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Title: Gettysburg
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. General Passenger Dept
Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Military parks
Publisher: Philadelphia : Graig-Finley & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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hurried forward the fewr milesto meet General Buford. Together they rode out theCashtown Pike, and where their two monuments nowstand, near the McPherson farm, a conference washeld about nine A. M. As a result, Reynolds hurriedback to his advancing troops to spur them forwrard,and as he was leading the foremost regiment into thewoods he wTas struck in the head by a bullet and diedinstantly. This was at a quarter past ten oclock. Sopassed away the greatest soldier in the army of thePotomac. From then on, for an hour, there was fighting inand about the woods and on the field north of the rail-road cut, and the Confederate Archers brigade wascaptured. During the two hours lull in the battlewhich occurred after that, the Confederates were put-ting their men into several lines beyond the west ofWilloughby Run, for the assault by Hills corps thatwas to sweep the Union troops off Seminary Ridge.To prevent this, General Doubleday, who then com-manded the First Corps, skillfully threw his two
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Pennsylvania brigades (of the Third Division) ontothe front line, Biddles on the south of the woods, andStones on the north of the woods, both on the openground; the Second Division having been sent to thewoods extending towards Oak Hill, somewhat in thedirection of Carlisle, from where Ewell had been re-called. For three long hours (2 to 5 P. M.) thesefresh troops received the terrible assaults of an enemymany times their number, and when night had comeand the defeated corps had reached Cemetery Hill, itwas found that the First Army Corps had been reducedfrom 9,403 officers and men to 2,400, many of theregiments losing from fifty to sixty per cent. The lossof the Light Brigade at Balaklava was thirty-six percent, The 2nd Wisconsin lost 233 out of 302, the 19thIndiana lost 210 out of 288, and the 150th Pennsyl-vania Volunteers out of 380 men and seventeen officers,brought back about eighty men and only one officer notwounded. The 121st, the 142d, the 143d, the 149th,and the 151st Penngettysbur00phil

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