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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... seen much of him - I think my own notions concerning General Meade at this time , were shared quite generally by the army ; at all events , all who knew him shared them . - By this time , by reports that were not mere rumors , we began ...
... seen much of him - I think my own notions concerning General Meade at this time , were shared quite generally by the army ; at all events , all who knew him shared them . - By this time , by reports that were not mere rumors , we began ...
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... seen galloping furiously in the transmission of some order or message . All , all was ready and yet the sound of no gun had disturbed the air or ear to - day . - - And so the men stacked their arms in long bristling rows they stood ...
... seen galloping furiously in the transmission of some order or message . All , all was ready and yet the sound of no gun had disturbed the air or ear to - day . - - And so the men stacked their arms in long bristling rows they stood ...
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... seen in heavy force North of the town he was believed to be now in the same neighborhood , in full force . But from the woody character of the country , and thereby the careful concealment of troops , which the Rebel is always sure to ...
... seen in heavy force North of the town he was believed to be now in the same neighborhood , in full force . But from the woody character of the country , and thereby the careful concealment of troops , which the Rebel is always sure to ...
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... 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 divided , that to have been in such a battle , and to ...
... 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 divided , that to have been in such a battle , and to ...
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... seen marching by the flank from its position on the Baltimore Pike , and in the opening of the woods heading for the same locality where the 1st Division of the Second Corps had gone . The Sixth Corps had now come up and was halted upon ...
... seen marching by the flank from its position on the Baltimore Pike , and in the opening of the woods heading for the same locality where the 1st Division of the Second Corps had gone . The Sixth Corps had now come up and was halted upon ...
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