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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... positions , for this purpose march- ing in upon the various roads that terminate at the town , from the West and North . The position of the First Corps was then becoming perilous in the extreme , but it was improved a little before ...
... positions , for this purpose march- ing in upon the various roads that terminate at the town , from the West and North . The position of the First Corps was then becoming perilous in the extreme , but it was improved a little before ...
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... position for 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 ...
... position for 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 ...
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... position , upon a commanding eminence , at the " Cemetery , " which , as a reserve , had not participated in the fight of the day , and this Division was now of course steady . Around this Division the fugitives were stopped , and the ...
... position , upon a commanding eminence , at the " Cemetery , " which , as a reserve , had not participated in the fight of the day , and this Division was now of course steady . Around this Division the fugitives were stopped , and the ...
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... position , to the right of the troops already there , to the East of the Baltimore Pike . The enemy was in town , and behind it , and to the East and West , and appeared to be in strong force , and was jubilant over his day's success ...
... position , to the right of the troops already there , to the East of the Baltimore Pike . The enemy was in town , and behind it , and to the East and West , and appeared to be in strong force , and was jubilant over his day's success ...
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... position . At three o'clock A. M. , of the second of July , the sleepy soldiers of the Second Corps were aroused ; before six the Corps was up to the field and halted temporarily by the side of the Taneytown road upon which it had ...
... position . At three o'clock A. M. , of the second of July , the sleepy soldiers of the Second Corps were aroused ; before six the Corps was up to the field and halted temporarily by the side of the Taneytown road upon which it had ...
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