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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... faces told plainly enough what load the vehicle carried it was the dead body of Gen. Reynolds . Very early in the action , while seeing personally to the formation of his lines under fire , he was shot through the head by a musket or ...
... faces told plainly enough what load the vehicle carried it was the dead body of Gen. Reynolds . Very early in the action , while seeing personally to the formation of his lines under fire , he was shot through the head by a musket or ...
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... faces , I thought . And I thought , too , as I had seen the mighty preparations go on to completion for this great conflict - the marshaling of these two hundred thousand men and the guns of the hosts , that now but a narrow valley ...
... faces , I thought . And I thought , too , as I had seen the mighty preparations go on to completion for this great conflict - the marshaling of these two hundred thousand men and the guns of the hosts , that now but a narrow valley ...
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... faces , and advances upon them with the bayonet . The Rebels fled in confusion , but Col. Colville , Lieut . Col. Adams and Major Downie , are all badly , dangerously wounded , and many of the other officers and men will never fight ...
... faces , and advances upon them with the bayonet . The Rebels fled in confusion , but Col. Colville , Lieut . Col. Adams and Major Downie , are all badly , dangerously wounded , and many of the other officers and men will never fight ...
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... faces , sleeping the last sleep , some mutilated and frightful , some wretched , fallen , bathed in blood , survivors still and unwill- ing witnesses of the rage of Gettysburg . And yet with all this before them , as darkness came on ...
... faces , sleeping the last sleep , some mutilated and frightful , some wretched , fallen , bathed in blood , survivors still and unwill- ing witnesses of the rage of Gettysburg . And yet with all this before them , as darkness came on ...
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... face , very large nose , and a white , large forehead , prominent and wide over the eyes , which are full and large , and quick in their movements , and he wears spectacles . His fibres are all of the long and sinewy kind . His habitual ...
... face , very large nose , and a white , large forehead , prominent and wide over the eyes , which are full and large , and quick in their movements , and he wears spectacles . His fibres are all of the long and sinewy kind . His habitual ...
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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