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The Boys of '61

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Longstreet is in the position which he occupied at three o'clock on the afternoon of the second day, and to which he retired after failing to push Sickles beyond Trostle's.

Pickett commanded a division and not a corps. But as his division took the lead in the last attack, on the third day, and as his repulse was seemingly the turning-point of the Rebellion, especial mention has been made of the part taken by the troops under his command. Hill supported him. A portion of Hill's troops were with Longstreet in the attack of the second day.

Ewell is in the position he occupied at dark on the second day, while two of Slocum's divisions were aiding the left of Meade's line.

Lee's head-quarters were near Smucker's house.

The fight on the first day began on Willoughby's Run. The Union lines on that day extended from the Middletown road along the semicircle occupied by the Rebel cannon in the diagram, to the railroad east of Blocher's. The map is reduced from an accurate survey.

The best plan of this battle extant is the isometrical picture of Gettysburg, by Colonel J. B. Batchelder, who has devoted many months to the study of the field. It will ever be standard authority for the historian.

54 Ibid.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Freemantle.Note 2 · Blackwood's Magazine, September, 1863.Note 3 · Blackwood's Magazine, September, 1864.—Freemantle.Note 4 · General Howard's Report.Note 5 · Blackwood's Magazine, September, 1863.—Lieutenant-Colonel Freemantle.Note 6 · Address before Alumni of Williams College, 1865. Charles Demond.Note 7 · Rev. Mr. Auley, meeting Christian Association, Chicago.Note 8 · Lee's Report.Note 9 · Lee's Report.Note 10 · McClellan's Report, p. 46.Note 11 · Magruder's Report.Note 12 · McClellan's Report, p. 238.Note 13 · McClellan's Report.Note 14 · Pollard, First Year, p. 329.Note 15 · Magruder's Report, p. 191.Note 16 · Grant's Official Report.Note 17 · Grant's Report.Note 18 · Grant's Report.Note 19 · See "My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field"; also testimony of Captain Ricketts and Captain Griffin, in Report of Committee on Conduct of tNote 20 · Attack on Petersburg, Report of Committee on Conduct of the War, p. 4.Note 21 · Ibid., p. 5.Note 22 · Report of Committee.Note 23 · Richmond Enquirer, July 19, 1864.Note 24 · Augusta Constitutionalist, November 22, 1864.Note 25 · News, November 22, 1864.Note 26 · Sherman's Report.Note 27 · Report of the United States Sanitary Commission.Note 28 · See the Watchman, New York.Note 29 · Miss Barton's Report.Note 30 · Sherman's Report.Note 31 · Proceedings of South Carolina Legislature.Note 32 · Speech of Senator Chestnut.Note 33 · Southern Presbyterian Review, January, 1861.Note 34 · Charleston Mercury, November 3, 1860.Note 35 · Mercury, November 12, 1860.Note 36 · Mercury, November 9, 1860.Note 37 · Charleston Mercury, November 17, 1860.Note 38 · Charleston Mercury, November 9, 1860.Note 39 · Courier, December 29, 1860.Note 40 · Mercury, December 29, 1860.Note 41 · Floyd's Letter to Buchanan.Note 42 · Speech of Governor Pickens.Note 43 · James Redpath.Note 44 · Report of Treasurer and Finance, South Carolina, 1862.Note 45 · Report of James Chestnut, Chief Military Department, South Carolina, January 1, 1862, p. 47.Note 46 · Ibid., p. 24.Note 47 · Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Vol. II. p. 446.Note 48 · Sheridan's Report.Note 49 · A Rebel Courier's Experience.Note 50 · Rebel War Clerk's Diary, Vol. I. p. 24.Note 51 · Benjamin's letter to Mason, October 28, 1862.Note 52 · Benjamin's letter to Mr. De Leon, December 13, 1862.Note 53 · Benjamin's Letter, October 24, 1862.Note 54 · Earl Russell's letter to Mr. Adams, Diplo. Cor. 1863, Part I. p. 129.Note 55 · Benjamin to Slidell, October 17, 1862.Note 56 · Times, March 19, 1863.Note 57 · Times, July 13, 1849.Note 58 · Times, March 23, 1863.Note 59 · Lee's Last Campaign, p. 26.Note 60 · Rebel Courier's Experience.Note 61 · Rebel Courier's Experience.Note 62 · Rebel Courier's Experience.Note 63 · Said another Rebel,—an Irishman,—to a chaplain who took care of him, "May every hair of your head be a wax-taper to light you on your way to
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