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Foreword 3

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 4

The Battle of Gettysburg 5-10

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 11-17

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 17-22

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 23-31

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 32-36

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 37-51

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 Carriage.

Happenings on the Third Day 51-58

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 59-70

The Soldiers’ National Cemetery 70-71

Lincoln at Gettysburg 72-75

Bibliography 76

Organization of the Army of the Potomac 77-79

Organization of the Army of Northern Virginia 79-80

Copyright, 1935, by J. Horace McFarland Company

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
The Country
The Contestants
The Results

BY
W. C. STORRICK, Litt.D.
Retired Superintendent of Guides. For Twenty Years Connected with the Gettysburg National Park Commission

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