The Battle of Gettysburg 1863The Great battle of Gettysburg is now an event of the past. The composition and strength of the armies, their leaders, the strategy, the tactics, the result, of that field are to-day by the side of those of Waterloo—matters of history. A few days ago these things were otherwise. This great event did not so "cast its shadow before," as to moderate the hot sunshine that streamed upon our preceding march, or to relieve our minds of all apprehension of the result of the second great Rebel invasion of the soil North of the Potomac... |
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advance artillery assailants assault attack Baltimore pike batteries battle of Gettysburg brigade Buford cannonade Carlisle cavalry Cemetery Hill Cemetery Ridge Chambersburg column command Confederates crossed Culp's Hill Cumberland Valley defeat defence Devil's Devil's Den division Early's Eleventh Corps Emmettsburg road enemy enemy's Ewell Ewell's fall back fell field fighting fire flank FOOTNOTES front guns Hagerstown halt Hancock Harrisburg headquarters Heth Heth's Hill's Hood's Hooker hour hundred infantry Lee's army Little Round Top Longstreet Meade Meade's miles morning Mummasburg night o'clock peach orchard Pennsylvania Pickett's Potomac pushed ranks rear regiment repulsed retreat Reynolds Rock Creek Rodes Second Corps seemed seen seized Seminary Ridge shot Sickles side skirmishers slopes soon South Mountain Taneytown road Third Corps thousand throwing troops turned Twelfth Corps Union army Union cavalry Union Corps Union left Union line Union position Union soldiers victory wheat-field whole army whole Union woods wounded