PENNSYLVANIA "BUCKTAILS"----"THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHT AT GETTYSBURG……A PAPER READ FEBRUARY 10TH, 1896 , BEFORE THE PENNSYLVANIA COMMANDERY OF THE LOYAL LEGION, BY R.L. ASHHURST, BREVET-MAJOR U.S. VOLS., LATE ADJUTANT 150TH PENNSYLVANIA." Philadelphia: Press of Allen, Lane & Scott, 1897. 29pp., wraps, light blue covers w/light wear at extremities & one small 1" soiled spot on rear. Else vg.

Richard Ashhurst enlisted as a 1st Lieutenant and was commissioned 8/20/1862 as staff & field adjutant, 150th Pennsylvania Infantry "Bucktails". He received a shoulder wound at Gettysburg 7/1/1863, and was discharged for wounds 9/10/1863, later being awarded brevets promotions to Captain and Major. His 150th PA was one of the three famed Pennsylvania "Bucktails" regiments, the other two being the 42nd (original Bucktails) and the 149th. At Gettysburg the 150th had been hotly engaged in the first day's battle, changing forward and also front to rear while under fire, losing its colors, with its color bearer killed while clutching the flag. Ashhurst concludes his Mollus paper with the following assessment of the first day's fight at Gettysburg: "The soldiers of the 1st Corps, therefore, who stood unrelieved through that long day against continuous and repeated assaults, and were not recalled until so late that they seemed to have been forgotten, and until their position was turned on both flanks, can feel that their sacrifice was not in vain, and that although technically defeated, their prolonged resistance and cruel loss was a most important factor in bringing about the glorious results of the battle as a whole."

One of the essential Mollus accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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