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... infantry were armed with Enfield rifles , fresh from British workshops , and it is probable that no equal number of men ever knew how to use them better . Indeed , we consider it indis- putable that the Confederates greatly excelled the ...
... infantry were armed with Enfield rifles , fresh from British workshops , and it is probable that no equal number of men ever knew how to use them better . Indeed , we consider it indis- putable that the Confederates greatly excelled the ...
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... infantry by nearly a week , reaching Chambersburg on the 16th , seizing horses and provisions for Advance . the use of the army behind them , and spreading consternation to the gates of Harris- burg itself . Having loaded themselves ...
... infantry by nearly a week , reaching Chambersburg on the 16th , seizing horses and provisions for Advance . the use of the army behind them , and spreading consternation to the gates of Harris- burg itself . Having loaded themselves ...
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... infantry came tramp- ing into Chambersburg , regiment after regiment , hour after hour , until the streets fairly swarmed with them . Though the houses were bersburg . shut up , a few citizens were in the streets , or looking out of ...
... infantry came tramp- ing into Chambersburg , regiment after regiment , hour after hour , until the streets fairly swarmed with them . Though the houses were bersburg . shut up , a few citizens were in the streets , or looking out of ...
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... infantry corps forming the left wing , were approaching the enemy's main body at Chambersburg . South Mountain was , therefore , the wall behind which the two contending armies were playing at hide - and - seek.2 Lee had only just given ...
... infantry corps forming the left wing , were approaching the enemy's main body at Chambersburg . South Mountain was , therefore , the wall behind which the two contending armies were playing at hide - and - seek.2 Lee had only just given ...
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... infantry and one cavalry corps out of reach , Left Wing in Advance . commanded by that thorough soldier , so beloved by the whole army , General Reynolds , the actual chief of the First Corps . Buford finds the Enemy . Buford had spent ...
... infantry and one cavalry corps out of reach , Left Wing in Advance . commanded by that thorough soldier , so beloved by the whole army , General Reynolds , the actual chief of the First Corps . Buford finds the Enemy . Buford had spent ...
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advance ARMY CORPS Artillery Brigade assailants assault attack Baltimore pike batteries battle of Gettysburg Brig.-Gen Buford burg Capt Carlisle cavalry Cemetery Hill Cemetery Ridge Chambersburg column command Confederate crossed Culp's Hill Cumberland Valley defeat defence Devil's Devil's Den Early's Eleventh Corps Emmettsburg road enemy enemy's Ewell Ewell's fall back fell field fighting fire flank front guns Hagerstown halt Hancock Harrisburg Heth Heth's Hill's Hood's Hooker hour hundred infantry Lee's army Little Round Top Longstreet Major-Gen Meade Meade's miles move night peach orchard Pennsylvania Pickett Potomac ranks rear regiment retreat Reynolds Rodes Second Brigade Second Division seemed seen seized Seminary Ridge shot Sickles side skirmishers slopes South Mountain Taneytown Third Brigade Third Corps thousand throw town 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