Henry P. Moyer, History of the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry

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H. P. Moyer and the veterans of the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry compiled their History of the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry from Lebanon in 1911.

These veterans decided to publish their regimental history at the time they dedicated their monument on the battlefield at Gettysburg. As part of General John Buford’s cavalry division their pickets were among the first to fire on the Confederates on the morning of July 1. They were certainly the first to engage Confederates advancing on the Mummasburg road and their monument can still be visited just below the Eternal Light Peace Memorial on Oak Hill.

The regiment served under Sheridan throughout the latter part of the war and their story is detailed and useful.

Such regimental histories, along with battlefield commission reports, are among the materials Gettysburg historians must master in order to take the legendarily difficult exam to become a licensed battlefield guide.

Ex-library from the Green Free Library of Canton, PA. Blind stamp on title page and library card folder pasted into rear flyleaf. Lightly shaken; else very good and bright with minimal usage for a library book.

Moyer, H. P. HISTORY OF THE SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY OR ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-SECOND IN THE LINE OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS, WAR TO SUPPRESS THE REBELLION, 1861-1865. Lebanon: Sowers, 1911. 1st edition, 472p., frontispiece., illustrations, (Dornbusch-100).