Gettysburg, the Pivotal Battle of the Civil WarA.C. McClurg & Company, 1911 - 290 էջ |
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A. P. Hill advance artillery attack Baltimore Pike batteries Battle of Gettysburg battle-line battlefield Birney's Bloody Angle brigade Buford campaign Cemetery Hill Cemetery Ridge Chambersburg Pike column command Confederate crest crossing Culp's Hill defeat Devil's Den Early's east eastward Eleventh Corps Emmetsburg Road enemy field Fifth Corps fight fire flank front G. K. WARREN grove guns Hagerstown Hancock headquarters Heth's hour Howard hundred yards infantry July second Lee's army Little Round Top Longstreet loss Meade miles monuments morning of July night northward old veteran Peach Orchard Pickett's Charge Pickett's division PORTRAIT OF BRIG.-GEN PORTRAIT OF MAJ.-GEN position Potomac rear regiments reinforced retreat Reynolds Rock Creek rode Salient Second Corps Seminary Ridge Sickles Sixth Corps Slocum slope southward Stuart Taneytown Road Third Corps thousand tion troops Union army valley victory westward Wheatfield Road whole army Willoughby Run woods wounded
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Էջ 288 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from these...
Էջ 230 - If you are coming at all you must come at once, or I cannot give you proper support ; but the enemy's fire has not slackened at all ; at least eighteen guns are still firing from the cemetery itself.
Էջ 111 - Stuart; I ought to have heard from him long before now. He may have met with disaster, but I hope not. In the absence of reports from him, I am in ignorance as to what we have in front of us here. It may be the whole Federal army, or it may be only a detachment. If it is the whole Federal force we must fight a battle here; if we do not gain a victory, those defiles and gorges through which we passed this morning will shelter us from disaster.
Էջ 288 - It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Էջ 283 - ... for use in the condition in which they were at the time of the fire, excluding any fanciful or sentimental considerations.
Էջ 236 - General, shall I advance?" The effort to speak the order failed, and I could only indicate it by an affirmative bow. He accepted the duty with seeming confidence of success, leaped on his horse, and rode gayly to his command. I mounted and spurred for Alexander's post. He reported that the batteries he had...
Էջ 56 - Sir, let but this our celestial goddess Liberty stretch forth her fair hand toward the people of the Old World, tell them to come, and bid them welcome — and you will see them pouring in from the north...
Էջ 85 - Up and down the line men reeling and falling ; splinters flying from wheels and axles where bullets hit ; in rear, horses tearing and plunging, mad with wounds or terror ; drivers yelling, shells bursting, shot shrieking overhead, howling about our ears or throwing up great clouds of dust where they struck...
Էջ 34 - ... record of it exists. This much, however, is certain: That the assault was not made in force sufficient to accomplish decisive results. General Warren, Meade's chief engineer, who was in his confidence, and who was probably present at the time when the order was given to General Sykes, states positively in his testimony before the Congressional Committee on the conduct of the war that it was General Meade's intention to move forward all the forces he could get in line and assault the enemy in...
Էջ 82 - ... half way to the Fairfield Road— nearly a mile in length. First we could see the tips of their color-staffs coming up over the little ridge, then the points of their bayonets, and then the Johnnies themselves, coming on with a steady tramp, tramp, and with loud yells. It was now apparent that the old Battery's turn had come again, and the embattled boys who stood so grimly at their posts felt that another page must be added to the record of Buena Vista and Antietam. The term "boys...