ad from the first enrollment until the muster out 350 field,
staff and line officers, and over 6,000 non-commissioned officers and
privates. The officers and men of the regiments were equal in
courage, endurance and discipline to the best commands of the army,
and their soldierly bearing on the march and in battle helped to make
the history of the Army of the Potomac."

As to the charge of cowardice against a Brigade that lost 3,533 in killed,
wounded, deaths from other causes, and missing, made under the auspices of
Dartmouth College, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, Commandery of Massachusetts, is so positive, so indecent,
so scandalous, so brutal, and so absolutely false, the Philadelphia
Brigade, in formulating a reply to these malicious and infamous
violations of facts, has deemed it proper to submit, as briefly as
possible, extracts from Colonel Banes' "History of the Philadelphia
Brigade," about what the Old Brigade did from the time it received the
order to move from Falmouth, Va., until it met and turned backward the
charge of Pickett's Division at the "Bloody Angle" of Gettysburg, on the
afternoon of July 3, 1863.

BANES VERSUS HASKELL.

That "History of the Philadelphia Brigade," by Colonel Chas. H. Banes,
which records with absolute truthfulness the part taken by the
Philadelphia Brigade from Ball's Bluff to Appomattox, was written with the
calm deliberation and adherence to facts characteristic of the man who
stood foremost among his fellow citizens of Pennsylvania for business
integrity, Christian rectitude, and American manhood and honor, and
sensitive in the highest degree of his honor, and herewith is what that
manly man, comrade and companion, Colonel Chas. H. Banes, Adjutant of the
Philadelphia Brigade, records in his history regarding the battle at the
Bloody Angle of Gettysburg, and the march from Falmouth immediately
preceding that great battle:

"On Sunday, June 14th, our Division was ordered to move at very short
notice. At about midnight the Second Division, the last of the Army,
moved from Falmouth, obstructing the roads behind the column. At
noon, June 15th, the command reached Stafford Court House, where it
halted two hours; then resuming the march bivouacked at night five
miles from Dumfries. The day was very hot, the roads were filled with
dust, and the march of 28 miles was so oppressive that a