 Meade, and beginning on the right, I instructed the chiefs of artillery and battery commanders to withhold their fire for fifteen or twenty minutes after the cannonade commenced, then to concentrate their fire with all possible accuracy on those batteries...  The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 - Page 147by Samuel Adams Drake - 1891 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 996 pages
...There was neither time nor necessity for reporting this to General Meade, and beginning on the right, I instructed the chiefs of artillery and battery commanders...concentrate their fire with all possible accuracy on those batteries which were mostdestructive tous — but slowly, so that when the enemy's ammunition... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1888 - 526 pages
...the seminary, and made arrangements to meet it. These his instructions : " Beginning at the right, I instructed the chiefs of artillery and battery commanders...concentrate their fire, with all possible accuracy, on those batteries which were most destructive to us, but slowly, so that when the enemy's ammunition... | |
 | George Gordon Meade, George Meade - Mexican War, 1846-1848 - 1913 - 524 pages
...position along Cemetery Ridge all the batteries that the ground could hold, and, beginning on the right, instructed the chiefs of artillery and battery commanders...their fire for fifteen or twenty minutes after the enemy had commenced, and then to concentrate with all possible accuracy on those batteries which were... | |
 | John Codman Ropes - United States - 1913 - 326 pages
...in such a condition as to make them an easy prey. [The battery commanders were, therefore, ordered] to withhold their fire for fifteen or twenty minutes...cannonade commenced, then to concentrate their fire on those batteries that were most destructive to us — but slowly, so that when the enemy's ammunition... | |
 | Jennings Cropper Wise - United States - 1915 - 538 pages
...There was neither time nor necessity for reporting this to Gen. Meade, and beginning on the right, I instructed the chiefs of artillery and battery commanders to withhold their fire for 15 or 20 minutes after the cannonade commenced, then to concentrate their fire with all possible accuracy... | |
 | J. Warren Gilbert - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 - 1922 - 182 pages
...beyond our effective musketry fire. I instructed the artillery commanders to withhold their fire for ten minutes after the cannonade commenced, then to concentrate their fire with all possible accuracy on those batteries which were most destructive to us — but slowly, so that when the enemy's ammunition... | |
 | James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - United States - 1913 - 328 pages
...in such a condition as to make them an easy prey. [The battery commanders were, therefore, ordered] to withhold their fire for fifteen or twenty minutes...cannonade commenced, then to concentrate their fire on those batteries that were most destructive to us — but slowly, so that when the enemy's ammunition... | |
 | Edward Porter Alexander - History - 1998 - 702 pages
...right I instructed the chiefs of artillery, & battery commanders, to withhold their fire for 15 or 20 minutes after the cannonade commenced, then to concentrate their fire, with all possible accuracy, on those batteries which were most destructive to us — but slowly — so that, when the enemy's ammunition... | |
 | Eugene C. Tidball - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 594 pages
...Hunt, anticipating an assault preceded by a cannonade, acted on his own, without orders from Meade, and instructed the chiefs of artillery and battery commanders...fifteen or twenty minutes after the cannonade commenced and then to concentrate on the enemy batteries that were causing the most destruction to the Union... | |
 | Richard Rollins - History - 2005 - 436 pages
...There was neither time nor necessity for reporting this to General Meade, and beginning on the right, instructed the chiefs of artillery and battery commanders...concentrate their fire with all possible accuracy on those batteries which were most destructive to us — but slowly, so that when the enemy's ammunition... | |
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