The Battle of Gettysburg: the Country, the Contestants, the Results

About this eBook

Author

Storrick, W. C. (William Clayton)

Title

The Battle of Gettysburg: The Country, the Contestants, the Results

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)

Subject

Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50504

Release Date

November 20, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS — THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG The Country The Contestants The Results
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS ·XIX NOVEMBER·MDCCCLXIII· ★
5. 5.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.
6. 6.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.
7. 7.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
8. 8.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.
9. 9.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”
10. 10.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.
11. 11.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
12. 12.GETTYSBURG AND ITS MILITARY PARK
13. 13.THE SOLDIERS’ NATIONAL CEMETERY
14. 14.LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG — HARVEST
15. 15.BIBLIOGRAPHY
16. 16.ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC Major-General George G. Meade
17. 17.ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA General Robert E. Lee
18. 18.Transcriber’s Notes

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