1876 Colonel Banes published an
interesting volume, entitled, "History of the Philadelphia Brigade." No
man was as competent as he to write such a history, inasmuch as he had
long been the Adjutant of the Brigade and in possession of all its
records. In his preface to that book Colonel Banes says:

"The four regiments of the Brigade were composed chiefly of
Volunteers from the city of Philadelphia, and for that reason might
properly be called the Philadelphia Brigade. It consisted of the
69th, 71st, 72d, and 106th Regiments of Pennsylvania Volunteers. The
command h