Reprints, Issue 1Wisconsin History Commission, 1910 - Wisconsin CONTENTS.--no. 1. Haskell, F.A. The battle of Gettysburg. 1908.--no. 2. Wisconsin. Governor. Civil War messages and proclamations of Wisconsin war governors; ed. by R.G. Thwaites in collaboration with A.C. Tilton and F. Merk. 1912. |
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12th corps 2d of July Adjutant advance arms army artillery assault attack Baltimore Pike batteries BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG brigade bullets cannonade cavalry Cemetery Cemetery Ridge Chancellorsville Colonel Haskell command Corps-Gen crest Culp's Hill dead Divi Eleventh Corps Emmetsburg road enemy enemy's eral eyes face field Fifth Corps fight fire flags flank Fredericksburg front gallop ground guns halted hands Haskell's heard horses infantry Iron Brigade Lieut line of battle Little Round Top looked loss mass Meade ment miles morning move muskets night numbers o'clock officers Pickett's places Pleasanton position Potomac prisoners rear Rebel regiments repulsed result ridge roar rode Round Top Second Corps Second Division shells shot Sickles side sion Sixth skirmishers slope smoke soldier soon sound staff storm struck Taneytown road Third Corps Third Division thousand to-day town trees troops Twelfth Corps victory wall Wiscon woods yesterday
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Page 121 - ... lost; but commands, companies, regiments and brigades are blended and intermixed — an irregular extended mass — men enough, if in order, to form a line of four or five ranks along the whole front of the division. The twelve flags of the regiments wave defiantly at intervals along the front ; at the stone wall, at unequal distances from ours of forty, fifty or sixty yards, stream nearly double this number of the battle flags of the enemy. These changes accomplished on either side, and the...
Page 174 - Vols." and the rest — they are all represented, and as they fought commingled here. So I am not alone. These, my brethren of the fight, are with me. Sleep, noble brave ! The foe shall not desecrate your sleep. Yonder thick trenches will hold them. As long as patriotism is a virtue, and treason a crime your deeds have made this crest, your resting place, hallowed ground ! But I have seen and said enough of this battle. The unfortunate wounding of my General so early in the action of the 3d of July,...
Page 99 - The soldier stopped and turned about in puzzled surprise, put up one hand to his back to assure himself that the knapsack was not there, and then walked slowly on again unharmed, with not even his coat torn. Near us was a man crouching behind a small disintegrated stone, which was about the size of a common water bucket. He was bent up, with his face to the ground, in the attitude of a Pagan worshipper before his idol. It looked so absurd to see him thus, that I went and said to him, "Do not lie...
Page 58 - They are desolate now — trampled by the countless feet of the combatants, plowed and scored by the shot and shell, the orchards splintered, the fences prostrate, the harvest trodden in the mud. And more dreadful than the sight of all this, thickly strewn over all their length and breadth, are the habiliments of the soldiers...
Page 28 - Top up the left, and a rocky, steep, untraversable ground up the right. Our line was more elevated than that of the enemy, consequently our artillery had a greater range and power than theirs. On account of the convexity of our line, every part of the line could be reinforced by troops having to move a shorter distance than if the line were straight; further, for the same reason, the line of the enemy must be concave, and, consequently, longer, and with an equal force, thinner, and so weaker than...
Page 40 - It was magnificent to see those ten or twelve thousand men* — they were good men — with their batteries, and some squadrons of cavalry upon the left flank, all in battle order, in several lines, with flags streaming, sweep steadily down the slope, across the valley, and up the next ascent, toward their destined position ! From our position we could see it all. In advance Sickles pushed forward his heavy line of skirmishers, who drove back those of the enemy, across the Emmetsburg road, and thus...
Page 69 - Meade about forty-five years of age; the rest are between these ages, but not many under forty. As they come to the council now, there is the appearance of fatigue about them, which is not customary, but is only due to the hard labors of the past few days. They all wear clothes of dark blue, some have top boots and some not, and except the two-starred straps upon the shoulders of all save Gibbon, who has but one star, there was scarcely a piece of regulation uniform about them all. They wore their...
Page 56 - Rebel rout first commenced, a large number of prisoners, some thousands at least, were captured; almost all their dead, and such of their wounded as could not themselves get to the rear, were within our lines; several of their flags were gathered up, and a good many thousand muskets, some nine or ten guns and some caissons lost by the Third Corps, and the three of Brown's battery — these last were in Rebel hands but a few minutes — were all safe now with us, the enemy having had no time to take...
Page 120 - See the chivalry! See the gray-backs run ! " The men saw, and as they swept to their places by the side of Hall and opened fire, they roared, and this in a manner that said more plainly than words — for the deaf could have seen it in their faces, and the blind could have heard it in their voices — the crest is safe! The whole Division concentrated, and changes of position, and new phases, as well...
Page 108 - The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over it, and the clicking of the iron axles as the guns were rolled up by hand a little further to the front, were quite all the sounds that could be heard. Cap-boxes were slid around to the front of the body; cartridge boxes opened, officers opened their pistol-holsters. Such preparations, little more was needed....