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On July 2, 1863, around 8 a.m., the regiment (also known as the "Goldstream Regiment") was in position near Rock Creek.  Commanded at Gettysburg by Capt. John H. Flynn and deployed as skirmishers, it engaged with the enemy during the day and remained in this position until 7 p.m. when it was ordered to rejoin the First Brigade.  As noted in one account “In these brilliant engagements the Twenty-eighth again distinguished itself for its bravery and intrepidity. In consequence of heavy breast-works thrown up by order of General Geary, its loss was only twenty-five in killed, wounded and missing. Two hundred prisoners and four thousand small arms were captured by the Second Division…. The Twenty-eighth left the breast-works at Gettysburg on July 5th, and marched to Littletown in pursuit of the retreating enemy; thence on the 8th marched thirty miles to Jefferson, on the 9th to Rohersville, 10th to Hagerstown, and 11th to Fair Play. Many of the men were barefooted and suffered considerably during this march of more than seventy-five miles.”  It brought 370 men to the field, losing 3 killed, 23 wounded (including Captain Flynn) and 2 missing.

John Page Nicholson fought on Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg as a lieutenant in the 28th Pennsylvania.  After the war, he would go on to become the Chairman of the Gettysburg National Park Commission from 1893-1922, overseeing increases in battlefield acreage and monumentation.