LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Portrait of Major-General George G. Meade. Frontispiece. Portrait of General Robert E. Lee.......... Portrait of Major-General Joseph Hooker.......... Pen Sketch of Major-General George G. Meade....... Portrait of Major-General W. S. Hancock. Map of Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania, from the Potomac to the Susquehanna........ Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg. General Lee and Staff in the Public Square of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania............ 91 614 163 166 Portrait of the Scout, Rev. S. W. Pomeroy.............. ......... 225 View from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, showing the scene of the first day's battle........ 260 264 Portrait of the Scout, Benjamin S. Huber......... The tree under which General Reynolds fell....... East Cemetery Hill, upon which the Union forces were rallied............ 278 .......... ........... View from the Cupola of the Theological Seminary, looking East and Federal Breast-works upon Culp's Hill............................. Entrance to the Devil's Den........... Inside the Devil's Den............. The Valley of Death................ 282 291 296 298 ......... 302 ... 320 322 325 The Wheat Field, or the Scene of the Whirlpool of the Battle....... 327 The Assault upon East Cemetery Hill......... General Meade's Head-quarters.............. ................ 340 352 xxvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. The High-Water Mark of the Rebellion, or the Place where it Received its Death Wound..................................... 370 Codori's House and the Emmittsburg Road-Scene of Pickett's Great Charge......... 374 381 Pickett's Great Assault............ Cavalry Shaft, marking the Place where the Great Cavalry Engagement behind the Federal Right took Place, July 3d, 1863 Soldiers' National Cemetery.... General Reynolds' Monument Soldiers' National Monument... Observatory upon East Cemetery Hill.......... View from Little Round Top, looking North-east..... 410 View from Little Round Top, looking West and North-west................ 545 After the Fire, a View of the Ruins of part of Chambersburg, Penn sylvania, after its Destruction by the Confederates, July 30th, 1864.. 588 APPENDIX. A. Extract from Hon. A. H. Stephens' celebrated "Corner Stone Address." B. Poem. Advice to the South, by Maurice Thompson....... C. Consideration of the Charge against General Sickles, that he Disregarded an Order from General Reynolds, July 1st, 1863.......... D. Did General Sickles Disobey an Order from General Meade, July 2d, 1863............. E. The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, by the Confederates, July 30th, 1864........ xxvii Page. 553 556 558 570 580 INTRODUCTION. No battle field on earth is so well preserved and marked as is that of Gettysburg. Little and Big Round Top, East Cemetery Hill and Ridge Culp's and Wolff Hill, Seminary and Oak Ridge, have become immortal, and will endure while time itself lasts. The lines of the two great armies, the positions occupied by the various corps, divisions, brigades, and regi. ments, and the places where heroic deeds were performed and where distinguished men fell, are being marked by tablets and monuments of enduring marble and granite. In this commendable work, it affords us pleasure to state, Confederates as well as Federals are engaged. The stone fences and huge boulders, used as defenses, and many of the breast-works thrown up at the time, also remain, and will be preserved as long as time and the elements of nature will permit. The various states whose troops participated in the memorable battle which occurred there, as well as bri, gades, regiments, and companies, are vying with each other, not only to mark for future ages where gallant men fought and where patriots died, but to make as beautiful as possible the entire field where the life of our great Government was assured. It is eminently proper, then, that every fact of historic value connected with the great episode which culminated upon that field should not only be preserved but placed upon record in its proper connection. This the survivors of the period of those stirring events owe to the generations who are yet to come. The author of this work has attempted to discharge, in a measure, the duty indicated in the foregoing. His qualifications for the task he has |