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Title: Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hunter, Alexander, 1843-
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Publisher: New York, Washington, The Neale Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to confessing a willingness to be a daylaborer instead of a boss. No rich, well-born, educated North-erner was content to carry a musket after the patriotic deliriumwhich animated them for the first year had died out. There were plenty of foreigners, mill hands, apprentices andhuman drift-wood to serve in the ranks, but he who had pres-tige, brains, or political influence was soon sporting chevrons,straps, or stars. The officers of the Army of the Potomac, edu-cated, proud men, were every whit as brave as those of the Con-federate Army; and give the American gentleman a few hours ofdaylight, and no matter what the history of yesterday, they willbe found ready to meet, with steady front, any crisis to-day orto-morrow. The old Anglo-Saxon race never showed its un-dying tenacity and bravery more vividly than it did on that day ofJuly 3rd, 1863, when at noon of the next day the disorganizedmass that Humphreys acknowledged was beaten at sunset, proudlyand fearlesslv confronted the victor.
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•^^t^wm AN ACTUAL OCCUKRENXE AT GETTYSBURG OF TWO BROTHERS MEETING.FacitiK pagre 40!S GETTYSBURG 409 Lee yet had a good opportunity to win if he had assaultedMeade at dayHght on the morning of the 3rd, and he so ordered. Longstreet says: I met General Lee very early on the morn-ing of the 3rd. and anticipating any remark that the Commander-in-Chief might make, I said: General Lee, my scouts have re-turned with sufficient information to lead me to believe thatthere are excellent chances of inducing General Meade to attackus. To which General Lee replied by pointing to Cemetery Hilland saying: The enemy is there, and I am going to strike him.I said in return, General, I have seen men fight by companies,regiments, brigades, and divisions, but never anything like youpropose. (Baltimore Sun, October 25, 1889.) Longstreet again shirked duty, and let the whole forenoonpass; and it was not until i P. M, that the Confederate artilleryof over 100 gims opened on Cemetery Hill to sweep the plat

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