Gettysburg: how the Battle was FoughtE.K. Meyers Printing House, 1891 - 102 Seiten |
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1st New York 2d United 4th United Alabama regiment artillery Artillery brigade Battery Battle of Gettysburg battle-field Big Round Top brig Brigade.-Captain Capt Captain captured or miss cavalry Cemetery Hill Chambersburg charge Colonel Charles Colonel George Colonel Henry Commanding wounded Connecticut Culp's Hill Devil's Den Eleventh corps Emmittsburg road enemy Enlisted men captured Enlisted men killed Enlisted men wounded Fifth fight front Georgia regiment guns Hancock Harrisburg Headquarters Hundred Johnson Lee's army left flank Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant Colonel John Little Round Top Longstreet Louisiana regiment Maine Major Maryland Massachusetts Meade Michigan monuments North Carolina North Carolina regiment Peach Orchard Pennsylvania reserves Pennsylvania volunteers Philadelphia brigade Pickett's charge Pickett's division Potomac Reynolds right flank Second brigade Second Brigade.-Colonel Second corps Second division Seminary Ridge Sixth corps Stuart Third brigade Third corps Third division Total losses Total of regiment troops Twelfth corps United States infantry Vermont Virginia regiment
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Seite 55 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Seite 58 - Spake in the old man's strong right hand ; And his corded throat, and the lurking frown Of his eyebrows under his old bell-crown ; Until, as they gazed, there crept an awe Through the ranks in whispers, and some men saw, In the antique vestments and long white hair, The Past of the Nation in battle there ; And some of the soldiers since declare That the gleam of his old white hat afar, Like the crested plume of the brave Navarre, That day was their oriflamme of war.
Seite 56 - The milk that fell like a babbling flood Into the milk-pail red as blood ! Or how he fancied the hum of bees Were bullets buzzing among the trees. But all such fanciful thoughts as these Were strange to a practical...
Seite 57 - How do you think the man was dressed? He wore an ancient, long buff vest, Yellow as saffron,— but his best; And buttoned over his manly breast Was a bright blue coat with a rolling collar, And large gilt buttons, — size of a dollar, — With tails that the country-folk called "swaller.
Seite 56 - Brief is the glory that hero earns, Briefer the story of poor John Burns; He was the fellow who won renown — The only man who didn't back down When the rebels rode through his native town] But held his own in the fight next day, When all his townsfolk ran away. That was in July, sixty-three,— The very day that General Lee, The -flower of Southern chivalry, Baffled and beaten, backward reeled From a stubborn Meade and a barren field.
Seite 57 - Twas but a moment, for that respect Which clothes all courage their voices checked ; And something the wildest could understand Spake in the old man's strong right hand ; And his corded throat, and the lurking frown Of his eyebrows under his old bell-crown ; Until, as they gazed, there crept an awe Through the ranks in whispers, and some men saw, In the antique vestments and long white hair, The Past of the Nation in battle there ; And some of the soldiers since declare...
Seite 55 - ... that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Seite 57 - Glanced, as they passed, at the hat he wore, Then at the rifle his right hand bore; And hailed him, from out their youthful lore, With scraps of a slangy repertoire: "How are you, White Hat?" "Put her through!" "Your head's level!" and "Bully for you!
Seite 56 - While on the left — where now the graves Undulate like the living waves That all the day unceasing swept Up to the pits the rebels kept — Round shot ploughed the upland glades, Sown with bullets, reaped with blades ; Shattered fences here and there Tossed their splinters in the air; The very trees were stripped and bare ; The barns that once held yellow grain Were heaped with...
Seite 58 - ... brave Navarre, That day was their oriflamme of war. So raged the battle. You know the rest : How the rebels, beaten and backward pressed, Broke at the final charge and ran. At which John Burns —a practical man — Shouldered his rifle, unbent his brows, And then went back to his bees and cows. That is the story of old John Burns ; This is the moral the reader learns : In fighting the battle, the question's whether You'll show a hat that's white, or a feather ! are gou, ©anttarg?