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Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ht, and no attack was made. General Leeconcluded to mass his entire army on SeminaryRidge and prepare for defense or retreat in themorning.1863. The next day was the Fourth of July, to be made memorable for the second time to all generationsof Americans, mingling the associations of Gettys-burg and Vicksburg with those of Philadelphia inthe last century. The reconnaissances sent out byGeneral Meade, to his left and to his right, found theenemy still in position in front of the Round Tops ;but from Benners Hill and from the town of Gettys-burg everything had disappeared; most of theenemys wounded and the unburied dead were lyingon the deserted field of battle. In the com-se of theday a request for a truce and exchange of prisonersw.R. ^^^ received from General Lee, which GeneralxxvTi., ^leade, under the circumstances, very properly de-^pyU clined. The day passed away in the Union army inthe care of the wounded and the last offices to thedead: even yet General Meade was not aware of the
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GENERAL GEOKGE E. PICKETT. GETTYSBUKG 273 magnitude of his victory. He issued, it is true, a chap. ix.brave and inspiriting order of the day, announcingthat the enemy was utterly baffled and defeated,and saying, Our task is not yet accomplished, andthe commanding general looks to the army for orde^,greater efforts to drive from our soil every vestige of 4: Ts p. m. the presence of the invader ; but at noon he tele- voi.graphed General Halleck, saying merely that the ^^^^^J^^enemy had thrown back his left, that we had occu-pied Gettysburg, and that he should require some ibid.,time to get up supplies and rest his army. A p- ^s- violent rain-storm came on during the day, whichformed another reason for delay. At night hecalled together his corps commanders in council ofwar; he put to them the question whether to remain B„ttgi.flei^at Gettysburg or to take immediate measures to ^Re^r?^attack the enemy or cut off his retreat; the ma- o?c^ciictjority were in favor of remaining where they

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