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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Page 8
... sounds , the men looked more serious than before and were more silent , but they marched faster , and straggled less . At about five o'clock P. M. , as we were riding along at the head of the column , we met an ambulance , accompanied ...
... sounds , the men looked more serious than before and were more silent , but they marched faster , and straggled less . At about five o'clock P. M. , as we were riding along at the head of the column , we met an ambulance , accompanied ...
Page 17
... 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 along the crests - and were at ease . Some men of the Second and Third Corps pulled down the rail fences ...
... 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 along the crests - and were at ease . Some men of the Second and Third Corps pulled down the rail fences ...
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... sounds . When the First Division of the Second Corps first engaged the enemy , for a time it was pressed back some- what , but under the able and judicious management of Gen. Caldwell , and the support of the Fifth Corps , it speedily ...
... sounds . When the First Division of the Second Corps first engaged the enemy , for a time it was pressed back some- what , but under the able and judicious management of Gen. Caldwell , and the support of the Fifth Corps , it speedily ...
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... sound of the firing at the extreme left , and the place where the smoke rises above the tree tops there , we know that the Fifth Corps is still steady , and holding its own there ; and as we see the Sixth Corps now marching and near at ...
... sound of the firing at the extreme left , and the place where the smoke rises above the tree tops there , we know that the Fifth Corps is still steady , and holding its own there ; and as we see the Sixth Corps now marching and near at ...
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... sound of complaint or pain , but are as silent as if dumb and mute . A sublime heroism seems to pervade all , and the intuition that to lose that crest , all is lost . How our officers , in the work of cheering on and directing the men ...
... sound of complaint or pain , but are as silent as if dumb and mute . A sublime heroism seems to pervade all , and the intuition that to lose that crest , all is lost . How our officers , in the work of cheering on and directing the men ...
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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