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