The Battle of GettysburgThis account of Gettysburg was written by Haskell to his brother, shortly after the battle, and was not intended for publication. This fact ought to be borne in mind in connection with some severe reflections cast by the author upon certain officers and soldiers of the Union army. The present text follows the unabridged reprint of the Wisconsin Historical Commission; and the notes on Haskell's estimates of numbers and losses have been supplied by Colonel Thomas L. Livermore, the well-known authority on this subject. Also contains seven historical civil war documents. Reprinted from the Harvard Classic's edition of 1910 |
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... Sickles stamp . I happened to know much of General Meade he and General Gibbon had al- ways been very intimate , and I had seen much of him - I think my own notions concerning General Meade at this time , were shared quite generally by ...
... Sickles stamp . I happened to know much of General Meade he and General Gibbon had al- ways been very intimate , and I had seen much of him - I think my own notions concerning General Meade at this time , were shared quite generally by ...
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... to offer resistance , should the enemy be willing to try them . These formations were all accomplished long before night . Then some con- — - - -- siderable portion of the Third Corps - Gen. Sickles THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG 9.
... to offer resistance , should the enemy be willing to try them . These formations were all accomplished long before night . Then some con- — - - -- siderable portion of the Third Corps - Gen. Sickles THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG 9.
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Franklin Aretas Haskell. -- siderable portion of the Third Corps - Gen. Sickles - came up by the Emmetsburg road , and was formed to the left of the Taneytown road , on an extension of the line that I have mentioned ; and all the Twelfth ...
Franklin Aretas Haskell. -- siderable portion of the Third Corps - Gen. Sickles - came up by the Emmetsburg road , and was formed to the left of the Taneytown road , on an extension of the line that I have mentioned ; and all the Twelfth ...
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... Sickles the remainder of it arriving upon the field this morning , was posted upon the left of the Second extending the line still in the direction of Round Top , with its left resting near " Little Round Top . " The left of the Third ...
... Sickles the remainder of it arriving upon the field this morning , was posted upon the left of the Second extending the line still in the direction of Round Top , with its left resting near " Little Round Top . " The left of the Third ...
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... Sickles commenced to ad- vance his whole Corps , from the general line , straight to the front , with a view to occupy this second ridge , along , and near the road . What his purpose could have been is past conjecture . It was not ...
... Sickles commenced to ad- vance his whole Corps , from the general line , straight to the front , with a view to occupy this second ridge , along , and near the road . What his purpose could have been is past conjecture . It was not ...
Contents
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Lincolns Gettysberg Address 1863 | 97 |
Proclamation of Amnesty 1836 | 98 |
Lincolns Letter to Mrs Bixby 1864 | 102 |
Terms of Lees Surrender At Appomattox 1865 | 103 |
Lees Farewell to His Army 1865 | 105 |
Lincolns Second Inaugural Address 1865 | 106 |
Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection At an End 1866 | 109 |
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12th corps 1st of July advance arms army artillery assault attack Baltimore Pike batteries Battle of Gettysburg brigade bullet cannonade captured cavalry Cemetery Cemetery Ridge command conflict crest Culp's Hill dead declare Eleventh Corps Emmetsburg road enemy enemy's eyes faces field Fifth Corps fight fire flags flank Fredericksburg front further ground guns Hancock and Gibbon hands heard horses hundred infantry Iron Brigade killed and wounded Lieut line of battle Little Round Top looked loss Meade ment mentioned morning move muskets night o'clock officers places position Potomac prisoners proclamation rear Rebel rebellion regiments repulsed result ridge roar rode Round Top Second Corps Second Division shells shot Sickles skirmishers slope smoke soldiers sound Stonewall Jackson storm Taneytown road Texas Third Corps Third Division thousand to-day town trees troops Twelfth Corps United victory wall William Pittenger woods yards yesterday