llow. They reached
Gettysburg on the 1st of July, 1863. The route of the Seventh was _via_.
Aquia Landing, Edward's Ferry, Frederick, and Littletown. Tedious in the
extreme was the march a portion of the way. The weather was excessively
warm; so that on the route from Dumfries to Fairfax, in one day,
nineteen men in one division, died by the road side from heat and
exhaustion. Who can tell the amount of suffering among the survivors?
Battles have produced only a fractional portion of the horrors and
sufferings of this war.

On the 1st of July, the Seventh took position on the left of the Federal
lines, without fighting. In the morning of the 2d, it was moved to the
right wing, where there was a little musketry in the afternoon. At 6
P. M., it reinforced the left wing, which, by a furious assault, had
been forced back. There being danger on the right wing, the regiment was
again moved to its support, at 1 A. M. of the 3d. Musketry was kept up
during the whole day. At 6 A. M., the Seventh took the rifle pits. The
severest portion of the battle occurred in the afternoon of the 3d. The
enemy threw his whole force against the center and was thoroughly
punished. The cannonading was terrific, perhaps equal to any of the
whole war. The slight loss in the Seventh was due to their
fortifications. In Co. C, the wounded were Henry Fairchild, John Burns,
John Finneran and Joseph McCurren; the latter, mortally.

Once more were the faces of the two grand armies turned towards
Richmond. The battles of Geary's brigade in the northern portion of the
Confederacy were ended. Its journey before meeting the enemy again, face
to face, in deadly conflict, was long enough to reach around a
small-sized world. The windings and turnings of it are almost
untraceable. In this short sketch, there is only space to mark out the
route without giving the multitude of interesting particulars connected
with it.

The brigade passed through Smoketown, Fairplay, (there forming line of
battle,) Sharpsburg, Harper's Ferry, proceeded up the Loudon Valley to
Ashby's Gap, marched through Manassas Gap, Rectorsville, Markham, White
Plains, Thoroughfare Gap, Greenwich, Manassas, Catlett Station, and,
crossing the Rappahannock below Culpepper, it encamped on the banks of
the Rapidan, in view of the enemy, on the opposite side.

But not long were they to tarry there. The four Ohio regiments were soon
sent to New York, as was supposed, to enforce the draft. Moving b