Gettysburg 2009
   Each year the weekend of Remembrance Day in November is  a busy time for the 69th   
Pennsylvania "Irish Volunteers" We begin our Saturday Morning with a special ceremony in the
National Military Cemetery honoring the 21 members of our original regiment buried there.
    Next, we march to the "Copse of Trees" and our sacred wall to salute one of the ten
 companies of the regimen. Here, we read the muster roll of the entire company at Gettysburg.
                     We then participate in the annual parade through town.
    This year we honored our tenth company - Company K "The Independent Zouaves"
 commanded by Captain William Davis.      Next year we will begin the battle line cycle again
                                      with Company A.  - "The Irish Volunteers"
Here 21 of our lads are buried
The National Military Cemetery at
Gettysburg
WE had outstanding attendance this year
42 Officers and men from the re enacting
unit attended the ceremony at our
monument representing all 42 members
of Company K at Gettysburg.
For the past 14 years our green battleflag is paraded through Gettysburg
Captain John Kopich & "Mick" Chambers
proundly lead the lads through Gettysburg.
Beautiful weather was ours for the parade
At "support arms' The 69th Pa marches
down Baltimore Avenue
The formal ceremony can be viewed in the Youtube video below
The names of the 21 soldiers from the regiment are
read and a flag is placed upon each grave.
Yes, the monument of the 72nd Pa is absent from this photograph
Ten Companies of the 69th Pa and 4 companies
of the 71st Pa defended the wall on July 3. Their
two regimental monuments mark where they
stood against the rebel onslaught.
With 42 participants the 69th filed the streets from curb to curb
The front line marches by at shoulder
arms
The National and the green Regimental
flags parade through town
   A Video of the 69th Cemetery Ceremony