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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... night and day were blended over many a weary mile , through dust , and through mud , in the broiling sunshine , in the flooding rain , over steeps , through defiles , across rivers , over last year's battle fields , where the skeletons ...
... night and day were blended over many a weary mile , through dust , and through mud , in the broiling sunshine , in the flooding rain , over steeps , through defiles , across rivers , over last year's battle fields , where the skeletons ...
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... night before , South of the town , came up rapidly to Buford's support , and immediately a sharp battle was opened with the advance of the enemy . The First Division ( Gen. Wadsworth ) was the first of the infantry to become en- gaged ...
... night before , South of the town , came up rapidly to Buford's support , and immediately a sharp battle was opened with the advance of the enemy . The First Division ( Gen. Wadsworth ) was the first of the infantry to become en- gaged ...
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... night . The Second Division ( Gibbon's ) was accordingly put in posi- tion , upon the left of the ( Taneytown ) road , its left near the South - eastern base of " Round Top " base of " Round Top " of which moun- tain more anon and the ...
... night . The Second Division ( Gibbon's ) was accordingly put in posi- tion , upon the left of the ( Taneytown ) road , its left near the South - eastern base of " Round Top " base of " Round Top " of which moun- tain more anon and the ...
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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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... night before a great pitched battle would not ordi- narily , I suppose , be a time for much sleep for Generals and their staff officers . We needed it enough , but there was work to be done . This war makes strange confusion of night ...
... night before a great pitched battle would not ordi- narily , I suppose , be a time for much sleep for Generals and their staff officers . We needed it enough , but there was work to be done . This war makes strange confusion of night ...
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