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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... hundreds , lay bare and bleaching , weary , without sleep for days , tormented with the newspapers , and their rumors , that the enemy was in Philadelphia , in Baltimore , in all places where he was not , yet these men could still be re ...
... hundreds , lay bare and bleaching , weary , without sleep for days , tormented with the newspapers , and their rumors , that the enemy was in Philadelphia , in Baltimore , in all places where he was not , yet these men could still be re ...
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... hundreds . The First Corps , deprived of this support , if support it could be called , outflanked upon either hand , and engaged in front , was compelled to yield the field . Making its last stand upon what is called " Seminary Ridge ...
... hundreds . The First Corps , deprived of this support , if support it could be called , outflanked upon either hand , and engaged in front , was compelled to yield the field . Making its last stand upon what is called " Seminary Ridge ...
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... hundred yards of it ; the " Taneytown road " is between these , running nearly due North and South , by the Eastern base of " Round Top , " by the Western side of the Cemetery , and uniting with the Emmetsburg road between the Ceme ...
... hundred yards of it ; the " Taneytown road " is between these , running nearly due North and South , by the Eastern base of " Round Top , " by the Western side of the Cemetery , and uniting with the Emmetsburg road between the Ceme ...
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... hundred yards away from our line . Between these ridges , and along their slopes , that is , in front of the Second and Third Corps , the ground is culti- vated , and is covered with fields of wheat , now nearly ripe , with grass and ...
... hundred yards away from our line . Between these ridges , and along their slopes , that is , in front of the Second and Third Corps , the ground is culti- vated , and is covered with fields of wheat , now nearly ripe , with grass and ...
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... hundred yards away from the line , and is culti- vated , and checkered with stone fences . The same is the character of the ground occupied by , and in front of the left of the First Corps , which is also on a part of Cemetery Ridge ...
... hundred yards away from the line , and is culti- vated , and checkered with stone fences . The same is the character of the ground occupied by , and in front of the left of the First Corps , which is also on a part of Cemetery Ridge ...
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