[Gutenberg 50504] • The Battle of Gettysburg: The Country, the Contestants, the Results by Storrick, W.C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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CONTENTS THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG The Country The Contestants The Results

FOREWORD THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ·XIX NOVEMBER·MDCCCLXIII· ★ THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

Location of the Armies. General Lee’s Plan. Lee’s First Movement. Hooker’s Plan. The Appointment of Meade. Advance of Lee. Meade’s Movement. Stuart’s Movement. Situation of Confederate Forces on June 30th. Situation of Union Forces on June 30th. The Approach.

THE FIRST DAY

Arrival of Reynolds. Death of Reynolds. A Morning Lull. Arrival of Rodes and Early. The Opposing Lines. Arrival of Howard. Howard’s Position. The Confederate General Early’s Position. The Union Retreat. Arrival of Lee. Formation of Union Line. General Lee’s Report.

FIRST DAY HIGHLIGHTS

Death of Major-General Reynolds

The 26th Emergency Regiment The First Soldier Killed at Gettysburg A Mysterious Letter The Flag of the 16th Maine The Barlow-Gordon Incident General Ewell Is Hit by a Bullet The School Teachers’ Regiment An Incident of the First Day

THE SECOND DAY

The Union Line of Battle. Confederate Line of Battle. Sickles’ Change of Line. General Lee’s Plan. Little Round Top. The Peach Orchard and the Wheatfield. Ewell’s Attack on Meade’s Right. Situation at End of the Second Day.

INCIDENTS OF THE SECOND DAY

The Roger House

Spangler’s Spring Colonel Avery’s Lost Grave The Leister House The Louisiana Tigers General Meade’s “Baldy” General Lee’s “Traveller”

THE THIRD DAY

Second Battle at Culp’s Hill. Meade’s Line of the Third Day. Lee’s Line of the Third Day. The Bliss Buildings. The Artillery Duel. Pickett’s Charge. The Advance. Engagements on the Union Left. The Cavalry Fight on the Right Flank. The Location. General Stuart’s Plan. General Gregg’s Report. Lee’s Retreat. No Pursuit by Meade. The Gettysburg Carnage.

HAPPENINGS ON THE THIRD DAY

A Medal for Disobedience

The Wentz House Fought with a Hatchet After the Battle An Honest Man Extracts from the Diary of Colonel Fremantle

GETTYSBURG AND ITS MILITARY PARK THE SOLDIERS’ NATIONAL CEMETERY LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG

HARVEST

BIBLIOGRAPHY ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC Major-General George G. Meade ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA General Robert E. Lee Transcriber’s Notes